Well I say I’m preparing, but realistically I’ve only spent a few hours putting small paintings and cards into cellophane bags. I really don’t know what people expect to see, so I’m playing safe and having a range of affordable […]
the tricky second post – these were the words that have been on my mind for several hours and they refer to the nature of writing the second post after the euphoria felt at actually getting the blog started a […]
I’ve been awarded the First Prize in the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Portrait Prize exhibition (sponsored by the GMC Trust). I couldn’t make along to the opening because of the train strike, and I missed the telephone call to […]
having mowed a lawn, i seek rest on a sofa and to begin to collate the happenings in my mind, as a means to try to understand and reconsile efforts of recent months that have yielded little. this blog is […]
from feeling stationary and isolated – an experimental research project considering isolation through adulthood play.
I’m reading four books at the moment: Object Lessons by Eavan Boland Dandelions by Thea Lenarduzzi Introducing Semiotics by Paul Cobley and Litza Jansz The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula k Le Guin And I’m also frequently […]
… and suddenly May is ending. In my mind it has only just begun. Flipping through my diary I can see what it feels like that. There’s always follow-up work to do after Supermarket, there was collecting my work from […]
Marcus began his TV Puppeering Career by successfully auditioning for Jim Henson’s Puppeteering for Television Workshop. In this series of videos Marcus uses Burt and CindyGal to return to the Puppet character into camera sketch format and see what 30 years later might evolve.
Exhibitions, festivals and events from a-n members, including Joy Gregory, Libby Heaney, Will Cruickshank and Jenny Steele.
Programmed by Black Curators Collective
Day 1 – Thursday 11 July 2024, 9.30am – 5.15pm: online via Zoom
Day 2 – Friday 12 July 2024, 10.30am – 4pm: online via Zoom
Day 3 – Saturday 13 July 2024, 11am–3pm: in-person at Sandwell Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, 48 Lodge Road, West Bromwich B70 8NY
For a-n members. Free to attend, booking required
Assembly Black Country: Black Box explores notions of access through ‘teach-in’ workshops, screenings and discussions with art workers from across the Black Country, an area with limited contemporary visual arts infrastructure.
Black Box refers to Black Curators Collective’s takeover of arts organisations and BCC’s approach to programming. Drawing on the notion and function of self-contained systems, it aims to protect ideas and labour by Black creatives from institutional co-option, dilution and tokenism.
Thursday 11 July 2024 – online, 9.30am–5.15pm: A series of ‘teach-in’ discussions, named in reference to legacies of protest, political expression and activism. Designed to be practical, participatory and action focused.
Friday 12 July 2024 – online, 10.30am–4pm: Through talks, panel discussions and workshops, we’ll explore the aesthetic, practical and theoretical ideas of ‘access’ in the Black Country’s cultural work.
Saturday 13 July 2024 – in-person, 11am–3pm: A tour of new artworks at Sandwell Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, in collaboration with Hospital Rooms.
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