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PRESS
RELEASE
CUBEOpen 2011 Exhibition
Preview: 15th December 2011
6-8pm
Exhibition runs: 16th December
2011 - 4th February 2012
(Image © Ian Kirkpatrick)
The
University of Salford's CUBE
Gallery is delighted to announce the selected artists and winners of
CUBEOpen 2011.
CUBEOpen
2011 is the UK’s only annual open competition and
exhibition of its kind!
Launched in 2007, artists, architects and designers are
invited to apply with work that reflects current trends and debates
surrounding the spaces and places in which we live. Each year the
exhibition highlights contemporary insights into the urban
environment. The CUBEOpen receives applications from around the globe
and visitors to the exhibition will have the unique opportunity to see
the diverse and engaging ways that artists, architects and designers have
been influenced by our surroundings.
An esteemed panel of judges are invited annually to
shortlist the applications. Selectors this year included:
Robert Powell - Creative Director, Beam Wakefield; Paul Herrmann -
Director, Red Eye Photography Network; Jane Anderson - Creative Director,
CUBE; Stephen Whittle - Collections Curator, University of
Salford. More than 30 artists have been
chosen for this years exhibition, pieces include a compactable TATE model
(pictured), guerrilla artwork and interventions that lead you outside the
gallery.
“CUBE has consistently been the most
interesting, dynamic, approachable and diverse creative space in
Manchester; and the most influential independent gallery in the city
centre. I was delighted to be on the judging panel for this year’s
competition.” Paul Hermann, Director of Redeye, the
Photography Network.
This year’s
overall winners are Shift//Delete,
emerging urban interventionists represented by Upper Space. The work
of this Manchester-based collaboration orbits around central narratives of
social, environmental and spatial justice issues and is often unauthorised
and anonymously installed within the public realm.
Commendations go
to: Ian Kirkpatrick and Kristin Posehn
Participating
artists:
Andrew Brown, Samuel Capps, Mark Clare, Justine Cook,
Aideen Doran and Fionnuala Doran, Kelda Free and David Brazier, Becky Gee,
Isabelle Hayeur, Flis Holland, Philip Kennedy, Seulki Ki, Ian Kirkpatrick
, Elizabeth Kwant, Hannah Leighton–Boyce, Manchester Modernist
Society, Fabien Marques, Katie McGown, Rosalie Monod de Froideville,
Charlotte Mortensson, Lauren O'Grady, Simon Parish, Nathan Pendlebury,
Kristin Posehn, Rosey Prince, Robin Pugh, Amanda Rice, Ailie Rutherford,
Jennie Savage, Shift (from Shift//Delete), Jon Spencer, Jenny Steele,
Matthew Thompson, Tristan Thomson, Pamela Valfer, Mary-Ruth Walsh, Peter
Ward, Jiho Won.
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