Founded in 2010, Grand Union is a studio provider and project space that supports artistic and curatorial development in Digbeth, Birmingham. This profile includes a video, recorded at Assembly Birmingham, in which director Cheryl Jones introduces the organisation and shares its current strategy for securing a permanent home.
Stryx is a studio, project and exhibition space which forms part of the flourishing artist-led ecology in Digbeth, Birmingham. This profile includes two videos, recorded at Assembly Birmingham, of founder and co-director Karolina Korupczynska introducing the organisation and discussing the challenges of delivering a sustainable project on limited resources.
The Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art is an artist-led platform that aims to bring critically engaged, high quality contemporary visual art to the city and surrounding area. This profile includes two videos, recorded at Assembly Birmingham, in which founder and artistic director Ryan Hughes introduces the organisation and describes its ambitious journey.
A personal and professional journey exploring visual languages of theatre set design and researching the theatre set designer Tanya Moiseiwitsch
The Draw to Perform residency programme for Drawing Performance practice. What does the program offer? The D2P Residency program is a unique opportunity for new and developing professional artists and art students to engage in the dynamic artistic discipline of drawing performance […]
A community for Drawing Performance
Magnum & BJP Workshop 2: NGO’s, Social Practice & Advocacy The day started with all the workshop participants sharing their work for 3 minutes, quickly explaining their background and their expectations of the weekend. There were a mix of professional […]
This conversation discuss the project ‘Doodle Walks,’ how it came about, its relation to ideas of belonging and dislocation, and how experimenting with digital media has changed my artistic practice.
I spent the summer making moulds, printing 3D objects and cutting foam. I decided that, as well as making the hand grips from start to finish, I wanted to see what happened if I used different materials as well as […]
To prepare for the residency, I decided to get one of my hand pieces made and to go and see the process. Paul Kennedy Studio, a wonderful small foundry in Shropshire took me through everything so I was clear what […]
In June I was excited to judge the Royal Society of Sculptors bronze award supported by Milwyn Art Foundry. This prize is given to a graduating student from the RA, provides 3-6 month space and support at the foundry, £3000 […]
The Scottish Sculpture Workshop is an amazing place in the North of Scotland, which provides artists with the rare combination of being able to both think and make. It is set is a small village next to the Cairngorms, a […]
The Kingdom of Benin has a long tradition of bronze casting which has been passed down and still exists today. This video shows the process.
Bronze is an alloy made up of 80% – 96% copper. To this are added other materials such as zinc, phosphor, silicon depending on the properties required.
The mould, clay, registration and pouring hole for the wax. The silicon – smoothed with washing up liquid. Plaster The waxes, out of the silicon mould, ready to clean upCups and sprues added and the first coat of ceramic shell […]
I have resisted bronze until now, worrying about the weight of history it carries and the fact it is so often overused – an automatic ‘go-to’ to add perceived value, whether or not the material is appropriate or needed. But […]
Plain bronze colour is pale pink to yellow, depending on the type of bronze used. A patina is simply a dye or chemical reaction added, with heat, to the surface to change the colour. It is then sealed with a […]
I wanted to cast a sim card as part of my thinking about data and how the objects and memory is stored. A bit tricky but one worked.
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The current artistic director and CEO of Arts Catalyst replaces Mike Stubbs, who stood down in September after 11 years at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology.
A light installation has been installed in critical care which creates an ambient light effect. It starts the day with a sunrise and changes throughout the day, ending in the warm light of sunset. This has received very positive responses […]
