Festival of Imagination begins Wednesday 5th February at Selfridges Birmingham. There is a programme of events containing further information including the times/dates of the various events that will be hosted at Selfridges over the next few weeks. If you’d like to attend any of the talks or events then you need to email FOIBirmingham@selfridges.co.uk to book a place. … [Read more…]
‘BABEL is an ongoing series of collages, paintings, digital prints, cards, books, boxes and installations, all derived from Stewart Brown’s experiments with ‘visual language’. This new iteration of the series is displayed alongside the influences and inspirations Brown has encountered during his time as an academic at the University of Birmingham and his travels through … [Read more…]
The RBSA (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists) is calling for entries for its Birmingham Today Competition. As part of a year of celebration, the subsequent exhibition aims to raise the profile of contemporary Birmingham and its artistic talent. The exhibition seeks to celebrate Birmingham in all its aspects: topographical, cultural, sporting, culinary, political and social. … [Read more…]
A whole host of arts organisations across Birmingham are involved in Get into Creative Employment Birmingham 2014. If you’re aged 16-24, interested in getting a job in the arts then pop along to their fair on Saturday 25th January. The drop-in event is being held at the Birmingham REP, and is on 10am-1pm. There … [Read more…]
There’s a new exhibition on at Moseley Exchange – Bethan Lloyd ‘Attention Seeker’ – excerpt from PR here: Bethan Lloyd is a Conceptual Textiles Artist and recent BCU Graduate with First Class BA (hons) Fine Art. Bethan’s work utilises people’s personal accounts of their experiences with mental illnesses to create emotionally charged Textile Installations. In her most recent work, text is embroidered onto a … [Read more…]
Way back in October last year we mentioned Art Box was coming to Birmingham early this year. Well, that time has come! The festival starts today (Friday 17th) with the opening of an exhibition of street photography by Castro, at Yorks Bakery Cafe. There are several events dotted around the city centre over the duration of … [Read more…]
Just taking a moment really to celebrate the achievements of mosaic artist Caroline Jariwala. After reading an interview with Caroline on welovebearwood.com I wanted to get involved with the mosaic bug. (You can see her here on the artist line up! #9!) Caroline Jariwala creates beautiful mosaics and even from briefly looking at … [Read more…]
Launching Saturday 11th January 2013, made at mac features recent work from the Introductions to Art Techniques course, led by artists tutor Helen Tarr. made at mac: From the Inside explores the interior of the mac – participants were encouraged to make large drawings combining usual perspectives of the building, created with mixed media … [Read more…]