Alan Boyson Bus Tour
June 11th

In association with the 20thCentury Society NW Group and the Tiles & Ceramics Association, we shall be exploring and discovering the works of Alan Boyson, artist and designer of murals, windows and other architectural decoration, across the Greater Manchester area, by coach.

Alan Boyson’s ‘Tree of Knowledge’ mural, installed for the opening of the Cromwell Secondary School for Girls, Salford, in 1962, depicts a stylised version of the mythical tree of life. The school later closed. The building was taken over by the University of Salford which soon closed it. Just before its demolition in 2009, TACS were successful in applying for the mural’s grade 2 listing.

We shall also visit Boyson murals in Stockport, Denton, Collyhurst, Salford University and his 1970 etched abstract glass window commemorating the musician Hilda Collens in St Anne’s church, Manchester. His window represents ‘frozen music’. In Stalybridge we plan to visit his work at St Raphael’s church, Millbrook (Massey & Massey, 1963), a modernist bobby dazzler in itself.

This promises to be a classic C20 Society event, truffling for modernist ceramics, murals, glass and other artworks by an artist whose reputation is growing. The event is led by Christopher Marsden, Boyson expert and the author of a recent paper on Boyson in the 2010 TACS Journal.

You can book tickets here