Arts Forum Selly Oak have announced dates for some of Art SOAK festival‘s rescheduled workshops, which had been postponed from their March festival (you may remember it was a particularly snowy weekend.) Art SOAK Revisited is taking place across weekends in May/June, and more information is on the flyer below, and on the Arts Forum … [Read more…]
Capsule have two call outs for artists to produce exciting work for the Library of Birmingham opening season. We are looking for artists/organisations to take on week long residencies within an exciting space designed by Studio Myerscough, and we will also commission an artist/illustrator to create new work to sit in the new Children’s Library. The deadline for both opportunities is … [Read more…]
Patrick Staff: A Factory As It Might Be is the current exhibition at the International Project Space at the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design’s School of Art in Bournville. For those who don’t know about International Project Space: International Project Space (IPS) is a non-profit contemporary arts organisation situated on the Bournville campus of the … [Read more…]
In the time that I’ve lived in Birmingham there’s a place that has frequently come up in conversation/email/the twittersphere that I have never knowingly been in the vicinity of, let alone visited. Yet Ikon is one of the best regarded galleries in the region, and I finally made the trip last month to see what … [Read more…]
In the early 2000s, Kings Norton dweller Tim Thomson started up the BrainCell Collective, a vehicle for organising art fairs and exhibitions for local artists. What began as a close-knit artist collective, soon grew into a large network of over 200 members, where artists could keep in touch with each other, share opportunities and events, and even … [Read more…]
The Library of Lost Books is a collection of old, discarded and damaged library books which we have rescued from certain death-by-pulping… Each rescued book is being sent to a selected UK artist to be re-made as a work of art. They will be exhibited together in Birmingham in September 2013 and will go on … [Read more…]
23 March – 18 May 2013 Launch: 6-8pm Friday 22 March 2013 Head down to Eastside Projects this Friday for the launch of their newest exhibition ‘Puppet Show’ that will be on show until mid-May. It sounds pretty intriguing, and as always with Eastside Projects’ launch nights the gallery will be buzzing with creative types … [Read more…]
After what has felt like a quiet few months (and extended January blues) it seems that the fun of a festival season is once again upon us what with Art SOAK, Theatre Fever, Flatpack and the University of Birmingham’s Arts and Science festival taking place in Birmingham over the next few weeks. “Running Monday … [Read more…]