I popped in to the launch of the Preclusion exhibition at the derelict/occupied Whitmarley building in Stirchley last night. For something that had come together so quickly (and a big well done to Harry for managing that) it was great to see a decent crowd down there (not quite shown in the photo below). It … [Read more…]
Harry Starling tweeted this earlier: Birmingham artists wanted for guerilla art exhibition. Genuinely guerilla, more than you would imagine! DM me… Intriguing.
Extra Special People is Eastside Projects’ Associates Programme. All these people are members. They have a blog for posting information about what their members are doing. That’s good.
Character Totem – the launch event, exhibition and flyer all look ace.
I’ve not really had a very good look at this yet but there are some good people involved and there’s an interesting open aspect to it. I’ll do a quote-y thing here and leave you to investigate the rest: anticurate is imagined as mac birmingham’s version of an open exhibition. In association with mac birmingham, artist Trevor … [Read more…]
I hadn’t realised this was online and picked up on it while skimming the latest from this / inexplicably / styled website from the Arts Council. I’ll let plan b (not that one) explain: We are making a living portrait of 24 hours in Birmingham with the people who move through its streets, parks, waste … [Read more…]
Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum will be hosting a silent auction of over thirty artworks from the 6 – 24 June 2011 for The Event’s third bi-annual visual art festival due to be held in Birmingham this Autumn. The bidding will close on the 24 June 2011 in Digbeth’s Bond Company, where the works will be … [Read more…]
Continuing the theme of writing about some of the stuff I get out and about to, last night I followed the robots down to AE Harris for the Fierce Start Party. The idea with these things is to introduce next year’s artists to Birmingham and vice versa. There are a few Fierce stalwarts and returning … [Read more…]