Every Cloud: Ten Years after the Manchester Bomb

15 June 2006 to 18 March 2007

This exhibition was a multimedia exhibition commemorating the events of 15 June 1996, the day on which a massive bomb detonated by the IRA extensively damaged a wide area at the heart of the city.

Every Cloud was an installation of work recalling the huge dust cloud thrown up by the impact of the bomb, re-created by Manchester school children, constructed from 80,000 pieces of paper. It also presented recorded testimonies and impressions of people who experienced the events of that day, and recounted where they were and what they were doing. Interviewees included the Artistic Director of The Royal Exchange Theatre; a couple having tea in a coffee shop in the Exhange Arcade and owners of local shops such as Harry Hill’s cycle shop.

“A truly thought-provoking and evocative piece”

“Wow, what a brilliant exhibition! The start of the film makes you understand the true impact of the bomb”

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