Celebrating Success at Manchester
The Solo Exhibition of ‘Adapting to Change’ will be concluding on the 28th November 2025, as a coffee morning at 11:30 am on that day. All are welcome, but you must register with the museum for security purposes.
To book please email Rick, at tickets@manchesterjewishmuseum.com.
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This concluding event will be professionally filmed, as part of a documentary relating to my research of the history within the area of Cheetham Hill. Therefore, support for this event would be highly appreciated!
This has been an extremely successful exhibition and besides my work being very well received, the commissioned work by the Manchester Jewish Museum called ‘Adapting to Change’, is now permanently hung in the foyer. This painting on wood tells the story of the changing demographics of the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester. The museum started as a Sephardi synagogue, in the location that was once very heavily populated with Jews. The top of the pictures starts with the industrial revolution of the cotton industry which attracted many wealthy Jews at the time, setting up factories, shops, synagogues and homes. Later came the impoverished Jewish pedlars from Eastern Europe. The more affluent members of the of the community provided jobs and welfare for those in needs. This story is incorporated within the painting.
Today, only remnants of this history remain, and the area now embraces a different industrialisation of wholesale shops, factories, restaurants and food markets. As the history changes, so does the story within the composition. Leading the eye to the base, the globe and its shadowy figures represent the similarities all immigrants share.
Keep posted- Exciting things coming soon!
Beverley-Jane