From 2022 to 2024 Castlefield Gallery Manchester, Grundy Art Gallery Blackpool, Touchstones Rochdale, University of Salford Art Collection and Shezad Dawood Studio worked in partnership on the pilot project Hybrid Futures. Through a series of exhibitions and events, and a programme of artist development and community engagement, the project explored collective ways of working, sustainable practices, and the urgent topic of climate change.
Exhibitions across the North West of England featured new work and commissions by artists Shezad Dawood, Jessica El Mal, Parham Ghalamdar and RA Walden that each addressed the topic of climate change in different ways.
The partnership also worked with groups of people from their local communities with a shared concern about the climate crisis. This group – together called Collective Futures – explored how creative production can help to shine a light on these issues and create solutions to the problems caused by the changing global environment.
Hybrid Futures, a multi-part collaboration focusing on climate, sustainability, collaborative learning and co-production between Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, Touchstones Rochdale, University of Salford Art Collection and Shezad Dawood Studio, and generously supported by Arts Council England and Art Fund with additional funding from Henry Moore Foundation.
