February 2012
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Curious Pursuits Catalogue
We are delighted to announce that the catalogue for Curious Pursuits is now available for downloading.
If you would like an electronic copy of the cunning booklet containing all the names and works of spectacular art that are making up Curious Pursuits then please chase this charming link all the way to our PDF. http://bit.ly/wLDDPF
Curious Pursuits Now Open
We would like to thank everyone who came down last Thursday evening and made the preview such a fantastic night. We hope you all enjoyed it and manage to get back and see the work. Curious Pursuits runs until 29th February. The Portico is open 9:30 - 4:30 Monday - Friday with a late night opening on Thursdays until 7:30pm.
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January 2012
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Porter & Jenkinson Present Curious Pursuits
We are delighted to share with you our invitation to our Spectacular Premier Exhibition Curious Pursuits. The show previews on 2nd February 2012 from 6-8pm at the Portico Library & Gallery, Manchester. For more information please see our fantastic poster below designed by Curious Pursuits exhibiting artist Amanda Nicole White.
Curious Pursuits Exhibiting Artists
We are delighted to announce our selected artists who will be exhibiting in our Curious Pursuits exhibition! A hearty welcome goes to…
Ben Rothery
Alice Pattullo
Alice Bradshaw
Corinna Spencer
Amy Louise Nettleton
Abigail Drumm
Andy Clark
Amanda’s Autopsies
Lisa Temple-Cox & Anne Barclay
Paulina Sandberg
Abraham Emajaro
Kirsty Logan
Andrew G Magee
Jane...
Curious Pursuits Open Call Closed
Firstly we liked to wish you all a very happy New Year! Our open call for Curious Pursuits closed yesterday - we saw a great response and have had some truly spectacular submissions. We are going to be looking through all the works over the next few days and will be in touch with everyone and announce the successful applicants very soon.
Thank you again for the...
December 2011
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Nautical Superstitions
Superstitions are curious little things gifted to us through often peculiar origins and are relied on to bring fortune, protection and clairvoyance. Some are fairly logical -for example never walk under a ladder but others boarder on the ridiculous such as dropping an umbrella onto the floor means there will be a murder. Some people take them with a pinch...
November 2011
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Curious Cookery
Porter & Jenkinson will always accept gifts of bizarre food items, often conducting their ramblings over the most delightfully shaped gingerbreads. We were excitedly reminded recently of Edward Lear’s fantastic nonsense recipes and wanted to share the following with you:
“Crumbobblious Cutlets”
Procure some strips of beef, and having cut them into the smallest possible slices,...
Manchester's Art Treasures
Question: What do Karl Marx, a motorised fountain, Queen Victoria, package holidays and Old Trafford all have in common?
Answer: The Art Treasures exhibition of the United Kingdom held here in Manchester 1857.
The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857
With the Da Vinci blockbuster at London’s National Gallery drawing in huge crowds in its opening week we decided to celebrate Manchester’s...
October 2011
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Curious Pursuits to be Held at The Portico Library...
We are delighted to announce that Porter & Jenkinson’s spectacular premier exhibition will be held in the Portico Library, Manchester from 2-29 February 2012.
The Portico was opened in 1806 on what, according to John Dalton himself, was the ‘most elegant and retiring street in town’. We very much agree, dear John.
Curious Pursuits will be held in the Library’s...
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The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary
Living in a former cottonopolis as we do, we thought perhaps an interesting tale and theory about where cotton originated should be shared.
When our 14th Century ancestors mused over the origins of cotton they came to a spectacular and somewhat far-fetched conclusion. They knew that it was imported from the Far East, (Tartary was used to describe areas of Asia in the Middle Ages) and their...
September 2011
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A Certain Sign of Death
An interesting entry in Jeremy Nicholas’ Victorian Curiosities (1995) book - a collection of articles compiled from Don Lemon’s book published in 1890- in which we learn how to test to see if a person is truly dead or merely tricking his physician.
A Certain Sign of Death
M Lessenne, at a meeting of the Societe Medicale d’Amiens, indicated a certain sign of death, simple and...
“An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself”
– Charles Dickens
August 2011
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Porter & Jenkinson: Curious Pursuits
Art Historian collective Porter and Jenkinson are launching their open call for artists and writers. Curious Pursuits aims to showcase the best contemporary art responding to the lost themes and ideas behind the dark, strange, curious and peculiar Victorian aesthetics.
Often perceived as prudish and straight-laced, the Victorian’s obsession with - to mention a few pursuits - erotica, the...
Curious Pursuits Exhibition
Porter and Jenkinson will be announcing details for the callout for their first exhibition very soon. Please check back here for further details.
Porter & Jenkinson
Art Historian collective Porter & Jenkinson aim to showcase the best contemporary art of a curious and unusual nature. Through exploring the dark, strange and depraved themes of the Victorian era they curate exhibitions of works that respond directly to these ideas. They intend to bring to the foreground these forgotten aesthetics and to explore the responses and reactions in contemporary...