{"id":66063,"date":"2025-11-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/?p=66063"},"modified":"2026-02-04T15:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:51:22","slug":"manchester-open-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/opportunities\/manchester-open-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Open 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-5f079da5 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0.4rem;padding-bottom:0.4rem\"><strong>HOME Manchester<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e406bfd8 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e406bfd8 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-base-2-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-634247182ef332b941ae02fa8a1f113f has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4e74fbfd wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-radius:6px;background-color:#48ae34;padding-top:0.3rem;padding-right:0.5rem;padding-bottom:0.3rem;padding-left:0.5rem\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Free to Apply<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-accent-5-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-accent-5-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"margin-top:0.6rem;margin-bottom:0.6rem\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-right is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-35904e51 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-right is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-17124a9a wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"opp_deadline has-small-font-size\">Closing: <strong><strong><strong><strong>19th February 2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>HOME Manchester invites artists to submit work for Manchester Open 2026, the biggest celebration of Greater Manchester&#8217;s creative talent, running 20th June-6th September 2026. This biennial exhibition fills HOME&#8217;s Main gallery with up to 450 artworks selected by a panel of art experts and community representatives. Open to all experience levels &#8211; established professionals, students, graduates, emerging talent, enthusiastic amateurs, and first-time artists aged 18+ (under 18s may enter via parent\/guardian submission).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Submit work in categories including painting, drawing\/print, photography, sculpture\/installation, digital\/moving image, textiles, and ceramics\/glass. Awards include three artist development packages managed by Castlefield Gallery and HOME, one HOME Award for a solo exhibition in Granada Foundation Galleries focusing on new work development, and the People&#8217;s Prize voted by gallery visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-b03bdb05 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchesteropen.org\/?utm_source=zealous.co&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=featured_opportunity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apply<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submit by 19th February for Manchester Open 2026 at HOME. Free entry for all experience levels. Up to 450 artworks displayed, awards include development packages and solo exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-post-opportunity","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[880],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunities"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66064,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66063\/revisions\/66064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}