Last year at LTD Edition, an affordable art market organised by Fused Magazine, 30 artists sold their work to over 100 visitors in one weekend. Kerry from Fused has written to say that this year: We are bringing a touch of culture (not that it doesn’t have bundles already) to the Custard Factory with 4 … [Read more…]
A free, one-off performance will take place at Ikon Eastside at 10pm on Tuesday 3 June. The Society of Futopia has been developed by four final year students at BIAD, Birmingham City University and will take place during the New Generation Arts Festival. One of the artists, Gareth Burnett did have a blog he was … [Read more…]
Something I only found out about recently is that Fierce have a live art training and mentoring project. As part of this year’s festival six West Mids artists will be presenting works-in-progress at The Edge on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 May. Nesting (Katy Acquaye-Tonge). 2pm to 9pm. The Place Where I Learnt How To … [Read more…]
I was browsing the internet a couple of years ago and I came across a little character with a yellow t-shirt and a red cap. I thought he was pretty cool and used him as my avatar on Facebook and Twitter for a while. I didn’t think much more of it. Then the other day … [Read more…]
Ikon Eastside opens on 27 May with a party entitled ‘Flip Flop Or Die’ hosted by Soi Project. The party starts at 8pm with DJs, a band and a (pay) bar. The dress code only specifies the footwear required, which I’ll leave you to work out. Soi Project’s installation ‘Island’ will be on show from … [Read more…]
Two things to report from Jibbering, Moseley’s creative dervishes. Firstly they recently launched an exhibition called The Paper Market which showcases limited edition prints by many of the finest contemporary urban artists, illustrators, designers & photographers from within and around Birmingham. and explores the blossoming movement of incredible art that reflects the vibrant and diverse … [Read more…]
Volume Magazine is a quarterly, London-based arts publication geared toward the promotion of new artists, writers and musicians and they’re doing a special issue for Birmingham. Which is good, is it not? The concept in brief is to create an exhibition space at the stadium in which to display a diverse range of work by … [Read more…]
The results of an interesting collaborative project, carried out in 2007, are just coming out. The project used the question ‘what does this city really look like?’ as a starting point. Locations were shared-out between a team of ‘photographers’ (none of them are photographers) according to a grid imposed over the area. The photographers were … [Read more…]