I’ve still not popped in to see the Big Issue Hard Times exhibition yet. It’s only on the end of this week (30 September 2011 at St Martin-in-the-Bullring Church) so I’d probably best get my skates on.
Art
Tony Graffiti presents Keep Graffiti Real, Smoke Crack, Sign On… a graffiti exhibition at Green Street Arts. The exhibition launches on 14 October and will run through to 23 October.
Digbeth is Good says there’ll be…
…a house band, DJ Boogie Dave, Drop Beats Not Bombs along side DJ Rosko, as well as Emjay Ladie, DJ Punk N Ska with Justin Bond from Boogie Down Brum playing early rave and britpop.
…and I’m inclined to believe them.
I could never draw much more than a stick man on an Etch-a-Sketch but as part of The Big Draw, mac have been inviting people to show off their knob-twizzling skills and produce Etch-a-Sketch artwork for Re:sketch.
And the creativity hasn’t been restricted to the classic etch-a-sketch picture, as artists have been actively encouraged to paint and take apart their red framed tablets to create something new.
All of the artworks will be displayed in a public exhibition between 1-16 October and the deadline for submissions is 5pm, 27 September 2011, so there’s still time to get etching. For details on how to get involved, contact learning@macarts.co.uk.
Dean Melbourne‘s first solo show is now up at BryantPriestNewman. It’s on until December and you’re welcome to go check it out during office hours, just give them a shout first.
Chantal Powell and Martin Pickard have both blogged about this already, with the latter having some good photos from the installation. FAKE Magazine were at the launch and have pointed out Corinna Spencer’s photos from that.
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.
Something to get involved in if you live over Kings Norton, Longbridge, Weoley Castle or Northfield way. Here are some links:
No Aloha are next (and last, I think) to step up to the plate at anticurate, running at the mac from this evening (for the opening party) until 4 September.
(Via Radar Magazine)
BAZ are a semi-satirical ‘think-tank’ sporadically documenting the Birmingham Art World
I mentioned The Baz Top 20 Most Powerful People & Organisations in the Birmingham Art World thing a couple of years back. Little did I know they’d updated their website with some videos and a musical based on the Grants for the Arts application form. Barmy, but some of the videos made me laugh – I liked the one for The Lombard Method.
The Wig is:
A newly formed experimental art group in Birmingham, working initially with a “making do” philosophy. We’re looking for like minded artists to join our endeavour, please contact Sonya or Chris for details
That’s Sonya Russell-Saunders and Chris Clinton. They’ve got a space on Great Tindal Street that they opened up for a one-night showcase last Friday (flagged up by More Canals Than Venice).
Scribblefiti exhibition now at Urban Coffee Company in the Jewellery Quarter. More info at Area Magazine.
Short feature on Gareth Courage‘s exhibition at We Are Birmingham. Also covers the launch of First Fold Records‘ ‘Premier Pli’ magazine.
Includes interviews with Alex Bermingham, Gareth Courage and John Hanson.
The video’s been put together nicely by 144 who are just setting up by the looks of things. In the meantime have a look at their Vimeo profile. Their short Friendly Fire Band documentary is good too.
Creative Leap was a professional development programme (led by Sampad and The Drum) for new and emerging Birmingham-based artists that ran for roughly a year. It was ended in March this year and a review booklet/brochure landed on my desk the other day with information about everyone who took part.
Eleven individual artists and four small arts companies (twenty-eight artists in total) were selected to take part in Creative Leap. Over the course of the programme, these artists created and showcased fourteen new pieces of work including four dance performances, a multi-media theatre piece, two painting and photography exhibitions, a site-specific mixed media installation, an urban sculpture project, an environmental project, three films and a narrative drama told via animation and mixed media.
I spoke on this at the end of last year and was genuinely very impressed by the calibre of the artists on the programme and how they were being brought on. The review’s worth a flick through.
Harry Starling tweeted this earlier:
Birmingham artists wanted for guerilla art exhibition. Genuinely guerilla, more than you would imagine! DM me…
Intriguing.
Extra Special People is Eastside Projects’ Associates Programme. All these people are members. They have a blog for posting information about what their members are doing. That’s good.
