- Venue
- Motorcade/FlashParade
- Starts
- Thursday, November 1, 2012
- Ends
- Sunday, November 4, 2012
- Address
- 37 Philip Street Bedminster Bristol BS3 4EA
- Location
- South West England
Pre-preview critique led by Nia Metcalfe: Thursday 1st November, 6pm Preview: Thursday 1st November, 7pm-late Exhibition Continues: Friday 2nd–Sunday 4thNovember 12-6pm dailyThis is the first solo exhibition of work by Laura Reeves, recent graduate of UWIC and Winner of the Young Artist Scholarship. Reeves presents a body of new work for INCUBE8 investigating what it means to be a graduate artist.Reeves collects, now redundant, analogue photography in a variety of formats including 35 mm slides. She creates her own archival system that often leads her to assume the identity of others, following in their footsteps and exploring concealed narratives. Her work encompasses found photography, text, lecture presentations, small publications, ephemera and film. During her final year at university, while working with a photographic archive featuring the life of Richard and Beryl Grunwell from the 1960s, Reeves coincidentally stumbled upon a retired lecturer’s collection of 35 mm slides. These images document UWIC students of the 1980s generating work in their studios and their final exhibitions. Incube8 will see Reeves consider the value of these lost works, the clichés inherent in art school and questions the validity of how art was ‘taught’ in the past by often reproducing ‘great’ and ‘important’ artworks.
