News reaches me of the artists who’s work will be in the new Cadbury building in Bournville. Jo Naden will create a bronze sculpture based on the form of a cocoa seed pod, drawing on the rich history of the plant as a “food of the godsâ€. Eryka Issak’s large scale glass sculpture will quite … [Read more…]
The website for this year’s Fierce Festival is up and given the open nature of the “Wikifest” it gives out shedloads of info about how it’s all going to work. Go read!
Grabbed from the VIVID site because they don’t have a linkable archive for this stuff yet. Singlescreen: Performance On 27 February 2008 VIVID opens Singlescreen: Performance, the pilot programme towards a new strand which focuses on presenting contemporary moving image work for screen. Performance is a changing programme of single screen installations which features seminal … [Read more…]
Following on from the Bristol Street Subway, Harry Palmer’s next Site of Social Special Interest is Spencer House by the now demolished Digbeth Coach Station. The launch of this year long show (subject to demolition) is at 12 noon on Thursday 21st Feb. I highly recommend you try to attend.
The website for Public Gallery, to be housed within West Brom’s The Public building, has gone online signaling the first sign of life for this long troubled project. The building will finally open this summer and, thanks as ever to D’log’s pointers, I’ve been looking into what’s going to happen there. The best resource currently … [Read more…]
Illustrator Ben Javens has a weblog. via TAK but I’m sure I’ve seen his name before…
Step is the art show currently running at Crowd6 in Bearwood. Charlie Levine will be curating the first three shows in her Step series, an ongoing exploration of the ideal way to present art. The show takes a strong standpoint on the perfect way to see a piece of art, and there are a few … [Read more…]
Harry Palmer reports on his first Site of Social Special Interest, the underpass on Bristol Street blogged about here. It’s a long report but well worth reading. I think I finally really get where he’s coming from with this. An excerpt: In February 2007, I travelled on a new route in the city, cycling from … [Read more…]