The Guild’s 100th annual exhibition at Stockport Art Gallery, with over 100 works, is open to the public fromThursday 20th May 2021 until 16th July. On at the same time (closing on 8th July), in the upper gallery, is an exhibition of work by Mike Pendleton, an accomplished artist who was a long-standing member of the guild. https://www.stockport.gov.uk/current-exhibitions/a-lifetime-in-art-by-mike-pendleton The [...]
Dear SAG member, I know, for some of you, back to school will mean the opportunity for you to get back to art. Our online sessions are still happening every week and I urge anyone who’s not tried them yet to give them a go. There’s a weekly life session on Mondays and a fortnightly [...]
Dear SAG member, Hopefully you are all staying safe and getting used to the new normal. We trust that you are also still making art during these unprecedented times. We know a lot of you are keen to get back to our weekly sessions at the gallery, however sadly, we’re unable to restart them yet. [...]
Dear SAG member, Summer is well and truly upon us and hopefully more and more of you will be able to go out and enjoy it now that lockdown is coming to an end. Personally, I am thrilled that Turner’s Art Shop is having a phased re-opening from today. So, it’s time to give them [...]
Dear SAG member, Greetings to you all in another month of lockdown. I suspect, despite the slight easing of restrictions from this week, most of you are still housebound. Hopefully by now you’ve got involved in some creative activity. The increased number of people taking part arts and craft during this time is a fantastic [...]
Dear SAG member, It’s hard to believe that we are 6 weeks into lockdown. We hope you and your families are all safe and well and that you have been able to make some art during this period. Our BIG news this month is that we have a weekly ‘online’ life drawing class (exclusive to [...]
SAG kicks-off year with another fantastic tutored session […]
Camilla is one of the organisers of a really interesting initiative to produce work for exhibition in the gallery: she explains as follows:- "Last year a few guild members collaborated with the monthly gallery poetry group - the artists responded to poems written by both the poetry group and classic poems, including Wordsworth. In two [...]
SAG retrospective exhibition opens to great public acclaim Stockport Art Guild’s retrospective exhibition opened on Saturday 30th November 2019 to a packed reception. StockpART – 100 Years of Putting ART into Stockport showcases over 60 pieces of artwork from the late 19th Century through to 2019. […]
Chris Clements Portrait Tutorial – Monday 2nd December Christopher Clements was back with Stockport Art Guild again this Monday (2nd December 2019) with his third tutored Portrait Fundamentals session. Once again, it was a popular evening with lots of Guild members and non-members attending. This month he focused on head structure and showed us how [...]
