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.

Rogue Project Space presents 'IV', an exhibition of new work by artists in residence Tom Baskeyfield, Julie Del'Hopital, Jessica Longmore, and Sarah Sanders. The work produced for 'IV' responds to a set of rules devised collaboratively by the artists.

IV
4 maxims, 4 artists, 4 works

A group show where all work presented will be made following a prearranged set of rules, all devised and agreed upon by the 4 artists involved. A common thread that unites the artists is the systematic application of rules to their individual practices; sometimes creating harsh and uncomfortable situations for making work or binding them to repetitive processes.

In sequence with artists who impose rigid doctrines in their work, such as Tehching Hsieh with 'One Year Performance' and On Kawara’s 'Date Paintings'; the artists will adhere to these rules with great diligence. As Descartes explained in Discours de la Methode, a systematic approach is key to understanding the world.  By applying a methodical and rational strategy to a process that is generally irrational and illogical they provide themselves with clarity.

The rules, though altering and shaping the work, provide it with a context. They encourage focus and the challenges the artists have set themselves push them to work harder. They have set their dogma by considering 4 important basic elements in the production of work: time, material, scale and thought or systems of belief.  They ensured that each were suitably dynamic, so as to impact on the work and generic enough to affect each of their diverse practices equally. 

Further Information About The Artists:

Somewhere in the Cheshire countryside Tom Baskeyfield follows a pattern of numbers, a kind of walking dream that may mean something to him only.  Often using predetermined dimensions, taken from the studio or gallery, Tom applies these to the landscape, by letting them suggest the path he takes and the work he is to make.

http://tombaskeyfield.blogspot.com

With Julie Del'Hopital's practice, the editing becomes the principal aspect in the development of the form. The work as a whole seems to talk about a perpetual, recurring art work. The work exists through the precariousness and the determination of existence set off by every single process. www.juliedelhopital.com

Jessica Longmore imposes on herself a tension when making her vulnerable pieces of sculpture; there exists a certain balance which is not always controlled by her.  By choosing to create work in other artist’s studios she applies a rigid framework to her practice which often leaves her with no escape. www.jessicalongmore.com

Sarah Sanders cares about the objects that she uses. She pushes herself to make alive the materials that she employs, with care and respect. In her delicate drawings, her emotional dogma encourages her to apply a camouflage of abstraction to the rawness of her subject matter. http://sanderssarah.blogspot.com