Call out: Hold your events at Castlefield Gallery

Are you looking for a space to do something with other people? Is there something you’ve been wanting to do but you haven‘t had anywhere to do it? Would you like to hold a crit group, a book club, a community gathering, a talk, a workshop, a darning club, a meeting, a class, a making session…something else?

We are inviting artists, creatives and leaders of  community and social groups to hold their own events at Castlefield Gallery from 20 February to 5 April 2025. We are working with artist Kay Shah who will be transforming our lower gallery space into a multifunctional installation titled 40 Years of the Future: Degrees of Duality. This work will be part of a programme of exhibitions and events that brings our 40 anniversary year to a close. During this period our upper gallery will be used as a meeting and gathering space which will also include the display of posters, books, editions and other material from Castlefield Galery’s archive. There will also be work by Matthew Wood on the windows of our double height space as well as the windows of our new art spaces in Warrington and Chester.

Degrees of Duality will incorporate motifs drawn from different cultural traditions, including the fleur-de-lis, predominantly used in European heraldry which will appear alongside geometric and tessellated patterns found in Pakistani, Indian and Islamic architecture. For Shah, bringing these motifs together highlights the cohesion and tensions that persist in the intertwined histories of the cultures they are drawn from. Shah’s installation will contrast open and closed, physical and digital spaces, encouraging minds to wander through and beyond them. The artist and gallery hope this space will be an invitation for others to redefine it and make it their own.

Learn more about 40 Years of the Future: Degrees of Duality here