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Artist-led contemporary art gallery and studio community ✨
📍East Philip Street, Salford M3 7LE

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DANCE WITH ME 《與我共舞》

LEAVE YOUR FEAR HERE.

Under the same eclipse, dance with me so we don’t fall.

📅 5 November – 13 December 2026
🕛 Thu–Sun, 12–4pm
📍 @paradiseworks_
🎟️ FREE ENTRY

Dance With Me is a new immersive exhibition by British Chinese artist Donald Shek, exploring how dance connects generations, cultures and memories.

Moving between the dance halls of first-generation migrants and the underground club culture experienced by subsequent generations, the exhibition explores dance as a shared language — a way of finding connection, belonging and emotional release.

Weaving moving images into a dreamlike digital tapestry alongside sound and sculpture, Dance With Me brings memory, nostalgia and the present together, inviting audiences to reflect on how we remember, connect and find belonging through movement.

🔗 Find out more via the link in bio.

Co-commissioned by Paradise Works @paradiseworks_ and Film and Video Umbrella @filmvidumbrella following Donald Shek’s first-prize win at It’s Paradise Up North 2025.

Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. @aceagrams

#DanceWithMe #DonaldShek #SalfordArts #WhatsOnManchester #ParadiseWorks taken in Paradise Works by @paradiseworks_

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📣 OPEN CALL: SALFORD ARTISTS, MAKERS & DESIGNERS

We’re looking for ideas for new public art projects across The Makers District - and there’s no set brief. We want to hear your ideas and your creativity.
Projects could be large scale or small, permanent or temporary. We’re open to all kinds of approaches and ideas.

We have some potential sites in mind around Chapel Street, Oldfield Road, Trinity Way, Islington Way, Bridgewater Street and East Philip Street, as well as roads and sites around/ leading to Islington Mill, Hot Bed Press and Paradise Works.

If you have a particular site in mind, tell us about it!

WHO CAN APPLY?
Artists, makers and designers living or working anywhere in Salford. You do not need to be based in The Makers District.

WHAT TO SUBMIT
Please send your proposal as a PDF of no more than 6 pages and no larger than 3MB, including:
• A maximum 300-word statement outlining your proposal • A page of images of your work • Up to 3 links to your website, Instagram or other relevant sites • Up to 100 words of additional information, if relevant - for example, materials, fixings, installation or other practical considerations • Any thoughts on where you would like the work to be situated, if you have a particular site in mind • A full budget, including artist fees, materials and any practical costs such as fabrication, delivery, fixings and installation
Please give us a sense of the scale/size of your proposed work and flag any practical requirements, such as access equipment or installation at height.

PROJECT BUDGETS
Projects can have budgets of £500-£10,000, depending on the scale and nature of the proposal. Your budget should include all costs from creation through to installation.

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE: 5PM · Monday 9 November 2026

📩 Send proposals to: sean@hotbedpress.org taken in Hot Bed Press by @paradiseworks_

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Last weekend to catch Aftercrop by @maya_r0se!

The exhibition closes this Sunday, so if you’ve been meaning to come down, this weekend is your last chance 🌾

Open Saturday + Sunday, 12–4pm at Paradise Works. Free entry, no booking needed.

📸 Michael Pollard

#paradiseworks #contemporaryart #salford taken in Paradise Works by @paradiseworks_

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18 days ago

Monday means one thing... a new interview up on YAC.

Artist Maya Rose Edwards (@maya_r0se) spoke to @paradiseworks_ Director, Jessica Bennett (@jessicabennett_art) about 'Aftercrop', their current exhibition exploring place, belonging, labour and the myths and stories tied up in rural spaces.

Read the full interview via the link in our bio, and if you are in Salford, we highly recommend visiting before the exhibition closes on 4th October.

Photos by @michaelpollardphotography

#artistinterview #yacinterviews #mayaroseedwards by @paradiseworks_

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19 days ago

✨ 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 @paradiseworks_

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Introducing our 2026/27 Haworth Trust awardees 🎉

We’re delighted to welcome Gwen SenHui Chen, Liz Llewelyn and Rio Darwin as this year’s Haworth Trust artists at Paradise Works.

Over the next year, each artist will receive a free studio at Paradise Works, a materials budget and mentoring and support to develop their practice, culminating in a group exhibition in 2027.

Swipe to meet Gwen, Liz and Rio and find out a little more about their work →

The Haworth Trust Scholarships are delivered in collaboration with The Haworth Trust.

#paradiseworks #haworthtrust #artistopportunity #manchesterartists #contemporaryart

Gwen SenHui Chen has a multidisciplinary practice spanning immersive installations and situational works, bringing together tactile sculpture, found objects, ceramics, textiles, drawing, sound and video.

Centred around lived experience, Gwen creates layered environments that invite subjective engagement and blur the boundaries between art and everyday life.

Liz Llewelyn works primarily across sculpture, woodwork and photography, creating within and through natural environments and bringing the outside in.

Finding solace and regulation in nature, their practice encourages audiences to slow down, listen to the trees and press themselves against the stones.

Rio Darwin is a visual artist based in the North West who pushes the boundaries of clay as a sculptural medium.

Rooted in the shifting landscapes of the Holderness Coast, Rio’s work explores what it means to exist upon an ever-changing landscape, creating sculptures that hold the tension between vulnerability and resilience. taken in Paradise Works by @paradiseworks_

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A little look back at the PV for Lead Into Gold, @livjarman’s debut solo exhibition ✨

A fab night, exhibition, and some fab photos by @timonbenson to remember it by!

#paradiseworks #leadintogold #contemporaryart taken in Paradise Works by @paradiseworks_

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Snaps between Paradise Works + Salford Museum & Art Gallery

‘Walk in My Shoes’ looks at journeying as a metaphor for non-linear processes of recovery, developed with Portraits of Recovery and the recovery community in Salford

This weekend we’ll be sharing an archive of the project, bringing together photographs, objects, tools and impressions accumulated throughout the last few months

Alongside this we’ll be activating ‘It Remembers Me’, a new large-scale participatory work that you’re invited to walk across with us

19 + 20 September
@salford_museum
12-3pm

Part of Recoverist Month with @portraits_of_recovery by @paradiseworks_

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3 empty peg puzzles of countryside scenes

Aftercrop at @paradiseworks_ open weekends until October 4th

Documentation by Michael Pollard

Antique darts, Assorted bird feathers, Acrylic

Aftercrop at @paradiseworks_ open weekends until October 4th

Documentation by Michael Pollard

4 Pencil Drawings, Nails, Adhesive Static Grass Tufts for Model Making

Aftercrop at @paradiseworks_ open weekends until October 4th

Documentation by Michael Pollard by @paradiseworks_

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Paradise Works Artist Updates 💫

A round-up of what some of our artists have been up to:

Hilary Jack @hilaryjack_ is exhibiting a new edition of her neon work No Borders in Victory Over the Sun: Encounters with Light at The Light, Durham.

Curated by Natasha Howes, the exhibition brings together artists including Olafur Eliasson, Tracey Emin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Steve McQueen, Katie Paterson and David Shrigley.

📍 The Light, Durham
📅 22 August 2026 – 17 January 2027

Emma Illingworth @emmaillingworth_ is taking part in a COMPASS Residency Artist Talk alongside Margaret O’Brien, Kimberley Foster and Jane Scobie, sharing work and experiences from their residencies at Cromer Artspace and Rogue Artist Studios.

📍 The Salutation Pub, Manchester
📅 Saturday 26 September, 12.30–3.30pm

Gwen Evans @gwenevanswork has been shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2026!

Her work will be shown alongside the other shortlisted artists at Yorkshire Artspace’s Persistence Works Gallery in Sheffield.

📍 Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield
📅 19 September – 17 October 2026

📸 @michaelpollardphotography

A new artist-to-artist conversation between Elliot Flanagan @elliottflanaganstudio and poet and writer Andrew McMillan @andrewpoetry has been published by @corridor8.

You can never really return home explores Elliott’s return to Burnley, touching on memory, place, class representation and the stereotypes experienced by Northern post-industrial communities.

Photography: Jack Bolton @jckbltn

Maisie Pritchard @maisieapritchard presents Walk in My Shoes at Salford Museum & Art Gallery @salford_museum as part of Recoverist Month @portraits_of_recovery.

Developed with a group of Recoverists, the collaborative project explores walking, making and recovery, bringing together an archive of the process alongside Maisie’s participatory work Put Your Foot Down II.

📍 Salford Museum & Art Gallery
📅 19 & 20 September, 12–3pm

Fleur Yearsley @fleuryearsley is currently artist in residence at @xeniacreativeretreat in North Hampshire, spending three weeks developing her practice at the retreat.

📍 Xenia Creative Retreat, North Hampshire
📅 8–29 September 2026

Gwen Sen taken in Paradise Works by @paradiseworks_

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A look back at the opening of Aftercrop, Maya Rose Edwards’ solo exhibition at Paradise Works.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the PV, it was a fab evening.

Aftercrop brings together sculptural works exploring changing rural landscapes, traditions and communities, using found objects, salvaged materials and carefully assembled forms.

If you haven’t made it down yet, the exhibition continues until 4 October.

Open Saturdays & Sundays, 12–4pm
Paradise Works, East Philip Street, Salford, M3 7LE

Photography: Michael Pollard @michaelpollardphotography

#paradiseworks #aftercrop #mayaroseedwards #contemporaryart #salford taken in Paradise Works by @paradiseworks_

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Last chance to apply for the 2026/27 Haworth Trust Scholarships at Paradise Works! Applications close tomorrow, Sunday 6 September at midnight.

Three artists will each receive a free studio at Paradise Works for one year, alongside a materials budget, mentoring and support, and the opportunity to take part in a group exhibition at the end of the programme.

Two scholarships are available for artists within three years of graduating, with one for an early to mid-career artist with 3–7 years of professional practice post-graduation.

Find full details and apply via the link in our bio.

#paradiseworks #artistopencall #artistopportunity #manchesterartists #contemporaryarts taken in Paradise Works by @paradiseworks_

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