Throughout history, artists have depicted the uncanny – from gothic mansions and unsettling figures to dark landscapes you wouldn’t want to be left alone in. […]
Geometric Art Ideas for Beginners
Geometric art’s blend of creativity and mathematics is visible everywhere, from street art to home décor. With its focus on symmetry, precision and repetition, geometric […]
Birmingham Royal Ballet stages The Lunar Society’s female history
By the light of the full moon, between 1765 and 1813, the Lunar Society would meet monthly at Handsworth’s Soho House. Its members included Birmingham’s […]
Wood Engraving: Where Art Meets Technology
Wood engraving has a rich history, dating back centuries as a tool for printing and illustration. Over time, it has evolved, remaining a crucial method […]
How classical artists conceal secret meanings in their masterpieces
Art has always been about more than what you see on the surface. Classical creators had a knack for embedding secret meanings and stories into […]
Festival of Voices at Birmingham Cathedral
Birmingham’s writers and spoken word artists are being inspired by some of the city’s greatest treasures: the recently restored stained-glass windows at the Cathedral. On […]
Into the woods with Louise Bourgeois at Compton Verney
Warwickshire’s Compton Verney has been taken over by giant spiders, swinging figurative sculptures and fluid flower paintings. They are among 40 works being exhibited as […]
‘JOY…Inspired By Nature’ at Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
Standing beneath a canopy of giant green textile leaves and enormous pink flowers with glitter ball centres, I feel like Alice in Wonderland. In fact, […]
Barber Institute of Art reopens with contemporary vision
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts is back, after almost a year of closure for refurbishment work. With anticipation, I stepped through the Art Deco […]
A creative day inspired by the Birmingham Qur’an
Before artists applied paint from tubes, they created pigments from the natural world. Plants, flowers and rocks inspired the colour palettes and materials they used […]