Those that were wondering about Aldi’s involvement with Aerosolarabic‘s graffiti mural (mentioned here the other day) that overlooks the Aldi car park on the Stratford Road now have an answer. To quote the artist: Aldi are not keen on the Feed the Poor mural, as it overlooks their car park, and they feel its not … [Read more…]
Arts All Over The Place is a festival of arts for mental health. A month-long programme of events kicked off on 7 June and runs through until 10 July. The festival is organised by The Creatives Network for the Arts and Health, enabled by the Social Inclusion team of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust. … [Read more…]
Big Picture Workshop at Birmingham’s Rag Market ‘Artists Faye Claridge and Helen Berrow will have a stall near the Market Customer Centre in the indoor market, on Tues 17 June to give you lots of photo tips and take pictures with you – or of you!’ It’s a free event, drop in between 12.30 and … [Read more…]
An exhibition currently running at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery showcases the photography of Pogus Caesar, one of Birmingham’s most important visual artists. The exhibition, That Beautiful Thing, features 43 photographs selected from a portfolio that runs into several thousands taken over a 20 year period both in the UK and abroad. Putting the breadth and … [Read more…]
Graffiti artist Mohammed Ali started work on this mural in the car park of Aldi on the Stratford Road, Sparkhill today and will be back down there at about 12pm tomorrow to finish it off. This is a message for all the traffic that mounts along this busy road, as well as all the buses. … [Read more…]
We’ve reached the halfway point of the Midlands’ street sounds/art festival but there’s plenty left to come in Birmingham: Scratch Club, hosted by Sonny Jim, is at The Yardbird on 17 June (free) My Love For Hip Hop is a hip hop poetry event at The Drum on 19 June (£5) Jazzanova and Eska Mtungwazi … [Read more…]
I feel a bit daft for not mentioning this earlier because it finishes tomorrow (Sunday 15 June). Behind Closed Doors were given an area of rough ground just behind the Custard Factory and on it they’ve installed a couple of shipping containers and (in my prosaic language) done something arty. In their (more betterer) words … [Read more…]
Suzie Webb has gone independent after working for some time in commercial interactive design (which I think broadly means website design). Her about page has a pretty impressive list of clients, work, recognition and the like and she describes herself thusly: I’m a design practitioner as well as a director, I make identity, animation, illustration, … [Read more…]