The picture above is Boundary II by Barbara Walker. Looking at it on screen really doesn’t do it justice though and I wholeheartedly recommend you go along to Birmingham Seen at BMAG to see it nice and big. It’s a great exhibition with a fair few highlights – the early photography of the city is … [Read more…]
Swimming Without Water is a group exhibition taking place in January 2010 at Moseley Road Bath Centre. Contemporary artists Flora Gare, Debbie Akam and Tim Skinner will create a site-specific exhibition with the aim of encouraging the local and wider community to rediscover Moseley Road Baths and experience them in a different way. It will … [Read more…]
From 12-14 November, Jo Gane will be exhibiting at The Old Science Museum, 144 Newhall Street: Critically commenting on the traditional British landscape and our continuing search for an authentic and historical representation of it, Coventry based photographer Jo Gane questions the mythologies and values placed upon specific historical sites across Britain. Adopting the traditional … [Read more…]
Ammo from Punch Records has been using his Birmingham Post blog to good effect – today he’s announcing a new project called Counter / Culture: Starting today we’re setting up a project @ Punch HQ called “Counter / Culture” studying those who’ve begun changing the nation from our city’s streets; radicals, chartists, abolitionists, suffragettes, artists, … [Read more…]
As part of the redevelopment of Digbeth coach station, National Express are working with EC-Arts on the Digbeth Public Art Project. It’ll be launched in December and will feature three permanent commissions: Boundary – “In essence the boundary fence of the Coach Station will be public art in both form and function” Irish Quarter Visual … [Read more…]
I’m playing catch-up on this one. I’ve heard the idea of a contemporary art museum for Birmingham (or Tate Birmingham, as it’s been referred to in some quarters) mentioned in passing a few times but that’s it, so consider this a glorified links round-up as I try to find out what info has thus far … [Read more…]
Friction Arts have been out in South Africa since the end of September on a project run by Visiting Arts called Square Mile. They’ve been working: with local artists and Johannesburg Art Gallery to create a series of interventions examining the areas cultural, environmental and bio diversity They’ve been blogging regularly and it’s been fascinating … [Read more…]
As threatened previously, I did pop over to Ikon Eastside on Friday lunchtime. The current installation is by Ryoji Ikeda and is called data.tron, part of: his exploration of the infinity of data between 0 and 1, an abstraction of reality that challenges our perception of the codes present in everyday life It was quite … [Read more…]