Huddersfield artists host free exhibition at Halifax Piece Hall
Mar 13 2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner
HUDDERSFIELD artists are bringing art for art’s sake to the people – without funding or any interest in selling their work.
The Temporary Art Group’s second show is a riot of Sellotaped sticks and tiny wheelchairs.
Plenty of artists whine about not being offered lucrative exhibitions or lavish grants. Not Paddock couple Kevin and Georgia Boniface, though.
They decided they weren’t going to wait to be invited to show off – and didn’t expect to make any money from their art, either.
The pair and their pals – Alice Bradshaw, Bob Milner and Tom Senior – staged their first three-day Temporary Art Show at Bates’ Mill in Queen Street South, Huddersfield last May, covering costs between them.
And they were so staggered by its success that they’ve gleefully set about doing it all over again, only this time in a six-month slot in empty units at Halifax Piece Hall – now up and running.
Their credit crunch-ignoring, DIY ethic is an industrial-strength blast of fresh air for West Yorkshire’s art scene.
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