Lizz is an illustrator from Birmingham who likes black tea, knitting and cats. She works in a similar way to other illustrators, such as Sarah Ray and James Nash, creating personal small press comics and working with others to produce animation. All three illustrators exhibited their wares at the Alternative Press Fair in London last … [Read more…]
Snow in B29. The Flickr group: B29 will be tracking and rating the incoming snow via twitter over the next week, and gathering any photographs taken within the postcode. Desk space for rent at the Fierce Earth office. The Fierce Earth office have a desk for rent in a prime city centre location for a … [Read more…]
trying to arrange a british tumblr meetup Substrakt’s Tom Martin would like to organise a British tumblr meet-up. If you work for any sort of digital agency in the city/region then it’d be worth getting in touch and lending him a hand Screen WM Acronym Glossary (SAG) Might be of use to someone (this is … [Read more…]
Prime Objective Blog :: Victor Man Documentary For the Ikon’s latest show Chris Keenan spent a few days “filming the installation down at Ikon and discussing Victor’s work with curator Nigel Prince. The edited video is now live on the Ikon site to aid a greater understanding of the work” I like this sort of … [Read more…]
On Wednesday 26 November a free bus will travel between three of the city’s galleries – the Ikon (which will feature Harminder Singh Judge‘s new exhibition), the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and the RBSA Gallery. There’ll be free guided tours of the exhibitions. Here’s the bus timetable: On the evening the Ikon Shop will … [Read more…]
I’ve just had an email from a journalist writing an article on art in Birmingham. She says: While I will be looking at galleries such as RBSA and Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery I would also like to look at something less conventional such as street art and something with a more independent edge The … [Read more…]
Capsule Blog – Think Antiques roadshow for fans of Metal The next stops on the Home of Metal tour are Wolves Art Gallery (25 Oct), New Art Gallery Walsall (6 Nov with performance by Einstellung) and Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (7 Feb) I Have Clones A musician who’s just moved back to Birmingham (to … [Read more…]
I’ve been feeling a bit off-colour the past couple of days, so apols for the lack of decent posting. If anything’s going to raise my spirits it’s the prospect of a sodding great whale and a huge robot both turning up in the city. It’s like Power Rangers or something. The former comes courtesy of … [Read more…]