The picture above is Boundary II by Barbara Walker. Looking at it on screen really doesn’t do it justice though and I wholeheartedly recommend you go along to Birmingham Seen at BMAG to see it nice and big.
It’s a great exhibition with a fair few highlights – the early photography of the city is absorbing, the Derek Fairbrother timelapse is morbidly fascinating with few sticking around to watch it a second time and the 1940’s (?) plans for the city’s civic area were .
I also loved the paintings by Paul Hill, a long-time Castle Vale resident. Unfortunately it’s tricky finding any decent examples of his work online. I also liked Michelle Lord‘s work, including this titled Ultimate City #1:
So yes, get along and see it if you can. It’s at the Gas Hall until 3 Jan.
Me mum’s coming up this wkend so going to go and see this with her. There’s a BMAG tour of Bham People & Places at 2.30pm this Sat. Meet in the Round Room.
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[…] There is currently an exhibition of Birmingham-focused photography at the museum called ‘Birmingham Seen’. The exhibition looks at how Birmingham artists and photographers have portrayed the city over the years and features some magnificent insights into how the city used to look, and might have looked. Chris Unitt wrote this blogpost about the exhibition this week over on Created in Birmingham. […]
Agreed. Visited last Friday and thought it was a brilliant exhibition.