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Image12: Win a digital camera!

Photography competition open to all Tameside secondary and college students. We are looking for photographs on the subject of sport: Submit your entries either by email/post (min 1MB) to the address at the bottom of this page.

Your entry could be part of the Image12 exhibition at Central Art Gallery.

Exhibitions

Central Art Gallery hosts a varied temporary exhibition programme, you can find out more about the individual exhibitions on this page either by clicking on the titles below or scrolling further down on the page. 

Broken Ground

Woodcut prints by Anthony Ratcliffe

20 January - 14 April 2012

The artist, Anthony Ratcliffe’s project ‘Broken Ground’ was carried out over a period of three years in the Saddleworth district and Dark Peak National Park. This is predominantly a moorland landscape overlooking rough pasture, reservoirs and Pennine villages. It is scarred by quarries, tunnels, water catchment dikes and stone walls.Broken Ground, woodcut by Anthony Ratcliffe

Ratcliffe’s previous work has involved visiting remote parts of Britain making prints from drawings of islands, coastlines and the wilder scenery of the British Isles.

These prints often contain images of past human activity, industrial archaeology, prehistoric ruins, agriculture, flora, fauna and the dramatic effect of seasonal weather conditions.

For this project Ratcliffe has applied the same interest in a more sustained and focused manner to his local area. This has involved regular runs, walks and winter climbs armed with a notebook and camera. He has researched the conservation, hydrology, moorland agriculture, land management, field sports, history, geology and industrial archaeology. The project includes the use of drawing, watercolour, printmaking, text, artist’s books and mixed media.

The text has been adapted from Anthony Ratcliffe’s catalogue ‘Broken Ground’, published in 2011 by Anthony Ratcliffe, artist/printmaker.

Somewhere Near You

Artworks by Tim Garner

9 December 2011 – 4 February 2012

Katherine Street by Tim GarnerTim Garner is able to make the ordinary extraordinary. He takes the apparently mundane, even the street where you live, and using photography as his base transforms it into moody scenes with blustery winds, swiftly-moving clouds and that special white/greyish light.

Garner’s ‘Katherine Street’ and ‘The Burlington’ in Ashton-under-Lyne are both urban, modern and honest but at the same time there is a poetic element - a deft ability to imbue everyday scenes with beauty.

His Ashton scenes are a must for anyone wanting a new perspective on Tameside's urban landscape.

Cllr Jackie Lane, Tameside Council's Assistant Executive Member for Heritage and Tourism, said: "We think we know the places that we live and work in. I've spent many hours in Ashton but Tim's work has made me see the place in an entirely different way."

Tim Garner is represented by Artzu Gallery in Manchester. To find out more about Garner’s work, please visit www.artzu.co.uk Link to External Website.

 Forthcoming exhibitions

Image 12 - Our Sporting Life

10 February - 28 April 2012

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Page last updated: 2 February 2012