Barry Clark’s talk at the CGN history group on Tues 9th Sep at 1.30pm will explore the strong connections between Manchester and the Arts and Crafts movement but the talk’s main focus is about the Northern Art Workers’ Guild, founded in Manchester in 1896 by local architects, artists, and artisans.
Barry will highlight the Guild’s distinctive role as a northern craft revival rooted in industrial Manchester rather than rural or London settings. Remarkably for the period, women played prominent and equal roles within the Guild.
Although the Guild lasted only until 1912, it influenced later initiatives which carried forward Arts and Crafts ideals into the promotion of both handmade and machine-made designs
Walter Crane (1845-1915), ‘The Triumph of Labour’.
The Adoration of the Magi tapestry, designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1890s)
Chorlton Good Neighbours 