Heavy art books are crammed onto a tall bookcase in Tom Hicks’ Wolverhampton studio. More are stacked in neat piles on his desk, where his […]
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RBSA Gallery’s Annual Exhibition 2023
RBSA Gallery Birmingham
£20,000 brooch for sale in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter
“I love to show people where I work”, says Michele White as she leads me down the stairs to her workshop in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter. […]
Science fiction art at Eastside Projects
Down in Digbeth, I find myself in an alien world – part Punjabi village, part spaceship. Wolverhampton-based artist Sahjan Kooner has filled Eastside Projects with […]
Birmingham Cathedral’s Stained-Glass Surprise
Earlier this month, I donned a hard hat and high-vis jacket, climbed several steep ladders, and peered through scaffolding – all in the name of […]
‘Makers and Machines’ at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum
The City of a Thousand Trades, Birmingham is well known for its industrial past. Far less well known, however, is its history as a centre […]
Aston Hall: Is it haunted?
‘Do you believe in ghosts?’ a friend asked, when I told her I was joining one of Aston Hall’s night-time Ghost Tours. ‘No, not really’, […]
Birmingham Open Studios 2023
Birmingham Open Studios is back, and it’s bigger and better than ever before! This year, 169 artists are opening the doors to their studios which […]
Searching for Street Art in Birmingham
For last week’s blog post, I downloaded the beautifully illustrated Colmore Art Trail, designed by local artist Tom Woolley, and set off on a walking adventure […]
Pogus Caesar: Reframing the Handsworth Riots
38 years ago, Handsworth was inflamed with anger: cars were upturned, shops were burnt and looted, 35 people were either injured or hospitalised, and two […]