Vertical Platform is a public art project that began in 2012. It sees tbC artists playing around with exhibition conventions by hanging artworks on public walls.
Each artist is presented both as an individual and as a member of an art collective. Each artwork is signed with both the individual artist’s name and tbC’s. While this project sees tbC experimenting with the concept of individual authorship in the collective space, the communal practices and collaborative processes that support the making of these artworks reinforces tbC’s overarching model of collaboration and joint authorship. Vertical Platform presents a united front approach to making and presenting art, one that supports young artists in building artistic agency and status together.
Vertical Platform includes paintings, drawings, poetry, photography and interactive new media works printed onto waterproof (Tyvek) paper and pasted up in and around Upwey and Belgrave.