Blank Media Collective

Exhibitions

Neck of the Woods

Upcoming Event: Neck of the Woods

Friday 12th February 2010 - Sunday 11th April 2010

Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester

Neck of the Woods is an innovative and exciting group exhibition curated by Blank Media Collective investigating artists’ responses into the concept of community and how this is evolving. Artists and practitioners join from throughout the UK and Internationally to challenge the audience’s preconceptions of community and how this can be explored within their own personal artistic practice.

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You, Me and the Budgie [Workshop - Neck of the Woods]

Upcoming Event: You, Me and the Budgie [Workshop - Neck of the Woods]

Saturday 27th February 2010, 12pm - Saturday 27th February 2010, 3pm

Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester

You, Me and the Budgie will be a workshop led by London-based artist, Rhiannon Hunter in association with Neck of the Woods on Saturday 27 March, 12-3pm at Nexus Art Cafe.

Participants will have the opportunity to work alongside Rhiannon inspired by her specially commissioned site-specific work, Commun-I-ty in the window box of Nexus Art Cafe. Rhiannon will lead the workshop to help participants create a series of small wall-hangings which will be displayed for the remainder of the exhibition.

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FREE entry to Northern Futures!

FREE entry to Northern Futures!

Thursday 25th Feb 2010

Blank Media Collective are delighted to offer our northern buddies the opportunity to enter your creative work to Northern Futures for FREE! (Entry normally £20). To take advantage of this fantastic opportunity all you need to do is send us a link to your Blank Media Collective online portfolio (including work). We will then send you a promotional code to be used when submitting your work to Northern Futures. If you are yet to create a profile, now is the time!

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Living Positive

Upcoming Event: Living Positive

Monday 22 March 2010 - Sunday 28 March 2010

Manchester

Living Positive is a unique project, which explores living with or being affected by HIV, through Photography.

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Unbuilt - Exhibition opportunity

Unbuilt - Exhibition opportunity

Wednesday 24th Feb 2010

Blank Media Collective is seeking work for an innovative and exciting exhibition in conjunction with easaHQ, Manchester. Unbuilt will be a platform to highlight the work of non-practicing architects.

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Mine the Mountain

Upcoming Event: Mine the Mountain

Saturday 6th March 2010 - Friday 19th March 2010

Surface Gallery, Nottingham

The exhibition, Mine the Mountain, draws upon the artist’s personal experience at sites of historic trauma, such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Majdane; Ypres and Verdun, to engage in themes of the past, the present, family history, memory and the anonymous individual in history. This sits alongside an exploration of the notion of the ‘dark tourist’ (the tourist who visits sites of trauma) and the idea of tourism of the self.

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¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival

Upcoming Event: ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival

Saturday 6th March 2010 - Saturday 27th March 2010

Cornerhouse, Manchester

This spring feel the fiesta love, as ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival rocks a real Hispanic fever at Cornerhouse with a non-stop month-long festival (running 6 – 27 March 2010), featuring 18 new films and 3 shorts programmes. Gallery 1 will also keep the rhythm up as it
moves to the beat of leading Mexican artist Carlos Amorales’ new solo show, featuring two of his most recent works Psicofonias and Discarded Spider (both from 2008).

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Upcoming Event: Culture, Alienation, Boredom and Despair

Saturday 13th February 2010 - Saturday 15th May

20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe

Jack Davies, Jeremy Deller, Andrew Glinka, David Hancock, Annabel McCourt & Rhian Lonergan-White, Jonathan JK Morris, Amanda Spawforth, Guy Tarrant, Steve Upton

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/”Home/”

Upcoming Event: /”Home/”

Saturday 13th February 2010 - Saturday 27th March 2010

Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent

\”home\” is a group exhibition looking into how, when set in a comparable context with artists from South Asia, British artists of South Asian descent view their own origin and literal physical sense of location, alongside more figurative investigations and manifestations of the self and identity, locality and vicinity, foreign and foreignness, home and origin.

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Den-making [Workshop - Neck of the Woods]

Upcoming Event: Den-making [Workshop - Neck of the Woods]

Saturday 13th February 2010, 2pm - Saturday 13th February 2010, 4pm

Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester

Taneesha Ahmed, one part of The Denmasons leads a den-making workshop in association with Neck of the Woods on 13 February at Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester.

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