Porch Gallery is an independent, artist run project, created in order to exhibit new challenging artwork, which responds to the unique interior of a household porch in Manchester. This programme has a limited lifespan and will run for eight months. One artist will exhibit for each month of the existence of Porch.

The project’s purpose is to showcase a diverse range of newly created, site specific work. The artists exhibiting at Porch will be at different stages of their careers but predominantly are from recent graduates to mid career professionals. Dialogue between the artist and the visitors is easily facilitated by the informal atmosphere at the previews. This helps to raise questions about the specific work contained in each show and the use of the Porch itself as an exhibiting arena. Visitors are prevented from entering the Porch and must view the work from either the outside windows or the inner door in the hallway; therefore encouraging debate about the process of presenting and viewing artwork. As the programme develops the visitors witness different solutions and approaches to the unique space that is the Porch Gallery.