Members Exhibition at the Mercure Bolton Hotel – John Barton

It’s been a while due to lockdown, but we are pleased to announce that we have a new members exhibition on show at our exhibition space at the Mercure Georgian House Hotel in Bolton.

John has specialised in monochrome photography for over 50 years. In that time his main interest has been in photographing the natural landscape and smaller natural objects. He has been drawn to the wilder landscape and less populated areas which can sometimes appear to have little immediate attraction. Closer inspection often shows that even the most unpromising subject can reveal an unexpected power and beauty.

Using monochrome materials or converting a digital image to monochrome enables the photographer to emphasise the drama of light, shade and form in the subject.

As well as Lancashire Monochrome, John is a member of the Yorkshire Monochrome Group and Accrington Camera Club.

Members Exhibition at the Mercure Bolton Hotel – Andrew Auty

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We are pleased to announce a new members exhibition at our gallery space in the Mercure Bolton Georgian House. Andrew Auty’s exhibition is of landscape photography and Andrew describes the exhibition like this:

This exhibition is about trees and the spaces they occupy in the landscape. In this exhibition, I have featured some of the magnificent places that trees are privileged to occupy. In some images, prominence is given to a single tree or a group of trees, in others the main focus is on the space around them.

More of Andrew’s work can be seen on his website at www.andrewauty.co.uk

The gallery is situated in the main bar area of the hotel and is open 7 days a week. The exhibition will run until the end of December.

Bill Brandt / Henry Moore Exhibition at the Hepworth, Wakefield

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This exhibition explores the parallel and intersecting paths of these two great artists of the 20th century.

The photographer Bill Brandt and the sculptor Henry Moore first met during the Second World War, when they both created images of civilians sheltering from the Blitz in the London Underground.

This major exhibition brings together over 200 works highlighting the relationships between sculpture, photography, drawing and collage revealed through Brandt and Moore’s shared interests in the subjects and themes of labour, society, industry, the British landscape and the human body. Moore’s celebrated Reclining Figure sculptures and Brandt’s well-known photographs of coal miners and their families in Durham and Yorkshire are on display, alongside rare original colour transparencies by Brandt, and Moore’s little-known photo collages.

Bill Brandt / Henry Moore

Lancashire Monochrome Annual Exhibition 2020

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Mayoress Marion Hancock, Mayor Harry Hancock with Lancashire Monochrome’s Dave Flemming and George Coupe.

Our annual exhibition opened on Saturday 8th February at the South Ribble Museum and Exhibition Centre in Leyland. As is traditional, the exhibition was opened by the current Mayor of South Ribble, the position this year held by Councillor Harry Hancock.

The free exhibition will run from 4 until 29 February 2020 (please note the restricted opening times below) at South Ribble Museum and Exhibition Centre, The Old Grammar School, Church Road, Leyland PR25 3FJ (01772 422041)

Opening hours are;
Tuesday 10:00 – 16:00
Thursday 13:00 – 16:00
Friday 10:00 – 16:00
Saturday 10:00 – 13:00

Members Exhibition at the Mercure Bolton Hotel – Dave Crabtree

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We are pleased to announce a new members exhibition at our gallery space in the Mercure Bolton Georgian House. Dave Crabtree’s exhibition is a selection of urban, rural and coastal landscapes from across the UK.

The gallery is situated in the main bar area of the hotel and is open 7 days a week. The exhibition will run until the end of March.

Andy Marland’s ‘Industrial Tourist’ Exhibition at Astley Hall, Chorley

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Lancashire Monochrome member Andy Marland will be opening his ‘industrial Tourist’ exhibition at Astley Hall in Chorley on Saturday 16th November 2019 at 12:00.

The exhibition will feature nearly 50 of Andy’s industrial landscape photographs taken over the past 12 years in northern England and north Wales. These photographs cover a wide selection of Andy’s work and include the mills of Lancashire and Yorkshire, vast steelworks, abandoned coal mines and the enormous slate quarries of Snowdonia. And let’s not forget the abandoned Duke of Lancaster ship in North Wales!

The exhibition will run until 22nd December 2019. Please note that Astley Hall is only open at weekends 12-4. It does NOT open during the week.

Albert Mill, Haslingden

Beehive Mills, Bolton

Members Exhibition at the Mercure Bolton Hotel – Simon Lupton

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We are pleased to announce a new members exhibition at our gallery space in the Mercure Bolton Georgian House. Simon Lupton’s exhibition is his street photography from the annual ‘Tram Sunday’ event in Fleetwood.

The gallery is situated in the main bar area of the hotel and is open 7 days a week. The exhibition will run until the end of December

More of Simon’s work can be seen on his website https://www.simonluptonphotography.co.uk/

Helen Burrow’s Brontë Reader exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage

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We are pleased to announce that Lancashire Monochrome member Helen Burrow is moving part of her Brontë Reader exhibition to the Brontë Parsonage in Haworth. This is part of a larger Patrick Brontë exhibition that has been put on by the Parsonage and will run until the end of October. The exhibition opening is on 4th July, please RSVP as per the invite.

Members Exhibition at Mercure Bolton – Dave Wilkinson

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We are pleased to announce a new members exhibition at our gallery space in the Mercure Bolton Georgian House. Dave Wilkinson‘s exhibition contains a selection of his landscape photographs from north Norfolk and Scotland. The 18 prints are:

Anchor points Burnham Overy Staithe
Boat house Burnham Overy Staithe
Lone boat Burnham Overy Staithe
Moored up Thornham V
Stuck in the mud Brancaster Staithe V
Ready for launch Sherringham V
Low tide Thornham V
Boat in the reeds Brancaster Staithe
Thornham stumps Thornham
Three Sisters tree Glencoe
Glencoe Lochan Glencoe
Stream side lodge Glencoe
Lagangarbh cottage Glencoe
Black rock cottage Glencoe
Water fall Buachaille Etive Mor Glencoe
Strontian wreck CN217 Ardnamurchan peninsula
Polnish Chapel Ardnamurchan peninsula
Camas nan Gael (“Bay of the Strangers”) Ardnamurchan peninsula

The gallery is situated in the main bar area of the hotel and is open 7 days a week. The exhibition will run until mid-September.

More of Dave’s work can be seen on his website https://davewilkinson.co.uk/

Chris McGinley’s Exhibition now on at the Mercure Georgian House, Bolton

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Chris McGinley Exhibition, Georgian House, March 2019

We are pleased to announce that the latest exhibition in our gallery space at the Mercure Georgian House Hotel in Bolton features the work of Chris McGinley. Chris is an accomplished street photographer whose work is well observed and often humorous. A member of both Lancashire Monochrome and Yorkshire Monochrome, Chris has two galleries of work on our website here and here.

The work is on display in the main bar area of the hotel and will run until the end of May.