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Queer. Artist. Double-Bass player. Co-Director of @iapmcr One fifth of @sherpa_k.official member @thegreenparty Manchester UK

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Completely phenomenal few days working with the wonderful @florence_peake as a collaborator / participant on her forthcoming exhibition #vitalities @homemcr in a space filled with grief, love, sound, heart and empathy coordinated by Florence’s team, Jim, Scarlett and Tilda with huge respect and care alongside @hlboyce @r__acted @tinaramosekongoart @embergirling and Melanie. A unique experience filled with joy and hope. Exhibition opens next Friday 9th at HOME see you there by @jezdolan

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✨ New Episode Alert! ✨

Unbelievably this is episode #30 of The Grateful Web Art Podcast and I’m so pleased it’s with the very lovely artist Jez Dolan. Super big thanks to everyone who has supported the podcast up to this point and a quick reminder that if you’re a regular listener please do consider signing up to my Patreon page to help me keep it going (link in bio).

Jez is an artist living and working here in Manchester, and his practice explores the intersections between queerness, sexuality, identity and memory. He works across drawing, film, performance, printmaking and painting, and over the years his work has been exhibited widely across the UK and internationally. His work is held in numerous collections, including the British Museum, Manchester Art Gallery, the Government Art Collection, Bury Art Museum, the Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York, Soho House, the Schwules* Museum in Berlin and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, among others.

Jez was the first artist-in-residence at Manchester Art Gallery for the major exhibition Derek Jarman Protest! in 2021–22, and he’s the artistic director of IAP:MCR, the Manchester-based arts and heritage organisation presenting work across visual and performing arts by artists who identify as queer.

He has recently curated the exhibition Re/Assemble, currently on at the People’s History Museum Manchester until 3 January 2027. The exhibition features specially commissioned artworks responding to the legacy of Section 28, exploring themes of protest and resilience, celebrating queer voices and creativity. These works are displayed alongside historic and contemporary artefacts from People’s History Museum’s collection, including protest banners and objects.

Jez also plays double bass with Manchester-based art-folk troupe Sherpa-K who are performing this Friday, 25 September 2026 alongside the exhibition at the People’s History Museum.

https://www.jezdolan.com @jezdolan
@phmmcr @paradiseworks_ by @jezdolan

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Next Friday!!! 25th September @sherpa_k.official LIVE @phmmcr tickets still remaining! And our exhibition Re/Assemble by @iapmcr will be open. The official end of our two year @heritagefunduk project come and celebrate! by @jezdolan

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Almost halfway through this absolutely STUNNING book. Willing myself to read more slowly. Truly beautiful. What a gift from @mrdamianbarr thank you so much. Would totally recommend #thetworoberts by @jezdolan

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A wild Sherpa K appears!

On Thursday we had the pleasure of improvising as part of The Things We Dreamed installation at @whitworthart

Next up, we’re back at the People’s History Museum for SHERPA K: ASSEMBLE WITH PRIDE on Friday 25 September, 7.30pm: a proper evening of songs about protest, pride, love and all the other things we like to Do Music about.

It’ll most likely be our final gig of 2026 before we disappear for a short while to work on original material - SO! If any of you fancy seeing us a final time before we retreat to the rehearsal room (living room….) you’d best be there...

People’s History Museum, Manchester
Friday 25 September
7.30–9.30pm

📸 Alana Lake by @jezdolan

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Two days to go! 🎉🎉

Step inside a live, unfinished rehearsal room at The Whitworth this September. 🎭

‘The Things We Dreamed Of…’ is a performance unfolding in real time, where queer recovery becomes an act of imagination, resistance and collective future-making.

Co-produced and performed by people in recovery alongside artists Jez Dolan and Alana Lake. Expect process, uncertainty, becoming, and the courage to imagine otherwise.

📅 10 Sep 2026, 6–8pm
📍 the Whitworth, Manchester
🎟️ Free entry / reserve a spot to let us know you’re coming.

Dont miss it! More at the link in bio.

Part of Recoverist Month 2026.

#LGBTmanchester #canalstreeet taken in Whitworth Art Gallery by @jezdolan

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Get Ready… for Friday 25 September 2026, 7.30pm - 9.30pm at @phmmcr

“Join the band for a performance that will combine original songs and well-known favourites about protest, pride, and love.“ taken in Manchester, United Kingdom by @jezdolan

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Happy Pride friends!!! Overjoyed to play with my best boy @jvmartin92 to make these little outfits for their parade debut. Massive to all, but especially to the most beautiful @jvmartin92 and @jams_mac1 on their 6th Anniversary. Love is love by @jezdolan

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Really excited for this premiere tomorrow!
Tickets here: https://www.homemcr.org/whats-on/protest-condensation-short-film-premiere-18-5qdg by @jezdolan

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Best book I’ve read for a long while. Not a biography, not a history, not a musicological text, but a musing on art, life and the importance of making things, as viewed through the work and life of the enigmatic Erik Satie. Tempted to go back to the beginning and start again. Book by the marvellous @fitzcarraldoeditions bought from the wonderful @donlonbooks by @jezdolan

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🎬 Join us for a one-off gala event marking the culmination of PROTEST! – Documenting Dissent.

Supported by the @heritagefunduk PROTEST! is @iapmcr
two-year project exploring Manchester's queer protest history and the long shadow of Section 28.

Using Manchester's 1988 anti-Section 28 demonstration as its starting point, the project has gathered oral histories from LGBTQ+ activists, artists, teachers, organisers and people whose lives were shaped by censorship and silence.

At SCENE Festival 2025, ON THE SCENE transformed Fairfield Social Club into a reconstructed 1988 post-demo party. Audiences danced, acted and protested—and that footage now lives inside CONDENSATION, a new magic-realist short film written and directed by Joshua Val Martin, premiering at the very festival that helped make it.

Set in 2010 Manchester, CONDENSATION follows a fresher wanting to attend the LGBT Society, but inherited silence and half-heard histories, born of Section 28, gather around him as a literal cloud.

The evening will feature red-carpet interviews, a celebratory project highlights film, a short documentary by David Martin using march footage and PROTEST! oral histories, the world premiere of CONDENSATION, and a post-screening wrap party.

Part gala premiere, part living archive, and above all a celebration of LGBTQ+ people who continue to resist through remembering.

@leebaxter_ @jezdolan @jvmartin92

📍 @homemcr Mcr
📅 Wednesday 26th August
🕒 8pm - 10pm
🎟️ Tickets in bio

#SCENEFestival #Manchester #PROTEST #Condensation #QueerHistory #Section28 #LGBTQ #ManchesterEvents by @jezdolan

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A free workshop series for LGBT+ people in recovery from substance use.

Explore queer creativity and collective imagination at @whitworthart Led by artists @JezDolan and @alanalake.studio, the workshops take the Recoverist Manifesto as a starting point, reframing recovery as a shared creative act.

No experience needed. Just openness.

As a thank you, you will receive £25.42 per workshop attended. To receive payment, you must attend at least 3 workshops, or 2 workshops and the final performance.

Workshop dates: Saturdays, 1–3pm – 25 July, 8 Aug, 22 Aug, 5 Sept (+ one TBC)
Final performance: Thursday 10 September, 6–8pm

Places are limited. Register now. Link in Bio.

Photo by @leebaxter__ taken in Whitworth Art Gallery by @jezdolan

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