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TOP SALFORD ARTISTS SALE AT ECCLES COMMUNITY ART GALLERY
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Star date: 24th November 2019 ROB LEVER AND JO CARLON EXHIBIT AFFORDABLE WORKS Top Salford artists, Jo Carlon and Rob Lever, are exhibiting prints and original works in a new Christmas exhibition of art for sale at Eccles Community Art Gallery within Eccles Shopping Centre. On display for the first time is the original painting of Rob Lever's Dirty Old Town, which has only been seen in print editions, and Jo Carlon's special series of affordable art featuring animals. Full details here...
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Eccles Community Art Gallery, within a unit at Eccles Shopping Centre, always shows works with a unique Salford flavour, and for this Christmas two top local artists have joined a new exhibition. Rob Lever, whose prints from his Dirty Old Town painting have sold really well, is exhibiting the original work, which features all the topics from Ewan MacColl's song updated; including a girl 'from the streets at night' checking her mobile and smoking a spliff. Rob has got six incredible pieces in the exhibition, prints and originals, including Eccles Remembrance, originally used to promote the Eccles Festival, The Pub, a conglomeration of Holts' beer houses in one picture, Dementia which traces his mum's journey through the health system, and the experimental untitled view from Ladywell roundabout towards Trafford Park. Prices start at £95 and rise to £395. Meanwhile, Jo Carlon departs from her previous style incorporating stunning intricate maps of the city to present oil and varnished landscapes of Bolton, Manchester and Salford (£55 or £95 for two), a textured seascape of Southport (£35) and wildlife scenes of deer, and penguins and swans in which she has experimented with gold leaf for the foreground and sky (£95). There's also a set of original sheep paintings at an incredibly cheap £12.99 per picture... "I want local people to be able to afford to buy original art for Christmas" she says. There's loads more to see in the Gallery, including jewellery, crafted bars of soaps and dog shampoo, plus many other works by talented Salford artists...Well worth a visit to solve Christmas present problems...
Eccles Community Art Gallery
4 Boothway, Eccles Shopping Centre M30 0EB
Open Tuesdays and Fridays from 11am until 2pm and on Saturdays from 10am until 4pm. Also see the Facebook page for further details – click here
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STEVEN BAINES wrote
at 17:55:14 on 21 March 2020 |
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| Hi i have a couple of paintings , by J Morris Salford Artist . Not sure of this artist. |
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ROSSI wrote
at 19:14:21 on 22 December 2019 |
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| As a denizen of the mean and dirty streets of The Broadwalk, I would be more than up for it. Trust me, big bad Dazza wouldn't stand a chance. But it would be DJB I'd want. I could take him, I just know I could ... 🤣 |
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Salford person. wrote
at 18:42:35 on 20 December 2019 |
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| The comments on the 10 December sound good. (Check previous comments) ALL the regular people on here commenting like JOBLESS ROSSI, DARREN BORN BRED, BOB REGULAR, RAY SUNSHINE, etc, should all get together in a boxing match in Salford and sort themselves out in the ring. The SS should charge people a tenner to watch it, all proceeds to the SS or charity. Darren vs Rossi, Bob vs ray, etc. Sounds good. |
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at 13:40:57 on 10 December 2019 |
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| How about "Ringo Rossi" and "Darren--born and inbred in Salford" have a fight at the arena? Sort of a junior version of Ksi and Logan Paul.
Maybe "Bob--If I were more regular I wouldn't be so full of shit" and "Ray--blame it all on the Tories" could be on the undercard.
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bob the regular wrote
at 07:18:04 on 30 November 2019 |
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| Sadly the young blond tennis player scratching her arse is an old lady now. how time flies. Father time gets us all. |
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DJB wrote
at 05:07:16 on 27 November 2019 |
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| Oh Rossi how wrong you are, to the best of my knowledge suffering from vertigo makes being a window cleaner a bit pejorative don't you think. I've not watched TV for over 5 years (particularly to avoid the bile you reference).
If you have money left over after you've bought your Aldi baked beans you need to be means tested, why should the good tax payers of the UK finance you buying something to replace that poster of the fit blonde tennis player scratching her arse?
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ROSSI wrote
at 05:06:48 on 27 November 2019 |
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| Darren who are you man, MI5?? You seem to know me better than I do. Whut's wrong witchoo man? Ya need ta get a life, Son; ya can't live yours through mine, no matter how much ya might wanna. |
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Rossi. wrote
at 18:00:00 on 26 November 2019 |
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| Look Darren, stop being a tight wad, okay? You earn £450 per week. By Salford's standards that probably puts you in its top ten percent of earners. The deal is this. Yes, that's right, this is what I suggest. Put seven pounds per week in a pot in the kitchen. Do this every week for a year. At the fifty second week of the year point you should have, by my reckonings at least, approximately £364. What you do then, you go and find The Artist, and you look at his selection of paintings, and you take the one that tickles your fancy. It's not rocket science, Darren. Just do it okay, and support your local artists.
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DARREN BORN AND BRED IN SALFORD. wrote
at 17:59:33 on 26 November 2019 |
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| Philip Rossi has a LOT to say for himself, he must sit there bored shitless out of his head in magnolia court all day looking at his PIECE OF ART on his wall, its paid for by His £72week JSA(giro) by taxpayers £££. He could have had 200 ringos for what he paid for his PIECE OF ART. He must be bored writing dross all day listening to Bruce Springsteen. This bloke *rossi* must have PIECES OF ART of jack palance and jack Elam and his favorite woman he Fancys *hazel blears* all around his flat.. Get a grip man. |
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DARREN BORN AND BRED IN SALFORD. wrote
at 11:17:01 on 26 November 2019 |
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| I'm going to go to Eccles today in my merc and view these PICTURES OF ART. I'm going to inspect them and ave a good chat with the artists. If I feel there are worth it, I'm going to look what spare change I've got in my back pocket, maybe £300, and BUY a picture and take it home and put it in my mansion. I don't know which of my 20 rooms I will put the picture in,I know my BIG hallway. Sorted |
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ROSSI wrote
at 11:16:47 on 26 November 2019 |
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| DJB, you're just jealous. I own an original work of art, that I strived for, by saving bits of my JSA here and there ... and that by doing this I show that I have a love of culture and the arts ... and you're probably just a member of the local Conservative Club, a self employed window cleaner by trade, who spends his 'my' time watching Celebrity X Factor and Eastenders, and feeling a smug sense of self satisfaction at being a 'Working Class Boy Made Good' ... but it's me who's got the original 'Steve Mimmack', which will probably one day be worth five million quid, and which I bought with my entrepreneurial savvy and some carefully budgeted JSA. |
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Rossi wrote
at 10:13:27 on 26 November 2019 |
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| The other thing Darren, you say £95 to £395 for pictures! As if it is outrageous. What you fail to consider is that the paintings won't have been painted in ten minutes. Or even in one hour. Each painting may well have taken ten or even fifteen hours of time to complete. When you look at it like that, the price being asked is not that high. Equally, the Artist may one day be famous, his paintings sought after, much like Harold Riley's or even LS Lowry. If that's the case, then you've made a canny investment. |
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ROSSI wrote
at 10:13:16 on 26 November 2019 |
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| Darren Born and Bred, You sound like a good kid. I've read your scribblings on here, and like I say, you sound like a good kid. Nice but a bit dim maybe, but still a - a good kid. What you have to do Darren is not be led astray by the politics of envy. I mean so what if I can afford an original Steve Mimmack for £180, all the while tootling away on JSA. It's just what it is, is all. And you make it sound some how sacrilegious, writing of spending £180 on a PIECE OF ART. As if a piece of art is only worth what comes out of your nose when you've got the flu. The thing is, art IS art, and I'd rather scrimp and save for six weeks to buy an 'original' Steve Mimmack than, let's say, subscribe to Sky, or smoke or drink or eat Domino's pizza. Like I said earlier Darren, you seem like a good kid, but for my opinion one of your faults seems to be that you know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. This is a great shame. A great shame. |
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DJB wrote
at 10:12:31 on 26 November 2019 |
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| Can't fault your logic Arnold. |
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Arnold Rimmer wrote
at 16:12:51 on 25 November 2019 |
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| If there's enough spare benefit money to buy artwork, surely there must be a problem with the benefits system. |
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DARREN BORN AND BRED wrote
at 16:12:41 on 25 November 2019 |
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| £95 to £395 for pictures. I earn £450 a week, so how can i afford to fork out £95 to £395 for these pictures. A JSA (a giro) is £72week to people that don't work like rossi. How can he afford a £180 in instalments to buy a PIECE OF ART. |
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Rossi wrote
at 11:15:05 on 25 November 2019 |
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| Darren, stop being so cheap, so cheap and defeatist. If you want something you will get it somehow. I speak from experience. I'm also a working class bloke, albeit one who's been on the dole for twenty odd years, and a couple of years ago I bought an original work of art from an artist called Steve Mimmack. It cost me £180. He let me buy it in instalments, over a month or two. I first noticed this beauty in the Creation Cafe at the Angel Centre. She is very reminiscent of a Modigliani crossed with an Otto Dix. As a work she is, as the French would say, "C'este Magnifique!" and she resembles a young Mick Jagger, if Mick Jagger was in drag. The colours are sublime, truly psychedelic, and to experience and appreciate this painting in all of its glory, you need to take some mind altering substances and listen to The Grateful Dead. Anyway, I digress. Listen to me Darren. Do not be cheap. If you want a work of art. Something that takes your fancy, and in a world of eight billion people, is something that is wholly unique to you ... well there are ways and means. I did it on JSA, so I know that you, with your lowly wage can do it too. |
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DARREN BORN AND BRED . wrote
at 10:23:01 on 25 November 2019 |
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| Im all for supporting local people, but robs pictures looks good, I can't afford it. I'm a working class bloke on a not bad wage. GOOD LUCK to the guy. |
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Rob Lever wrote
at 09:40:29 on 25 November 2019 |
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| Thanks to the Salford Star for a great review and for supporting local artists. Eccles Community Art Gallery is a great place to exhibit and well worth a visit any time of year :) |
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Kev wrote
at 09:37:39 on 25 November 2019 |
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| Ouch. I like the look of Robs work, but in whose world is £95-£395 affordable? |
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