Artstalking Ana reports on Wunderkammer which opened on Wednesday at BIAD with a live performance, which I’ll let Ana describe: David Miller and Edward Wakefield were lying inside perspex cabinets as characters drawn from when they were students at Margaret Street. Ed was lying in state, with audio playing (unfortunately you couldn’t hear this very … [Read more…]
The first of Harry Palmer’s £1 art commissions is this video work by Simon Raven: “Edited sound and footage of a performance in which a Tibetan singing bowl is played on the ‘The Universe’ big wheel ride in Nottingham.” “We are in awe and jubilation!” says Harry, and I’d concur. Wow! More about the scheme … [Read more…]
The website for the New Generation Arts festival has been launched, complementing their blogs nicely (although, if I might be picky, the link from the site doesn’t take you to the right blogs page – sort it out please). As you’d expect there’s a diary of the events taking place over the fortnight along with … [Read more…]
JamFactory aka Gavin Strange is a brilliant designer from Bristol, but he’s launching his new vinyl toy collection, Droplet, here in Brum which gives me a good excuse to write about him here! I first discovered JamFactory on Flickr, I think after one of his ‘Free Art Friday‘ pics showed up in Flickr’s interesting pages … [Read more…]
Omneity is an exhibition by three aspiring up and coming local artists, Sophie O’Conner, Natalie Randle and Jenny Mann, “dedicated to vast aspects within nature, varying from intense individual brush strokes made up into delicate flowers, dark forests conveying its depth using an array of media and story expressive landscapes that suggest the ferociousness of … [Read more…]
This year’s New Generation Arts festival, run by BCU across the city, is being blogged right on the main website, which is nice to see. Along with general news it’s split into four categories with a dedicated blogger for each one: Creative Writing (Mike Morrison) Music (Steve Shaw) Interactive (Chris Unitt) Visual Arts (Danny Smith)
Missed this at the Ikon Eastside party last year but it’s in the running for Fierce. Here’s a sample video: via aboutmyarea B13
Paul Conneally and Nikki Pugh’s Invigilator: Digbeth took place on Saturday. This is the fifth in the Invigilator series where a single set of directions has been transposed onto different locations to determine the exact place for watching over; we can choose our significant starting points, but then a pre-determined sequence of lefts, rights and … [Read more…]