Wolverhampton-born graffiti artist Temper has won a national competition to create a sculpture that will be installed at The Cube – the final phase of the Mailbox. He’s now looking for six people to help bring his vision to life and is touring the Midlands looking for suitable candidates. He’ll be calling at: Mander Shopping … [Read more…]
Some of this might not be hugely relevant/interesting to most but hopefully it’ll be useful to someone out there. Interestingness will be resumed shortly. Arts & Business Awards “Nominations are now open for the 30th Arts & Business Awards, designed to celebrate excellence in the field of arts and business partnerships and sponsorships” Deadline for … [Read more…]
BiNS flagged up a story in the Birmingham Mail the other day entitled “Fury over car art” about Bournville residents’ outrage over a wrecked Mercedes on display outside the Bournville Centre for Visual Arts. The car references Crash, the novel by JG Ballard, and is part of an exhibition called Zodiac 3000 taking place at … [Read more…]
The Edge, “Birmingham’s first dedicated live and time-based arts venue”, wants to put the joy back into making art: Saturday Sesh is not networking, it’s not a series of seminars, it’s just a place for artists to meet, to share ideas and resources and to make things happen. All of which is highly laudable, so … [Read more…]
Sunday 27 April is the closing day of the Behind Closed Doors exhibition being held at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts. Over the past two years the organisers of this show have visited in excess of one hundred private art collections within the Birmingham postal district. Now, almost 40 paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints … [Read more…]
The next Pub Conversations conversation, where an artist and a guest of their choice discuss stuff in a pub, takes place on April 29th in the Lamp Tavern on Barford St. Melanie Carvalho and Ross Birrell are the speakers and there are usually questions from the audience. Free but spaces are limited so email selfservice … [Read more…]
Fused inform of an exhibition by local artist Gail Troth taking place at Three White Walls from April 24th – 3rd June. Is this truly a participatory Universe? Who makes up your world view are they the poets, writers, and philosophers who give us visions people gifted with some exceptional ability to sense and express … [Read more…]
These little images are rather tantalizing… Coinciding with her exhibition at Ikon, a stunning new series of works by Ruth Claxton will be shown at The Barber Institute of Fine Arts from 2 April – 6 July. Using postcards of works from the Barber’s permanent collection, Claxton has manipulated the top layer of the cards … [Read more…]