‘Changing Places, Changing Faces’ opens at Sauce Gallery‘s new residency in the Art Bar, on 5 November until 2 December, with a preview night on 4 November from 6pm – 9pm.

The exhibition will showcase a collection of large scale installations by Juice 126, Mac 1, Remi/ Rough, Sola and Zoot.

The artist will be transforming the Sauce Gallery from floor to ceiling, expect to see large scale installation work, in a range of disciplines from abstract to Dada, projection to animation, photorealism to light art.

There will also be a small selection of original works, limited edition prints and books by these artists available to buy along with an interactive area showing short films, pod casts and graphic animations.

Sauce Gallery is open Monday – Saturday from 10am – 6pm.

The Art Bar is a new venture opened by the Q-Club, based in the Methodist Central Hall on Corporation Street. Hosted by The Sauce Gallery, the Art Bar will hold monthly exhibitions, open daily from 12 midday til late for visitors to pop in and browse art work while relaxing with a drink.

With newly refurbished bar areas, events spaces, a restored grand entrance and even newly decorated toilets, Central Hall has finally got the loving touch it craved- without losing any of it’s original splendour and identity.

The first exhibition to be featured is ‘Headz’, is a 20 year collection of musicians photographed by Pete Williams. This article on Birmingham Mail explains a bit more about The Art Bar.

This launches at 1pm today over at the Custard Factory’s Sauce Gallery with a talk and music from Digby Fairweather [insert joke about weather remaining fair here].

From Peter Williams:

a powerful exhibition of portraiture that features nu-generation playas like DJ Shadow, Reprazent, Sizzla, Soweto Kinch, Courtney Pine and Cassandra Wilson alongside legends like Don Cherry, McCoy Tyner, Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Randy Weston, Steve Reid, Nina Simone and Miles Davis – horn at the ready, floating in the air like an eerie apparition

And not only, but:

Following on from the hugely successful Swifty Pop Shop which opened at the Sauce gallery at the end of 2009,  have invited Swifty to contribute to Headz! As the former creative director of Straight No Chaser, Swifty has long worked with Peter Williams imagery.

More info via Punch Records.

The next one to add to that list is the Meeting of Minds exhibition (also mentioned on Best Believe) which is the next up in the series of really rather excellent exhibitions at the Sauce Gallery.

This one brings together a bunch of people I’ve heard of (Lucy McLauchlan, Mac 1, Matt Watkins, Gavin Campbell) and a bunch I’m as yet ignorant of (Andy Tattoo, Glenn Anderson, Jon Paul Hollinsworth, Kevin Kafesu, Guy Carlos, Kosmic Neil, Lisa Travers, Richard Coldicott, Skank, Stuart Styles, Tony Graffiti and Victor TX).

The launch party will be on Thursday 24 June from 5pm at the Sauce Gallery (Custard Factory).

Punch are doing another one of their pop-up shops – the Swifty one was great and this next one looks pretty ace too. For those that don’t know:

His work has become synonymous with new music and club culture, working alongside the most prominent musicians of the last decade, includingChase & Status, Amp Fiddler, Bugz in the Attic, Nitin Sawhney, Ziggy Marley, Howie B and many others.

In addition, Mitch has worked on many special projects, live paints and collaborations with other artists: 55 Roots for 55 DSL (live paint and group art show with Dragon and Shibuya from Japan), Bacardi brand development (with Mode 2) and Blak Twang/We Love You album projects with Banksy.

It’ll be at the Sauce Gallery at the Custard Factory from 10 April 2010.