26 July 2021
A Middleton-born artist who worked for iconic fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood recently hosted an exclusive talk at Touchstones gallery in Rochdale…
12 October 2020
Rochdale Boroughwide Cultural Trust has been awarded £666,457 as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face…
30 September 2020
What’s Important For many of us the uncertainty of Covid-19 has forced us to re-evaluate what we value the most. We’ve all…
17 September 2020
It is with sadness that we announce that the 2020 pantomimes at Middleton Arena and Heywood Civic Centre have been postponed until…
12 March 2020
Touchstones is delighted to be delivering Cultural Routes, a professional development programme, designed to support the work of over 50s creative practitioners…
17 June 2019
Todmorden-based artist George Meyrick is currently showing a single work called Four Points at Touchstones to coincide with his current exhibition (Wedge)…
12 October 2018
Artist Maeve Rendle’s work shows a recurring fascination with sounds sculpted by the human voice and its co-option as a means of…
10 August 2018
With the generous support from Art Fund we invited a range of local women and young people to add their voices to…
13 July 2018
In October 2018, Contemporary Forward will exhibit new work by internationally-renowned artist Rachel Kneebone. Alongside this, we will commission acclaimed choreographer TC…
13 April 2018
Through Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries, Touchstones are excited to welcome our new Curatorial & Community Engagement Assistant (Contemporary Forward), Bryan Beresford to…
12 April 2018
In 2017, Touchstones was awarded an Art Fund New Collecting Award to build their collection of women artists. With the support of…
11 April 2018
Laura Mansfield is an independent curator and writer. Curating Touchstones’ forthcoming show Ambiguous Implements (21 April – 30 June 2018) which re-thinks…