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Birmingham contemporary art exhibitions

Happy Birthday | Ikon Gallery turns 20!

ByRuth Millington 14/03/2018

Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery is turning 20! To celebrate, the gallery is opening its new exhibitions on 21st March, exactly 20 years to the day since the […]

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Exhibition review | ‘Fertile Ground’: Nilupa Yasmin and Madeleine Muir | Argentea Gallery

ByRuth Millington 21/01/2018

Currently on show at Birmingham’s Argentea Gallery is ‘Fertile Ground’. The exhibition features two young female artists from the Midlands – Nilupa Yasmin and Madeleine […]

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Art event | Belles Petite: ‘Because of you’ | 17 March 2018

ByRuth Millington 15/01/2018

Birmingham-based artist Claire Griffiths, aka Belles Petite, is holding a charity art event and exhibition at Zellig in Digbeth’s Custard Factory on Saturday 17th March. […]

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A Birmingham art blog is born

ByRuth Millington 12/12/2017

A little over a year ago I moved from London to Birmingham for a job at the University of Birmingham. I was not sure what […]

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Exhibition review | Edmund Clark: ‘In Place of Hate’ | Ikon Gallery

ByRuth Millington 08/12/2017

British artist Edmund Clark is Ikon Gallery’s artist-in-residence at Europe’s only entirely therapeutic prison, HMP Grendon. This immersive exhibition is the culmination of his residency, […]

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Artist in focus | Victor Rubin’s Poesie: ‘Figures of the Field’

ByRuth Millington 02/12/2017

Amongst an overgrown field of flowers and a horizonless landscape, a couple emerge: framed by a deep red sky, one face veiled, a partner’s hand […]

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Art explorer | Why I’m digging Digbeth

ByRuth Millington 17/11/2017

Why I’m digging Digbeth My first experience of Digbeth was one I won’t easily forget. ‘The performance is about to start’, a bearded curator told […]

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Best Birmingham exhibitions to visit this Autumn

ByRuth Millington 25/10/2017

I love Autumn: wrapping up in warm jumpers, drinking ridiculously flavoured lattes (yes, I know it’s not real coffee if it tastes like pumpkin) and […]

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Artist in focus | Paul Biddle: ‘Rearranging Reality’

ByRuth Millington 22/09/2017

Argentea Gallery’s latest exhibition is a cabinet of curiosities. Automata, dolls, swan sisters and hybrid creatures invite the viewer into the entrancing and mythical world […]

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Artist in focus | Jeremy Bournon: Journeys Into the Derbyshire Landscape

ByRuth Millington 27/08/2017

The Derbyshire landscape has long inspired artists and writers: there is ‘no finer county in England than Derbyshire’ declared Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice. […]

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Ruth Millington

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Art writing, curating & consulting