Summer Residency

The range and ambition of the entries we received for our Summer Residency Callout was truly impressive. Selecting the winner was a tough job and we are very grateful to Martyn Cross, Joe Deighan and Ruth Piper, all studio holders at BV Studios, for the benefit of their insight, experience and enthusiasm in helping to choose Owen Clarke as this year's Summer Residency artist at Motorcade/FlashParade.

Owen has been an integral member of Motorcycle Showroom and shows his work under the pseudonym 'Jugovic'. He will be able to enjoy the two months of August and September with unlimited access to our lovely 1000 square foot space, plus one-to-one mentoring and peer critiques.

Part of his proposal is to construct 'an ambitious architectural installation'... we can't wait!

Open Call:

Motorcade/FlashParade Summer Residency

Applications are now closed.

Residency dates: Monday 6^th August – Monday 8^th October

Exhibition dates: Friday 5^th October – Sunday 7^th October

Thank you to everyone who applied! The 2012 residency will be selected by the Motorcade/FlashParade team, alongside a panel of 3 BV Studio Holders:

• Martyn Cross, Artist & Writer from Bristol, www.yateheads.blogspot.com

• Joe Deighan, Artist;.

• Ruth Piper, Artist & founder of 'The Searchers' gallery project, www.ruthpiper.com, www.thesearcherscontemporary.com

Team Motorcade:

• Buffy Dismorr, (marketing), Artist & blogger, www.elizabethdismorr.com

• Penny Jones, (director), Artist

• Julie McCalden, (director), Artist and sometime curator, www.juliemccalden.co.uk

Following the success of last year’s summer residency with artists Sullivan & Flint, in 2012 we can now offer an artist, or group of artists, the chance to use our 1000 square foot space to develop new work during August and September, culminating in an exhibition or finishing event in early October.

Sullivan & Flint will present a live action/event, The Thing Is, on Thursday 2^nd August, to open the residency period and begin a new tradition of providing continued support to our resident artists through a micro show the following year.

                                                                                                                  

We encourage proposals from artists seeking to use the residency as a period of experimentation, with an eye to broadening their practice.

The Summer Residency is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

The 2 month residency includes:

·         Motorcade/FlashParade space as a studio

·         Free accommodation  (for 1 artist only)

·         Membership to Spike Associates

·         One to one mentoring

·         A mid-residency artists talk

·         Publicity and promotion

·         Professional documentation of the final show

·         A peer critique

·         A micro show in 2013

Eligibility

Current 3^rd year BA students, MA students and emerging artists based in the South West and Wales are eligible to apply.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE  - Midnight, Sunday 3^rd June 

Download the application form (with guidelines) here, or email info@motorcadeflashparade.com to request a form.

Application checklist:

·         Application form

·         proposal of up to 600 words to include:

·         overview of practice, approx 100 words

·         residency proposal, approx 400 words, to address

1.       How you plan to use the residency with indications of what you might produce

2.       How this broadens your practice

·         artist biography, maximum 100 words

·         CV

·         maximum 6 jpeg images, no bigger than 1mb each

Applications can be emailed to info@motorcadeflashparade.com

SELECTION

Applicants will be notified by email on Friday 15^th June.