As a result, fellow artist and GNW management team member Annie Stride and Stuart Fraser organised a jolly Gallery Northwest day out to the Manchester Art Fair in November 2024.
After a refreshingly pain free train journey from Carlisle, and a short walk from Oxford Road station we arrived at the magnificent venue at Manchester Central. First impression was wow, this is a very big arts fair! and a feast for the eyes of any lover of the Arts. With around 1000 stalls and booths and over 500 artists and galleries represented we really were confronted by a “horizon stuffed full of art across all genres”

Norman is without a doubt the most well know mining artist of the 20th century. For over 50 years his gritty, amusing and documentary images depicting the tough working life of miners and their families. The careful observations of day to day events in and around his Spennymoor home have fascinated his viewers, myself included.

It all begins with an idea.Hi, Stuart Fraser here, one of GNW directors. I nipped across to the Laing Gallery in Newcastle yesterday to visit the Turner Exhibition on display until September 7th.

Turner is one of my big influencers and an artist I have studied in some depth both professionally with a painting school and on my own. Great exhibition, well worth seeing the Fighting Temeraire and about 20 other of the great mans work in the flesh.