Recoverist Curators, The National Chaordic Symposium, Portraits of Recovery, Part of Recoverist Month 2025. Photo by Joe Fildes

Recoverist Curators: Reimagining the World We Live in Curator Tour with Penny

26 Feb 2026
6pm, The Whitworth, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6ER
Free

“An inspiring, wonderful exhibition.”

“Such a beautiful way to show what you have made out of what you have been through.”

“Incredible, touching, powerful.”

From our visitors

Embark on a journey with Penny as she reveals how the artworks in Recoverist Curators: Re-imagining the World We Live In mirrors the profound and personal path of recovery. Her unique perspective, shaped by lived experience, illuminates the exhibition with empathy and insight, framing curation itself as an act of understanding and reclamation.

Driven by lived experience, the Recoverist Curators project is an activist-based process, developing inclusive new ways of working with people and communities in recovery. This exhibition has forged new knowledge and increased cultural confidence for meaningful creative engagement.

See the show through Penny’s eyes. 


Penny, Recoverist Curators 2025. Photo by Joe Fildes

Portraits of Recovery
supports recovery from substance
use through contemporary art