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posted on 30.5.19

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Manchester's Street Art / Urban Art. Northern Quarter 2019

Carey Young’s selection for the 2019 Bow Open Show

Carey Young’s selection for the 2019 Bow Open Show reflects on our “current political moment”, with works exploring migration, gender, climate change and new technologies.
Exhibition: 27 September – 15 December 2019 Private view: Thursday 26 September, 6-9pm
Artist Carey Young has chosen 19 emerging artists for Bow Arts’ annual Open Show, with a call for works that respond to “our current political moment”. Choosing from some of the charity’s near 500 studio holders, many of whom are showing new pieces, the result is a selection of artistic works which engage with varied political themes including politics, migration, gender identity, borders and climate change; poignantly and critically addressing some of today’s most pressing cultural conversations.
Young has made a selection that explores these themes in varied and often witty ways. For example, Lindsey Maclean’s painting ‘Salome on the Underground’ (2017) presents a seated, nonchalant young woman on the Tube, her plastic bag holding…