Last Thursday saw the opening of ‘New Art West Midlands’ exhibition, showcasing new work from the best graduates across the area. It was designed as a celebration of innovation, embracing the spectrum of artistic media and presentation, providing a platform for emerging, and recently graduated artists. Themes of class, gender, identity, site-specific responses, urban spaces … Continue reading New Art in the West Midlands: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Sensing Spaces – Architecture at the Royal Academy
‘For me, architecture is primarily about people, about asking questions such as: who is the user? What is going to happen here? How can I respond to the users’ needs?’ Diébédo Francis Kéré Following on from my last post – describing the interventions of two Parisian architects, helping the local populace interact with and re-claim … Continue reading Sensing Spaces – Architecture at the Royal Academy
Co-Producing the City: Social Activism through Gardening!
ESP Trade Talks: AAA Do you feel part of the economy? Do you feel part of the city? These are the two questions which drive architects Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou. At last night’s talk, they introduced a Birmingham audience to ‘Eco-Box’ and ‘R-Urban’; two Parisian architectural and social projects designed as ‘bottom-up urban development … Continue reading Co-Producing the City: Social Activism through Gardening!
This is all owned by you – Exploring Bristol Library
To celebrate 400 years of Bristol libraries, and to coincide with national libraries day, Bristol Central Library hosted a ‘behind the scenes’ tour at their beautiful building on College Green. Rusty Squid’s animatronic ‘Book Hive’ (discussed in previous post, ABC: Art, Books and Curious Cats) was still fluttering, shimmering and swarming in the entrance foyer, … Continue reading This is all owned by you – Exploring Bristol Library
THE BRIEF IS ALWAYS WRONG – Artist talks at Arnolfini
'Design and Use' at Arnolfini. Yesterday, Wednesday 5th February, Arnolfini hosted the first of their Art and Design talks for the new year - 'Design and Use'. The panel consisted of Jeremy Hutchison, a London based artist who 'designs situations that interrupt the circulation of objects through industrial production and consumer ideology', and Emily Pethick, … Continue reading THE BRIEF IS ALWAYS WRONG – Artist talks at Arnolfini
Make, Share, Mobilise! – Turning Point West Midlands
Midwest to Midville: repositioning the visual arts in the Midlands This Monday saw the thoroughly enjoyable, thought provoking and inspiring symposium, ‘Midwest to Midville’ held at Birmingham’s IKON Gallery, co-hosted by ‘Turning Point West Midlands’. It was an especially encouraging day and unusually for a large event, there was a real community, collaborative atmosphere. It … Continue reading Make, Share, Mobilise! – Turning Point West Midlands
A B C: art, books and curious cats
Yesterday morning, on a whim of curiosity, my boyfriend and I attended the 'I am making art' morning at Spike Island - with Howling Owl Records. This was the first time, in a very long time, that I have put pen/charcoal/paint/rollers to paper, and it was a lot of fun. The aim was to get … Continue reading A B C: art, books and curious cats
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