Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 5:00 pm – Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 4:00 pm
Manchester Gothic Arts Group presents ‘Crafting the Weird’ Featuring John Hyatt
When: Thursday 22nd – Saturday 31st October 2015
Where: Holden Café Space
Grosvenor Building
Cavendish Street, Manchester, M15 6BR
Tickets: FREE - See Eventbrite for opening night tickets
Opening Details:
Opening night party Thursday 22nd October: 5pm – 7pm (see Eventbrite for tickets)
Friday 23rd October: 10am – 6pm
Saturday 24th October 10am – 4pm
Monday 26th October – Friday 30th October: 10am -6pm
Saturday 31st October 10am – 4pm
‘Crafting the Weird’ is an eclectic, exciting exhibition of mind-blowing marvels of art, as part of ‘Gothic Manchester Festival 2015’. Inspired by the ‘Cthulhu Mythos’, as created by Lovecraft and expanded on by his contemporaries, it draws on some of those tropes (a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression; a significant or recurrent theme) and further explores some of the wider concepts contained within these writings. Subjects such as hidden or forbidden knowledge and the human psyche pushed to curious, esoteric or insane extremes – so beware!
The exhibition also takes cues from ‘Weird’ fiction’s supernatural, macabre and mysterious elements. ‘Weird Tales’ magazine was the American home of pulp fiction from 1923-54 and the publisher of several of Lovecraft’s stories. Joining these were the likes of Robert E Howard’s Conan the Barbarian series, yarns from Ray Bradbury and many more horrific and fantastical imaginings.
Manchester Gothic Arts Group is privileged to be joined in this exhibition by Professor John Hyatt, an internationally renowned artist, musician (The Three Johns, Glamogoth) and professor at MMU’s School of Art, who will be presenting a series of paintings entitled ‘Manchester International Gothic’.
The city’s gothic social scene, in particular the ARA night club, was the genesis for Manchester Gothic Arts Group (M:GAG). With Arts Council funding, Liz, Kolyn and Matt first exhibited together in 2007. Joined later by Neil, they have produced work for many exhibitions over the intervening years. For this years’ festival they have produced – for your delight, intrigue, disgust and fear – an exhibition including photographs, paintings, sculpture and video art.
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