While We Can -an exhibition by staff from University of Bolton

Showing at the Hive Gallery in Market Place Centre, 'While We Can' features the work of 15 lecturers working at the University from Bolton's School of Arts and Creative Technology.

The eclectic show has a wide range of work from embroidery to installation, sculpture to design and photography to illustration.

The opening will take place at 5pm.

The artists are Liam Ainscough, Sue Brown, Emma Fazackerly, Neil Greenhalgh, Paula Gregorio, Rob Kirby, Bea Lowe, Melodie Neesom, Faye Power-Griggs, Andy Smith, Rachel Smith, Steven Speed, Tom Sutton, Charlotte Wood and Ged Young.

Highlights including intriguing work documenting a recording of every step made along the same path over a six-month period by Faye, a sculptural floor lamp made from cast concrete, powder-coated steel tube and flat bar, glass washing machine door, dichroic halogen bulbs by Tim Sutton.

Artwork by Faye Power-Griggs

Charlotte's embroidery blends old and new techniques to create something that speaks to the essence of human growth in a rapidly changing world with a vivid depiction of personal transformation in the pursuit of happiness.

Steve's depicts 'Struggle for Space' through a series of four photographs from his time working as a photojournalist that reflect on how, why and by who space is controlled and how this affects people’s lives.

Emma Fazackerley’s, portrays A Sense of Touch through her work.

Andy's Happy and Glorious and The Real Thing explores the power of symbols, words and images and examines their influence by recontextualising traditional themes.

Paula's work uses an approach of craft and design that strengthens and enhances knowledge, providing new forms of cultural and aesthetic expression contributing to each one's subsistence, valorisation and distinction.

Ged's work that is generated from experiments in printmaking which are then mediated into sculptural objects that play with the spaces not traditionally used in exhibitions.

Work by Charlotte Wood

Liam’s paintings and sculptures which are created as a means of investigating social control and the pervasive nature of surveillance in our day to day lives experimenting with the manipulation of imagery and scale.

Neil's Study for a Landscape is a series of paintings that explore a sense of longing for fragments of time and place that are just beyond reach.

Sue's work, whose current creative practice focuses on printing methods and experimenting with warm glass processes.

Rob's video work is a representation of a degrading memory of a time gone by; a memory of a loved one now passed; a place you cannot return to.

It will be open every Friday and Saturday until October 5th and the artists will be around throughout.