Live Painting with Darby Dawid & Wol-Un

Stop by Bookery Manchester to see The Factory's Artists-in-residence live paint during the Manchester Citywide Arts Festival! The Factory’s Artist-in-residence program aims to host up to 6 artists from across the world every year. Selected artists are provided stipends for room & board, food, and art supplies so they can spend their time focusing on their creative practice. At the end of each residency each artist hosts an exhibition in the Factory’s event space and invites the community to join as we celebrate their developing bodies of work. Learn more about The Factory’s AIR program here! About the Artist Darby Dawid is an oil painter originally from New England and currently based in Brooklyn. Graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 2019, Darby has spent her career looking closely at the things most people look away from. Worms. Crustaceans. Fish. The wet, reflective, gloriously unglamorous creatures that exist just outside the edge of what we consider worthy of attention. Her work finds harmony in incongruency. A kind of quiet argument that nothing is beneath a second look. You can find more of Darby's artwork here! About the Artist b. 1999 Wol-Un is a calligrapher and ink painter, born in Seattle, Washington. Living and making on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples. Wol-Un was born to parents of Korean and Chinese-Filipino descent. Alumni of Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts, contributor to the Wing Luke Museum, the City of Seattle, 2024 solo exhibition at the Postmark Center for the Arts, and recipient of the 2024 Audain Foundation Travel Award. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Canada, and is featured in private collections internationally. Wol-Un is a pseudonym, in Korean, the concept of an art-name is known as, “ho” (호, 號). Wol-Un is a name derived from the Chinese characters, hanja (한자, 漢字) for Moon (Wol, 월, 月) and Cloud (Un, 운, 雲). You can find more of Wol-Un's artwork here!