INCUBE8 2012 gives eight early to mid career artists their first significant solo show at Motorcade/FlashParade, the Bristol-based artist-run project space. Parts 1-4 took place over an intensive four-week period in March; the four selected artists for the second half of the programme have just been announced and will exhibit in back-to-back shows in November.
Three of the artists selected – Johana Hartwig, Sam Hasler and recent graduate Laura Reeves – are Cardiff-based, while the fourth, Julian Claxton, is from Bristol.
Motorcade/FlashParade co-director Penny Jones said: “As practising artists ourselves we are committed to artist development, allowing us to meaningfully contribute to a healthy art ecology. INCUBE8 functions as a platform for the selected artists, but also as an opportunity for Motorcade/FlashParade to showcase some of the most exciting work being produced in the South West and Wales.
“We aim to foster a nourishing environment for artist’s development, both for exhibiting artists and those based locally, through exhibition, participation and peer critique activities which we hold for each show.”
Meet the artists
Johana Hartwig is an interdisciplinary artist working mainly in video. She describes herself as “Creator of sculptural films for lovers of the intangible, the emotive and the sensual.”
Sam Hasler who works with performance and text, has exhibited at EXPO festival in Nottingham, National Review of Live Art inGlasgow and as part of the ‘if…’ series at g39, Cardiff.
Laura Reeves received the Eisteddfod Young Artist Scholarship in 2012, and has exhibited widely.
Julian Claxton co-founded the Bristol art initiative Plan 9 in 2005 and established the Creed Art Club in 2008. He has exhibited widely under a number of personas in the UK and the United States.
