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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.
Events & Exhibitions
Rogue Project Space: Artist-in-Residence: Liz Murphy
Wearing my Folex © Liz Murphy. Performance as part of ‘HONK’ 2008
Rogue Project Space is pleased to announce the latest artist-in-residence is Liz Murphy.
Using installation, intervention and performance Murphy’s work invites the spectator to create narratives drawn from suggestions laid within the work. By involving the audience in the creative process this then gives them a claim to the works authorship sharing the burden of making. By incorporating objects and images we are familiar with in the 'everyday' an atmosphere of confidence is created, born from familiarity, when dealing with the work.
Murphy will be in residence until the end of January 2010. Further information about her new work in development and related events will be posted online in the New Year.
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Previous projects by Murphy include: Wearing my Folex (pictured above)
For 10 months between 2002-2003 every week Monday to Thursday, 5 girls in a red VW polo drove from the LS25 area of Leeds to York College in order to complete a foundation diploma in Art and Design.
Shirking the conventional ‘shop-bought’ compilations for a DIY mix tape the original copy of this tape looped everyday throughout the 10 month time period. The songs on this tape aren’t great, and they positively aren’t cool, there is definitely no Joy Division or Morrisey, there is certainly no Kinks and no Led Zeppelin, we weren’t try hard art students and we all had haircuts that were the same length on both sides. After passing said diploma we all chose separate careers, I now do art, the others probably should too because they were better at it than me.
Murphy has also exhibited at: Best of Manchester, Urbis; Antifreeze, Manchester, 2009; Lumpen Media Kart, Version>08 Festival: Dark Matter, Chicago, 2008; Under Maintenance, Victoria Baths, Manchester, 2007; Housework|Beckenham, London, 2007; Bring on the Dancing Horses, Manchester, 2007; Elizabeth Murphy Retrospective, Leeds City Council; Contents May Vary at Apartment, Manchester; Contents May Vary & Pineapple Folk, Zion Arts Centre, Manchester, 2006.
Murphy is a co-founder and member of the artist collective Contents May Vary www.contentsmayvary.org. The collective were recently shortlised for Urbis' 'Best of Manchester' Award and have created a number of large-scale group projects, such as Antifreeze, 2009, HONK, 2008 and Under Maintenaince at Manchester's historic Victoria Baths in 2007.
In January 2010 Liz Murphy, with fellow Contents members Alice Bradshaw and Richard Shields will have an exhibition of their individual practices at Red Gallery, Hull.
22 November 2009 to 31 January 2010