Artist's Showcase Window
Sparks Bristol, 78 Broadmead, Bristol BS1 3JA
Free and open to the public on Wednesday - Sunday from Wednesday 5th to Sunday 30th August, 11am - 6pm (5pm on Sundays)
This exhibition reveals art practices that happen at home. Increasingly, artists are expected to pay to create art and share experiences with the public; so this show has been developed to celebrate creativity that grows in private spaces by bringing it into the city centre.
Sparks Bristol have been fantastic in staging this this exhibition, their open and democratic model chimes perfectly with this show’s values.
Through working with the public in both a real-life and creative context, curators Dan Petley (director of Brick Project CIC, who has spent years making public art alongside everyday artists) and Becca Leia have developed this show to expose great art by everyday people made in their own private spaces. Through residencies and workshops with the featured artists, we invite the public to experience, share and create with them.
Showcase for Artists is the deliberately basic title, reflecting the autonomous way the participating artists create work, in their own homes and generally outside of the hierarchy of higher education. The focus is on artists who I have encountered and worked with in public access workshop settings such as Brick Project and accessible community spaces like PRSC and Hackspace. As well as the extremely open access music events I curate in the Chelsea and Red Lion pubs in BS5, which I have been running since 2013.
Dan Petley
More information soon.

