Art of the Brick
Where: Great Northern Warehouse
When: Now until April 2020
Award-winning artist Nathan Sawaya is showcasing 75 amazing art pieces that feature stunning sculptures made up of more than a million iconic LEGO® bricks, masterfully positioned with artistic skill.
Popular pieces include My Boy, Dinosaur and captivating recreations of iconic art, including the Mona Lisa. The exhibition is suitable for ages!
Manchester Open Exhibition 2020
Where: HOME
When: Now until 29th March 2020
This exhibition is a major open-entry art show celebrating the creative talent of Greater Manchester residents. Something Affinity Living is definitely 100% behind!
Here you’ll find a collection of paintings, prints, photography, sculpture, digital and mixed media, video and audio, spoken word, performance and more. And best of all – it’s free!
The Sun
Where: Science and Industry Museum
When: Now until 29th March 2020
How much do you really know about the sun? Well you can find out about our relationship to this life-giver at ‘The Sun’ exhibition. See stunning objects, including an ancient Babylonian tablet, a prototype fusion reactor and even Jimmy Carter’s solar panels from the White House.
It’s not often the sun makes an appearance in Manchester so make the most of it while you can!
Soft Bodies
Where: Castlefield Gallery
When: 20th March 2020 – 10th May 2020
This exhibition will blow your mind. It’s based on something called soft-body dynamics, a field of computer- generated graphics which create simulations of soft materials such as muscle, fat, hair, vegetation and fabric. You’ll get to see both figurative and abstract works with touch on topics including technology, politics, gender, race and sexuality.
Paper Geographies
Where: Manchester Central Library
When: Now until the 25th April 2020
This stunning photography exhibit focuses on the relationships between materiality and place. Viewers of the exhibition are asked “to consider how the physicality of the photographic image impinges on our sense of place in the world.” The exhibit includes documentary and appropriated imagery, performance and sculpture, moving image, analogue processes, digital and 3D animation.