About the Studios

Established in 1995 Rogue is a not-for-profit, co-operative that supports visual arts practice by providing artists with accessible and affordable studios in Manchester city centre. Rogue now houses sixty artists over two floors of studios and includes Rogue Project Space, used primarily for residency and exchange projects. One of the largest independent artists’ studio groups operating in the North West, artist members range from recent graduates to established practitioners and work in a wide range of disciplines and media; including drawing, film and video, illustration, installation, interactive art, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles.

 

The archive below lists all previous open studios, residency and exchange programmes,  temporary exhibitions and events.

John Hyatt
30 April 2010 to 06 May 2010

With a monumental effort comparable to the great men of history and the inventiveness of a mad professor, Hobson has created a device for talking to the sky and turned mountains upside down for this (his first solo) exhibition. Much of his recent work responds to the realisation of his own physical limitations for understanding and addresses the edge of our conceptual powers. And despite the vacuous process involved in making One Million Decisions (in which he has placed a million dots in a meter square grid); or the mechanics of Purgatory (edited at speeds faster than the human eye functions thus rendering its sources invisible); Hobson’s work remains both a playful and engaging commentary on our shared visual experiences as he seeks to expose the magical in the commonplace and reveal the multiplicity and instability of the postmodern world.

Recent exhibitions include: Born, At the Colchester Arts Centre; Black Rainbow, at Motorcade Flashparade, Bristol; Prune Machine Glitz, At the National Review of Live Arts, Glasgow, and at Basement, Brighton; Blast, at the Batersea Arts Centre, London; and the European Media arts Festival, Osnabruek, Germany.

Hobson is a founder of the publication Intercity Mainline, and the collective B.O.R.N.

Media sponsors: Flux Magazine

Please email any enquiries to magnus_quaife@yahoo.co.uk or phone Magnus on 07811267752. images are available on request.

Rogue artists studios and project space, 66 - 72 Chapeltown Street, Manchester, M1 2WH
Private View Thursday April 15th 5pm - 8pm
15 April 2010 to 24 April 2010

Kristy Campbell, Lisa Gorton, Catherine Pudner, Emily Speed, Anna Sikorska

BUILT brings together 5 Female artists from across the UK whose practises deal with specific aspects of the built environment. Through the use of Sculpture, Installation, Animation and Performance the selected artists respond to the structures which surround our daily activity; be that personal shelters and social networks, or our more public man made surroundings that are compounded in the cities we live in. They search for a space in the parameters between art and these constructed locations, subtly commenting; "Women build stuff too".

Built is curated by Elizabeth Murphy.
01 April 2010 to 08 April 2010

Mike Chavez-Dawson and Richard Shields reading this Friday March 19th, 6-9pm
19 March 2010 (6:00 pm - 9:00 pm)

Preview Sunday 14th March
4.30pm - 8.30pm
t: +44 (0)161 273 7492
or Mike MB: 07801 030290

All works will be for sale, with a 20% discount for works purchased on the evening, drinks will be served, music played and works viewed.
Richard Shields exquisite biro drawings present art world luminaries as humble yet distinctive voices from art history and the media, immortalised and commodified in equal measure.
Chavez-Dawson presents a new series of laser etched drawings from his retired alter ego Robin Nature-Bold that map his rise and demise as a delusional creative - a short story will accompany these limited edition prints, that sit between drawing & print.


14 March 2010 to 28 March 2010