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Two ducks photographed on the canal path near Dukes 92 in Manchester
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The name’s Sidebottom, Frank Sidebottom! Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, Frank’s World is on t’interweb!
Six things you may or may not know about Frank Sidebottom:
- His head is made entirely from paper mache.
- He is from Timperley in Altrincham (near Manchester).
- He has a friend called Little Frank who is a hand puppet.
- He once sold a video by mail-order called “Frank’s Home Movie Video”. He reportedly recorded a personalised intro on each video ordered, and coloured all the sleeves in by hand!
- He realised an ep called “Timperley” on which all the tracks are about Timperley.
- Out of all the comedians in the world with paper mache heads, Frank Sidebottom is the funniest and probably the most melodious.
A friend added this comment in the “More Manchester Graffiti” post so I thought I would repost it here so that more people could read it!
They want to destroy Walter Kershaws Trafford Park mural. The largest piece of industrial art in europe – just because it might fall on someones’ head. They can’t get rid, Can’t they just secure the panels back on. Theres enough money knocking about in Manchester at the moment. Rather than yet another flat development site, invest in something that everyone can enjoy. I love it, In the heart of the industial wastelands you come across this 5,000 square feet brightly coloured mural. It’s ace. Walter should still be commisioned to develop another one, but additional to this not to replace it.
This mural has been part of the Trafford landscape for the past 20 years. It would be a real shame if they knocked it down! I would have thought it would be relatively easy to secure the loose panels!
Walter Kershaw (born 1940) is a celebrated Oldham-based artist who has been described as “… of an independent mind and means”. Born on the 7th December 1940, he was educated at the De La Salle College in Salford from 1951-1957, and later at Durham University from 1958-1962.
Kershaw specialises in large wall murals in oil and watercolour, and much of his work can be found locally. Large scale wall murals by him are found in Bury, Heywood, Rochdale, and Manchester, as well as nationally and abroad, including at the Trafford Centre, British Aerospace, Wensum Lodge in Northwich, Manchester United, the University of São Paulo and Metro Recife in Brazil, Sarajevo International Arts Festival, and in Bosnia.
The Trafford Park Mural was painted on the side of the building in 1982. Kershaw replaced it in 1993 when it was unveiled by football legend, Denis Law. It is reputedly the largest piece of industrial art in Europe.
His paintings have been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Portrait Gallery and the Tate Gallery in London, at the British Council in Berlin and at São Paulo. He has won many prizes for his art including the Salisbury Heywood Prize, and awards from the Manchester Academy and the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Extract from http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/celebs/artists3.html
This is the last week of the show and the last chance to see Bureau’s launch exhibition Imperial, the first solo show for Italian-born artist Seb Patane, currently short-listed for Beck’s Futures 2006.
Some more grafitti from Manchester. The first one is on one of the bridges on the Levenshulme to Fallowfield Cycle path. The rest are on a shop shutter next to The Battered Cod in Fallowfield which just happens to be a mighty fine chippy.
Who knew that, in between bake sales, my mother was Anaïs Nin?
The old dreams were good dreams; they didn’t work out, but glad I had them.
There’s a great new exhibition called “World gone Mad” that has just started at Castlefield Gallery. The exhibition features the work of contemporary British artists who are exploring the visual legacies of Surrealism and applying it to how we picture the world today.
The artists featured are: Liz Arnold, Guy Bar-Amotz, Sam Basu, Varda Caivano, Jack Duplock, Neil Gall, Mark Harris, Ansel Krut, David Leapman, Bob Matthews, David Rayson, James Rielly, Adam Ross, John Stezaker, and Gary Webb.
Some Graffiti from the cycle path in Fallowfield in Manchester.
A photo I took of the huge luminescent Cross at the Manchester Passion on my humble camera phone has appeared on the Listening Post page at http://blog.wired.com/music/. Blogger at the rehearsal, thats me! 
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