The legacy of Tactile Bosch
Like the infamous Crystal Palace, home of The Great Exhibition and consumed by fire in 1936, the building of Tactile Bosch may be destroyed, but its spirit and its legacy will live on. The gallery intends to maintain its presence in Cardiff, setting up encampment in public places and found spaces within the city.
Tiff Oben told Alt. Cardiff, “Because it’s so difficult with rates and finances to maintain an establishment, I think Kim’s [Kim Fielding, the creative director and originator of the gallery] aim now is to become nomadic.
“Tactile Bosch will remain as an idea and as an organisation, but rather than have a base he’s going to go and put on exhibitions in other places, so it’s a roving art gallery in a way.”
The doors opened last Saturday to the final exhibition at Tactile Bosch, an art gallery about to be reduced to rubble.
Unchartered Perspectives invites back some of the artists who have exhibited in the building over the past twelve years. This gives them the opportunity to showcase the development of their work.
One such artist is Tiff Oben, who said, “I’ve gone from nowhere to the Tate Modern, and I say it’s all because of Tactile Bosch, and the initial stage and encouragement that they gave me.”
The exhibition is a strange miscellany of everything and anything, from a yurt-sauna to a wall of empty frames.
The building, an old Victorian warehouse, is soon to be demolished to make way for a housing estate.
The legacy of Tactile Bosch
Like the infamous Crystal Palace, home of The Great Exhibition and consumed by fire in 1936, the building of Tactile Bosch may be destroyed, but its spirit and its legacy will live on. The gallery intends to maintain its presence in Cardiff, setting up encampment in public places and found spaces within the city.
Tiff Oben told Alt. Cardiff, “Because it’s so difficult with rates and finances to maintain an establishment, I think Kim’s [Kim Fielding, the creative director and originator of the gallery] aim now is to become nomadic.
“Tactile Bosch will remain as an idea and as an organisation, but rather than have a base he’s going to go and put on exhibitions in other places, so it’s a roving art gallery in a way.”