&model - curated 27 exhibitions and residencies over a three-year period
- Submitting institution
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Leeds Beckett University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 6
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- &Model, 19 East Parade, Leeds, LS1 2BH
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- January
- Year of first exhibition
- 2014
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- &model is a curatorial project and a research vehicle for Chris Bloor, James Chinneck and Derek Horton. As part of Regeneration Through the Arts &model occupied a gallery space at 19 East Parade Leeds where it presented 27 exhibitions and residencies between January 2014 to June 2017. Full archive can be viewed here: http://www.andmodel.com
&model’s research investigated art’s purpose outside the marketplace and developed new critical insights whilst bonding a specialist audience in Leeds with a broader and inquisitive public. From a distinct site close to the City Gallery and Henry Moore Institute it tested the necessity for an un-dogmatic and independent art space that questioned the cultural value of the visual arts for an expanded audience. Through its assistant mentoring programme it created new relationships between students and graduates of the arts from the three major Universities in the city. The project embraced the opportunity of exhibiting international artists alongside those who have escaped attention yet should be considered worthy of critical consideration.
The project was critically supported by Leeds Art Gallery (Marlow Moss and British Art Show 8) and The Henry Moore Institute (Barry Flanagan, ‘the King and I)’ involving reciprocal exhibitions with both venues. The publication made with William Corwin and Liam Johnstone examines the project history and acts as a fictitious final work.
Significance can be measured from conversations around Marlow Moss with Andrew Bick and Katrina Blannin, June–July 2014, Chris Dobrowolski, October–December 2014, (Artists Newsletter, Top Exhibitions), Fay Ballard, House Clearance, May 2015, (Bob Dickinson, Corridor 8, 2015), Barry Flanagan Light pieces and other works, May - June 2017, curated with Jo Melvin, (review, Nick Thurston, Frieze, June, 2017). “&model has made an important contribution to the visual art offer of the city of Leeds.” – Godfrey Worsdale OBE, Director, Henry Moore Foundation.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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