Election Day
New members
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.
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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.
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Awards
News From MAFA Member John Sprakes – Winner of the MAFA Travel Bursary 2015 MAFA Member John Sprakes. ” Hadrians Wall stretches approx. 35 miles from Wallsend in Newcastle to Bowness on the west. It snakes…
November 01st, 2016
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MAFA President Gerry Halpin MBE talks about the MMU Graduate Awards Gerry Halpin MBE with Verity Howard Visiting MMU on behalf of MAFA last week and viewing a superb and richly varied range of final year student…
December 14th, 2015
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Vicky Olivera MAFA MMU Graduate Award Winner 2015 Vicky Olivera I am a Textile artist and the overarching topic of my work is how life experiences and thoughts leave visible and invisible marks that influence our…
December 14th, 2015
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Verity Howard MAFA MMU Graduate Award Winner 2015 Verity Howard My practice explores using surface decoration techniques, such as monoprinting, and constructing form through slab building. I aim to create forms which are contemplative rather than…
December 14th, 2015
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Patrick Jones MAFA MMU Graduate Award Winner 2015 Patrick Jones My practice at present uses charcoal on paper and mono-printing. Sometimes I have installed the works so that time becomes an extra element in the works…
December 14th, 2015
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Comments From Award giver Glenys Latham upon the MAFA Graduate Awards Included in 2015 MMU Graduate Awards are four additional awards which are personal donations. Three from MAFA’s Trustees who are eager to give encouragement to new…
November 14th, 2015
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MAFA MMU Graduate Awards MAFA MMU Student Award Winners Tony Ratcliffe and John Hewitt agreed to instigate a mechanism for MAFA to make awards to final year students in Manchester school of Art. The intention of this…
October 27th, 2015
Read moreMAFA President Gerry Halpin MBE launches his Presidency The recently elected President of MAFA, Gerry Halpin MBE, hosted a very successful ‘T’ Party for Members, Friends and Trustees as a new initiative whose purpose was to…
June 07th, 2015
Read more150th Anniversary News & Events In 2009 and 2010 M.A.F.A. celebrated its 150th Anniversary. In this section of our website you can see an archive of the celebratory events that marked this historic time. Website news…
December 15th, 2010
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History of Mafa: Publication The Story So Far The Story So Far: Manchester Academy of Fine Arts 1859 – 2003 By Sheila Dewsbury Published by Manchester Academy of Fine Arts The story of art and artists…
December 08th, 2010
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