The Pearls @ The Manchester Contemporary

Watch this space! 21 – 23 November 2025

The Manchester Contemporary

The Pearls Symposium

2025

Doubling in size as a result of successful fundraising. 20 female painters form Sheffield to Preston and many places in between, joined us for a wonderful day of presentations and networking. https://www.thebirley.com/thepearlspaintingsymposium

AA2a

2024 – 2025

Artists Access to Art Schools residency at Blackpool School of Art. A Project developed in printmaking and textiles, concluding a substantial body of work forcused around the female form and the perceptions and ownership of the ‘gaze’.

The Pearls And The Oyster Exhibition

2024

Thirteen exhibiting female artists, all from the north of England, including Birley Studio Painters.

Bananas Are Not The Only Paint

2021

The Birley’s first free painting symposium. Celebrating 10 of the north’s finest, female painters.

Left Behind – The Golden Repair

2018 – 2019

Commissioned by Leftcoast a response. In November 2017 Financial Times article ‘Left Behind: Can anyone save the towns the economy forgot?’