OUTCROWD COLLECTIVE: WE TOOK OUR BROKEN DREAMS AND TURNED THEM INTO HOMES FOR OUR SOULS

Part of the Space Raiders project. 14th June o5, Installation for architecture week at the mailbox, Birmingham, broken board collage

For this exhibition the Outcrowd explore the relationship between cities and their architecture and the way in which skaters interpret these often-mundane surroundings to find a more exciting perspective. The city is their playground and inspiration, but it is also their undoing and downfall; broken boards, broken bones and broken dreams. On each broken board are depicted ideas and dreams, taking the destruction and turning it into something hopeful and fun

Manifesto

Here's to the crazy folk, the round pegs in the square holes, the misfits, the recluses and the strangers. The people on the fringes of society, outsiders looking over, looking in..."

"The Outcrowd" is a shambolic visual collection of hoodlums and battered psyches, born out of a basic obsession to create. Not to be trusted with pen, paper or any other medium that can leave a mark. Initially formed amongst a group of friends, skateboarders, Illustrators, Designers, Image-Makers and Lurkers.

The Outcrowd has taken on an organic, parasitic growth form, spanning continents and breaking cultural boundaries as more creators mutate to survive. Compiled, curated and realised in 2004 by two artists Lawrence Roper and Simon Peplow (Mr Ben has also been taking a more active role of late).

"This is chance for some of us to air our secret visual diaries, a mass of weird visions and telephone squiggles, that until now have been left ominously gathering dust in darkened corners. For others it's about escaping and creating work they enjoy, outside of any particular agenda. It's about a personal freedom to express themselves. And it's about creating a network to share ideas, collaborate, exhibit, commission and expose. After the success of their first group exhibition in February 2004 The Outcrowd have continued onwards and upwards steadily gathering awards, accolades, commissions, publications, collaborations, exhibitions and growing notoriety on their eventful trail.

We like to keep things loose these days; more of a co-op than a collective. With ever evolving members and co-conspiritors, projects, opportunities, networks, as well as a platform to show case new work, exhibitions, prints, books, t-shirts, badges and a plethora of crafty collectable ephemera created under the Outcrowd umbrella. Be prepared for a continuous visual onslaught from these pencil wrestling enthusiasts.

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WE TOOK OUR BROKEN DREAMS AND TURNED THEM INTO HOMES FOR OUR SOULS

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