A painting by Chris Murtagh. This is in a way a continuation of my Digbeth series, most of the buildings are of that post industrial type, with some of them battered or missing, or past their prime If you look really closely (or read this blog post) you’ll see that the buildings feature graffiti from … [Read more…]
A group of artists from across the UK are descending on Birmingham’s great Perrotts Folly in partnership with Trident Reach the People Charity part of the Trident Housing Group There have been a few things at Perrotts Folly over the years – Ikon have done a few shows there, at least – but I’ve yet … [Read more…]
The West Midlands Participatory Arts Forum are having a get-together on Friday. They’re planning to set out where the participatory arts sector in the West Midlands is now, and where it goes next. There’s a flyer and a programme here, but I’m on a train at the moment and Chiltern’s wifi is blocking me from … [Read more…]
Mapping The Landscape is the: Day to day blog of Artist Paul Hirst as he creates new work on his art residency at the Bond in Birmingham
Factory Nights: is a series of inspiring working sessions for ANY visual artists, photographers, writers, poets, musicians, filmmakers and any other creatives! Factory Nights is not a discussion event, seminar or workshop. Factory Nights are free sessions that simply provide an opportunity for creative people to come together in an interesting venue and supportive environment … [Read more…]
An interesting opportunity from Midland Heart: The Spectacle Works provides affordable live/work accommodation tailor-made for designer makers and people in the creative industries who are starting up or already running their own business. It is based at Hylton Street in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter and provides a rolling 3 year tenancy for people and their businesses before … [Read more…]
Or, more accurately, Google Maps in Eastside Projects. You can now use Google Maps to take a tour around the gallery and their Painting Show. I’d seen the Google Art Project and I knew they’d started mapping inside shopping centres, airports and comic shops but I didn’t know they were doing anything in the UK. … [Read more…]
The National Trust recently made the details of over 700,000 of the objects in their care available online for the first time. I quick search for objects around Birmingham reveals 1,350 items, a fair few of them with accompanying pictures. You can check out the online collection at nationaltrustcollections.org.uk. If anyone spots anything particularly good in there, … [Read more…]