Castlefield Gallery

15/03/2026

Thank you to everyone who attended the preview of Broken Ecologies. It was a busy evening and wonderful to hear about Alana Lake (.studio) and Deeqa Ismail’s work () from the artists themselves. The exhibition will continue from 15 March - 19 April.

10/03/2026

Behind the scenes the past few weeks: Technician Jayson (), Head of Programmes Matthew () and our incredible team of volunteers have been working hard on installing ‘Broken Ecologies’ by Alana Lake and Deeqa Ismail.

Join us for the preview this Thursday, 6–8pm at Castlefield Gallery. Free and open to all, and everyone welcome.

23/10/2025

We are proud to announce that Deeqa Ismail and Alana Lake's exhibition Broken Ecologies has been selected to be our next Castlefield Gallery Associates exhibition!

The proposal was co-selected by guest selector, Curator, Cultural Producer, Art Consultant & Writer Cindy Sissokho and Castlefield Gallery’s Head of Programmes, Matthew Pendergast.

Broken Ecologies will open in March 2026. It is the first collaborative project between Alana Lake and Deeqa Ismail. Through large-scale print works, sound, installation, and a series of sculptures and glass works, the exhibition reflects on systems of power, protest, memory, and survival. It invites audiences into unsettled spaces and to consider how histories of erasure and survival continue to shape the present, especially in a moment marked by war, censorship, and the criminalisation of protest.

📸 Image: Deeqa Ismail, Aqal Hijab, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist

21/10/2025

Join us in standing up for Nature on 4 November 2025! Take part in free artist-led city walks, nature-aware gatherings, and share your treasured aspects of the natural world for others to discover.

In 2015 artist Gustav Metzger called on art schools and students of all disciplines to “Remember Nature” and “make a stand against the ongoing erasure of species”. Tuesday 4 November 2025 marks a decade since that call, and partners across England are coming together, bringing ethics into aesthetics, for Remember Nature 2025. Castlefield Gallery is delighted to be one of the 17 regional arts partners across England contributing to this significant moment, working with artist Yu-Chen Wang to mark the anniversary in Manchester and the city region.

How to get involved:

Remember Nature 2025: Nature Remembered Walk
Led by artist Yu-Chen Wang
Tues 4 Nov 2025 12:30pm – 3:00pm
Across Manchester city centre and Hulme (free)
Find out more and book your free ticket: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/castlefieldgallery/1887149

Remember Nature 2025: Nature Remembered Gathering
Tues 4 Nov 2025 3:00 – 5:00pm
Hulme Community Garden Centre (free)
Find out more and book your free ticket: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/castlefieldgallery/1887259

02/10/2025

Join us for the preview of It Requires Getting Lost, a unique partnership between The Roberts Institute of Art, Venture Arts and Castlefield Gallery

📅 Thursday 30 October, 6-8pm
📍 at Castlefield Gallery

Booking is not required, but it helps us organise the preview better if you do!

👉 Register here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/castlefieldgallery/1868996

It Requires Getting Lost brings together three invited artists working in the North of England – Gregory Herbert, Malik Jama and Jocelyn McGregor – to work in dialogue with one another and in response to major works from one of the UK’s most significant private collections, the David and Indrė Roberts Collection (managed by RIA).

These major works – including pieces by Wolfgang Tillmans, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Pierre Huyghe – were co-selected by all involved and will be featured in the exhibition.

It Requires Getting Lost will invite us to wander amongst art works that encourage us to be at ease with the unknown and to embrace the unfamiliar offerings of our natural world.

It Requires Getting Lost from 1 November 2025 to 22 February 2026 at Castlefield Gallery

Image: Gregory Herbert in collaboration with Professor Katie J. Field, Making-with, 2021. Film still

05/09/2025

📢 Four new studio spaces are available at Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces: Chester!

👉 Learn more and apply: https://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/artist-development/castlefield-gallery-new-art-spaces/

👉 These spaces are available to Castlefield Gallery Associates. Not an Associate yet? Join our scheme: https://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/castlefield-gallery-associates/

📸 Image:
Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Disarm (2023) installation at New Art Spaces: Chester. Presented for Chester Contemporary 2023.

29/08/2025

📢 Last chance to apply!
Applications for this year's Castlefield Gallery Associates exhibition close on Tuesday 2 September, 5pm

👉 Learn more and apply: https://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/open-call-castlefield-gallery-associates-exhibition-with-guest-selector-curator-cindy-sissokho/
👉 Not an Associate yet? Join our scheme: https://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/castlefield-gallery-associates/

We are inviting Castlefield Gallery Associates to submit proposals for an exhibition that will form part of the gallery’s annual programme for 2025/26. To bring their project to fruition, the selected Associate(s) will access a cash budget of up to £2000, as well as curatorial guidance and technical support.

Proposals will be selected by guest selector, Curator, Cultural Producer, Art Consultant & Writer and Castlefield Gallery’s Head of Programmes

📸 Image: Preview of FANSPEAK at Castlefield Gallery, 2019. Photographed by John Lynch.

12/08/2025

Thank you That's TV Manchester 🙏

Learn more about our current exhibition ANEW Way to Peel an Orange here: https://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/.../anew-way-to.../

12/08/2025

Thank you That's TV Manchester for coming to Castlefield Gallery and interviewing exhibiting artist Joe Hartley, as well as Portraits of Recovery's Curator Dominic Pillai and our Head of Programmes Matthew Pendergast.

Learn more about our current exhibition ANEW Way to Peel an Orange here: https://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/event/anew-way-to-peel-an-orange/

08/08/2025

29/07/2025

We are delighted to announce that the 2025/26 Castlefield Gallery Photography Prize has been awarded to the three following graduates from BA Photography - School of Digital Arts / MMU:

- Floyd Magee
- Daniel Murphy
- Dani Snape

Floyd, Daniel and Dani have been awarded an honorary 12-month Castlefield Gallery Associate membership, giving access to information, skills, opportunities, resources, promotion and critical dialogue. Castlefield Gallery Associates acts as a hub, bringing together artists, curators and writers, facilitating critical exchange and engagement.

📸 Image: Floyd Magee, from the project this is where they’ll bury me (2018 – 2024)

22/07/2025

Castlefield Gallery is proud to announce that the 2025-26 Manchester School of Art Castlefield Gallery Graduate Mentees are:

- Jay Dahler
- Imogen Griffiths
- Fay Pritchard

Jay, Imogen and Fay will take part in a year-long programme, developed and delivered by Castlefield Gallery to support artists in their first year after graduation. The programme features mentoring and guidance, practical workshops, a programme of local and national trips to introduce a range of artist scenes and contexts, and 12-month honorary membership of Castlefield Gallery Associates, the gallery’s development scheme for artists. The programme is supported by Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Castlefield Gallery has also awarded 12-month complimentary Castlefield Gallery Associate memberships to Manchester School of Fine Art BA (Hons) graduates:

- Charlie Fogg
- Ella Thompson
- Emelye Barlow
- Taylor Bellwood
- Mary Lou Lawless-Gill

Congratulations to all!

Image: Imogen Griffiths, In the Dark, Dark Wood, 2025, triptych.