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Address:

BV Studios
37 Philip Street
Bedminster
Bristol
BS3 4EA
email: contact@bvstudios.co.uk

http://www.bvstudios.co.uk/


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BV artists:

Beth Ableson, Anne Adamson, Nikki Allford, Zanne Andrea, Dunstan Baker, Jess Bartlett, Angela Baum, Maja Beattie, David Blatch, Maria Bowers, Dan Bowler, Patrick Brandon, Ali Brown, Dan Brown, Jason Brown, Emma Caton, Amanda Chambers, Azusa Chareteau, Megan Clark-Bagnall, Esmé Clutterbuck, Dallas Collins, Liesel Corp, Martyn Cross, Gus Cummins, Irena Czapska, Anne Deeming, Joe Deighan, Sasha Welsh Donaldson, Jamie Dyer, Beatriz Elorza, Charles Emerson, Esme Eros, Deb Feiler, Ros Ford, Astrid Foreman, Alice Forward, David Foord, Alice Freeman, Stewart Geddes, Ben Goodman, Lauren Grace, Luke Gregg, Kate Griffiths, Jolanta Grzybowska, Hackspace, Dan Hampson, Amy Hancock-Martin, George Harding, Alex Hardy, Lynn Harradine, Danielle Heath, Paris Higgins, Dominique Hill, Kathy Hinde, Graeme Hogg, Megan Hoyle, Paul Hurley, Lizzie Johnson, Tom Johnson, Helen Jones, Penny Jones, Bea Kayani, Laurence Kell, Polly Kelsall, Angie Kenber, Iris Kidd, Alex Korzer-Robinson, Cat Knight, Brendan Lancaster, Robert Lang, Laurie Lax, Simon Ledson, Debbie Lewis, Carrie Love, Jasmine Loveys, Stuart Low, Jodie Marks, Nic Marshall, Gill Martin, Orla McElroy, Nicolette McGuire, Dave McKenna, Holly McLean, Myriam Melot, Chitra Merchant, Adriana Mereilles, Wil Metcalf, John Minton, Luke Mitchell, Brittany Molineux, Dave Morgan-Davies, Hannah Murgatroyd, Max Naylor, Midge Naylor, Mariele Neudecker, Richard Nichol, James Norman, Stuart Nurse, Johnny O’Carroll, Angie Parker, Caleb Parkin, Janine Partington, Jon Piggott, Ruth Piper, Gareth Pitt, Joshua Pye, Brendan Reid, Imogen Reid, Robyn Rooke, Matthew Roy Arnold, Dafydd Samuel, Christine Saville, Louise Short, Michael Sims, Catherine Smith, Josh Smith, Laurie Stansfield, Leanne Stephens, Alex Stevenson, Rebecca Swindell, James Stokes, Fi Taylor, Clare Thornton, Lauren Tobia, Leigh Tunnedine, Joseph Turp, Heather Wallace, Ruth Wallace, Joe Warrior Walker, Megan Warre, Caroline Watson, Martin Webb, Deborah Westmancoat, Melissa Wickham, Harriet White, Mathew White, Nick Dietrich Williams, Lewk Wilmshurst, Jenny Wiscombe, Kate Wood, Sophie Woodrow, Mark Woollam, Luella Jane Wright, Phil Young,

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Gallery

Founded in 2009 by artist Penny Jones, Motorcade/FlashParade was an artist-led project space in Bristol. It provided a platform for emerging artists, particularly from the South West region, and hosted an annual programme of exhibitions and events.
S
adly, practical considerations forced the closure of Motorcade/FlashParade at the end of 2013.

Motorcade set out to excite. We offered a tantalising vacuum to fill, an empty space ready for exploration, experimentation and adventure; where boundaries could be pushed, ambitions exceeded and where both artists and audience could be challenged.
Our full programme of solo and group exhibitions included a competition for curators - Blueprint, and the hugely popular INCUBE8 - a series of competitions offering artists their first major solo show. We also ran an annual Summer Residency, a mini-residency and exhibition for our team of volunteers, and our annual National Open Competition. We also hosted a range of other important activities to support contemporary practice, foster peer learning and invite participation from a wider audience.
Artist Ruth Piper added her organisational skills in November 2010, joined by Gordon Bonn. Julie McCalden joined in April 2011 and thus began Motorcade's strongest period. Our busiest year was in 2012... Arts Council funding enabled a glorious expansion to our programme and we showed some sensational work. Julie was integral to this intense year and when she left at the end of December 2012, she was very much missed.
Throughout the four years of its existence, Motorcade was supported by hosts of volunteers, always willing to give of their time and energies. In particular Garry Edison Cook, who time after time produced remarkable posters for our exhibitions. He also designed our brilliant logo and, not least, provided chilled DJ-ing at most of our Private Views.
Big thanks also go to Elizabeth Dismorr, Poppy Pitt (who established MotorMouth - regular peer critiques) and Charlie Cousins, who curated the last show, also Will Kendrick and Tom Johnson for their consistent technical support. Core volunteers included the redoubtable James Mark Whittet, Heather Wallace, Alex Hardy, Gareth Pitt, Lisa Friedberg, Joe Deighan, Charli Clark and Zara Bird-Wood, artists all. Gratitude and admiration extended also to Steve Norton, whose photographs of many of our PVs form part of his unique and invaluable archive of artist-led projects connected to the University of the West of England.

PENNY JONES

About BV studios:

The old Wiltshire Print Works once produced such familiar titles as Viz, 2000 AD and the Big Issue. The building was purchased by Robert Anderson in January 2007, with the intention of providing purpose-built studios for artists at affordable prices. BV studios at 37 Philip Street was opened in January 2010 and expanded in April 2012 to provide space for over 140 artists and creative freelancers.

The Anderson family, based in London, maintain a long connection with Bristol and the arts. In the 1980’s Robert's sister, Lea Anderson, founded the award winning dance companies The Cholmondeleys and Featherstonehaughs - with support from the Arnolfini. The Anderson family also managed the old Robinson Building, overlooking East Street in Bedminster, for many years. With their generous decision to welcome artists as tenants into the building at minimal rent, they began their close relationship with artists in Bristol.


A selection of just some of the work from artists working in BV Studios. From left to right: Martyn Cross, Harriet White, Sophie Woodrow, Tamany Baker, Will Kendrick, and Alex Korzer-Robinson.

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