Fierce Festival 2012 kicked off today. I wasn’t there to see Laura and (an apparently headless) Harun kick things off but here’s a photo from the Fierce Twitter account to prove it happened. There’s loads of fantastical stuff happening. The obvious must-sees for me are the Dachsund UN, Track, the Holy Mountain Party (with a … [Read more…]
CULTURE CLOUD is a digital space for artists to upload their artwork onto a web portal where a team of recognised national and international curators and audiences will vote for the works they like. The most popular and intriguing will be exhibited at New Art Exchange in August 2012 in a unique exhibition that will … [Read more…]
I’d not heard of Barr Street Gallery before and, truth be told I’m in a rush and haven’t been able to check them out or anything. I will do later on though – in the meantime I thought I’d fling this up.
Via VIVID: The Board of Directors have been working closely with Yasmeen Baig Clifford, the company’s Director, to decide how best to move forward following the news in March 2011 that VIVID would be one of the 206 organisations to have their funding cut completely by Arts Council England from April 2012 as a result … [Read more…]
This intrigues me: artist Chris Poolman and writer Mark Ellis have been selected to undertake a series of journeys through the region, modelled on three great American literary journeys, producing a documentary film as they go and a collection of short stories and other writings. The great American stories to be followed through West Midlands’ … [Read more…]
The other day Supercool’s Katie Parry tweeted about meeting Graham Short. I followed a couple of links, as you do, and was blown away. If you’ve not encountered Graham before (and in the years I’ve been doing CiB I’m surprised this is the first time I’d heard of him) then check out his website and … [Read more…]
Ted Hiscock is: a Birmingham-based artist with a flair for drawing, oil and Gouache. Wikipedia informs me that Gouache is “a type of paint consisting of pigment suspended in water”. I bet you knew that. Anyway… His new exhibition, called ‘Sixty Five and a Half’, features a collection of his most recent paintings and will … [Read more…]
Nikki Pugh’s talk at the last Birmingham Salon: