tactileBOSCH

Cardiff is so small it’s easy to be a big fish in a small pond here and I agree with both Amanda and Suzi’s reviews. tactileBOSCH is tight knit and founder Fielding mentors a number of local artists through his enterprise to minor Cardiff art stardom ach year.
The space is unique, shabby shabby chic, when empty more shabby than chic, but when the pretty young things in their art school bling mix with saxophones, DJ’s and wine, under the buzz and the fairy lights, cracked boards, peeling walls and oh yes the flirt… THEN this place has certainly got it going on.
Kim has made this venue work, it has become a sustainable art venture. Yes the party openings well supersede the art, but at least it is actually happening and I don’t just mean cool, I mean someone in the Cardiff art scene is actually doing something that works, year after year after year.
So what’s the secret formular? WellIlll I think it’s all in the name — tactileBOCH — what an absolutely fabulous name — bold, nonsensical and beautiful just like venue darling!

This 200-​year-​old Victorian Laundry has been converted into an artist-​led exhibition and performance space and studios that loves the shock of the new. Opening at the turn of the millennium tB has gained a name for the outrageous opening night parties, the experimental and emerging new artists and the no-​holds-​barred performance art from Wales-​based and international artists alike. As such, the arts crowd love it.
The groundbreaking venue was established by artists Kim Fielding and Simon Mitchell and has received support through the years from Cardiff based artists and curators such as Andrew Cooper, Jan Bennett, Mike Murray, Tim Bromage, Tom Harrup, Graham Phillips, Phillip Babot, Sam Aldridge, Neil Jefferies and Dave Shepherd as well as organizations such as National Probation Service, Arts Council of Wales, Culture Colony, & UWIC.
This is no commercial clinical space, instead the alternative space is as charmingly shambolic as it is chameleonic, allowing artists the opportunity to exhibit and experiment in a way that is not always possible within a more traditional gallery or theatre structure. The results can be mindblowing and allow for more complex dialogues between artist and space, artist and curator, artist and audience. Never a dull moment.