RuptureXIBIT
The space prioritises experimentation, creativity, and community, serving as a supportive lab for artists to push boundaries, try new things, and explore new ideas. Artists are encouraged to engage with failure as a necessary and welcome force in creative practice. RuptureXIBIT challenges the primacy of commodification as the driver of an artist's practice. Though we believe all artists should be paid for their work, we believe selling of work is a separate job from creating it.
Our passion and commitment is to the artist's development. Learning how to sell work is another aspect of the artist's life, and there are plenty of books and programs on how to get a gallery, and how to sell work. That is not the focus here. To sell work, one must have work to sell. Where does that work come from? Can we make more space between the making and the selling concepts? What is the work about? Why does it exist? Why did you need to make it? What is the impulse to make, where does it come from, why do you respond to it, what are you trying to say, what questions does your work ask?
This is what we are interested in - What are the conditions that allow the artist's work to arise vs what is the market telling artists they should make because it is popular?
We value practice, development of practice, and time with practice. We share our studio for work to emerge through space, time, and dialogue, offering artists a safe, non-competitive community to deepen and evolve their work. This development is sparked through practice which is examined and developed through Art Mentoring, Coaching and Immersive Intensive Residencies.
Over the past three years, the Rupture team has worked with over 1,000 international artists at all stages of their careers, providing a prolific platform for artistic growth and collaboration. We meet each artist where they need to be met, and provide the time, space, and rigor to examine and expand individual practices.