Dion Kitson recently reached the news headlines, after it was revealed that he, not Banksy, was the artist responsible for the ‘Dorothy’ art work that suddenly appeared on a wall in Birmingham’s Gay Quarter. The work had been commissioned to be part of Joe Lycett’s ‘Late Night Lycett’ programme’s ‘fake news segment’, and had clearly had the desired effect, and had got people asking ‘Who is Dion Kitson?’. The answer is that he is a local Midlands artist, hailing from Dudley, and that you can currently see some of his most iconic pieces in a new exhibition ‘Rue Britannia’ which is currently on display at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery. Kitson’s work…

A truly fabulous exhibition is currently taking place in the Gas Hall of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Victorian Radicals is possibly the finest exhibition of the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, as well as works by  local contemporary artists. Birmingham has always had an enviable collection of Pre-Raphaelite art, with pieces by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Maddox Brown, as well as many pieces related to the exquisite designs of the William Morris studio. Now the collection has been carefully curated to create this stunning exhibition, one that should not be missed. The exhibition is wonderful in that it showcases objects across…