Tapestries, tiles, stained glass windows and famous typefaces have all been made in Birmingham. The city’s rich arts and crafts heritage has also inspired a […]
‘Inside the Playroom’ at Stryx Gallery
Green dinosaurs have disembarked in Birmingham, framed on the wall of Stryx Gallery’s innovative new exhibition, ‘Inside the Playroom.’ It’s a fun and colourful selling […]
Elizabeth & Stanhope Forbes: A Marriage of Art
Art history has been built on the myth of individual geniuses who have, according to the canon, worked tirelessly and alone in their studios. But […]
Su Richardson: ‘In Stitches’ at MAC
“Time was short, so we made little bits on the kitchen table”, says Su Richardson, who spent the 1970s juggling her creative practice with domestic […]
Alan Reullier: The Art Of A Second Life
At Birmingham’s RBSA Gallery, the region’s manufacturing history is being celebrated in a new exhibition of classic motor vehicle drawings, which have been reimagined as […]
Birmingham half marathon: a historic route
“You never regret a run”, I tell myself while pulling on my pair of muddy trainers. But what about 13 miles? I am feeling somewhat […]
Surreal Solihull: Bringing Surrealism’s Bird Woman Back to Life
Surrealism has arrived on the streets of Solihull. A new public realm exhibition, which I have curated, is celebrating the borough’s links to this strangest […]
Carolyn Blake: ‘Further Than Memory Can Reach’ exhibition at Winterbourne
The Nettlefold family has been brought back to life at Winterbourne House and Garden, thanks to an evocative new exhibition, ‘Further Than Memory Can Reach’. […]
‘Mothership’: Stryx Gallery exhibition celebrates artist-mothers’ creativity
For too long, women artists have been told they must choose between a successful career and motherhood. But a new exhibition at Birmingham’s Stryx Gallery […]
Curating art in the suburbs: ‘Surreal Solihull’
Surrealism is most associated with Salvador Dalí, who painted melting clocks and suspended a lobster on a telephone, calling it art. In 1936, a pioneering […]