Bob Dylan’s acclaimed retrospective exhibition, Retrospectrum, will open at Castle Fine Art Manchester this May, marking the first time this celebrated collection featuring 30 original artworks has been exhibited in the city.

Running from Saturday 16th May until Sunday 2nd August, the exhibition offers an extraordinary overview of Dylan’s visual art practice, bringing together works from of his artistic collaboration with the gallery group.

The exhibition will feature 30 original artworks – drawings, lyrics, ironworks, paintings on canvas and works on paper – alongside a selection of limited edition works from Dylan’s major series including The Drawn Blank Series, Ironworks, The Beaten Path, Route 66, Mondo Scripto, Deep Focus and his latest collection, Point Blank, which debuted in 2025.

‘I try to live as simply as is possible and was just drawing whatever I felt like drawing, whenever I felt like doing it. The idea was always to do it without affectation or self-reference, to provide some kind of panoramic view of the world as I was seeing it.’ - Bob Dylan