Manchester Academy of Fine Arts Graduate Awards 2017
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 as efficiently as always by Tony Ratcliffe and John Hewitt, had the
unenviable task of selecting the Award winners for 2017.
4th – 9th July 2017 at Contemporary Six Gallery, Manchester,Colin Taylor Solo Exhibition.
‘New Lines In Space’
Colin Taylor’s Solo Exhibition at
The Contemporary Six Gallery, Manchester – 1st – 21st June 2017
26th March 2017 – Congratulations to Julia Midgley elected Associate Member of the Royal Watercolour Society
Julia Midgley Elected To Royal Watercolour Society. Julia was required to submit a portfolio of work, sketchbooks and three framed works with one work retained for the Society’s Diploma Collection ….
MAFA 2017 Spring Exhibition
Manchester Academy Of Fine Art 2017 Spring Exhibition.
This years MAFA exhibition will be held at the Stockport Art Gallery
From Saturday 25th February until Tuesday 11th April 2017
John Sprakes – Winner Of The MAFA Travel Bursary 2015
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 its way over some of the most dramatic landscape in England. It is the result of geological volcanic land…
About MAFA Graduate Awards For MMU School Of Art Graduates
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 was to promote new, young artists as potential members. This involved looking at all the final year exhibitions in…
New MAFA President, Gerry Halpin MBE, Launches His Presidency
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MAFA Research and Education
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150th Anniversary – A Retrospective Summary
150th 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 As part of our celebrations in October 2010 we launched our new website. The website now includes many new…