Written by Nicky Getgood on Friday, December 4th, 2009 ( One response )
Tags: links, newso, streetart, thebench, toblog
The Bench 504 Birminghams graffiti store: DIGBETH GRAFFITI – Looks like The Bench 504 may be becoming the blog for all things Digbeth street art. Here’s some nice photos of Digbeth Graffiti
Written by Nicky Getgood on Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: chrisunitt, createdinbirmingham, custardfactory, forward, heathmilllane, juice126, links, newso, toblog, zoot
Photo by Zoot
The Forward mural | Created in Birmingham – Chris Unitt gets the low-down on the Forward mural that’s appeared in the Custard Factory car park on Heath Mill Lane by Newso, Juice 126 and Zoot for the Forward art exhibition in November.
Written by Nicky Getgood on Friday, November 6th, 2009 ( One response )
Tags: forward, juice 126, laura mcnamara, newso, rob elliot, wild building, zoot
This seems to be something that’s going on alongside The Event in The Wild Building on Floodgate Street. Here’s the blurb sent to me by organiser Laura McNamara:
Working with BJ Components, a manufacturing company based in Digbeth, artists have produced works that celebrate Birmingham’s role as a manufacturing centre, often using products produced by BJ Components as the base for their works. The work that these artists have produced for Forward will be displayed in and donated to B J Components.
Birmingham’s Coat of Arms depicts industry and arts standing alongside each other, with Forward as the motto. Nowhere else in Birmingham depicts this better than Digbeth. The area around Digbeth was the first centre of industry in Birmingham and became one of the most heavily industrialised areas in the city and remains an industrial hub even today. Although the larger companies such as Typhoo Tea and Bird’s Custard have long since moved out of Digbeth, hundreds of small independent industrial companies still remain.
Walking or driving through Digbeth, it is not obvious what or whom is behind the shutters of these industrial units. They are not open to the public and the artwork produced for Forward will also not be on view to the public. The only way that the viewer is made aware of Forward is through video documentation of the exhibition, which will be aired in the Loading Bay of The Wild Building, Digbeth between 12 and 4pm from the 5th – 8th of November.
Written by Nicky Getgood on Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: fistup, newso, streetart
Newso’s ‘Fistup’ will no doubt look familiar, they’re all over Digbeth. There’s a massive one attached to the gates of the Kingfield Heath building at the top of Bradford Street. Well, now you can own your very own copy printed on elephant poo paper:
Newso, has launched a limited edition three colour screen print of his trademark fist design. Printed on elephant poo paper, it’s also one of the eco-friendliest pieces of artwork available to buy this spring!
The run of just 20 prints will be released Thursday 19 March at 6pm and are available direct from the artist on contact@newso.co.uk and through two contemporary art websites, Jibbering Art and Subism.
Written by Nicky Getgood on Saturday, February 14th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: birminghamstreetart, Digbethisgood, links, newso, toblog, youtube
YouTube – BIRMINGHAM STREETART PART 6 – Sixth video in the Birmingham Street Art series on YouTube. Tempo’s Ballhead stickers and Newso’s fist feature heavilly.
Written by Nicky Getgood on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 ( 3 responses )
Tags: Birmingham City Council, newso
Here’s a Birmingham City Council maintenance guy painting over the last of the prolific tagging on the wall I posted about here. I asked how long it will last before it’s covered with tags again and his guesstimate was a couple of hours to a couple of days. Anyone who wants to paint a pretty, tag-proof mural on this wall like Newso needs to convince the good people at the city council, which I’m sure will be a simple and straightforward process.
Written by Nicky Getgood on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: andrewhemmings, blogactionday, bvsc, cmykern, Digbethisgood, eastsidecityfarm, fazeleystreet, fazeleystudios, hemminac, jibbering, links, newso, nickbooth, plus+, PlusInternationalDesignFestival, podnosh, shambala, streetart, toblog, youtube
Written by Nicky Getgood on Saturday, October 11th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: floodgatest, jibbering, newso, shambala, tommohogan, wildbuilding, yrwall
yrWall at Bristol Festival 2008 from XD.Nitro on Vimeo.
On Thursday evening I went to Jibbering’s Shambala Art Exhibition at the Wild Building on Floodgate Street. It was a great ligging opportunity with widely-advertised FREE BEER, although you’d have to have been a heartless soul not to donate something when all profits were going to the Banunule School for Orphans, Kampala, Uganda & Malawi Education Project, Malawi.
I felt a lot more relaxed than I normally do at these art launch events, probably because it didn’t feel as self-consciously uptight as most. There were crowds of people chilling out in the back yard and the only hint of officiousness was the pretty girls with clipboards taking bids for the art pieces.
But I must admit to getting a lot more excited by the YrWall in a side room than I did about the artwork. It’s like a giant telly screen you use a spray can topped with an infa-red light to graffitti over, or in the designer Tommo Hogan’s own words:
‘YrWall is a new and exciting interactive drawing tool where users create images on a large wall using a modified spray paint can. The can contains no paint, only a button and an infrared light which is tracked using a computer and a camera. A digital palette is provided on the left side of the wall which enables the user to work with digital paint, images and animated clips.’
It’s loads of fun and according to my new friend graffiti artist Newso, pretty close to the real thing. It’s been doing the festival rounds this year and has been really successful. I can see why, when users can email themselves their creations to come home to festival souvenirs in their inbox, which they can forward at will. ‘This email will have a link to the YrWall website, from which t-shirts featuring their design, with the option to include your festival logo, can be ordered.’ This guy’s a genius.
The Shambala Exhibition remains on display in the Wild Building until this Friday 17th October, open 10.30am-6.30pm.
Written by Nicky Getgood on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: floodgate street, jibbering, newso, shambala, wild building
Well, I simply had to stop and talk to this man once I saw his T-shirt (vintage shop purchase, apparently). And I’m very glad I did – turns out he’s one of the artists in Jibbering’s Shambala Art Exhibition that’s launching in the Wild Building, 104 Floodgate St tomorrow evening. A cunningly disguised Newso is standing next to his artwork, which isn’t in the gallery but on the outside wall opposite. He plans to decorate a lot more walls and public spaces in Digbeth, with their owners’ permission, naturally. Catch the rest of his and other artists’ work from 7pm tomorrow.
Birmingham Post: Digbeth articles We Are Eastside – arts and culture
