The Whitworth

01/01/2023

As the sun dawns on a new year we hope you had fun seeing out the old one. May this year be full of joy for you all! We’re closed today and tomorrow but we’ll be raring to go on Tuesday- we hope to see some of you then.

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29/12/2022

Our café in the trees will be closing at 5pm this evening. If you’re planning to grab a bite to eat whilst you’re here, we advise you to head to the café early in order to avoid disappointment.

24/12/2022

Season’s Greeting ❄️Peace & Goodwill ❄️

A huge thank you to all our visitors and followers for your support this year. We look forward to welcoming you back to the gallery in 2023.

Best wishes,
The Whitworth team X

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24/12/2022

Our final advent is a message to our entire community, thank you for supporting, visiting, engaging, and enjoying the Whitworth over the years.

This year we have a special message and thank you from our Director, Alistair Hudson, who will leave the gallery at the end of 2022.

A fond farewell to Alistair Hudson, who has spent the last five years transforming the Whitworth into the home it is now. Alistair will take up a new role as Artistic Scientific Director and Chairman of the ZKM Center for Arts and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.

We send enormous thanks to him for his leadership, great fellowship over the years, and kind wishes for the future.

In the link below, Alistair reflects on his fondest memories at the Whitworth, Arte Utile, which he brought to the Whitworth and the exhibitions that have significantly impacted local communities.

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/12/23/whitworthadvent-a-fond-farewell/

Merry Christmas, everyone!

23/12/2022

One of our favourite pieces from the Althea McNish collection.

📷 Pictured: Head of Althea McNish
Sybil Marjorie Atteck, Althea McNish, 1969, Oil on board,
The Whitworth, The Universityof Manchester
Image: Michael Pollard © Keith Atteck

You can see this piece from the Althea McNish: Colour is Mine exhibition, now on display at the Whitworth. The exuberant collection features textiles, artwork, prints, clothing and designs by prolific Caribbean designer, the late Althea McNish (1924-2020).

Shop the Althea McNish collection of prints, totes, posters, notebooks and more via online or in-store.

23/12/2022

A Merry Christmas from the digital world!

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/12/13/whitworthadvent-xmas-minecraft/

23/12/2022

✨Festive period opening times ✨👇🏽

After today the Whitworth will be closed during the Christmas weekend and will re-open on Tuesday 27th December until Saturday 31st December (inclsuive).

We look forward to welcoming you back, come in and enjoy a brew at our Whitworth Café ☕ when we are open days and enjoy our vibrant exhibitions on display.

Pictured is the Althea McNish: Colour is Mine exhibition, a series of colourful collection of textiles, prints, clothing, portraits and much more from the late Althea McNish (1924-2020) the prolific Caribbean textile designer and innovator.

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The Whitworth is CLOSED on these dates:
Saturday 24 December 2022 (Christmas Eve)
Sunday 25 December 2022 (Christmas Day)
Monday 26 December 2022 (Boxing Day, usual closure day)
Sunday 1 January 2023 (New Year's Day)
Monday 2 January 2023 (Monday, usual closure day)

See our website for more info: https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/visit/openingtimes/

22/12/2022

📹 Timelapse from our first install of the Open House exhibition of wallpapers and your photographs. The exhibition is on until February 2023.

Going home for the holidays? Why not have a look through your family photo albums to reminisce together - and see how many wallpapers you can spot.

In the New Year your photographs and the collection will move to an online archive.

Find out how you can add to the collectioon, visit our new page: www.whitworthopenhouse.co.uk

22/12/2022

📣We want to hear from you!

Our Open House exhibition will have a new home in the New Year, as we move many of your photographs to a new online archive.

Going home for the holidays? Why not have a look through your family photo albums to reminisce together - and see how many wallpapers you can spot.

We are building an archive of photos and stories about life lived in front of wallpaper, creating a record of 20th century home life. We have had so many amazing contributions so far.

Find out more and contribute: www.whitworthopenhouse.co.uk






📷 credits:
1- Image: Neil Kenlock. Untitled photograph from the Brixton series 1972-74. © Neil Kenlock 2022
2- Image: Wendy Burton Playing Monopoly at Christmas, early 1960s
3- Image: Robert Parkinson, Dad with Cousin Anthony, Early 1990s
4- Your photographs collection

22/12/2022

🔔 A robin’s song is a familiar sound to us in winter- when many other birds sing less. Follow the robin through and literature to Christmas cards and view the robins in our collection in today's entry.

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/12/15/whitworthadvent-plucky-robin-redbreast/

21/12/2022

Today is the Winter Solstice which marks the first day of Winter and the shortest day of light this year.

To commemorate this day, Jason has written a poem to reflect the seasonal change

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/12/15/whitworthadvent-winter-solstice/

20/12/2022

🤶 Do you have a festive family tradition? Today Robin tells you all about her family's Xmas tradition and how to do it yourself!

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/12/15/whitworthadvent-a-festive-family-tradition/

19/12/2022

☃️ Want to make some tasty festive treats with minimal mess and preparation time? These white chocolate 'snowballs' are a twist on an Easter favourite in the UK; chocolate crispy cakes. Find out what you'll need to get started on yours:

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/12/15/whitworthadvent-crispy-white-chocolate-snowballs/

18/12/2022

🎏 Have you got your turkey yet? At this time of year, thoughts in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland will be turning instead to the Christmas carp. Today Sue tells us about the fascinating origins of this Christmas carp tradition!

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/12/15/whitworthadvent-the-christmas-carp-tradition/

Image: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Fish Series: A Carp, P.1996.34

17/12/2022

✨TODAY are in the Garden Studio making pom poms, join us for a warm cuppa, friendly chat and drop-in craft workshop between 10 - 12 🧶

17/12/2022

Due to the weather, today Saturday (17 December 2022) Outdoor Art Club is cancelled.

We’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy holiday, and we’ll be back with more art and play in the New Year.

17/12/2022

🎶 Christmas can be a lonely and stressful time of year for many, so Aisling has composed a song in response to Christmas and Howard Hodgkin's art to see us through the darkest months of the year. Have a listen and relax!

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/12/15/whitworthadvent-howard-hodgkin-aisling/

Image: Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017), Interior at Oakwood Court, c.1978-1983. Oil painting. ©Estate of Howard Hodgkin.

17/12/2022

If you are heading down to the gallery today, please be careful. The nearby pavements and roads are pretty slippery this morning!

16/12/2022

❄️ Zoe navigates the cold and darkness of winter to remind us of the simple comforts of the season in a creative writing piece for inspired by Paul Nash's Winter Wood.

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/12/15/paul-nashs-advent

15/12/2022

🛍️ Not finished your yet? Check out Emma's gift guide, full of her favourite picks from our shop to give you some great gift inspiration!

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/12/10/emmas-christmas-gift-guide/

14/12/2022

✨ In Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino wrote, 'Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. ‘There is the blueprint,’ they say.'

Stars are like cities, made of desires and fears, an existential blueprint of our future, and of our past.
Under the wild beauty and sublime wonderment of the stars, we are inextricably bound together through co-existence and sameness, as in the sharing of identical dreams and hopes, especially at Christmas.

How the ordinary becomes the extraordinary – though lived experience, memory, and crazy, oft humbling, and beautiful insights.

There is the blueprint for life itself.

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/12/10/written-in-the-stars/

Image: Unattributed, Adire Cloth, Nigerian, c.1900-1924.

13/12/2022

👩‍🍳 If you’re wishing for summer during Christmas, this Pavlova will definitely bring a little sunshine on a snowy day. Today for we have a from Tahmina guaranteed to delight your taste buds this !

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/12/10/a-berry-berry-good-pavlova/

12/12/2022

🖍️ The wooden is a common sight during the festive season. Open today's entry to find out more about these figures and get your free downloadable colouring sheet to colour in your very own Whitworth Dala horse!

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/12/10/whitworthadvent-colour-your-own-dala-horse/

11/12/2022

🎀 Fancy gift wrap can be expensive, so why not create your own trendy marbled gift wrap? Lucy tells you how in today's entry!

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/12/10/whitworthadvent-diy-trendy-marbled-gift-wrap/

10/12/2022

Will you have a date this Christmas? If so, give my chocolate stuffed dates recipe a go!

http://ow.ly/YtYm50M03zX

09/12/2022

💝 Today Urussa shares a personal poem about what Christmas means to her...

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/11/28/whitworthadvent-if-i-think-of-christmas/

08/12/2022

❄️ You may have made your own Christmas cards before, but have you ever made a pop-up Christmas Card? Sue teaches you a quick and easy method in today's entry!

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/11/28/whitworthadvent-simple-pop-up-christmas-cards/

08/12/2022

❄️ Winter sun in Whitworth Park

07/12/2022

🎁 Want to try your hand at making a gift but don't want to stitch or bake anything? Find out how to make quick and easy adjustable necklaces, a quick and easy last-minute gift!

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/11/28/whitworthadvent-simple-but-chic-diy-adjustable-necklaces/

06/12/2022

Need a break from Christmas shopping - or just some inspiration?

Visit our exhibition, Althea McNish: Colour is Mine, the first major retrospective of Althea McNish (1924 – 2020).

McNish was the first Caribbean designer to achieve international recognition and one of the most influential and innovative textile designers in the UK.

21 October 2022 – 23 April 2023

https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/currentexhibitions/altheamcnish/

06/12/2022

Due to the UK postal strikes taking place in December, please order from the Whitworth Shop website as early as you can to ensure delivery before Christmas.

Head over to https://thewhitworthshop.com/collections/christmas to check out The Christmas Collection, for some wonderful Christmas gifting ideas, including these foil-backed cards from

06/12/2022

🥂 Ever been curious about eggnog and why it has become one of the more well-known holiday drinks in the US? Bria takes you on a brief tour of the history of this festive drink in today's instalment of

https://aplacebetweenthetrees.com/2022/11/28/whitworthadvent-monks-riots-presidents-a-brief-history-of-eggnog/



Image from the US National Archives Twitter account. Recipe attributed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

05/12/2022

Buy tickets / Join the guestlist – Dürer in Manchester – The Role of Collectors and Philanthropy in the North West – Zoom, Wed 7 Dec 2022 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM

Dürer in Manchester – The Role of Collectors and Philanthropy in the North West

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An online event via zoom
Wednesday 7 December, 5pm GMT
Online tickets £12 or FREE to students
– please see booking details below
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Remember to book your ticket for our next Dürer fundraising event on Wednesday, 7 December, at 5pm on ZOOM.

Whitworth curator, Imogen Holmes-Roe, co-curator of ‘Albrecht Dürer’s Material World’, opening at the Whitworth next summer, will join us to talk about her fascinating research into philanthropy in the North West and the critical role of collectors.

A particular focus will be the businessman, industrialist and art collector Sir Thomas D. Barlow (b1883-d1964), who, along with Margaret Pilkington, was the founder of the Friends of the Whitworth. The Friends’ first meeting in 1933 took place in Sir Thomas and Lady Barlow's dining room!

We'll hear to others how other local collectors – many also involved in trade, industry and design in the North West – helped to amass the country’s most significant holdings of this Renaissance artist’s graphic work.

Dürer in Manchester – The Role of Collectors and Philanthropy in the North West
Date: Wednesday 7 December, 5pm GMT Online via zoom
Cost: £12 or FREE to students

Ticket booking link:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/friendsofthewhitworthartgallery/785396

Or visit the Whitworth’s website 'Events' page:
https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/events/

➰ follow the link in the bio to the gallery website - search 'events'

Dürer in Manchester – The Role of Collectors and Philanthropy in the North West – Zoom, Wed 7 Dec 2022 - Following the first successful fund raising evening event, the next is with Imogen-Holmes-Roe, The Whitworth and co-curator of Albrecht Dürer’s Material World Exhibition in 2023,who  wil...