Project Space is a sustained professional development scheme incorporating mentoring and financial support for project development. It is currently funded by Esmeé Fairbairn Foundation and Arts Council England with Lottery funding.
Information on our previous Project Space groups.....
Contents May Vary
Contents May Vary (CMV) is an artist/curatorial collective working from Manchester, who are known for their site-responsive approach to exhibition making in non-conventional spaces. Their DIY spirit has seen them curate shows in a disused swimming pool, an occasional hotel bar, a white transit van a the brown field site next to Will Alsop's new Chips building for developers Urban Splash. Frequently inviting other artists in the UK to exhibit with them, they are the arguably the hardest working collective in Manchester. CMV was shortlisted for the 2009 Best of Manchester Art Award judged by Jeremy Deller, Tim Marlow and Peter Saville among others.
Recent highlights include HONK, a mobile gallery that was outside A Foundation (Liverpool), Leeds Art Gallery, Bates Mill (Huddersfield) and Castlefield Gallery (Manchester); Antifreeze, an art car boot fair for Contemporary Art Manchester; and Cu for FutureEverything 2010. CMV also curates an independent free-of-charge publication with international distribution.
Current member are Alice Bradshaw, Liz Murphy and Richard Shields.
www.contentsmayvary.org
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Exocet
Established in 2006 by visual artists Richard Kendrick and David Martin, Exocet is an independent contemporary art organisation. It was born from the desire to create new innovative projects of a temporary nature that questioned preconceived ideas about the creation, access and presentation of artwork.
A main characteristic of Exocet projects is the identification of boundaries, focusing on where one territory ends and another begins. By operating nomadically, from a variety of different locations, multiple territories are explored. The inside of ones domestic space, the outside world and what exists between. The area where one artistic medium slips into another and then back again. The exchange between artists from different parts of the world and at different stages of their careers. It is in these moments, where a collision takes place that exocet focuses its interests and explorations. Exocet actively encourages collaboration and is always keen for an exchange of dialogue with other artists, curators and organisations.
Highlights so far include Porch Gallery - a series of curated monthly exhibitions in the porch of a house; Outlet - a roving curatorial space in City Centre Manchester's temporary empty retail and office spaces; and Start Running - a series of events of interdisciplinary arts practices based in a well known art bar. www.exocet.org.uk
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Maeve Rendle - o p e n e d e d
o p e n e n d e d is a series of exchange exhibitions taking place initially between Manchester, Bristol and London. The first strand sees artists from Bristol visiting Manchester who will visit and select artists through a series of organised studio visits to exhibit in London. This process will consequently be reciprocated in each city. A writer based in the hosting city will be commissioned to produce a short essay on each exhibition. o p e n e n d e d will culminate in a collaboration between all three cities.
For more information on the participating artists please visit www.openendedproject.com
MORE ON Maeve Rendle:
Maeve Rendle graduated from MA Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2005. She has exhibited in London, Nottingham, Helsinki and recently exhibited in a group show with Apartment at the Axel Lapp Project Space in Berlin. In 2007 Rendle had solo exhibitions Mount Purgatory at Apartment, and lefty loosey righty tighty at Porch, both artist-run spaces in Manchester, UK. She was nominated for the 2008 Northern Art Prize.
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Owl Project
Owl Project is a collaborative group of artists living in Manchester who share interests in human interaction with technology and process led art. Drawing on influences such as woodworking, hobby style electronics and open source software to create music-making machines, they take a craft-based approach to designing their own interfaces and objects. Over the last few years they have become known for a distinctive range of wooden and digital musical and sculptural instruments that critique human interaction with computer interfaces and our increasing appetite for new and often disposable technologies. In 2009 they won the Best of Manchester Art Award judged by Jeremy Deller, Tim Marlow and Peter Saville among others. Owl Project, collaborating with musician Ed Carter have been awarded the North East commission for Artist Taking the Lead, part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
More on Owl Project:
Owl project has exhibited or performed nationally and internationally, including Garage Festival (Stralsund, Germany), with Matmos (Scala, London), Emergences Festival (Paris, France), Ultrasound Festival (Huddersfield), Homefires Festival (London), Lovebytes (Sheffield), SHARE prize (Torino, Italy), Musikprotokoll (Graz, Austria), TEKS trondhiem, Norway), the Serpentine Gallery stage (London) and Concrete and Glass (London). Owl Project consists of Simon Blackmore and Antony Hall and Steve Symons. http://owlproject.com
Simon Blackmore www.simonblackmore.net
Antony Hall www.antonyhall.net
Steve Symons http://stevesymons.net
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PEST
PEST is a series of three limited-edition publications which will explore how artists appropriate, intervene and work within different places, spaces and contexts. The publications are the outcome of a 6-month international research project by Preston-based artists Rebecca Chesney, Robina Llewellyn and Elaine Speight, who became interested in how artists can work within alternative spaces after organising Prestival (www.prestival.org.uk), a public exhibition and artist networking event which took place across Preston city centre in July 2007.
PEST publications will present artist-led projects initiated in Domestic Spaces, Museums & Archives and Social Spaces. Each publication will be produced in collaboration with other artists who have been invited to present or instigate new projects within the space, and they will be launched by events in Preston and elsewhere. For more information about the project, please visit: www.pestpublications.org.uk
Rebecca Chesney www.rebeccachesney.com
Robina Llewellyn www.plaitedfog.org.uk/PF.Robina-Llewellyn.htm
Elaine Speight www.elainespeight.net
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Castlefield Gallery has also supported Another product, Apartment and Ultimate Holding Company (UHC)
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Castlefield Gallery’s Project Space Programme is supported by Arts Council England with Lottery funding and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.
Please click on the logos opposite for further information about previous projects and the funders.
