BV studios: August News

Rob Lang in London, Berlin and Poland

The Pre-text 2011

Cieplice Summer Studio, CeIplice Śląskie-Zdrój, Poland

15 - 20 August 2011

Deptford X Open, Core Gallery, London

24th September - 2nd October 2011

Preview: Friday 23rd September 7-9pm

South London Last Friday, 30th September 6.30-8.30pm

Berlin Art Project, Hasenheide, Berlin

September/October

www.hasenheide.com

The Alliance 2011

Martyn Cross in London

Martyn will be represented by artist run space Aid & Abet at new London art fair 'Sluice', 15th-16th October 2011

www.sluiceartfair.com

Mariele Neudecker in Europe & Canada

Solo exhibition at Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Cologne, Germany

Belvedere. Warum ist Landschaft schön?, Arp Museum

Bahnhof Rolandseck, group-show curated by Christine Heidemann & Anne Kersten.

Preternatural/Supernatural, Natural History Museum, Ottawa,

Canada, group-show. Also touring to Spain and Germany, curated by Celina Jeffery.

BV also welcomes six new tenants:

Kate Griffiths to Studio G1.

Liam Rush and Adam Collier to Studio G10.

Laurance Kell, Maja Beattie and Shasha Welsh Donaldson to Studio M6.

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