Art
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The West Midlands Open Art Exhibition At New Walsall Art Gallery
The West Midlands Open Art Exhibition at the New Walsall Art Gallery is a celebration of a wide range of artworks from artists across the West Midlands. Currently spread across floor 3 of the wonderful gallery, each of the 250 pieces have been especially curated for the exhibition, and are also available for sale at the end of the exhibition in September. The ambition of the Open is to exhibit artists from across the West Midlands, to showcase the talent from the region and to provide selling opportunities for artists. We are keen to present a diverse range of artworks that are representative of and relevant to our broad communities…
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Dream Palaces: Wonderland At Birmingham Museum And Art Gallery
The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery partially reopened it’s doors yesterday, hosting a series of pop up exhibitions. Amongst the offerings is Wonderland, a collaboration with the Flatpack Festival that is a showcase for Birmingham’s rich and varied cinema history. As an architecture nerd with a serious interest in old cinema’s, this was catnip for me, so I went along to have a closer look. The history of our cinema buildings is a story of modern times. Beginning in the early part of the 20th century, the first cinemas were often buildings converted from something else, old chapels, former vaudeville theatres etc. This period was supplanted by a period of…
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Twenty Twenty At The New Walsall Art Gallery
Twenty Twenty. 2020. A horror of a year. A horror story brought to life. A global pandemic hit, a lockdown ensued, families separated from loved ones for months on end, children not able to go to school, a work from home notice, panic buying in the supermarkets of everything from toilet rolls to pasta, Captain Tom Moore stealing the nation’s hearts, clapping for the NHS every Thursday night. It was a surreal time, a time of the most glorious spring weather we had seen in years, but a stay at home notice for all. No one will ever forget 2020. No one there will ever want to relive it.…
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Carlo Crivelli Shadows On The Sky At The Ikon
Carlo Crivelli was a renaissance painter who concerned himself with religious portraits and iconography. Living 15th Century Venice, he had to leave after being jailed for committing adultery. He then resided in the Marche region of Italy where he developed his craft as a painter of religious subjects. Now his work is having its first exhibition in the UK at Birmingham’s lovely Ikon Gallery, with works on loan from the likes of The National Gallery and The Vatican. The Exhibition, which is on until 29th May is made up of small panels, alter pieces and stand alone pieces of work. The works are stunning in their detail and use of…
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Daniel Lismore: Be Yourself, Everyone Else Is Already Taken At The Herbert
On Monday I took my first visit to the Herbert Gallery in Coventry. The reason for my visit was to see the much anticipated first exhibition by the Coventry born designer, artist and activist Daniel Lismore. Entitled ‘Be Yourself, Everyone else is taken’, this first exhibition features more than 50 life size sculptures modelled on Daniel, featuring his weird, wonderful, intricate designs, including designs worn by the likes of Naomi Campbell, and created for the English National Opera. The collection is split over many rooms, with one of the instillations taking inspiration from the Terracotta Army, whilst other rooms have theatrical designs, or work inspired heavily by Pop Art and…
