Blank Media Collective

Upcoming Event: [Recommends] Eight | BLANKSPACE External Exhibition

24 February - 11 March 2012

BLANKSPACE, 43 Hulme Street, Manchester, M15 6AW

The exhibition eight showcases the work of a group of eight contemporary artists with different backgrounds and styles. Two years where each artist has been working on individual art pieces within a communal studio space has come to an end. Swapping ideas, conversations and techniques daily has allowed the artists to share inspirations and this research and sense of play is now culminating in this final group show. Eight will reveal to the public a range of contrasting styles and mediums enabling the transition of eight fellow students into eight emerging and individual artists. A journey that started together will end together.

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Donate Your Work to the January Sale

Wednesday 14th Dec 2011

We’re opening the doors to BLANKSPACE this New-Year for Blank Media Collective’s January Sale!

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Upcoming Event: January Sale

Saturday 28 January 2012, 3pm - 10pm

BLANKSPACE, 43 Hulme Street, Manchester, M15 6AW

We’re opening the doors to BLANKSPACE this New-Year for Blank Media Collective’s January Sale!

The January Sale is your chance to walk away with an original work of art and support further artistic development in Manchester and the UK. Each artwork has been kindly donated by artists and practitioners from Manchester, the North West and across the UK. All funds will go towards supporting Blank Media Collective’s 2012 exhibitions programme.

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Upcoming Event: The Title Art Prize [BLANKSPACE]

Thursday 27 October 2011 (6-9pm) - Sunday 27 November 2011

BLANKSPACE, Manchester

To celebrate 5 years of supporting emerging practitioners, Blank Media Collective is launching an important new art prize in Manchester featuring the nation’s top emerging visual artists.

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Upcoming Event: [Recommends] Child’s Play (NOI)

Friday 30 September 2011, 6pm - Thursday 6 October 2011

Piccadilly Place, Manchester

Based in Manchester, England. No Offence Intended is a collective of conceptually led artists. NOI formed earlier in 2011 as a reaction to the current critical debate of contemporary art within the economic climate. The artists aim to explore the notion of the gallery space aesthetic, to question and present a ‘concept’ to a wider audience. The decision to initiate one core idea and to develop individual interpretations is the strength of the exhibition.

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[Creative Writing Opportunity] Inside

Monday 26th Sep 2011

To compliment our forthcoming exhibition, Inside, Blank Media Collective will be producing an accompanying piece of related writings – short fiction, reportage, memoir, and poetry. These may be existing works, or works created in response to the brief. The publication is intended as a bespoke lateral accompaniment to the Inside exhibition; a provocation of unexpected thoughts and connections in the consciousness of the viewer. Deadline Extended: 14 October 2011 (Midnight)

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blankpages Issue 38

Thursday 1st Sep 2011

Welcome to Issue 38, our September edition of blankpages: Blank Media Collective's very own concoction of music, art and literature... and it's time for your monthly dose of all things arty, dears, so open wide: here comes the good stuff.

Get your folk on with All We Are's exclusive interview and brand new MP3; and catch a first glimpse at Blank Media Collective's No.1: Paint exhibition artwork (launching at BLANKSPACE on 8 September), featuring this month's cover artist, Cara Campbell.

We broke the news to you in our last edition that Kevin Bradshaw, our fiction editor, is leaving – read his fantastic parting gift to us in this month's fiction. We've also got brand new poetry from Amy-Rose Derbyshire; hand selected from our very own Blank Media Collective portfolios.

If you've not heard her name before (where have you been?), we'd also like to introduce you to Tamsin Drury, director of hAb Arts, in this month's feature. Read all about her work with the approaching emergency Accommodation festival here.

As always, you can find out how to spend the rest of your month in our Recommends section. Other than reading blankpages, of course.

Enjoy!

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Upcoming Event: [Recommends] PULLING THE THREADS: Embroidered Graffiti

Sunday 26 June 2011 - Saturday 3 September 2011

Tameside Central Art Gallery

In her debut solo show Sarah uses the traditional craft of embroidery to vandalise and graffiti everyday objects with emotive, political and thoughtful text. Fridges, doors, food and sinks become the canvases for hidden thoughts.

Sarah Greaves is an artist whose practice crosses art-forms. The delicate feminine craft of embroidery is combined with the vandalising qualities of graffiti. Through her Embroidered Graffiti she raises questions about stereotyped identities and gender roles, our relationships with our bodies, and how the domestic and private become public.

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[Exhibition Opportunity] Inside

Wednesday 3rd Aug 2011

Blank Media Collective invites emerging artists to submit works which trigger the collective subconscious of the viewing audience. Through immersing the participant within the viewing space, Inside explores the psychological connection between the audience and the work, demonstrating art’s ability to unsettle, move and disturb. Deadline Extended: 14 October 2011 (Midnight)

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