Editorial

Media

05.07.19

Socio-Economic Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts: A Toolkit for Employers

Fair access to working in the arts remains one of the most urgent issues facing the sector today, with those from lower socio-economic backgrounds still vastly underrepresented amongst the artists and employees of UK theatres, festivals, galleries and arts organisations of all kinds.

Jerwood Arts and the Bridge Group have joined forces for this Toolkit with a mission to look to the future: to support long-term change across the arts sector by sharing knowledge, providing expert support, and encouraging take-up of an intersectional approach to equality, diversity and inclusion. – via Jerwood Arts

Interview

24.05.19

Interview with Ryan Kearney: The Club’s Conception (or How the Egg Was Cracked)

The Club’s Conception (or How the Egg Was Cracked), currently on show at Recent Activity in Digbeth, retraces the demolished past venues of Birmingham’s The Nightingale Club, the city’s longest-running queer space. In collaboration with those who attended its three preceding venues, Ryan Kearney and Intervention Architecture map these spaces from recollections, replacing absent photographs and creating an archival presence.

We talked to Ryan about the exhibition.

News

22.05.19

Blast! – a festival of photography, talks and walks

Blast! is a new festival from Multistory made with and for the people of Sandwell which runs from Friday 24 May to Saturday 29 June.

The festival has invited 40 outstanding artists, photographers and curators to showcase work, develop projects and collaborate with communities to present stories about everyday life. With exhibitions, film screenings, events, talks and walks across Sandwell, Blast! will be presented on the streets, the Metro line, in shops, libraries and pubs, on historic buildings and in the community halls and venues of Sandwell.
Ort Gallery. Image credit: Marcin Sz

News

12.04.19

Ort Gallery selected to be part of GUILD programme

Ort Gallery in Birmingham is one of 20 artist-led spaces up and down the country selected to be part of East Street Arts’ four-year GUILD programme.

The programme will explore new approaches to business modelling, to embed groups within their localities and advocate their impact on social and political environments. It will seek to address the challenges faced by these groups, such as limited funding, resource and their tendency to experience burnout.

News

11.03.19

Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre’s Sculpture Production Award 2019

Supported by New Art West Midlands, the Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre inaugural Sculpture Production Award 2019 is open to emerging artists working in 3D, based within the UK but outside of London. The Award will provide six sculptors with skills mentoring and a £1,000 production grant towards the realisation of a new work. One of the six artists will also be invited to exhibit at the Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art 2019.

04.07.18

Walking Over Coals

Friction Arts’ CPPPD (continuing personal, practice and professional development) programme for emerging, post-emerging and submerging artists of all disciplines, ages and backgrounds. Over the course of a year a diverse group of arts practitioners will work together to make new, risk-taking work and create a group show from the ground up – including fundraising, developing and managing the project, while working with each other and a wide range of professionals from across the artistic spectrum.

Engine Travel

14.06.18

Laurie Ramsell reports on his trip to Edinburgh, developing a greater knowledge of bioart communities working within the UK

Exploring what it means to be human, Laurie Ramsell’s cross-disciplinary practice investigates themes of the perceived natural and unnatural experience through the use of biological material, often using his own body. In our latest round of opportunities Ramsell was awarded an Engine Micro Bursary to visit ASCUS Art & Science in Edinburgh to develop a greater knowledge of bioart communities working within the UK. He reports back on his trip.

Interview

01.06.18

Eastside Projects reopening: “A lot of positives have come out of what at first seemed a very bad situation”

Last June, Birmingham-based Eastside Projects unexpectedly closed its gallery space, with rumours circulating as to the reasons why. In this piece for a-n, Director Gavin Wade speaks to Jack Hutchinson about the real reasons for the closure, how it highlighted the support for Eastside Projects from Birmingham’s art scene and the organisation’s plans for the future.

Media

08.05.17

The estate agents marketing Stoke-on-Trent to Londoners

Over the last week Londoners were offered the chance to swap one Stoke for another as part of a project to attract more creative professionals to the Potteries. It involved transforming an arts centre in London’s Stoke Newington into an estate agents in order to promote a range of Stoke-on-Trent-based properties. Organisers wanted to show people how they could avoid the high costs of living in the capital city by moving to North Staffordshire instead.

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