Watch – Pencil on linen Jane Anderson is an multidisciplinary artist who frequently uses paint, pencil and digital-based media, to explore themes around identity. […] Jane has also run workshops in education & business settings for clients such as the BBC. She has curated several exhibtons to date and is a founder of Periscope (Birmingham … [Read more…]
Art Stalking Ana reports from the David Thomas opening night at Crowd 6 in Bearwood.
Not content with colonising Digbeth every summer the IKON is invading Erdington: As part of Birmingham City Council’s Arts Champion Scheme, artist Jacques Nimki has designed a range of brightly coloured banners that line Erdington’s High Street. The works feature wild fl owers that grow in the area, as observed by the artist on a … [Read more…]
Attention artists who like to work on a big canvas. Matt Scriven of Island Bar writes: “I would like to get a mural painted on one of the walls at island bar and wondered if you knew of any talented local artists out there who might be interested? I have a design for it already.” … [Read more…]
‘Ex-hibition’ explores a personality and investigates the transition of a relationship. The artist’s diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder indicates an inability to cope with rejection and states that frantic efforts will be made to avoid it. So what is going on in these paintings??? Tamar’s technique of using syringes to paint words in enamel has … [Read more…]
The Naked Portrait is “the first exhibition to focus on naked portraiture as a strand in the art of the last century” taking place at Compton Verney from 29 September to 9 December. Audiences Central have details of a press view on September 28th.
Midwest has details of a gallery launch at Crowd6 in Bearwood: Modern Traditions by David Thomas: Modern Traditions marks the first UK solo exhibition for David Thomas and contains part of a body of work made during a residency at VIS-A-VIS Art Lab in China over February & March 2007. This work was developed in … [Read more…]
Nikki Pugh is experimenting with call and return after seeing two YouTube videos playing next to each other and being “struck by the effect of having two narratives running side by side”.