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The Manchester Lamps celebrates the city’s rich history of innovation and community.
Inspired by the famed Sir Robert Peel quote, ‘What Manchester does today, the rest of the world does tomorrow’, this public art sculpture honours Manchester’s industrial past whilst optimistically looking towards the future.
The artwork is centred around five playfully oversized domestic lamps that invite interaction and engagement with this key public space in the city centre. Each of the five installations marks a significant local historical innovation, its time period echoed by the lamp’s distinctive design style; Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Victorian, mid-century and contemporary.

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Inge Hauser
Illustrator, Inge Hauser Illustration
Austria
Samira Deb
Conceptual artist & independent art director, sdebbah studio
Estonia
Chris Eggleton
Fine art/documentary photographer/artist, Chris Eggleton Photography
United Kingdom
Elisabeth Grosse aka LIZITA
Graphic Designer
United Kingdom
Cassie Bendall
Creative Director, ONIX
United Kingdom
Karine Fortier
Creative Direction Design For Visual Communication, Freelancer
United Kingdom
Kareem Johnson
Music Producer, Firestorm Beats
United States
inoventic
India
Jemma
Freelance footwear Designer
Korea, Republic of