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49 Lamport Court, Lamport Close, Ardwick, Manchester, M17EG
www.apartmentmanchester.blogspot.com
Apartment is an artist-led project and exhibition space based in a one bedroom council flat in central Manchester, The project is co-run by artists Hilary Jack and Paul Harfleet; the current resident who lives alongside the activity that occurs in the flat. Apartment has run since 2004 and has shown the work of over thirty international artists in a series of exhibitions and events. It has also supported recent graduates in it's 'Artist in Residence' scheme. See the website for more information and a full archive of images from the exhibitions Apartment has hosted.
Horst is a sixty year old 18 stone drag queen whose idiosyncratic response to Nikola Irmer’s habit of advertising for models in the personal column of the local paper initiated a three year collaboration. The resulting paintings depict Read on…
Apartment, Manchester
17 January - 29 February 2008
Reviewed by: MAUREEN WARD
As you approach Apartment; a sixties tower block in central Manchester the feeling is one of slight trepidation, where am I going? Whose flat is this? The somewhat drab exterior contrasts starkly with the interior white clean lines and minimal Read on…
Apartment
2 February 2007 to 3 March 2006
Reviewed by: Jimmy Holloway
Hilary Jack is one of a growing number of artists whose work deals with issues which can broadly be described as ‘social’, but are a million miles away from the type of patronising, worthy practices which are often imposed from above in Read on…
Transition, London, 3 December;
Conflux, New York, 14-17 September;
Manchester, ongoing
Reviewed by: Alex Michon
Motorists speed along the Mancunian Way, unaware of passing a new, subtle intervention into Manchester’s urban landscape. Two inner-city tower blocks standing 100 metres apart have been joined together via a thin strand of nylon. The thread Read on…
Apartment, Manchester
11 February (ongoing)
Reviewed by: Natasha Howes
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