Manchester (UK) based artist collective co-founded in 2004

Alice Bradshaw - Liz Murphy - Richards Shields

We show collectively as well as individually and also organise large scale exhibitions inviting other artists to participate. We find new and challenging ways to exhibit with particular focus on site-responsivity to non-conventional and everyday spaces. Additionally, we run an independent free-of-charge publication with international distribution.

We may not be the first artist collective formed in Manchester but in 2009 we are the only one that matters. A legacy has been created since our inception with astounding effects on our peers, tutors and the excess of artists we have created a platform for. Now CMV is coming into an age of expertise not only in the production of shows but also as veterans of the site specific as we take Manchester as inspiration in our ever evolving and improving ethos. Our work incorporates visceral splendour within the many disciplines we employ and we choose to place work amidst the everyday, negating the often too prevalent fear of walking into a clinical gallery space. We create immediate connections with the spectator through the syntax of a common environment. CMV puts art under Manchester's dirty, wet shoes. Our openings and events create a social platform bringing artists and viewers together from across the social spectrum to the best effect witnessed in Manchester. We're self-perpetuating, we're DIY, we're the A team of art, we're an outlaw's horse, we believe our own hype. No one could do what we do as well as we do it.

Previous variants:

100th Monkey, Sapna Agarwal, Airspace Gallery, Richard Aldred, Stephen Ashdown, Richard Barks, Beth Barlow, Samantha Bell, Richard Bevan, Black Dogs, Frances Blythe, Clive Bonelle, Andrew Bracey, Megan Broadmeadow, Jack Brown, Keith Brown, Darnel Buchanan, Camp Yellow (Mike Redmond, Faye Johnson and Lisa Handley), Elena Cassidy Smith, Anna Chapman, Cheap Magazine, Chris Clarke, Antony Clarkson, David Cochrane, Ben Connell, Beatie Cowern, Jennifer Cox, Michael Day, Joe Duffy, John Dellar, Eagle and Feather (Julian Lloyd Butler & Stephen Earl Rogers), Tracey Eastham, Stuart Edmundson, Lowri Evans, Sarah Farmer, Michael Farquhar, Mike Ferguson, Helen Flint, Sue Fox, Anna Francis, Michel Gahzi, Bec Garland, Lisa Gorton, Stan Grant, Garth Gratrix, Siân Green, Evi Grigoropoulou, Finella Halligan, HappyCat (Melanie Alexandrou & Jade Blood), Sarah Hardacre, Anton Harding, Annie Harrison, Marielle Hehir, Adam Higman, Michael Holland, Micheal Howard, Lyndsey Hulme, Steve Humble, Roddy Hunter, Chris Hunt, Intercity Mainline, Eugenia Ivanissevich, Hilary Jack, Gwen Jones, Helen Kaplinsky, Naomi Kashiwagi, Richard Kendrick, John Keogh, Alison Kershaw, Ben Kershaw, Magdalena Natalia Kwiatkowska, L-13 (Harry Adams, James Caouty, Billy Childish, James Reid, Felicity Langthorne, Alison Stockwell, Hannah Marsden, Claire Rowlands, Steven Walker and Laura Kirby), LabBinaer, Charley Ladyman, Yan Laundy, Jane Lawson, Gaz Leddington, Christian Leitna, Naomi Lethbridge, Lombard Method, M A Longbottom, M-19, Jude MacPherson, David Martin, Jo Masding, Ross McCarry, Mitra Memarzia, Kat Miller, Alexis Milne, Mirror Mirror, Bryony Moore, Carly Munro, New Curiosity Shop, David Northedge, Martin Oak, Steve Oliver, Tom O'Sullivan, Pete McPartlan, Ed Payne, Julia Peat with assistance from Cargos casual team member Jayne Seddon, Delphine Perrot, Pool Arts (Annette Ebanks, Trae England, Tess Lomas, Colin Nixon, Eddie Price, Siobhan Samuels, Nicola Smith, David Speer), Megan Powell, The Projection Gallery, Catherine Pudner, Nikki Pugh, Adam Renshaw, Nick Rhodes, Sophie Rogers, Philip Ryland, Sarah Sabin, Tim Sargent, Sarah Saunders, Richard Schofield, Lucy May Scofield, Daniel Scott, Shufflebottom, Sketch City, Garth Simmons, Emily Smallwood, Rose Smith, Michael Spears, Emily Speed, Poppy Stevenson, James Steventon, Anna Stogdon, John Sauvé, Robin Tarbet, Jon Turner, Chiz Turnross, Steve Vernon, Jared Szpakowski, Joyce Wan, Tom Watson, Martha Webster, Jo Whittam, Olivia Williams, Yes It Is (Anna Beam, Lora Avedian, Laura Gee, Georgina Sullivan), Yorkshire Sculptors Group (Alan Gummerson, Andrew Pert, Victoria Lucas, Rebecca Strain, Linda Thompson, Terry Hammill, Suzanne North, Barry Midgley, Lucy Hainsworth, John Adamson, Paula Chambers, Hilary Burt)

HONK, November 2008, was supported by Castlefield Gallery Project Space, Arts Council England and Esmée Fairburn Foundation

Under Maintenance, June 2007, was supported by Arts Council England