Starting this Sunday, 15 June, and continuing every third Sunday over the summer, Brindley Place is hosting an arts market. A number of local, up and coming artists will be displaying pieces of work at the event. These include Alice Gow, Antony Bridge of Pochade, Ken Hurd and Christopher Collier. They’re keen to grow this … [Read more…]
Falsify is a Birmingham-based freelance illustrator who works under the house name SA3S. He says: I specialise in illo’s for the music and entertainment industries and love everything dark and graphic with a hint of mayhem! Which, from the look of the work showcased on his new site (shop opening soon) means designing some pretty … [Read more…]
An interesting an impassioned polemic from James Yarker of Stan’s Cafe appeared on The Birmingham Post’s site the other day, and includes this paragraph: Let’s get to those rooms above pubs, street corners, concert halls, village halls, school halls, libraries, fields and theatres, where real live people are performing for real live audiences and sharing … [Read more…]
This looks pretty cool. Chuck Sperry and Ron Donovan run Firehouse, a San Fran printshop who have created rock art posters for Queens of the Stone Age, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Cash and Jane’s Addiction. The pair also have a background in political comics and subversive propaganda. They’re touring about with some of their work … [Read more…]
Strange Ways is a Birmingham-based artists’ collective and from 1 to 12 July they’ll be putting on their first major event – an art project at The Edge in response to the Cheapside area in Digbeth: Demolition of the industrial landscape and its replacement with modern residential apartment blocks has begun. An ever-decreasing number of … [Read more…]
To be honest the flyer contains most of the information I can find about this one. From what I can find, Birmingham Visual Arts Coalition have described themselves as “innovators in contemporary art”. D’log reported about a call for submissions back in Feb and seems to have received a lot more info at the time … [Read more…]
I went over to the BASS Festival launch last night over at the Woom Gallery (an excellent little place, incidentally). I had a quick chat with Ammo, the guy behind Punch Records, who was enthusiastic about the programme of events they’ve got coming up but most excited about the the competition they ran to design … [Read more…]
A couple of good things from the Ikon. Firstly, every Wednesday over the summer the gallery and bookshop will be open until 8pm (cafe until 11pm). Coinciding with the late openings is a series of talks called ‘These are a few of my favourite things’ which will be loosely based on Desert Island Discs where … [Read more…]