Exhibitions
The Parsonage is open 7 days a week: Monday to Sunday 9.30 - 16.00 |
On Sundays, all galleries will be free for you to see the exhibitions, but on other days the rooms may not be accessible. If you want to check ahead of your visit, please ring us on 0161 445 7661.
GALLERY 1 & STEVE PARLE ROOM
Michelle- Michelle’s work is displayed in the award-winning South Asia Gallery in Manchester Museum with whom she works in partnership. As well exhibiting around the North West, her work has been featured in the following publications: Katy Hessel’s The Great Women Artists newsletter, Vogue India, Conde Naste Traveler, Trebuchet, Financial Times, I Love Manchester and Coast and Good Home magazines.
Since her first solo show in 1995, Suzanne has exhibited widely in the UK. Recent solo shows include HOME, Manchester (2022), Penwith Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall (2025). Selected group exhibitions include Royal Scottish Academy, Royal West of England Academy, Royal Cambrian Academy, Porthminster Gallery, St Ives, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester, Hepworth and Manchester art fairs with Hot Bed Press. Her solo show at See Saw, Manchester launches on Friday 15th May. A print of her painting A Moment of Balance, is available from the Whitworth Art Gallery. San Carlo restaurants is a collector.
We are contemporary painters who see an affinity between our art. What we have in common is our wish to infuse a feeling of joy in colour into our work. Our paintings channel energy in motion. Through an interplay of colour, mark, and form, they capture potent emotional experiences, psychological states, and a love of the natural world. Celebrating the vibrancy of a felt life, each new painting begins intuitively in a moment of presence, triggered by an upswell of feeling. Impelled to reach for a particular colour, favourite oil stick, ink, or paint, the first mark is made. Mark-making responds to feeling as dance to music. As work evolves, a conscious dialogue emerges. We both work with variety of media, scales and surfaces.
GALLERY 3
After my fine art degree, I worked as an artist in a mental health setting for over 25 years. Alongside this I developed my own artwork and became self-employed as an artist and teacher nearly 10 years ago. I have a small home studio for my own work: contemporary mosaic and ceramics, and another studio in a local mill where I run mosaic classes. I have taken part in and been selected for many exhibitions, art fairs, art trails etc. over the years. This is my first one-woman Exhibition.
My pieces start life in the Studio as a response to the materials – my own handmade ceramics plus gifted, salvaged and found materials alongside domestic and vintage ceramic tile - disparate elements that each have a history. I work intuitively, allowing the design to form spontaneously. The pieces change and develop during construction, and once the composition emerges, I then meticulously work into the surface, rendering areas of detail and texture that contrast with areas of flat colour. The underlying theme of each piece emerges during the process, sometimes along with the title. I am drawn to using recurring visual motifs that suggest the coast, the sea, the sky and man-made settlements and I’d like my compositions to tell a story of the passing of time through the elements and structures that remain.
Corridor
Award winning poet, author and visual artist Yasmin explores the quiet dialogue between nature and emotion. Recipient of the UN poems for peace award, her work reflects a deep reverence for stillness, mindfulness and the beauty of simplicity.
The exhibition is titled moments of quiet. My work is rooted in a deep connection to nature, where I explore the quiet beauty of flora, fauna and natural landscapes. I am drawn to stillness, I use my art as a way to reflect moments of calm, growth and renewal. Working primarily with watercolour and acrylics, I embrace the fluidity and unpredictability of these mediums, which allows me capture softness, light and movement, whilst acrylics give me freedom and structure within my pieces.
My process is intuitive and reflective. I often being with observation, whether from memory, sketches or time spent in nature - then allow the work to evolve naturally. Layering, blending and mark making become a meditative practice, echoing the rhythms of the natural environment.
