Exhibitions & Events

Jan – Apr 2011 Whitworth Art Gallery

WelcomeWelcome to a New Year that is tobe a truly significant one for theWhitworth. Our season highlight is the UK’s most completeretrospective of work by artist MaryKelly, from her outrage-provokinginstallations of the 1970s to thepremière of her latest work, Habitus.We are also delighted to welcomeSiobhan Davies Dance who willperform new work, ROTOR, in thegallery spaces. In an unusual twist

ROTOR ‘remixes’ the dance intomusic, art, theatre, poetry andmore, all displayed in this many-sided performance and exhibition.We’ll be looking forward towelcoming some of our veryyoungest visitors once again in ourpopular family programme. Andyou might already have spottedthat we’ve got better activities thanever for adults, from art courses tomovie nights. Most significantly of

all for 2011 we will know of the final decision – expected in mid-February – about our capital plansto improve, extend and connectthe Gallery with its landscape inWhitworth Park. I look forward tosharing our news with you as theyear progresses.

Maria Balshaw

Collections care...The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation is supporting a programme of conservation of the Whitworth’sJapanese woodcut collection.Look out for some of the newly conserved works on display soon.

Last chance to see…

Unstable States John Ruskin and the Truth of Water To 23 January

Water is a notoriously tricky subject for artists to capture. The same substance can flow gently, freeze withgeometric precision into ice, or writhe into turbulencewhen agitated. As it condenses, water forms into cloudscreating distinctive shapes. Drawing on John Ruskin’sprecise observations of water in his controversial bookModern Painters (1843), this display will investigate howartists from Van de Velde to Turner have captured waterin all its ‘unstable states’ using oil, watercolour and print.

Alexander Cozens, Setting Sun, 1770-3

Plans for gallery spaces overlooking Whitworth Park © MUMA

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28 January – 6 February

Performances are free, no need to book

Dance, sound, sculpture, film and poetry all cometogether in this boundary-crossing ensemble performanceand exhibition by Siobhan Davies Dance. Inspired by aperformance choreographed by Siobhan Davies andfilmed from overhead, eight artists including the TurnerPrize-nominated Angela de la Cruz, composer MatteoFargion and ceramicist Clare Twomey, have eachcreated a work that connects with ideas aroundrepetition, disorder and circularity.

Performance times:

Thursdays & Fridays at 6.20pm & 7.40pmWednesdays, Saturdays & Sundays at 1.20pm & 2.40pm

ROTOR ROTOR: a Response 28 January – 13 March

The creation of ROTOR by Siobhan DaviesDance has triggered a process of selection from the Whitworth’s collection. Works by artistssuch as Barbara Hepworth, Albrecht Dürer, Langlands & Bell and Anthony Caro arepresented as exhibited objects in dialogue with live, dynamic performance.

Siobhan DaviesIn Conversation at The Lowry

12 January, 7pm, Tickets £5

Join Artistic Director and Choreographer SiobhanDavies at The Lowry, as she discusses her mostrecent work ROTOR and her experience ofcollaborating with celebrated artists from acrossthe visual and performing arts.

To book tickets contact The Lowry Box Office:

t: 0843 208 6010 (or 0843 208 6003 for groups)

w: online at www.thelowry.com

A Series of Appointments, bySiobhan Davies, for ROTOR 2010Photo: Pari Naderi

Siobhan Davies Dance

IntuitionThe Musgrave Kinley Outsider ArtCollection arrives at the WhitworthTo 20 February

Get ‘plugged into the mains electricity of the imagination’* with HenryDarger, Madge Gill, Scottie Wilson, and many others whose art developedoutside formal training.

Victor Musgrave and Monika Kinley chose to collect artwork that they felt was genuinely original, intuitive and made by artists outside themainstream system of art education and galleries. The result is a collectionof over 800 drawings, paintings and sculptures that has become the first of its kind to join the permanent collection of a public museum in the UK.

Trustees of the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection generouslypresented the entire collection to the Whitworth Art Gallery in March 2010. The gift was facilitated by the Contemporary Art Society.

*Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate

The Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection is supported by The Eric &Salome Estorick Foundation.

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The Land Between Usplace, power and dislocationTo 23 January

Taking a radical approach to landscape art, The LandBetween Us presents historic and modern works togetherand on equal terms. The exhibition focuses on the imageryof landscape, the places it depicts, the cultural andpolitical power invested in the land and how meaning is found between art and the viewer.

Highlights from the Whitworth’s outstanding collection of historic art are displayed alongside recent andcontemporary work. All of the Gallery’s Turner watercoloursare on show next to Black Audio Film Collective’sHandsworth Songs, both presenting complex and lyricalvisions of Britain. Olafur Eliasson transforms one gallery into aforest, and John Robert Cozen’s drawings of the eighteenthcentury Grand Tour connect with Nikhil Chopra’s journeythrough Mumbai. Featuring major artists from past topresent, The Land Between Us imagines a place where art,artist and viewer confront each other beyond the limits oftheir individual frontiers.

As part of this exhibition the Whitworth has commissioned the artist Cyprien Gaillard to make a sculpture for Whitworth Park. Look out for its installation in early summer.

Chen Qiulin, Garden, 2007Courtesy of the artist and Max Protetch Gallery, New York.

Carlo Zinelli (1916-1974), Untitled.

PrivateParadise19 February – Summer 2011

Do you want to enter another world as you walk into your living room orbedroom? Do your dream locations featuremysterious landscapes and exoticarchitecture? Or do you just long for apeaceful English garden? Since the 19thcentury wallpaper has been providingexotic floral arrangements for tired interiorsand armchair travel for the bored aristocrat.

Alongside views from large-scale, historicscenic wallpapers, this exhibition featureswork by two contemporary artists who havelooked to the past for inspiration and havecome up with slightly offbeat responses toour desire for escape to a private paradise.

For guided tour details please see page 09.

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The FireworksNick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson5 February – Summer 2011

An unabashed homage to the exhilarating explosiveness offireworks, this video shows a display of pyrotechnics that was set off in a gallery at FACT in Liverpool. The black box of that video room, like the one within which the work is shown here at the Whitworth, is an unnatural location for fireworks. The room is internally bombarded and filled with colour, sound and smoke, but manages to contain the energy of the display within its four walls.

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19 February – 12 June 2011

Four decades of projects by American artist Mary Kelly are broughttogether in the most comprehensive exhibition of her work everpresented. As much about everyday experiences as big historicevents Kelly’s art makes the personal political.

From Post-Partum Document (1973-9), the series about motherhoodthat provoked tabloid outrage in 1976 because of its presentation ofstained nappies, to more recent installations about feminism like LoveSongs (2005-7), the exhibition traces the artist’s enduring commitmentto women’s narratives. The celebratory glow of Multi-Story House(2007) invites visitors to step inside and read the intergenerationaldialogue patterning its walls.

The impact of conflict and war also runs through the exhibition. Thepolished shields and trophies of Gloria Patri (1992), quoting soldiers inIraq, are hung high like an heraldic display. The Ballad of KastriotRexhepi (2001) about a child lost and found during the Kosovo war,makes a continuous sweep around the gallery walls. Kelly’s mostrecent commission unifies her long-term questions about how historyshapes us; the bomb shelter-like Habitus (2010) is ‘corrugated’ withthe memories of people born around the Second World War, legibleonly by looking into its mirrored floor. Mary Kelly’s work reflects back tous how we remember and talk about our experiences, from worldwars to daily struggles.

Mary Kelly:Projects, 1973-2010

Mary Kelly, Love Songs: Flashing Nipple Remix, 2005 © the artist

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SymposiumDialogic Space: Mary Kelly at theWhitworth Art GallerySaturday 26 March, 10am – 5pmTickets £25 / £12 ConcsLunch and refreshments provided

Mary Kelly, Juli Carson, Carol Mavor, Laura Mulvey and GriseldaPollock talk about the artist’s work, concluding with a roundtablediscussion chaired by Janet Wolff. Organised in collaboration withthe Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts (CIDRA), with thesupport of Art History & Visual Studies and Cultural Theory Institute,The University of Manchester.

Book tickets and take advantage of delegate offers at,w: http://estore.manchester.ac.uk

A series of films relevant to Mary Kelly’s work are being shown atour Movie Nights, see page 07 for details.

An exhibition book is available to buy in the Whitworth Shop.

The Ballad of KastriotRexhepi performedSaturday 19 February12noon & 2pm, freeNo need to book

The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi is acollaboration between Mary Kelly andcomposer Michael Nyman. Nyman’shaunting score will be performed live inthe installation by the Michael NymanQuartet and soprano Marie Angel.

ToursSaturday 5 March, 2pm, freeTuesday 15 March, 2pm, free

Tours with exhibition curator DominiqueHeyse-Moore.

Centenary ofInternational Women’s DayTuesday 8 March 3.30 – 5pm, free

Look around Love Songs, Mary Kelly’scelebration of the Women’s Movementand help us mark the 100thInternational Women’s Day.

CIDRACentre for Interdisciplinary

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Family Allowance26 February – Summer 2011

Wicked wives, violent sons, monstrous mothers and feeble fathers come together from within theWhitworth’s collection to reveal the darker side offamily life. In contrast to our notion of the idyllicfamily unit, the display presents characters fromthroughout history, mythology, fairytales andreligion, who reflect collective fears about thebreakdown of society and the loss of traditionalfamily values.

Who Cares?If you only seethe illness, youmiss the person26 March – Summer 2011

Visitors often tell us the Gallery is agood place to think and reflect. Thisexhibition goes one step further bycreating a therapeutic space withinone of our permanent galleries. Who Cares? provides a stimulus forcuriosity and exploration, reflectionand meditation. Here you encounteran environment populated byportraits from the Whitworth’scollection alongside work by LucyBurscough. Lucy is Artist in Residenceat Galaxy House, part of RoyalManchester Children’s Hospital,where children and adolescents with mental health problems are

treated. This creative conversation invites you to discover what happenswhen the National Health Service (NHS), museums and galleries, patientsand practitioners collaborate.

Our Who Cares? therapeutic space will be open to all visitors each Sundayand Monday, and bookable for people, groups and service providersdealing with mental health issues from Tuesday to Saturday.

For further information and to book please contact Wendy Gallagher.t: 0161 275 8454e: wendy.gallagher@manchester.ac.uk

Paula Rego, Polly Put the Kettle On, 1989

Lucy Burscough, Maderlaine, 2005

Movie Night All films start at 6.15pm(Doors open at 6pm)

Advance tickets £5 (£6 onthe night), students freeTo book advance tickets:e: fow@manchester.ac.uk

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Adult Programmewww.whitworthadultprogramme.wordpress.com

Crafternoon TeaOn Saturdays 15 January, 19 February, 19 March & 16 April 2 – 4pm, £5Beginning a new year of craftyactivities with social art and craftworkshops. Enjoy a cuppa whilsttrying out some new, unusualtechniques in a fun and friendlyatmosphere.

Alternative Camera ClubOn Saturdays 19 February, 19 March & 16 April 10.30am – 1pm, £5This series looks at contemporaryphotography, promoting aconsidered and conceptualapproach. Join us for photographictalks, discussion groups and critiquesessions co-curated by ManchesterPhotography.w: www.manchesterphotography.blogspot.com

YogaEvery Thursday, 8.30 – 9.45am, freeA fantastic way to start your day. Useour peaceful gallery spaces toexercise, relax and simply feel better. Booking essential due to limitedspaces, t: 0161 275 7450

ContemporaryLandscapePhotography8 week courseOn Saturdays from 15 January – 5 March, 1– 3pm, £100/students £80In response to The Land Between Us,enter the world of contemporarylandscape photography. Learn newskills and techniques, hear frompractising photographers to inspireand inform your own work.This course runs between two sites,offering Artist Talks at the Whitworthand Practical Sessions at the ZionCentre in Hulme. Work created aspart of this course will be exhibited at the Zion Centre in April. w: www.zionarts.com

Friday 21 January

Hiroshima Mon AmourA classic French New Wave lovestory about memory and forgettingthe trauma of war. Dir. Alain Resnais.1959 Certificate: PG

Friday 25 February

My Beautiful LaunderetteSet in ‘80s London this British comedydrama deals with the complexrelationships between members ofthe Asian and White community. Dir. Stephen Frears. 1985 Certificate: 15

Friday 25 March

The Piano The story of a pianist and herdaughter set in 19th century NewZealand, beautifully filmed with amemorable score by MichaelNyman. Dir. Jane Campion. 1993Certificate: 15

To book Adult Programme events contact the Visitor Services Team.t: 0161 275 7540For further details contact Ed Watts, Adult Programme Coordinator.e: ed.watts@manchester.ac.uk

Tuesday Talks18 January to 8 March11am – 12.30pm Free, no need to book

Each Tuesday leading artistsand curators offer an insightinto contemporary artpractice, through their owndriving forces, influencesand sources of inspiration.

Supported by ManchesterMetropolitan University.

For further details: w: www.manchester.ac.uk/whitworth

Who Cares?SeminarFriday 15 April

1 – 4.30pm, freeBooking advisable

Offering an opportunity to look at the diverse range ofwork carried out as part ofWho Cares? A Health &Wellbeing programme carriedout by six museums andgalleries working closely withhealth practitioners andcommunity groups. Theimpact of this work on bothparticipants and museums will be revealed by projectresearchers, from the University of CentralLancashire.

For more information or tobook: e: whitworth@manchester.ac.ukt: 0161 275 7450

InternationalWomen’s Day Tuesday 8 March, 3.30 – 5pm

Bring along all of the women inyour family from baby girls to greataunts and celebrate InternationalWomen’s Day at the Gallery. Enjoya creative afternoon of sharedstories and tea & cake!

Mother’s DayCreative indulgenceAfternoonSunday 3 April, 1.30 – 3.30pmTreat your Mum and Nana to anafternoon of arty indulgence andgood quality family time. Enjoy feltmaking and creating memorybooks to take home.

Arty Picnics Tuesdays 22 February, 19 & 26 April

Thursday 24 February, 21 & 28 April11am – 12.30pm

Bring your family and some food (if you fancy lunch), and meet anartist for fun creative activities. Don’tworry if it is a terrible Tuesday orThursday and raining outside, we’ll have a picnic in the Gallerysurrounded by sunny landscapes!

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Colourful SundaysDrop-in creative workshopsEvery Sunday 1.30 – 3.30pm All year round!

Everyday familyactivitiesThe Gallery has lots of activities to pick up and enjoy any time,including Arty Picnic sacks for usinginside or outside. On your visit lookout for The Art Cart, dressing upclothes, a textile trail and discoverysacks, all available free every day.

BirdwatchSunday 30 January12.30 – 3.30pm

Bring your family and join us for a Big Birdwatch in Whitworth Park, then it’s back to the Gallery for anafternoon of bird inspired creativeactivities.

Part of the RSPB’s Big GardenBirdwatch weekend and inpartnership with ManchesterMuseum.

Enchanted StoriesSunday 6 February1.30 – 3.30pm

As part of National Storytelling Weekawaken your imagination bycreating and enjoying storytellinginspired by the Gallery’s own indoorforest. Make your own pop-up storyset finger puppets to take homeand act out your story.

‘I never knew an art gallerycould be so much fun forthe kids and the parents!’Jon, dad of three.

For children of all ages,their families and carers

Age 6 and over

Artist SkillsWednesdays 23 February, 20 & 27 AprilFridays 25 February1.30 – 3.30pmMeet an artist and learn a rangeof arty skills from photograms todrawing and creating your ownartwork to take home.

Our award-winning Caféserves child friendlymeals, and there’s a park next door.

Home educators: We haveregular activities exclusively forhome educator families. Formore details about this or otherareas see our Family Friendlyprogramme email.

e: novae.lee@manchester.ac.uk

For under 5s and their grown-ups

ToddlertasticAdventures in Drama, Art,Music or DanceEvery Monday 10.30 – 11.30amor 11.30am – 12.30pm

Booking essential as sessions sell out! t: 0161 275 7450

Bumps & BabiesCreative ConnectionsExpecting a baby or have anewborn? Join us for creativewellbeing activities to connect toyour baby. e: novae.lee@manchester.ac.uk

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Every Thurs 8.30 – 9.45am Adult Programme: Yoga (booking essential) Free 07Wed 12 7pm Siobhan Davies In Conversation, at The Lowry £5 01Sat 15 1 – 3pm Landscape Photography: 8 Week Course £100/£80 Concs 07Sat 15 2 – 4pm Crafternoon Tea £5 07Tues 18 11am – 12.30pm Tuesday Talk Free 07Fri 21 6.15pm Movie Night, film: Hiroshima Mon Amour £6/Concs 07Sun 23 12.30 – 1.15pm Performance by RNCM students FreeTues 25 11am – 12.30pm Tuesday Talk Free 07

Every Thurs 8.30 – 9.45am Adult Programme: Yoga (booking essential) Free 07Tues 1 11am – 12.30pm Tuesday Talk Free 07Tues 8 11am – 12.30pm Tuesday Talk Free 07Sun 13 12.30 – 1.15pm Performance by RNCM students FreeTues 15 11am – 12.30pm Tuesday Talk Free 07Sat 19 10.30am – 1pm Alternative Camera Club £5 07Sat 19 12noon – 2pm The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi performed Free 05Sat 19 2 – 4pm Crafternoon Tea £5 07Sun 20 12.30 – 1.15pm Performance by RNCM students FreeTues 22 11am – 12.30pm Tuesday Talk Free 07Fri 25 6.15pm Movie Night, film: My Beautiful Launderette £6/Concs 07Sat 26 2pm Private Paradise: Tour Free 03

Every Thurs 8.30 – 9.45am Adult Programme: Yoga (booking essential) Free 07Tues 1 11am – 12.30pm Tuesday Talk Free 07Tues 1 1.15pm Private Paradise: Tour Free 03Sat 5 2pm Mary Kelly: Tour Free 05Sun 6 12.30 – 1.15pm Performance by RNCM students FreeTues 8 11am – 12.30pm Tuesday Talk Free 07Tues 8 3.30 – 5pm Centenary of International Women’s Day Free 05/08Tues 15 2pm Mary Kelly: Tour Free 05Sat 19 10.30am – 1pm Alternative Camera Club £5 07Sat 19 2 – 4pm Crafternoon Tea £5 07Sun 20 12.30 – 1.15pm Performance by RNCM students FreeFri 25 6.15pm Movie Night, film: The Piano £6/Concs 07Sat 26 10am – 5pm Mary Kelly Symposium: Dialogic Space £25/£12 Concs 05

Every Thurs 8.30 – 9.45am Adult Programme: Yoga (booking essential) Free 07Sat 2 2pm Private Paradise: Tour Free 03Tues 5 1.15 pm Private Paradise: Tour Free 03Sun 10 12.30 – 1.15pm Performance by RNCM students FreeFri 15 1 – 4.30pm Who Cares? Seminar Free 06Sat 16 10.30am – 1pm Alternative Camera Club £5 07Sat 16 2 – 4pm Crafternoon Tea £5 07

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Concerts: Supported by the Friends of the Whitworth Gina Miller Bequest.

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Open Monday to Saturday 10am – 5pm, Sunday 12 – 4pmThe Gallery is closed on Good Friday, 22 April and is open as usual on Bank Holiday Mondays and Bank Holiday Friday, 29 April. Entry to the Gallery is free.

Find us We are in Whitworth Park, 1.5 miles south of Manchester city centre.walk: 40min from Manchester city centre. Flat paved route, not traffic-free.bike: Sheffield stands on-site, lockers on-site (£1 coin, refundable)bus: 15, 41, 42, 43, 140 – 143, 147. Ask for bus-stop nearest MRI, Oxford Road.tram: Peter’s Square + bus 10min or + walk 30mintrain: Oxford Road + bus 10min or + walk 30mincar: On-street parking (max 2hrs) on Denmark Road.Nearest car park Cecil Street. See map.Manchester travel information line t: 0161 228 7811

The Gallery Café Good Food Guide’s Best Family Restaurant in the UK 2009. Mon to Sat 10am – 4.30pm, Sun 12 – 3.30pm

The Gallery Shop ‘a delight to visit’Open during main Gallery opening hours.

Manchester Museum The Museum is 10 minutes’ walk from the Gallery with collections and activities for families and adults.t: 0161 275 2648 w: www.manchester.ac.uk/museum

Friends of Whitworth Park are working to make the Gallery's setting even better. We need your help! t: 0161 928 5744 e: shones@altrincham.freeserve.co.uk

Friends of the Whitworth Get more involved with the Gallery and its work. t: 0161 275 7496 w: www.friendsofthewhitworth.org.uk

The Whitworth Needs You! We’re transforming the Whitworth with a park entrance,new gallery spaces and a treetop café; there hasnever been a better time to give your support.

Whitworth Art GalleryThe University of ManchesterOxford Road, Manchester M15 6ER t: 0161-275 7450 f: 0161-275 7451 e: whitworth@manchester.ac.uk

www.twitter.com/whitworthartw: www.manchester.ac.uk/whitworth

Access Wheelchairs, rollators, seating, free portablestools. Low lighting in most galleries. Induction loop inlecture theatre. Guide Dogs welcome.

For a large print version of this leafletplease call 0161 275 7450, emailwhitworth@manchester.ac.uk or pick upa copy at the welcome desk. Downloadlarge print A4 or audio guide atwww.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/guide

Mint HotelThe Whitworth’s official hotelsponsor. Occupying alandmark site in the Piccadilly Place development, Mint Hotel Manchester is a contemporary hotel thatboasts state of the art facilities and an exceptional foodand beverage offering in Piccadilly Lounge, Blue Barand City Café & Terrace. w: www.minthotel.com

Paints by Little GreeneLittle Greene’s environmentallyfriendly paints and wallpapers, including designs from the archives at English Heritageand the Whitworth, bring beautiful colour, timelesselegance and enduring appeal to your home. LittleGreene is the Whitworth’s official paint sponsor. w: www.littlegreene.com

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