Interesting looking show coming to the Custard Factory gallery in March. Featuring emerging as well as established artists, PLATFORM 01 is the first in a series of shows intended to give artists from the Midlands and surrounding areas a venue in which to display their work and to create connections between themselves, their art, and … [Read more…]
Logulogu. Lawrence Roper of the Studio 4 gallery and the Outcrowd Collective, has a weblog for his side projects and the like. Here’s a nice picture currently gracing the front page by Tsz. Attention is drwn using this to Electric Eskimo, a “secret side project, just for fun really, fairly lo-fi and analogue. My attempt … [Read more…]
BIAD has a new website and rather than just tell you that I thought it’d be nice to reproduce a few of the images from their gallery there. Sonia Poli – BA Visual Communication Helen Freeman – BA Fashion and Textiles Francesca Prowse – BA Visual Communication Hat tip to D’log
This year’s New Generation Arts Festival website appears to be a blog, which makes sense as the theme is Digital Utopia. If you sift through the hyperbole (“UK’s definitive platform for new, exciting talent” indeed) there’s some clues as to what’s happening. The topic of this year’s festival will be Digital Utopia, where the emphasis … [Read more…]
Rubina Bibi got in touch to say she’s looking for somewhere to exhibit her paintings in Birmingham. Since she’s got them online I’m only happy to oblige and spread the word. Here’s a couple: More here along with an email address.
Heralded as the New Black by Ryan Gander is currently exhibiting at the Ikon Gallery until March 24th. As an introduction to the show there’s a really nice 10 minute documentary interview with Gander that also shows the setting up of the exhibition. I also note he’s doing a performance related to the work at … [Read more…]
Simon Peplow has produced the 18th issue of Amok, “a series of zines produced purely to showcase the work of artists, illustrators and designers who’s work excites us.” Available here for £3.00.
This year’s Fierce Festival has something of an audience participation angle to it in that the public will decide what acts get put on. They’re calling it Wikifest. From the email: We have reserved a whole range of spaces at Birmingham Hippodrome, Patrick Centre and Warwick Arts Centre, from studios to conventional performance spaces, to … [Read more…]