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23/09/2026

⚫️”I’m delighted to be part of this new network, which recognises the vital contribution creative freelancers make to Greater Manchester’s cultural and creative landscape. Freelancers bring huge amounts of skill, originality, ideas and diversity to the sector, but can often work in isolation or face barriers to accessing opportunities and networks.

I’m passionate about creating a more fair, transparent and connected creative sector, where opportunities are accessible and emerging creatives have the support, connections and confidence they need to develop their careers. By listening to freelancers and working collaboratively, we can help build a creative economy where people at all stages of their journey can thrive and contribute to the continued growth of Greater Manchester’s creative industries.” ⚫️
Rebecca May, Co-Founder of May Wild Studio

〰️The GMCA Greater Manchester Freelancer Network launches, bringing together freelancers and micro-businesses from across all 10 boroughs to share insight, experience and practical recommendations with GMCA and partners.

The network will help inform future policy, investment and support for the sector. It will convene on issues such as fair pay, contracts, skills, workspace, visibility and business support.
The network has been created as part of Greater Manchester’s Creative Industries Sector Plan, making sure freelancers and micro-businesses have a clearer voice in the decisions that affect them〰️

22/09/2026

🟢We at May Wild Studio are really looking forward to being part of this panel. We began our creative practice with mentoring from the Crafts Council and it’s been quite a journey, filled with many meaningful projects along the way. A standout has been our three co-created public artworks at Rochdale Town Hall rooted in creativity and community, which we’ll be talking about at this event🟢

〰️Crafts Council is delighted to partner with the North West Craft Network (North West Craft Network ) to present the Autumn edition of this event. Taking place at Rochdale Town Hall (Rochdale Town Hall) on Wednesday 30 September, the event will feature a panel discussion, displays, and activations themed around the subject of ‘Craft and Film’.

The panel will feature Rebecca May and Michael Wild, Greater Manchester-based artists, designers and educators, and co-founders of the social arts practice May Wild Studio (May Wild Studio). Also joining the panel will be Nick Dudman, a BAFTA Award-nominated makeup effects and creature designer for motion pictures.

Craft After Dark is the perfect opportunity to connect with professionals from across the creative sectors in a relaxed and friendly environment and discover the connections between craft, film and heritage.

See you there!
Craft After Dark: On Craft & Film
30 September 2026
Rochdale Town Hall 〰️

21/08/2026

We much enjoyed our Dave Draws workshop with Gallery Oldham Oldham Libraries
A very chilled and calm creative session for both adults and children, lovely to focus your thoughts on where you live and celebrate those spaces through art, creatively and drawing.

26/07/2026

WOW! Ai Weiwei’s Button Up! Factory International is vast, breathtaking, monumental. This space is made to impress and only a special few can take it on.

The attention to detail and respect to craft, heritage and making blew my mind a bit. The little folding stools ‘Mazha’ and interpretation alongside them, just one small detail of many, full to the brim of Chinas history.

So good, such a journey and education.

Main photos by Óonagh, key to engaging a 9 year old at exhibitions past 20 mins, give them the camera to photo anything they like.

Great badges.

09/07/2026

More London Town
Chiharu Shiota at Hayward Gallery
Exquisite, the detail, otherworldly 🖤❤️
at Tate An Emin fan since her early days, the bed and everything after, so I’d seen most of her work already over the years. Her new work was worth the extra visit.
Yin Xiuzhen Hayward Gallery Loved this!

08/07/2026

What a day! Out and about with Leanne Manfredi including a personal tour Schiaparelli at Victoria and Albert Museum which was incredible, the curation which leaned in the expertise of all departments of the V&A was exceptional. What a visionary, innovator and true original Schiaparelli was, an artist ahead of her time, up there with the best!

The Music is Black at the V&A East was emotive, powerful & and possibly the best experience I’ve ever had of a taking you on a musical journey via an exhibition. Hats off to the team and artists behind this and wow what a legacy we should all be so proud of, the musical gift & story of all of our lives.

V&A Store House is VAST! It’s an absolute triumph in how to reimagine museum objects, curation and visitor experience & accessibility. It’s free, it’s open on evenings when went and it was beautifully quiet. It’s so clever, a masterpiece in the journey of the museum life, behind the scenes stuff now open to all. Yes you can book out an object too and watch the museum objects handling process start to finish just be looking down on the now open to all spaces, be a fly on the wall. Just go if you can. Heading back soon.

07/07/2026

Gotta love a London trip.
Remembering a few culture fuled days in London a few weeks ago. Walked about a million steps and squeezed in as much art & culture as doable in 3 days, living the dream!
Day 1
Sir John Soane's Museum Victoria and Albert Museum Covent Garden National Portrait Gallery and for the Celiacs out there a trek in the heat to COPAINS | COPINES PARIS was worth every sweaty step.
Highlights were…. Schiaparelli at Victoria and Albert Museum The Music is Black Victoria and Albert Museum East and V&A Storehouse blew my mind! Next post.

15/05/2026

🐦🐦🐦Thank you to the for this recent article, we truly appreciate it. This feels a full circle moment.

It was in late July 2024 when Gallery & Museum colleagues and friends first informed us of the new London Museum branding, which they had received as press via email (Pic 5)

Almost immediately, we began receiving messages and screenshots. One Museum Curator even asked if we had collaborated with London Museum.

That moment felt surreal and so shocking, but above all, incredibly sad.

Years of our creative skill, investment, original ideas and authentic storytelling had been poured into our Coo Pigeon & Pu design, a design inspired by our lived experience in our hometown of .

Creativity, originality, transparency and authenticity mean everything to us. As small independent artists, we remain committed to our values and to staying true to them, rooted in people, place and our art.

〰️ 🐦Please Share our Story 🐦〰️

Thanks again to the ongoing support and expertise from .copying.in.design & .walsh.official and everyone who has reached out and shared our story so far 🙏🐦

01/05/2026

Coo Pigeon & Coo Pu - Coming HOME

We are delighted that our Coo Pigeon & Coo Pu has been selected for OPEN.

🐦Coo pigeon & Coo Pu
A design inspired by the
common urban pigeon
and the city we live in.
Years in the making.
Born in .

Created by Rebecca and Michael
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