Evocations

Judith Tucker has always loved the landscape. She grew up by the sea in Anglesey and her early paintings saw her develop a growing awareness of the power of landscape to evoke unknown memories, creating atmospheric works that are both comforting and disturbing.

January 2008 - March 2008

Stitched Stories

Stories - remembered, personal, mythical or imaginary - are the underlying inspiration for the textile artists in this exhibition. Their ideas are communicated in the medium of thread and fabric, materials that often have a powerful emotional symbolism in the lives of human beings.

17th September - 14th December 2007

Reliquiae

Gillian Robinson and Stephen Livingstone both create beautiful, sculptural artworks inspired by the form of books. Their work feels ancient treasured, preserved - like relics from another time.

28th April - 29th June 2007

David Hancock

Manchester based painter will be showing a recent suite of paintings entitled 'Beautiful People'. His works provide rich opportunities for exploring the inner worlds of the characters that he depicts. The large scale canvases are almost photorealist in style.

January - March 2007

'Wagging Tongues'

Adrienne Craddock, Marjan Wouda and Shellie Byatt. The artists have been inspired by proverbs from around the world which visualise proverbs from world cultures in prints, sculptures and paper collages.

November - December 2006

Gerard Rickards Remembered

Gerald Rickards was the very first artist in residence when Drumcroon opened in 1980, helping to establish the principle that visiting the studio of a visual artist in order to gain insight into the making process should be a tangible part of the gallery experience.

'…emerging, evolving…' is an exhibition which aims to promote the diverse routes into further and higher education in the visual arts. Rachel Arkwright, Catherine Bryan and Ruth Isherwood are all currently in residence at Drumcroon.

September - October 2006

Concrete and Glass

Concrete and Glass is an exhibition that brings together the work of three artists Brendan Neiland, David Hepher and Rod Taylor who have been fascinated throughout their lives by the built urban environment.

2nd May – 17th July 2006

Drawing on the Process

This show brings together the work of three women Claire Curneen, Anne Gibbs, Jill Bryars who work with clay to explore life experiences. The exhibition will be a celebration of process; showing the development of ideas through sketchbooks, drawings and experiments with clay, through to final outcomes.

16th January – 31st March 2006

25 years principles and practice

The 25th Anniversary exhibition at Drumcroon, Wigan Education Art Centre, is an opportunity to reconnect with artists and friends made over the years whilst reflecting on the principles that continue to underpin the practice in the gallery and out in schools. The show will represent all areas of art, craft and design, celebrate a broad range of processes and address all the Universal Themes.

Recent paintings by Kevin Laycock

The work of Kevin Laycock explores the relationship between Abstract and Non-Figurative British Art and Classical Musical Composition. His paintings explore rhythmic patterns in music and the potential for drawing, mark making and standard repeat patterns in surface decoration and textiles.

18th April - 15th July 2005

Rhymes and Relationships
The Graphic Works of Paula Rego

Paula Rego is an artist with an international reputation. Her drawings and paintings are famous for the quality of drawing and a rich unfolding narrative. The series of prints on display are evidence of this balance between content and form and present a great opportunity to explore a variety of stories and characters.

17th January - 18th March 2005

The Material of Formative Years
Debra Budenberg

Debra Budenberg uses the frame of found items of furniture as the underlying structure upon which she builds textile forms to explore the experience of family life. The works evoke the sense of human beings struggling to find space in the domestic world of a family: individuals vying for attention, struggling to be visible, to be heard.

2 November - 10 December 2004

A Trace of Memory

Henny Burnett, Jennifer Collier, Julie Haslam, Anna Lewis, Emer O'Sullivan
The work on display is inspired by everyday, familiar, domestic experiences and reflects the quiet absorbing inner worlds of women. The artists evoke an overwhelming atmosphere of memory and history. Artists, Craftspeople and Designers are represented, showing a wide range of textiles, ceramics and jewellery.

September 10th - 15th October 2004

Structured Elements

Jenny Beavan and Stuart Thorn

Through exploration of the cycle of water in the china clay pits of Cornwall and the surface texture of land, this exhibition of works in porcelain and photography seeks to make us look more closely at the environment.

21st June - 23rd July 2004

Detritus

An exhibition of sculptures and drawings of animals in motion. Works in steel, bronze and mixed media.

Tony Evans, Mick Kirkby Geddes, Matthew Roby, Sally Matthews

26th April - 28th May 2004

Mandala Raga

A celebration of recent works by Caroline Jariwala, Nikki Parmenter and Amrit and Rabindra KD Kaur Singh. The work is a rich fusion of visual imagery drawn from Hindu, Sikh, and Christian traditions and ancient civilisations, from all over the world.

9th january - 26th March 2004

'Assembled References' brings together artists Hannah Greenaway, Sue Platt, Jill Randall and Ian Walton who work with found materials or found objects. By juxtaposing objects or recycling materials they enable new stories and meanings to be discovered.

4th November - 12th December 2003

artists’ encounters with new media

To encouter something is to happen upon it, to experience it, to meet it. encounters is an exhibition which shows the work of artists who have encountered and utilised a range of new technologies in their work.

9th September - 17th October 2003

Alchemy - The Art of Victoria Crowe

14th January - 11th April 2003

Victoria Crowe's magic is to perceive and to invite perception. Her art enchants. Her imagery communicates the elusive, fleeting, transitory and yet constant passage of time.

Still

‘Still’ brings together three artists Bashir Makhoul, Fakhriya Al-Yayhai and Mohammed Ali-Amri whose work is strongly influenced by the pattern, repetition and calligraphy of Islamic art.

5 November – 14 December

Something Borrowed

July - October 2002

‘Something Borrowed’, a Drumcroon Schools Loan Exhibition, brings together a selection of items from the collection, demonstrating ways in which original works can enrich and encourage children’s making and providing for greater insights and understanding of the visual arts.Download the Teacher Notes

Michael Brennand-Wood - Chasing Shadows
April - July 2002

Michael Brennand-Wood is a textile artist with a national and international reputation for innovative and imaginative combinations of ideas and media.

The Mare’s Tale
January - March 2002

Nursery rhymes explored through sculptures, prints, paintings, textiles and animation by ...... Marjan Wouda, Adrienne Craddock, Matty de Vries, Sue Smith and Laura Knight
The works in this exhibition skilfully and ingeniously interpret the spirit of nursery rhymes.

Form and Transfer
Autumn Term 2001

This exhibition features the work of a selected group of established or emerging ceramic artists. In this exhibition, the work ranges from those producing functional and industrial ware, to ceramic artists making sculptural based figures.

An Exhibition of Work by Artists from the Drumcroon Setting-Up Scheme

Summer Term 2001
matthew roby • catrin mostyn jones • margaret jackson • sara lancaster • emer o’sullivan • adela jones • suki chan

The Drumcroon Artists Setting Up Scheme was established in October 1996 to provide visual artists with the opportunity to develop their own practice and enable them to secure, sustainable employment.

Inspecting the Visual Arts
April - June 2001

This exhibition will feature Visual Arts work from some of the schools featured in the OFSTED publication 'The Arts Inspected', which was produced to highlight and exemplify much of the good practice to be found in primary and secondary schools from across the country.

The Puppet Show
January - March 2001

This exhibition has been designed to explore the idea of puppetry and animation as a central means of expression. A collection loaned by the Puppet Centre Trust in London included the Hogarth early T.V. puppets featuring Muffin the Mule, puppets from around the world and Barry Smith rod and glove puppets from 1970 - 1985.

Susan Wilson Drawings and Paintings
September - December 2000

The very personal nature of Susan Wilson's art stems from its unique blend of observation and memory. Until recently, she has always worked directly from nature; and yet the figures, objects and landscapes in her paintings are charged with associations and emotions that resonate through time.

Paul Ryan 'The Road to Catalonia'
Summer Term 2000

"The road to Catalonia stretches all the way from Manchester -this is where I made my first papers and began to make work that I felt belonged to me. My artistic journey, intellectually and emotionally, has been paralleled by a geographical shift in my influences, and now, responding to the Catalan region of Southern France, I have drawn closer to my artistic influences of French Masters such as Matisse and Derain who also associated strongly with Catalonia.