Exhib

itions Portfolio

The Blank Media Collective Exhibitions team is responsible for the content and programming of all current and future exhibitions. This includes the following stages:

Devising exhibition concepts•Liaising with venue management•Mentoring and support for selected artists•Art-handling and exhibition installation•

As a curatorial team, we share a wide range of cultural and artistic influences,enablingustoberesponsiveandrespectfultodifferingworksand practitioners. We enjoy responding to different venues and environments, helping to build dialogues between the space, artwork and participant.

In response to Blank Media Collective’s exhibition, Seeing and Being Seen, the Exhibitions team were invited to lead the Exhibitions Programme at greenroom [BMC @ greenroom] for two years starting in Autumn 2010. This has enabled the organisation to increase its visual presence within Manchester and highlight the practices of a greater number of emerging practitioners.

The Blank Media Collective Exhibitions team is:Mark Devereux [BMC Director], Jamie Hyde, Marcelle Holt, Claire Curtin, Rachael Farmer & Taneesha Ahmed

The following pages outline Blank Media Collective’s exhibition portfolio from January 2010 to present.

Blank Media Collective Exhibitions team

Photogrpah Courtesy Guy Tavenor

4-5 Neck of the Woods Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester6-7 Unbuilt easaHQ, ManchesterBMC @ greenroom8 Seeing and Being Seen9 Raggaphoto

Established in 2006, Blank Media Collective champions emerging artists, writers, musicians and practitioners through exhibitions, performance, free portfolio hosting on our website and via our online magazine, blankpages. Under Director Mark Devereux, the organisation has gained an excellent reputation, particularly within Manchester and the North West. Blank Media Collective are actively involved in a range of other projects which can be found on our website.

Blank Media Collective was formed in November 2006 and is currently an unincorporatednot-for-profitorganisation.

For further information about Blank Media Collective’s Exhibitions Programme please visit:www.blankmediacollective.org/eventsor email us at:exhibitions@blankmediacollective.org

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dsNeck of the Woods was a group exhibition investigating artists’ responses into the concept of community and how this is evolving. Artists and practitioners

joined 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.

Rhiannon Hunter | Productofboy | Ima-Abasi Okon | FivethreefiveProject|BrankaVidovic-Butler|

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Congrats on the show. The range of work was interesting. I enjoyed the video piece and the window space work had

a great impact.

Daniel Staincliffe, visitor, Manchester

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Blank Media Collective has excelled itself with their latest exhibition based at the Nexus Art Cafe. Combining multimedia installations, interactive

puppet wizardry, spoken word and music, there is something for everyone at this event.

Elaine Wilson, Independant Reviewer, Liverpool

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Commun-I-ty, Rhiannon Hunter

11 February - 11 April 2010

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anchesterTaneesha Ahmed & Alex Moore | Renee Rhodes | Lynne Heller | Ryan Campbell | Edwyn Butler | Annette Cookson

Who hasn’t sat in the pub with friends and put the world to rights?

Elaine Wilson, Independant Reviewer, Liverpool

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All members of BLANK MEDIA COLLECTIVE were incredibly supportive and engaged with the all artists and audience members. I felt that NECK OF THE WOODS was of the one of best exhibitions I have ever been involved with for exactly this reason. The energy of BMC as a collective meant that

many people including artists and spectators wanted to converse with them and this really promoted engagement and participation.

Taneesha Ahmed, Artist, Manchester

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Denmasons, Taneesha Ahmed & Alex Moore

Photogrpahs Courtesy Gareth Hacking www.garethhacking.co.uk

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Rob Houmoller | Katy Beinart | Eve Roberts | Matthew Pilling | Yaojen Chuang | Andrew Thomson |

Emma Curtin | Eric Kwan | Andrew Cross

Almost a decade ago, undergraduates commenced architecture degrees amid a booming economic climate. Now, as these students graduate into a recession, and as architecture takes the biggest hit of any

professional group, Blank Media Collective believe this is an exciting opportunity to

showcase their work.

Unbuiltwasanexhibitionthatfitwiththe stride of our times, recognising that

emerging architectural talent was strugglingtofindaplacewithinthe

industry. Each year produces a batch of recent graduates with fresh ideas and new portfolios. This exhibition championed a

selection of these architects as they explored elements of their creativity and

renewed their passions.

Unbuilt was an exhibition highlighting the work of non-practicing architecture

graduates and was developed to utilise the significanceofeasaHQ(European

Architecture Student Assembly) and promote the shared objectives of the

respective organisations.

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Blank Media Collective have been the most professional and organised team to exhibit at the easaHQ. The team

are personally patient and understanding, and they prepared the gallery spaces with careful attention to detail sufficiently far in advance. After the exhibition the space was cleared up and returned in a very good condition

within a short time. Were the gallery to continue, I would be very happy for the gallery to host another Blank Media

Collective exhibition.

Thomas Bennell, easaHQ, Manchester

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Unbuilt Public Preview

7 - 15 May 2010

easaHQ

, Manchester

Thank you for organizing the event and believing in our work! It’s especially been a pleasure to have been given

compliments on development work never really made to be exhibited. It has been great to be involved in an architecture

exhibition that has been so carefully and creatively put together- as an exhibition rather than a collection of works that so often

happens. I feel it made the work much more enjoyable to a wider audience. I found this especially good when bringing along fine

artists’/sculptors and them complimenting on the exhibition set up itself! Well done!

Eve Roberts, Architecture Graduate, Manchester

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Photogrpahs Courtesy Guy Tavenor

Sugar House Lane Mental Health Centre and Flower Farm, Rob Houmoller

The University of the 3rd Age, Andrew Thomson

“ ”Hope for the future!

MMahloney,Visitor,Styal

“ ”Very different, unorthodox approach, definitely enjoyable! : )

NoonAlwan,Visitor,Manchester / Bahrain

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Seen Seeing and Being Seen was a collection of new

photographic works by Adam Booth and collaborators Lee Deaville & Richard Turner.

A common theme between Booth’s and Deaville & Turner’s works are the way in which they

replicate the cinematic within beautifully lit and framed photographic images. Their works

compliment each other through their exploration oftraditionalgenresoflandscape(AdamBooth)andportraiture(LeeDeaville&RichardTurner).Seeing and Being Seen highlights the photographic

works by these three exciting up-and-coming practitioners selected from Blank Media

Collective’s online Artist’s Portfolios.

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”The overall communication with me and Blank Media was excellent. I knew exactly what I need to do and

when, for the exhibition to be a success. Also taking time to meet with me and the other photographers to go through the work that would be selected was very

helpful.

Adam Booth, Artist, Leeds

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Booth

RaggaphotogreenroomLate at night, whilst Manchester is sleeping, artists

KyleSaxton&MarcusAli(Raggaphoto)arecreating their next masterpiece…

Working in and around Manchester, Raggaphoto liketofindthedarkest,grittiestlocationsfortheirtakeoncontemporarygraffiti.Leavingno

remnants, needing no alter-ego’s to protect their identities, Kyle & Marcus use the medium of light

to paint the city.

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Our work challenges the norm of conventional photography and graffiti

replacing paint with light…

Kyle Saxton, Artist, Manchester

The work that we make is very urban and our inspiration is gathered from the city around us, the vivid colours of our light graffiti contrasts the murky, somewhat sinister areas that we

shoot

Kyle Saxton, Artist, ManchesterImages Courtesy Raggaphoto www.raggaphoto.co.uk

Cube, Raggaphoto

Sketch of Dog 2, Raggaphoto

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