Bruce Asbestos Bio

Bruce's intention is to produce work and exhibitions that live out the ideals of a flat culture - in which the old notions of high and low (and established and temporary) culture are compressed into a flat plane in which one can move effortlessly across, moving between disciplines and media with excitement, gusto and aplomb.

High up in Bruce's ideals is a light industry complex that produces cultural artefacts and experiences, which have the ability to connect to a multitude of people. Half of the top floor is a studio with light airy windows, the other half is a film and recording studio. The first floor is be a workshop and offices and the ground floor a heavy workshop, storage area, reception rooms (which double up as a bar/ stage area) and a gallery. On the roof are a series of gardens in geometric forms, a swimming pool and cafe. As a package this complex will function as a physical representation of values of cultural production within a flat society. An additional benefit to the complex is that it focuses the mind on a specific unifying task, that of producing the complex itself.

During Studying Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, Bruce completed a five-month scholarship at Musashino University, Tokyo. On the day of leaving Fine Art, Bruce started studying a three-month intensive business course, before going on to setup artist run projects Stand Assembly Studios, Moot Gallery and My House Gallery. During this time he worked in collaboration with Hannah Conroy, with whom he had solo exhibitions in Croatia, Spike Island, Bristol, and City Gallery Leicester.

Bruce runs Trade, a gallery and online archive of interviews and is studying MA Fine Art (AHRC scholarship) at Nottingham Trent, Nottingham

www.tradegallery.org
www.bruceasbestos.info

CV

Solo Exhibitions

2011
Biocity Design Commission, Nottingham

Group Exhibitions

2011
An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again, Nottingham
Reactor - 'Host Member' - Greenman and Regular Fellows, Trade, Nottingham
Outpost's Summer Fayre, Norwich
E-Flux cover design, Art Basel, Basel
'£171' at Project Space 11, Plymouth

2010
Black Swans' Gameshow part 1 Tether TV Online / Nottingham
Black Swans' Gameshow part 2 Tether TV Online / Nottingham
Black Swans' Gameshow part 3 Tether TV Online / Nottingham
Bookmobile Vinyl, YH485' Bookmobile (Various locations)
Rhizomatic, Departure Gallery, London
Agitprop!, Project Space 11, Plymouth
Heraldry Project, yh485press, Great Yarmouth

Artists Talks and Public Lectures

2011
Micro residency' and panellist, for a two day symposium programmed by PVAC 1st - 3rd December, Plymouth
Temporary Association, Nottingham
Beacon Bimonthlies 6, Lincolnshire

2010
Joseph Beuys, Broadway Cinema, Nottingham
Sideshowshow Panellist, Nottingham

Residencies

2011

Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam

Events

2011
Hat club - Wonky Forest, March, Nottingham
Hat club - Welcome to Wonky Forest, March, Rotterdam

2010
Hat club - Continuity Error (The Continuation) December, Nottingham
Hat club - Continuity Error (The Beginning) May, London
Hat club - Bland Awareness, Nottingham

2009
Hat club - Future City, Nottingham
Hat club - Bad Klothes, Nottingham

Curated Exhibitions and Projects (Trade Gallery)

2011
Robert Ashley - Perfect Lives
Reactor - Greenman & Regular Fellows
Karin Kihlberg and Reuben Henry - Consequence of Retrospect
Elisa Pône, Katie Davies - Flash Bang
Richard Paul, David Sherry - The Perception Instruction

2010
Joseph Beuys - I like America and America likes Me
Rotterdam VHS Festival - Exhibition and Short Film Evening
Mark Essen - Eternal Atlas
Ben Woodeson - Violations #10 and #15
Oliver Sutherland - Nothing for Chroma Key
Jemma Egan - Swiss Dogs
Tomas Chaffe - Sometimes Artists Work Here
Abigail Reynolds - Mount Fear Sarah Doyle - Jackson, Maddonna, Prince
Phillip Henderson - Time Machine Lecture #7
Endless Supply #10 - Publication - Guest curated (online and hardcopy)
Artur Zmijewski, 'Them', Trade Gallery, Nottingham

2008
Art Strike, Parasitical Talk, Nottingham Contemporary, UK

Artist interviews ( - Ongoing)

2010
Leo Fitzmaurice
Helmut Wietz
Reactor
Tomas Chaffe

2009
Richard Paul
Mirjam van Tilburg
Marjolijn Dijkman
Maarten Vanden Eynde
Juneau Projects
Simon and Tom Bloor
S Mark Gubb
Jack Strange
Ellie Harrison
James R Ford
Elizabeth Rowe


Reviews (Of other peoples' work)

2010
BAR VUG GUM
A review of Mark Pearson's exhibition at Moot, published by A-N Magazine Feb 2010

2009
logic and Process
A brief synopsis of the work of Tom Godfrey, Published on tradegallery.org

An Almost Silent Room
Reflections on Lisa Cheung's performance at the Chinese Art Centre
Published by http://www.yh485press.org/