Guardian

Judy Watson review – pain and persecution in a lush and stunning landscape

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/mar/05/judy-watson-review-pain-and-persecution-in-a-lush-and-stunning-landscape

The artist’s great great grandmother escaped a massacre by hiding underwater and breathing through reeds. Such astonishing stories of Indigenous Australian experience feed into this beautiful show that packs a punch. Hannah Clugston reviews Judy Watson at Ikon – via The Guardian

Arts bodies threatened with funding cuts over lack of diversity

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/feb/18/arts-bodies-threatened-with-funding-cuts-over-lack-of-diversity

Arts Council England figures show BME and disabled people under-represented in sector – via the Guardian

Sonia Boyce first black woman to represent Britain at Venice Biennale

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/feb/12/sonia-boyce-first-black-woman-artist-represent-great-britain-venice-biennale

The artist Sonia Boyce has been chosen to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale – the first black woman to do so. Her work will fill the UK pavilion from May until November next year. Boyce is one of the leading artists of the British Black Arts Movement and studied at Stourbridge College in the 1980s – via the Guardian

Lindsey Mendick featured

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/feb/07/charlotte-perkins-gilman-yellow-wallpaper-strangeness-classic-short-story-exhibition

Lindsey Mendick, whose work is currently on show at Eastside Projects in solo exhibition ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, is featured by Kathryn Hughes – via the Guardian

Fierce festival review – a daring whirl of theatrical thrills

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/oct/21/fierce-festival-review-birmingham?fbclid=IwAR2gYZdT12oL4O923UPUNsgp32igJPDn5P1j__P6cDTcKa0xMiwmhLc8nU4

Gareth Llŷr Evans reviews Fierce Festival, Birmingham’s long standing programme of live art and events – via The Guardian

The culture cure: how prescription art is lifting people out of depression

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/31/upside-denmark-culture-mental-health-singing-theatre?fbclid=IwAR2lPF2XfLO-jx-ADcJWt452Tne_bRHrIOi5Aq4s-pJfVGqa_sPZ6sKp0a0

From singing together to being read to in a library, an arts participation scheme is transforming lives in Denmark. Helen Russell reports – via The Guardian

One hell of a city: how Birmingham embraced its heavy metal legacy

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jun/23/birmingham-heavy-metal-history-embraced-black-sabbath-one-hell-of-a-city

Vanessa Thorpe reports on Home of Metal, a series of exhibitions and events taking place across multiple West Midlands galleries – via The Observer