Junc at Jibbering

Vamos Bien is an exhibition by Junc at the Jibbering Records Gallery in Moseley. Here’s the private view invite. And there’s some blurb on Whatoninbrum: If you’re into UK hip hop, you’ll be no stranger to Junc’s slick design work. As part of the illustration team responsible for animating the thought provoking Braintax music video, … [Read more…]

Captioned Pictures at the Library

Picked up a rather strange looking flyer the other day for an exhibition at the Central Library called More Captioned Pictures by Robert Geoghegan. It’s on the 3rd floor in the Arts and Lit dept and runs until the end of the month.

Click for Art Winter Show

ClickforArt.com are holding their first Birmingham show in the run up to Xmas. It is with great pleasure we announce our next show at 100 Holloway Head, Birmingham. Running for three consecutive weekends from 22 November until 9 December. Opening Friday, Saturday & Sunday of each weekend. We will be transforming an old furniture salesroom … [Read more…]

Lewes’ Gilded Mountain

Lewes Herriot has been consistently uploading art to his Dark Inventory blog for months now and deserves another mention. This one’s title’s The Gilded Mountain: His artwork is for sale and he welcomes inquiries for bespoke design for album sleeve, book cover design and posters.

Pub Conversations on Studio Space

[Please note: Now taking place at Vivid due to high demand] After a short break the Pub Conversations at the Lamp Tavern return on Tuesday 4th December, 7.30pm. Nikki Pugh has the details. In December, after a six month stay of execution, Birmingham Artists will lose the subsidy for their studios at Lee Bank. This … [Read more…]

A £1m stepping stone

An interesting development in the plans for a new gallery of contemporary art for Birmingham reported here way back in January. A consortium composed of the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Ikon Gallery and Walsall’s New Art Gallery have won £1 million “to spend jointly on contemporary international art over the next five years” reports … [Read more…]

Graphic Auteurs

The Graphic Auteur – Expressive Graphic Design is a show at the BIAD Department of Art on Margaret St curated by David Osbaldestin and Paul Slocombe. The Graphic Auteur presents a diverse range of creative approaches and graphic responses, to contemporary graphic design and politics. Through a series of personal issue-based communications and expressive graphic … [Read more…]

Tatzu Nishi’s Chandelier

One of the nice things about Ikon Eastside was how the artists were encouraged to work with the surrounding environment using found scrap metal or making wine from canal-side plants. While the Eastside project has ended for the year it’s good to see there’s still work being done that interacts with the city rather then … [Read more…]