Supporting the local community during Covid-19
21 April 2020
In recent weeks, Link4Life has continued to support its customers despite the gyms, swimming pools, sports halls, events venues and Touchstones museum…
Cultural Routes – Creative Opportunities for 50yrs+
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…
Four Points by George Meyrick
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)…
Maeve Rendle: What Cannot Be Turned Aside – Corridor 8 review by Paul Cordwell
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…
Community responses to ‘Herstory’
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…
Opportunity: Women’s Community Movement Project
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…
Wakes Day Celebration
05 June 2018
Celebrating our new season of exhibitions at Touchstones Rochdale, we hosted an eclectic array of events from workshops to performances for all…
Weston Jerwood Creative Bursary – Appointment
13 April 2018
Through Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries, Touchstones are excited to welcome our new Curatorial & Community Engagement Assistant (Contemporary Forward), Bryan Beresford to…
Art Fund New Collecting Award
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…
Interview with curator Laura Mansfield
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…
Commissions announced for Processions
09 April 2018
One hundred women artists are being commissioned to work with communities across the UK to create 100 centenary banners for Processions. Organised…
Acquisition of Susan Collis’ Our Wandering Kind
17 March 2017
We are delighted to announce that Touchstones have recently acquired Our Wandering Kind by Susan Collis for the permanent fine art collection…