Observed Ecologies

We are a contemporary art gallery and artist development organisation. Established in 1984, we’ve led the way in artist development for almost 40 years. We provide creative and career development, exhibition opportunities and commissions for artists and independents. We work from our galleries in Manchester, off-site, online and in the public realm. We create long-lasting impacts in our city region, North West and beyond. Our national and international activities focus on artist exchange. Castlefield Gallery’s public and participation programmes provoke new ways of thinking, bringing together artists, creatives, communities and audiences to explore the art and issues of our time. We believe when artists and communities come together they can help shape a better world.We support more than 250 Castlefield Gallery Associates and a host of creatives through person-centred development programmes. Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces provide affordable making and project space in the North West of England, including on the high street. We are a home for artists and creatives. We are advocates for what we believe in. We believe in the power of new art. We make new art happen.Ryan Gander OBE is Castlefield Gallery’s Artist Patron. We are a registered charity, supported by Arts Council England and Manchester City Council.www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk

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OBSERVED ECOLOGIESA programme of short films exploring the interconnections between human activity and the natural environment, selected from <a href="https://biff.braziers.org.uk/rogue/" title="https://biff.braziers.org.uk/rogue/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Braziers International Film Festiva</a>l by <a href="https://www.nickjordan.info/" title="https://www.nickjordan.info/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nick Jordan</a>.<a href="https://www.instagram.com/braziersinternationalfilmfest/" title="https://www.instagram.com/braziersinternationalfilmfest/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/braziersinternationalfilmfest/</a>Accompanying group exhibition SPARK: Artist Interventions in a Time of Crisis (Rogue Project Space, Dec 8 2023 – Jan 13 2024) <a href="http://instagram.com/sparkartistsnetwork" title="http://instagram.com/sparkartistsnetwork" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@sparkartistsnetwork</a>Damp Moss, <a href="https://christopherthompson.biz/" title="https://christopherthompson.biz/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Christopher Thompson</a>, 2023, 4:22 “It’s 9am. You wake up on the forest floor. Gentle rain taps your skin. You are sinking into mud. Bugs begin to crawl over your body…”Some Things We Tended, dir <a href="https://marcysaude.net/" title="https://marcysaude.net/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mars Saude</a>, 2023, 10:00 The future of food production in a changing climate, through 16mm documentation of two sites in mid Wales: an automated research greenhouse and a small-scale organic market garden.The Wool Aliens, dir <a href="https://juliaparks.co.uk/" title="https://juliaparks.co.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Julia Parks</a>, 2023, 27:45 A journey into the social, ecological and tactile entanglements between sheep’s wool, migrant plants and the River Tweed.**INTERMISSION**Exoskeletons, dir <a href="http://instagram.com/mcastineirass" title="http://instagram.com/mcastineirass" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mariana Castiñeiras</a>, 2022, 17:49 A filmmaker who struggles with her fear of insects meets a neurologist with a peculiar obsession for beetles.Guadiana in Four Movements, dir <a href="http://pedrofneto.com/" title="http://pedrofneto.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Pedro F Neto</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.burakkorkmaz.de/" title="https://www.burakkorkmaz.de/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Burak Korkmaz</a>, 2022, 13:45 Explores the present and future of the estuary of the transboundary Guadiana River on the Iberian Peninsula, with data sonification based on current climate models.Endling, dir <a href="https://www.carolinevitzthum.com/" title="https://www.carolinevitzthum.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Caroline Vitzthum</a>, 2021, 8:44 A portrait of the cultivation and ecological impact of flax, and its symbiotic interconnectedness with many species of insects under threat of extinction.SPARK was set up by Castlefield Gallery in 2022 to bring together artists wanting to intervene in the climate crisis. SPARK #18 follows on from Castlefield Gallery’s SUSTAIN programme focussed on low carbon artmaking and from the first seventeen SPARK sessions at Manchester Art Gallery, Rogue, The Birley (Preston), Eccles Friends Meeting House, Manchester Museum, AIR Gallery, Paradise Works, Editional Studio, Cadishead and Little Woolden Moss, Gallery Oldham and the John Rylands Library. The SPARK sessions are intended to help seed a Greater Manchester/North West-based network of artists working low carbon.

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