Featured Artist: Peter Davis
This month’s featured artist is Peter Davis. Peter is currently showing his painting Wetin dey in this year’s John Moores Painting Prize exhibition.
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This month’s featured artist is Peter Davis. Peter is currently showing his painting Wetin dey in this year’s John Moores Painting Prize exhibition.
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Election Day
Every year MAFA elects new members to the organisation. We are always looking for new artistic talent and passion. Anyone based within the UK and professionally active can apply.
March 17th, 2020
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Staff are making the finishing touches to the new MAFA exhibition at The Whitaker, Rossendale. The artworks have been hung on the gallery walls and the sculptures have been positioned on their plinths. The labels are…
November 29th, 2019
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Preview
Staff at The Whitaker will be busy installing the new MAFA exhibition this week. Screwdrivers, mirror plates and stepladders are at the ready to hang the many works of art delivered…
November 25th, 2019
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This month MAFA celebrates its 160th birthday. This makes it one of the oldest art societies in the UK. It was first set up in 1859 and was originally based at the Royal Manchester Institution on…
November 18th, 2019
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Awards
MAFA President Gerry Halpin met with fellow members Anthony Ratcliffe and John Hewitt to select and make the 2019 awards at Manchester Metropolitan University School of Art
June 15th, 2019
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Awards
“Quarry” 2017-2019, by Lorna Green with music by Julia Harding is a sculpture/video/music installation about four aspects of Endon Quarry in Kerridge, Macclesfield. Filmed over 12 months, the videos:- ‘Machines Story’, ‘Quarry Landscape’, Birds, Bees…
June 12th, 2019
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Election Day
The annual selection day for viewing the work of applicants who aspire to be members of the Academy took place on Saturday 1st June at the Bolton Arena.
June 11th, 2019
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Landscape Artist of the Year 2019 Landscape Artist of the Year offers you the chance to win a £10,000 commission for a British institution’s permanent collection and £500 of art materials from Cass Art. Landscape Artist…
April 18th, 2019
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Awards
The Academy President presented this years awards on 14th June 2018 at the MMU.
June 15th, 2018
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This is a list of the successful newly elected members from the selection process of 21st April 2018: David Barrow Jane Braithwaite Lucy Collins Manfredi Angela Hall Shaun Smyth Herbert Yates
May 03rd, 2018
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Preview
New Light and Huddersfield Art Gallery invite you and your guests to the Preview of the New Light Prize Exhibition A chance to see some of the North’s finest artists in one of the North’s finest galleries.…
February 24th, 2018
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Don McKinlay’s obituary has appeared in the Guardian newspaper and can be read on line if you follow the link.
December 20th, 2017
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Buy Art Fair 2017, 27-29 October at Manchester Central Celebrating ten years of the North’s favourite art fair. See thousands of pieces of art from one hundred exhibiting galleries and artists. Now recognised as one of…
October 19th, 2017
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Did you know that MAFA have an ‘Artists General Benevolent Institution’ steward?
September 21st, 2017
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Manchester Academy of Fine Arts Graduate Awards 2017 After a fascinating journey through the studios and galleries of MMU School of Art on Friday June 9th David Edwards, Peter Davis Chris, Lawson and myself, guided…
July 16th, 2017
Read moreBrian Bradshaw Prix de Rome, ARE, ARCA, MAFA (1951) We are sad to be informed of the death of long time Member Brian Bradshaw in November 2016 aged 93 years. As Professor of Fine Art at…
May 27th, 2017
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