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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Behind the Scenes | Photoshoot at Ikon
What’s the first rule of being an art blogger? You’re going to need a gallery-based profile pic. I’ve taken a lot of selfies since starting […]
Exhibition | Artist Colin Wilson turns still lifes sinister: ‘Memory of Touch’ at Argentea Gallery
The traditional still life takes a sinister turn in a new exhibition, called ‘Memory of Touch’, at Argentea Gallery in Birmingham. British photographer and artist […]
Richard Battye: ‘PROJECT’ | Performers & projection art photography
Richard Battye is one of Birmingham’s best photographers. His new series, ‘PROJECT’, sees him casting original photographs of the everyday onto the naked human body […]
Artist in focus | Tom Hicks: Black Country Type
Black Country Type is an ongoing photographic project by Tom Hicks. I first came across him on Instagram: like many artists Tom uses social media […]
Exhibition review | Philip Singleton: ‘Birmingham Dust’ at Argentea Gallery
‘If we turn concrete to dust, where do those memories go?’ – Christopher Beanland ‘Birmingham Dust’ captures a city changing, physically and culturally, amidst rapid […]
Art event | Reclaim Photography Festival | 3 May – 26 June
The third international Reclaim Photography Festival, Reclaiming Our Future, is coming back to the West Midlands from Thursday 3 May to Tuesday 26 June 2018. […]
Exhibition review | ‘Fertile Ground’: Nilupa Yasmin and Madeleine Muir | Argentea Gallery
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 […]
Artist in focus | Paul Biddle: ‘Rearranging Reality’
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 […]
Artist in focus | Jeremy Bournon: Journeys Into the Derbyshire Landscape
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. […]