Arts
Artists interviewed in order: David Gledhill; Simon Woolham; Nadia Peters; Nicola Smith; Richard Asbury; Mike Chavez-Dawson; Sophie King; Lucy Ridges; Jen Orpin. This year’s expanded Manifest Arts Festival 2019 ran from 12th to 21st July covering two weekends in Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Altrincham and Wigan as well as midweek happenings across Greater Manchester. The opening evening took place at Rogue Studios in Openshaw. It was a lively and enlivening evening with over 400 people attending to see the Open Studios and the special studio group exhibition ‘Manifestation’. Festival Directors John Lynch, Roger Bygott and Elisa Artesero collected some on the spot interviews and impressions from nine of the artists at Rogue. Manifest Arts is an organisation aiming to promote the talent of North West based contemporary visual artists through various projects including events, talks, podcasts, videos and of course our biennial festival which this podcast focusses on. For further information about Manifest Arts go to our webpage ww.manifestartsfestival.com Check out our Facebook page @manifestartsfestival where we regularly post about the local art scene Follow us on twitter @ManifestArts For more info on Rogue Studios: https://rastudios.co.uk/ Thanks to Arts Council England for supporting Manifest Arts Festival 2019