James Crockford went to the Master Photography Awards and walked away with a few more prizes than he expected: Mario Acerboni Creative Wedding Award – West Midlands Mario Acerboni Creative Wedding Award – overall MPA Architectural Photographer of the Year MPA Commercial Photographer of the Year Overall Best UK Image Cap duly doffed. Here’s the … [Read more…]
The BP Portrait Award 2011 is on at Wolverhampton Art Gallery until the end of the month. The one above is Little Sister by Tim Okamura.
Moseley Exchange are exhibiting work by Hoakser in a show called GRAFFITI VS ART from 19 October to 19 November (with the opening on 18 Oct). Meanwhile, 6/8 Kafe have got work by Golden Boy, Lisk Bot and Miss150 adorning their walls until 19 November.
Clarendon. An occasionally Birmingham-ish photo Tumblr CMYKern v2 New look for the design/print/illustration blog All new hippo show From Chu: “It documents the beginnings of Walsall Youth Arts, who I ended up working for during the start of my painting career”. You’ve got to watch this Construction Manager – Here’s the twist “The huge concrete … [Read more…]
Hello Culture is a one day conference with a series of keynotes, panels and workshops exploring how those in the cultural sector can work with digital technology to improve their audience development, organisational operating process, raise their profile and collaborate across the digital sector and with new partners to develop and innovate new cultural product … [Read more…]
Birmingham Conservatoire are offering ‘tricks and treats for everyone’ at their Composer’s Platform Halloween Special. If dinner and theatre’s your thing The Kitchen Garden Cafe is offering Fright Bites with Don’t Go into The Cellar Theatre Company. On the filmic side, The Electric are showing Ghostbusters and at the MAC you can see Nosferatu with a live score … [Read more…]
I’ve no idea who The Print Rack are (so don’t take this as a personal endorsement, necessarily) but they’re apparently after artists, printmakers and producers of handmade cards to sell through their (soon to launch) website. They’re based somewhere around Birmingham too.
The last one was good. Lots to see and lots to do, so go discover on The Event website. Or read on for some blurb: Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum is delighted to announce it will be hosting The Event’s third bi-annual visual art festival from 21 – 30 October 2011 from their galleries, studio spaces … [Read more…]