DEATHTRIPPING at The Garage, Birmingham

DEATHTRIPPING 18 – 19 February The Garage presents… DEATHTRIPPING – a festival of trash film and performance curated by Bernadette Louise. The programme features seminal video works from experimental filmmakers Nick Zedd and Richard Kern alongside live performance from the legendary Lydia Lunch. Presented across two days (18-19 February), DEATHTRIPPING journeys into the radical manifesto of the...

Postcards From Japan: A Message From Tohoku Artists at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Postcards From Japan – A Message From Tohoku Artists 15 February – 22 April 2012 Ikon presents Postcards From Japan – A Message From Tohoku Artists, an exhibition marking the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit north east Japan on 11 March 2011. In the aftermath of the disaster, electronic means of communication largely failed, making the use of landlines, mobile phones and...

Sarah Browne: How to Use Fool’s Gold at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Sarah Browne How to Use Fool’s Gold 15 February – 22 April 2012 Ikon presents How to Use Fool’s Gold, the first UK solo exhibition of works by Dublin-based artist Sarah Browne. Browne uses ‘the economy’ as the basis for her practice, a metaphor for contemporary politics. Often working with small communities of people, she reflects and documents such resourceful forms of exchange as gifting, subsistence,...

Hamish Fulton at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Hamish Fulton 15 February – 22 April 2012 This exhibition, a major collaboration between Ikon and Turner Contemporary, Margate is the first museum show for British artist Hamish Fulton (b. 1946, London) since his retrospective at Tate Britain in 2002. Fulton describes himself as a ‘walking artist’, with his work joining the two separate disciplines of walking and art. In 1973, having walked over 1000 miles...

Daria Martin: Sensorium Tests at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes

Daria Martin: Sensorium Tests 20 January – 8 April 2012 Daria Martin’s first survey exhibition in a UK public gallery presents a selection of short 16mm films made over the last 10 years, including the premier of an ambitious new work, Sensorium Tests. Throughout this period, Martin has pursued a sustained enquiry into numerous pressing issues relating to film, art and culture, including enchantment, voyeurs and...

Leo Fitzmaurice You Try to Tell Me but I Never Listen at The New Art Gallery Walsall

The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to present a new commission by British artist Leo Fitzmaurice. This site-specific installation has been created in response to the architecture of the gallery’s stunning Floor 4 Gallery. Leo Fitzmaurice collects, edits and re-presents the visual noise that forms part and parcel of 21st century life. For his solo exhibition at The New Art Gallery Walsall, he will transform...

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts: Court on Canvas-Tennis in Art

The first exhibition to explore lawn tennis as a subject in art is to be held at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts this summer. Court on Canvas: Tennis in Art opens at the University of Birmingham-based gallery on 27 May, less than half a mile from the birthplace of the modern game – the garden of a villa in suburban Edgbaston, where the sport was first played. The first exhibition to explore lawn tennis as a...

Alan Harding-Artist working with analogue photography

Alan Harding (b.1989). Young British artist working in many areas of visual art. ‘As an artist, I am drawn to the surreal or unusual, preferring to examine areas of human life which are barely tangible, or even fictional. My work often creates questions about humans as a whole, and our intentions as we interact with the world around us. My preferred medium is analogue photography, which I favour due to the...

Lewis Chamberlain at The Drawing Gallery

An exhibition in association with James Hyman Gallery Lewis Chamberlain is celebrated for his hyper-realistic pencil drawings which can take as much as four years to complete, and for his incredibly detailed paintings often of childrens toys in domestic interiors. Lewis Chamberlain – Recent Drawings 6 November – 18 December 2010. Wed – Sat 12 – 5pm & by appointment The Drawing...