Artist printmaker Carolyn Murphy with her work in the Lake Gallery, West Kirby

Celebrating the end of the year with 2 Opens

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Carolyn Murphy is celebrating the end of 2025 with work in two Open exhibitions in the North West: ‘Bury Open’ and ‘Open 2025’ at the Lake Gallery in West Kirby. She was able to make the private view on the Wirral and visited the Bury Art Museum on another occasion to appreciate the show.

Carolyn with her work at the Wirral opening

Work in both exhibitions is for sale and both Opens continue into the New Year, so there is still plenty of time to see selected work across a wide range of media.

It was busy at the Lake Gallery PV

Open 2025 at the Lake Gallery, West Kirby, show is open Thursdays to Saturdays 10am to 4pm until 24 January 2026.

Carolyn with her work at the Bury Open 2025

Bury Open runs at Bury Art Museum, open Tuesdays to Saturdays, until 21 February 2026.

Bury Art Museum is a stunning setting
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‘Land’ exhibition at Bury Art Museum

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Prospect Printmakers’ new exhibition ‘Land’ opened at Bury Art Museum on 10 May 2019.

The exhibition runs until 13 July. It features work by Alan Birch, Jill Randall, Karen Vine, Peter Cave, Gary Thomas, Cate Gibson, Carolyn Murphy and other artist printmakers from Waterfoot’s Prospect Studio.

The opening took place on Saturday 18 May and was well attended. Alan Birch was on hand to answer questions about printmaking techniques.

Peter Cave’s collagraph featured in the exhibition poster

Image of a linocut called 'Darkness' by Carolyn Murphy which is part of the Bury exhibition

Bury Exhibition opens Friday

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A new Bury exhibition features a wide range of printmakers’ work under one theme. Prospect Printmakers are showing work at Bury Art Museum as part of the ‘Feared and Fanciful Futures’ exhibition. The exhibition opens on Friday 27 January and runs until 20 May.

Carolyn Murphy’s reduction linocut ‘Darkness’ will be included alongside other printmakers’ work.

Image of a linocut called 'Darkness' by Carolyn Murphy which is part of the Bury exhibition
‘Darkness’ by Carolyn Murphy

Inspiration for the work came from ideas of catastrophe, space exploration and her love of dark skies.

All are welcome at the opening on Friday (5-8pm).

Prospect Printmakers print at Alan Birch’s workshop at Prospect Studio in Waterfoot, Rossendale. A wide variety of printmaking techniques and some great interpretations of the theme are on show. The group also has unframed work in the Bury Art Museum Shop.

You can now buy available unframed original prints at the new on-line Shop.