Exhibitions
The Parsonage is open 7 days a week: Monday to Saturday 9.30 - 16.00 | Sundays 10.00 - 17.00.
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.
NEW EXHIBITIONS: SUNDAY 26 October to 16 November 2025
Gallery 1
Magpies - Annual Exhibition
Magpies are a friendly group formed in 2012, when Manchester Adult Education art classes was discontinued.
Like minded people met regularly for sketching trips and workshops, in subjects such as painting, drawing, sculpture, printing and so on. Our workshops tend to involve oil painting, pastels, charcoal and watercolours, and we have a supply of talented tutors.
Gallery 2
Charlotte Wellings - ‘Realm of Pixels’
Charlotte Wellings is a Manchester-based collage artist working under the name Realm of Pixels. She uses hand-cut magazines, photography, and found imagery to construct surreal, narrative-driven artworks. Her practice is rooted in curiosity, storytelling, and a fascination with how fragments of the everyday can be transformed into something new and unexpected.
The pieces on display weave together imagery from different eras and sources to form dreamlike compositions. Each work invites the viewer to step into shifting worlds where humour, memory, and strangeness collide, offering fresh perspectives on the familiar and celebrating the beauty in chaos.
Gallery 3
Diane King - 'The Light Through The Trees'
“I so very much enjoy working in all mediums - oil, pastel, acrylic, watercolour, and mixed media. Landscapes, both rural and urban, continue to inspire me; stories held both old and new. I enjoy the challenge of conveying movement, boundaries, time, memories, and remembered impressions.
In some of my work, I’ve concentrated on mark-making; in others, I have chosen to build up layers - adding and removing as the painting emerges.”
Corridor
Magpie’s- Annual Exhibition
Magpies are a friendly group formed in 2012, when Manchester Adult Education art classes was discontinued.
Like minded people met regularly for sketching trips and workshops, in subjects such as painting, drawing, sculpture, printing and so on. Our workshops tend to involve oil painting, pastels, charcoal and watercolours, and we have a supply of talented tutors.
