Exhibition: Bread & Roses

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Motorcade/FlashParade

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Motorcade/FlashParade
37 Philip Street
Bedminster, Bristol
BS34EA

Preview: Friday 1st June, 6pm – late

Group critique:
Saturday 2nd June, 2pm

Exhibition continues:
Saturday 2nd – Sunday 3rd June, 12-6pm

Alex Hardy
Rebecca Harris
Paul R Jones
Mark McGowan, aka The Artist Taxi Driver
James William Murray
Alex Pearl
Kate Pickering
Abbi Torrance
Tumim & Prendergast
Hanae Utamura
Rich White

Curated by Julie McCalden

Art, as a shifter of perceptions, is a terrain which can change how we think about ourselves and the world. As such, it is a potential catalyst for social change. An encounter with artwork that is unusual, surprising or delivered in atypical ways can disrupt our customary behaviours, allowing us to see and think differently. Bread & Roses attempts to operate in this arena, opening up a space in which something new can take place.

This exhibition is a timely exploration of work that hopes to instigate, channel or inspire social change. As much a poetic intervention as a call to action, the works in Bread & Roses will delight and arouse reflection in equal measure.