the new brief for 2012

TORQUE – an Exhibition at the Willow Gallery, Oswestry January 2012.

A CALL FOR WORK

Who: emerging and established artists from around the West Midland and Welsh Border region

Where: The Willow Gallery, Oswestry, Shropshire

What: Sculpture/installation and wall hung work in any media, specifically created for this show

When: 06 January-07 February 2012:  Deadline for proposal submissions: 30 July 2011.

The Show:

The Gallery occupies the site of a former Peugeot dealership; for many years it was the ‘Roy Evans Garage’ and locally is still fondly remembered as such. With this in mind the central idea for the show is to revert the gallery to the appearance of a car showroom, thus creating surprise and intrigue. This focal display will be supported by further works inspired by the notions of ‘The Car’ and ‘The Showroom’. Applicants may choose from two briefs which largely correspond to the two main gallery spaces. There is also limited external space. Under the overall title ‘TORQUE’, the works should be inspired by notions such as:

·       The machine as Art.

·       Art as a machine.

·       Juxtaposition of gallery and showroom.

·       Transportation: Mind/matter.

Brief 1:

In the gallery space that was formerly the showroom, there are 5 car display bays in which we would like artists to create work that uses the body of a car as the starting point. Real car bodies may be stripped down/deformed/crushed as relevant to the artists’ idea, or artists may want to create a ‘car body’ from unconventional materials. In support of these pieces we would also like artists to create works inspired by showroom graphics and décor – the common conceptions of a car showroom. It is important that this display presents the first impression of a ‘real’ car showroom with ‘real’ cars.

There are essentially two parts to Brief 1: car based, and décor based. If any artists would like to respond to both we ask that they please submit their ideas as separate proposals.

Brief 2:

The other gallery space, known as the Dunbabin Room, and the rest of the site, will display work inspired by the same core ideas, but these pieces may take any form or media and do not have to resemble the shape of a car.