Pop Up - Mock Up - Inside Outside
GallerA1, Edinburgh
20th August till 5th September
Since its inception in 2000 tactileBOSCH Gallery & Studios has facilitated a plethora of exhibitions, festivals and residencies within the walls of what was once a Victorian era laundry house. In conjunction with this, the galleries curators, Kim Fielding, Andrew Cooper, Simon Mitchell and Neil Jefferies have also instigated a number of events outside of Cardiff under the umbrella of tactileBOSCH. These exhibitions are an attempt to raise the profile of both the gallery and the small but energetic South Wales Contemporary Art scene on an international scale. Exhibitions in this ongoing process included Come to The Edge at the Ivy Brown Gallery, New York, Kissing the Pink at the London Art Academy London, BOSCH in the Bush at the Coed Hills Rural Artspace, South Wales and Body=Construct at the Anexo Espaco, Sao Paulo.
Pop Up-Mock Up-Outside Inside that will take place at the A1gallery in Edinburgh is part of this ongoing series of projects and will bring together recent work by a selection of artists who have exhibited at tactileBOSCH over the last few years. The selected artists range from both the talented newly qualified to those with a more established reputation and will also represent the diversity of mediums, approaches and subject matter, an integral ethos of tactileBOSCH. Ultimately, it will be up to the audience to discover and interpret points of cohesion and points of departure between the varying artists work that has evolved out of close working proximity and collaborative spirit that the gallery promotes. Pop Up-Mock Up-Outside Inside will work as both a showcase to demonstrate the strength and diversity of artwork currently being created by artists linked to the gallery as well as a practical attempt to instigate future collaboration between the two venues and the artists associated with their respective galleries. It will also act as a precursor f o r Tenure an ambitious exhibition project that will take place in October at tactileBOSCH, amalgamating work by a wide variety of artists and practices who have exhibited at the gallery as part of its ten year anniversary celebrations.
Curator: Neil Jefferies
Artists: John Abel, Sam Aldridge, Andrew Cooper, Geraint Evans, Kim Fielding, Mehrdad Khataei, Tiffany Oben, Graham Phillips, Jason Pinder, Jonathen Powell, Liz Waterhouse