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Alice Bradshaw & Bob Milner are artists currently undertaking a 12 month residency in a shared studio space at Westgate Studios in Wakefield. As artists who also curate, they are also producing a number of temporary exhibitions, events and zines which are the latest in a series of collaborative projects they have co-curated in West Yorkshire where both artists currently reside.

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July Wakefield Artwalk: Rose Harries & #tweetart

Wednesday 25 July 2012, 5-pm

Westgate Studios, Wakefield

In the Project Space: Westgate Studios Member Show
Presumed Curable by Rose Harries

A display of drawings taken from photographs of patients at Bethlem (Bedlam) Psychiatric hospital in the late 19th century. Patients of the institution were only admitted if they were deemed to be curable, however, most were discharged uncured and forgotten. The pictures show a snapshot of these forgotten people and raise the persistent questions linked to the hugely misunderstood and divisional issue of mental health.

In Studio A6: #tweetart

The former Prince Albert in studio A6 at Westgate Studios is now white-walled, tidy and has become the latest incarnation of PEEP! gallery; an ongoing curatorial project since 2007. For each Wakefield Artwalk throughout 2012, PEEP! will be filled with art sent by the lovely people on Twitter.

Plus Open Studios

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Alice Bradshaw – Solo Exhibition

Westgate Studios Project Space, Westgate, Wakefield, WF1 1BW, UK

Preview: Wednesday 30th May 2012, 5-9pm (Wakefield Artwalk). Exhibition runs until 13th June 2012 by appointment.

http://aliceandbobcurate.wordpress.com/

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Alice Bradshaw works with a wide range of media and processes involving the manipulation of everyday objects and materials. Mass-produced, anonymous objects are often rendered dysfunctional caricatures of themselves, addressing concepts of purpose and futility. Alice creates or accentuates subtleties, blurring distinctions between the absurd and the mundane, with the notion that the environment the work exists in becomes integral to the work itself.

Alice has exhibited internationally with recent solo exhibitions at screenspace in Melbourne and The Briggait in Glasgow and has participated in festivals such as FIVA (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Zooart (Cuneo, Italy), Abandon Normal Devices (Preston/Newcastle, UK), FILE (São Paulo, Brazil), FutureEverything Festival (Manchester, UK), Toronto Urban Film Festival (Canada), Portobello Film Festival (London, UK), Videoholica (Varna, Bulgaria) and Melbourne Digital Film Festival (Australia).

Alice also curates collaboratively and is founding director of the Museum of Contemporary Rubbish and University of Incidental Knowledge, co-founding director of Fundada Artists’ Film Festival and Contents May Vary and co-curator for Holmfirth Arts Festival. She currently shares studio A6 at Westgate Studios with Bob Milner where they run a programme of exhibitions, events and zines.

http://www.alicebradshaw.co.uk/

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UNIVERSITY OF INCIDENTAL KNOWLEDGE STAFF SHOW
Wednesday 28th March 2012
Westgate Studios, Wakefield

The University of Incidental Knowledge is a collaboration based on a higher education model, incorporating self-directed and peer-to-peer learning.

Incidental Knowledge is acquired by chance; through the process of doing something else such as a journey, a day job, a holiday, watching a film or overhearing a conversation. It is unexpected, unintentional, extraneous, random, accidental or found, discovered in connection with or resulting from a primary activity.

Chancellor: Alice Bradshaw
Elastic Band (Red) (2011) elastic bands
Elastic Band (Yellow) (2011) elastic bands
Elastic Band (Green) (2011) elastic bands
Elastic Band (Blue) (2011) elastic bands

BA (Hons) Comedy & Bsc Social Media Course Leader: Louise Atkinson
@bigart_jim (2012) acrylic on board
@peepart (2012) acrylic on board
@legalbizzle (2012) acrylic on board

BA (Hons) Avant Garde Course Leader: Debi Holbrook
Buddha Will Understand (2012)
Vietnamese Prisoners Return to the North (2012)
More Snells for the War in Biafra (2012)
pencil/watercolour on paper

BA (Hons) Foreign Language Course Leader: Fundada
Founded (Wolfie & Ron) (2009) mixed media

BA (Hons) Film Course Leader: Vanessa Haley
M C Y (2012) photographic

NVQ Pedantics Course Leader: Duncan Lister
Global Response (2009) mixed media
Untitled (2012) mixed media

Diploma in Artwank & BA (Hons) Cut’n’Paste Course Leader: Bob Milner
Join the British Army (2012) emulsion on wall

MPhil Mistakes Course Leader: Sparrow+Castice
Sparrow+Castice Do Wakefield (2011)*
DVD, 8 minutes looped
*Best of Fundada Artists’ Film Festival 2011 – Gold FAFFTA

Chancellor: Alice Bradshaw & Diploma in Artwank & BA (Hons) Cut’n’Paste Course Leader: Bob Milner
A6 Part 3 (2012) zine

http://universityincidentalknowledge.wordpress.com/