Feature Exhibition
ARTLINK: 
Work by local artists for sale or to borrow as part of the ARTLINK loan scheme.
Turn your home into an ever-changing gallery by becoming a member for just £23 per year.
Members can borrow an artwork for 2 months with an option to purchase or they can exchange their loan for something new.
Contemporary ceramics and jewellery are also available to purchase from the ARTLINK Gallery with members receiving a 10% discount on all purchases throughout the year.
Stockport Art Gallery Wellington Road South, Stockport
Free entry during normal opening hours. Call 0161 474 4453
Temporary Exhibitions
Landscapes by Alan Thompson
Showing until Sunday 22 April 2012
This wonderful exhibition brings together a collection of the latest work by Cumbrian artist Alan Thompson. Thompson is best known for his landscape and still –life paintings. He strives to express the harmonies and rhythms found in nature as simply and directly as possible.
 Stockport Designer Craft Show 2011
Showing until 29 January 2012
Discover this treasure trove of bespoke designer jewellery, textiles, ceramics, interior accessories and more. Treat yourself or someone you love to something unique this Christmas or simply indulge in some high quality window shopping. This inspiring display of work by exciting UK designer-makers will feature; Stabo leather accessories, Anna Whitehouse ceramics, Sally Pawson jewellery, Craig Fellows and many other up and coming design talents.
Stockport Art Gallery Wellington Road South, Stockport
FREE ADMISSION
Death and Burial Exhibition
Showing until 29 April 2012
How we bury, mourn and remember the dead
For thousands of years people have sought to give their dead a respectful burial and to remember them in some way.
Using objects from Stockport Story Museum’s collections this fascinating exhibition will take you on a journey through time to explore the complex beliefs held by the Ancient Egyptians, the funerary monuments of the Ancient Britons and the lavish funerals and mourning traditions of the Victorians; as well as present day traditions and some of the interesting and unique burial sites in Stockport.
For more information call 0161 480 1924
Stockport Story Museum, Market Place, Stockport
The Finishing Touch
Trends of Trimming Unpicked
 Showing until 11 May 2012
From feathers to fabrics from ribbons to beads and flowers, hats have been trimmed in a myriad of ways throughout the centuries. This exciting and inspiring exhibition explores the historic trends of hat trimming and the prospect of future trends.
The exhibition features hats and trimmings from the Hat Works museum collection and manufacturers and suppliers including Parkin Fabrics, Jaffe Feathers and Millfield’s Flowers.
The trimmings will be displayed alongside couture hats from renowned British milliners such as William Chambers, Scottish Designer of the Year 2010 and hat maker to the Queen Rachel Trevor-Morgan.
An exciting programme of master classes and workshops will run alongside this exhibition next year.
Hat Works Museum Wellington Road South, Stockport
FREE ADMISSION
This Green and Pleasant Land
8 October 2011 continues into 2013
Paintings from Stockport’s art collection
Enjoy a time out from the daily grind by taking in the tranquillity portrayed in this exhibition of landscape painting. Landscapes were extremely popular during the Victorian era when towns like Stockport were becoming increasingly industrialised. Artists loved painting them, collectors loved collecting them and gallery visitors loved viewing them. Perhaps it was the feeling of escaping to the country that appealed when all that could be seen in the townscape were factories with chimneys billowing smoke.
Stockport Art Gallery Wellington Road South, Stockport
FREE ADMISSION
Beneath and Beyond: landscape paintings by Kate Davies
Sat 21 January - Sunday 4 March
Kate Davies is a Manchester based painter whose work is both evocative and compelling.
Her recent works deal with the experience of being in the countryside, the tangle and mud underfoot, and the sublime glimpses of changing light and distant spaces. The processes of painting, layering, washing, dribbling etc. echo the processes at work in nature, but with hints and glimpses of observed realities in her use of collaged fragments of photographs.
These fragments reflect something of the complex way in which we form perceptions with half remembered details of sharp focus. Sometimes there are figures in the landscape, at other times merely traces of human presence, (tracks, fences, litter, etc.). These are paintings which look for beauty in the unexpected, the ordinary and the overlooked. This exhibition brings together a large body of work from this prolific artist.
Stockport Art Gallery Wellington Road South, Stockport
FREE ADMISSION
Stockport Photographic Society Exhibition
Saturday 17 March – Sunday 22 April 2012
Exhibition of members work. Workshops and talks will run alongside the exhibition.
Stockport Art Gallery Wellington Road South, Stockport
FREE ADMISSION
Stockport Open Exhibition
Saturday 12 May – Sundau 24 June 2012
Organised by SKarts, an independent group of artists.
Information about this exhibition will appear in the Spring.
Stockport Art Gallery Wellington Road South, Stockport
FREE ADMISSION
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