“Where works of art are rare, rarity itself is a value; it is only when they are common that one can learn its intrinsic value”.                                                                    Goethe

B&P Projects work across a range of time-based and sculptural mediums including performance, film and video, photography, social and physical sculpture and interventions.  The work aims to locate, promote and celebrate democracy within creative processes, and explore mechanisms of collaboration via processes of research, production and dissemination. 

B&P Projects is a collaborative artist-partnership:  Louise Brookes & Brian Percival are visual artists based in Manchester.  Shared concerns include:  

• Context (space/place/situation) and it’s attendant politics
• Live (duration, performance and experience)
• Process (prioritised as product/outcome)
• Social (sculpture and process)
• Studio (in real-time/public)

“Audience (public) provide the catalyst for art works; in effect the audience is the driver and provides opportunities for discourse/dialogue within a live art context. Prompts or research lead to opportunities for creative action in which artist/audience is effectively a partnership.”                                      Percival

“My usual practice is to formulate a body of intelligence into and from art. The motive is to create or expose a relationship-or a reason for a relationship- between the artist, artwork and viewer: the purpose is to cause interaction. The audience is implicit as maker and, whilst I reserve the right to renegotiate or even reclaim the process, the work currently seeks to make this relationship explicit. In undertaking work the process becomes a body of conscious or unconscious actions, interventions and experiences.”                                                                                               Brookes

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Working title: Talking (around) Shop. (2006-7).                Blackburn Road, Accrington. 

Commissioned to document and celebrate local businesses- particularly shops- as part of the Talking Shop series, B&P Projects aims to produce both documentation and art-work(s).  Via the production of art-works, B&P projects intend to promote dialogue about the changing face of local enterprise, commerce and exchange within processes of regeneration.  B&P Projects begin their research process by cataloguing the public interfaces of local business in Accrington and engaging in commercial exchange processes (shopping).  

The work will be exhibited during 2007 at Mid Pennine Arts Gallery alongside other Talking Shop projects.