Fuzzy Memories is an exhibition of work made by artists from Manchester’s Rogue Artists’ Studios, selected and curated by @houlkers_art Florian Houlker.
This exhibition invites artists to reflect on memory as an unstable, emotional space-one that is blurred, fragmented, and often contradictory. The word fuzzy suggests softness and warmth, but also distortion, gaps, and uncertainty. Memories can feel safe yet unreliable, comforting yet fractured. This exhibition explores how personal history, lived experience, and artistic practice resurface through nostalgia and recall.
Please join us to celebrate the opening of this exhibition on Thursday 26th March from 5-8pm 🥳
The exhibition continues from 27th March-24th April
Hanover Project, Hanover Building, Bhailok Street, Preston.
What 3 Words: Moth.Appeal.Ticket
At 2:30 Friday the 17th of April at October Salon - Lit Bar, the UP (Unleashing Potential) group will be meeting to discuss the launch of a creative infrastructure project that has been in development over the past 12 months by the independent art sector in Preston. The project is outlined to be led by Brewtime in Partnership with Arts Lancashire.
Anyone who wants to see the plans and give input is welcome to attend the meeting. Come and have a brew with us. Minutes will be taken at this event - anyone who would like to attend but is unavailable please DM us or Brewtime and we will discuss getting those to you.
Fuzzy Memories 💭
The current exhibition in our Hanover Building is Fuzzy Memories, an exhibition of artwork made by artists from @rogueartists_studios selected and curated by Fine Art alumni and now Fine Art technician at the university, Florian Houlker @houlkers_art 🙌
The exhibition invites artists to reflect on memory as an unstable, emotional space that is blurred, fragmented and often contradictory. The word fuzzy suggests softness and warmth, but also distortion, gaps and uncertainty. Memories can feel safe yet unreliable, comforting yet fractured. This exhibition explores how personal history, lived experience and artistic practice resurface through nostalgia and recall 🧠
The exhibition is open now:
🗓️Open on weekdays until Friday 24 April 2026. Please note this exhibition can be viewed by appointment only. Please contact Maeve to book an appointment ([email protected])
📍Hanover Building @hanoverproject
#CreativityMatters
What a night! ✨
Fantastic preview of Fuzzy Memory at Hanover Project Space, superbly curated by fellow artist Florian Houlker. The exhibition explores memory as an unstable, emotional space, blurred, fragmented, often contradictory. Florian’s centrepiece sculpture was an absolute knockout, and it was wonderful to be exhibiting alongside such talent from fellow Rogue Artists Studio members.
Loved the feedback on my new text piece Stacked, Memory, Sonnet and the free poster edition SMS.
The work is a 200 centimetre column of bright matt red vinyl on the gallery window. Uppercase acronyms stacked: IDK, IIRC, FOMO, TTYL, ILY, GTG, NVM, TBH. The last one spills onto the ledge below. The red shifts with the light. The words pulse, fade, return. Never quite the same twice.
The free SMS poster(s) are still available. I will sign and date yours (if I’m present) if you promise a small act of kindness within the month. Pay it forward. That is the only price.
Fuzzy Memory runs until 24 April. If you missed the preview, come by.
📍 Hanover Project, Hanover Building, Bhailok Street, Preston, PR1 2YL, UK
#FuzzyMemory #StackedMemorySonnet #MikeChavezDawson #HanoverProjectSpace #preston
‘Fuzzy Memory’ invites artists to reflect on memory as an unstable, emotional space—one that is blurred, fragmented, and often contradictory. The word fuzzy suggests softness and warmth, but also distortion, gaps, and uncertainty. Memories can feel safe yet unreliable, comforting yet fractured. This exhibition explores how personal history, lived experience, and artistic practice resurface through nostalgia and recall.
Curated by Florian Houlker at Hanover Project Space, Preston.
Preview: 26th March, 5–7pm
Exhibition continues: 27th March – 24th April
📍 Hanover Building,
Bhailok Street,
Preston,
UK
What3Words: moth.appeal.ticket
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I’ll be debuting:
Stacked, Memory, Sonnet is a single column of bright matt red vinyl applied to the gallery window. It stacks the language of the screen: IDK, IIRC, FOMO, TTYL, ILY, GTG, NVM, TBH. The red shifts with the light. The words pulse, fade, return. They are never quite the same twice.
The work asks not what we remember, but how. In an age where feeling is compressed into three or four letter codes, what trace remains? Not a monument to the message sent, but to the fragile, half remembered trace it leaves behind. The title plays on SMS: Stacked, Memory, Sonnet. Language reduced to its skeleton. Stacked into meaning. A poem for the digital age.
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#FuzzyMemory #StackedMemorySonnet #MikeChavezDawson #HanoverProjectSpace #preston
Things boys want to know (2020), oil on canvas
Painted during the 2020 lockdown, this work explores the "fuzzy limbo" of isolation, a visual record of a world that suddenly blurred.
I am pleased to share that this piece will be part of the upcoming exhibition Fuzzy Memories at Hanover Project Space. By revisiting this specific moment from the past, the work invites a drift between the reality of a lived crisis and the hazy nature of our recollections.
Preview: Thursday, 26 March, 5-8pm Hanover Project Space, Preston
Hope to see you there.
Please join us Thursday 26th from 5-7pm in Hanover Project for the opening night of Reconstruction Reoccurrence a solo exhibition by @artbymgl Matthew Livesey.
Livesey is a polyvalent artist exploring the theme of identity, often through the lens of spiritual rhetoric. By playfully using text as form, utilising installation, and encouraging participation in his art, he aims to challenge the hold that doctrines, such as religion, can have over individual personage.
The exhibition continues until the 19th March and is viewable by appointment DM@hanoverproject Monday - Thursday 10-4. We are situated at the front of Hanover Building.
#contemporaryart #exhibition #visualartist
Group show number 3! The final exhibition of 2nd year Fine Art students opens Thursday 4th December from 5-7pm. Join us in Hanover Project, Hanover Building for the exhibition preview drinks and nibbles 💫
#groupexhibition #studentled #contemporaryart
Student exhibition number 2 opening tomorrow night. Please join us in Hanover Project, Hanover Building from 5-7pm 🎉
#groupshow #studentled #contemporaryart
The first in this year’s series of 2nd year Fine Art student exhibitions opens this Thursday at 5pm.
Join us in the gallery (the front of Hanover Building) for the preview from 5-7pm.
#studentled #contemporaryart #collaboration #exhibition
We are pleased to present ‘When you Read this Smile’ an exhibition of work made by BTEC Art and Design students from Blackpool 6th Form College. The title of the exhibition takes its name from the work of exhibiting student Faye Faircloth.
The selection of work presented was made by Paulette Terry Brien the Curator of Grundy Art Gallery @grundyartgallery and Garth Gratrix co-director of Abingdon Studios @abingdonstudios_projectspace in Blackpool. In their respective roles they are pivotal in developing opportunities for emerging artists.
Paulette and Garth spent a day looking at and discussing the students work with them. The result is this exhibition of work demonstrative of the exciting young talent being nurtured in Blackpool.
Thanks to all the participating artists, we look forward to welcoming you again in Preston.
Please join us this Saturday the 15th Nov from 11-3 to view the exhibition, tea and biscuits with the artists from 12-1.
The exhibition will be open on Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th by appointment (DM @hanoverproject ) from 10-4.
We are situated at the front of Hanover Building, Preston, PR1 2XQ.
#contemporaryart #exhibition #studentled #future #talent
