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New Street Station hoardings

Chris Unitt — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:26:32 +0000

I wandered down Hill Street a few weeks back and, looking one of the hoardings, said “huh, that looks like it’s by Sola“. And so it is. From Laura McNamara‘s website:

As part of Regenerated in conjunction with Network Rail; Remi/Rough, Juice126, Zoot, Julian Kimmings and Sola were asked to create large scale artworks to be displayed on Hill Street, Birmingham.

To coincide with the building of the new New Street station, the artists were asked to create works based on the themes of Regeneration, Reflection and Movement.

Please excuse the poor iPhone photography. The hoardings will be up for 18 months in total though, so chances are you’ll wander past them at some point.

Changing Places, Changing Faces

Alex Jones — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:49:44 +0000

‘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 Forward mural

Chris Unitt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:25:42 +0000

Here’s some info about the ‘Forward’ mural that adorns the building next to the Heath Mill Lane car park in Digbeth:

The wall has been painted as part of an exhibition we are putting on. We have invaded B.J. Components a small factory that produces hand made parts for classic motorcycles, we have used materials provided by them and have created 1 piece each based on the theme of Birminghams industry, typography and product design. These pieces have then been donated to and displayed within B.J. Components (the show has no commercial value at all)

Which is modest of them. ‘Them’ being Newso, Juice 126 and Zoot (whose photo it is).

The exhibition was called Forward and was at the Wild Building from 5-8 November (flyer here) but the mural remains.

(Hat-tip – hmm, I can’t remember where I saw this first now, so I’ll credit Brumblr)