BV studios: September 2011

‘Rise’ Website launch & Artist Harriet White at Motorcade/FlashParade.

Ingrid Chauvet, moved into studio M6 last year to start her now booming business, ‘RISE’ Consulting Structural Engineers.

Unusually she has chosen to share her daily working environment with artists and designers. In doing so, she is perhaps helping to break down the cultural divide that still exists between traditional engineering professions and the creative industries.

In September Ingrid will launch her website at Motorcade/FlashParade.

To run simultaneously with the launch, she is sponsoring a show of paintings in the gallery by BV artist Harriet White, recently selected for the BP Portrait awards touring exhibition.

Martyn Cross in Northampton

Martyn from G1 will be showing a selection of work alongside CJ Mahoney, Catherine Bertola and others in Intervention Intervention at the Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, 28th September - 12th November. More details can be found at www.fishmarketgallery.co.uk or by following Martyn on twitter

Los Amantes 2011

MOTOR MOUTH, Sat 24th of September at BV Studios

Motormouth (image Poppy Pitt)

MotorMouth was set up by Poppy Pitt as a sister group to London Based Engine chat chat run by Elizabeth Murton of Core Blimey Arts+Core Gallery, Depford, South East London.

It is an informal place to discuss work and get feedback from other artists, an opportunity for artists of any discipline to focus on the ideas, content and context of their work. Motor Mouth will run as a monthly event from the MotorcadeFlashparade Gallery as part of its regular programme. It is a small group with opportunities to present or just join the discussion.

The event is Free but booking is required as we limit the number of presenters, See the MotorMouth page on the Motorcade/Flashparade website for more details.

Please Contact Poppypitt@gmail.com if you would like to present at a MotorMouth session.

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

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