Mapping The Landscape is the:
Day to day blog of Artist Paul Hirst as he creates new work on his art residency at the Bond in Birmingham
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is a series of inspiring working sessions for ANY visual artists, photographers, writers, poets, musicians, filmmakers and any other creatives! Factory Nights is not a discussion event, seminar or workshop. Factory Nights are free sessions that simply provide an opportunity for creative people to come together in an interesting venue and supportive environment to make work or initiate ideas
The organisers are Rednile Projects and they’ve put out a call for “artists and anyone creative” for the next one:
Factory Night @ The Historic JA Crabtree & Co. Ltd. Factory (now the characterful Lyndon House Hotel), on Thursday 16th February 2012, 6-8pm . In collaboration with Multistory and The Crabtree Society
Or, more accurately, Google Maps in Eastside Projects. You can now use Google Maps to take a tour around the gallery and their Painting Show.
I’d seen the Google Art Project and I knew they’d started mapping inside shopping centres, airports and comic shops but I didn’t know they were doing anything in the UK. Fancy that.
This looks like an interesting one:
a show in which we make work in direct competition with other artists on topics chosen at random, both selected by an impartial curator Charlie Levine
There’s a preview show from 5pm - 7pm on Thursday 26 January at Colmore Plaza. For more info head to:
- The Aedas Presents blog
- Sparrow+Castice‘s website
From The Hubb on Twitter:
#soulinthemachine Khyle raja drawing upon @thehubb1 walls pic.twitter.com/KuSs6jxr
That’s for an exhibition called Soul in the Machine that’s opening tomorrow.
This one’s kinda brilliant. Fierce Festival are looking for 60 dachsunds from around the West Mids to take part in one of the projects featuring in next year’s festival:
Bennett Miller’s ‘Dachshund U.N.’ is a replica of the former United Nations office in Geneva which will hold a meeting of the Commission of Human Rights. Each of the 47 nations will be represented by a dachshund. The piece is a ‘playful and often chaotic comment on the aspirations of the Commission of Human Rights, and our capacity as humans to imagine and achieve a universal system of justice.’
Watch the video. I’m very much looking forward to this happening.
If you want your dog to get involved then More Canals Than Venice has the contact details.
VIVID is inviting people from Birmingham to take part in a collective recitation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with artist Monica Ross. Take this chance to learn a small part of the Declaration of Human Rights and recite it in public, in your own language, as part of this unique performance.
More detail and contact info is available via Vivid’s Facebook page.
There’s even more info about the project on Monica Ross’s website.
Lee Basford‘s series of nine sculptures, titled The Process of Being Human, has been exhibited at SCOPE Miami. Today’s the last day of the show, so pop in if you’re in the area.
Harun Morrison (half of Fierce Festival) is also half of They Are Here and Their Wonderlands (which is at the MAC from 26 November) is
an international group exhibition, curated by multi-disciplinary collective They Are Here. Contemporary artists have been drawn together to explore the space given to make-believe and folklore in post-industrial 21st century European society.
The pic above is The Wind Can Always Turn by Susanne Ludwig.
At the same time The Event was on a few weeks back, there was another exhibition called EGO going on in Minerva Works. The next instalment, EGO 2, launches on 18 November.
Curated by Robert E.V. Walsh, featuring work by Paul Newman, James Fowkes, Chris Clinton, Alexi K and Robert EV Walsh with guest artists Zarina Keyani, Kevin Ryan, Nita Walters and Mark Carroll.
In no particular order…
Getting to wander around Curzon Street Station (although there’s some good stuff in there, I have to admit I was excited enough about the building itself), finally making it over to The Lombard Method, Simon Faithfull’s window piece at Grand Union, meeting the guys behind BAZ (and Athletico Tortured Artists), Crowd 6‘s exhibition and all sorts of other bits and pieces.
Not that it was all my cup of tea, necessarily, but then that’s all part of the fun too. Charlie Levine’s written a post of her own about what’s going on – she’s got pictures.
The Event is on until 30 October. If you don’t know your way round (and even if you do) it’s worth joining one of the guided tours.
The BP Portrait Award 2011 is on at Wolverhampton Art Gallery until the end of the month.
The one above is Little Sister by Tim Okamura.
I’ve no idea who The Print Rack are (so don’t take this as a personal endorsement, necessarily) but they’re apparently after artists, printmakers and producers of handmade cards to sell through their (soon to launch) website. They’re based somewhere around Birmingham too.
The last one was good. Lots to see and lots to do, so go discover on The Event website. Or read on for some blurb:
Birmingham Contemporary Art Forum is delighted to announce it will be hosting The Event’s third bi-annual visual art festival from 21 – 30 October 2011 from their galleries, studio spaces and empty buildings in various locations in and around Eastside, Birmingham’s creative quarter in Digbeth.
Groups presenting works in The Event 2011 are: AAS, An Endless Supply, Companis, Crowd 6, Eastside Projects, Grand Union, The Lombard Method, SLICE and TROVE.
Vivid are part way through:
an experimental season of sonics, moving image, installation and construction stimulated by the vision of J.G. Ballard.
I quite like that image above. It’s from Kibwe Tavares‘ Robots of Brixton.
Not part of that, but also coming up soon at Vivid, is Trevor Pitt’s Bang Bang:
the final in a trilogy of explosive art-parties-cum-club-nights curated by Trevor Pitt and played out at VIVID
With DJ sets from mini moderns, Brian Duffy, Mazzy (Chicks Dig Jerks) and THIS IS TMRW and experimental performance installations from Joey Vivo and Roseanna Velin, Vincent Gould, John Napier and Aby Duffty. That’s on 12 November.
