The artist, the curator, the paint maker and the city inn

摘要

A Mancunian artist, brought up in the shadow of the Maine Road soccer stadium,who later became an occasional artist-in-residence with a leading local paint maker, using their traditional coach enamels to develop his distinctive abstract style, is exhibiting a collection of his latest works at one of Manchester's newest, most stylish hotels. The artist is Max Hague who, as a youngster, once played football alongside Nobby Stiles, and who's highly tactile improvisational paintings are now increasingly collectable. The hotel showcasing his work is the City Inn Manchester, which occupies a prize city centre site at the Piccadilly Place development and runs a changing programme of art exhibitions, highlighting notable artists. The Max Hague exhibition, arranged by leading contemporary art curator Meredith Gunderson, is open to view 24 hours a day through to January 2010.