Welcome to Smolensky Gallery, an art gallery founded in 2020 and based in Manchester. Our gallery is contemporary and eclectic, featuring works from both emerging and blue chip artists. We were founded with a simple mission: to make the art world more accessible to a wider demographic.
Raised in a politically active family, Reid uses his creative voice to shout about the most contentious of political issues: nuclear weapons, racism, the criminal justice system. Jamie Reid remains the country's top anti-establishment big name artist and is infamous as the agitator who put the safety pin through the Queen's lip to visually define punk and it's icons, the Sex Pistols.
Brighton-based sculptor Simon Shepherd finds the similarities between two seemingly different objects and brings them together to highlight their unexpected connection in appearance and often in essence, thus shedding light on new possible meanings. It’s the only thing that still makes sense these days, he believes, “in a world of confusion and contradiction”.
Henry Woolway’s work is a candid look at his relationship with life experiences both recent and from his childhood growing up in Cornwall, England. Visually, he borrows aesthetics from Scandinavian and European design, as well as Early mid century modern design. His simplistic and rudimental techniques gives the air of form over function or indeed a linear meaning to his work.
