Written by Nicky Getgood on Monday, April 27th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: custardfactory, Digbethisgood, links, studio4gallery, toblog
STUDIO4 GALLERY: Beat 13/Lucy Mclauchlan – The Studio 4 Gallery blog has sprung back into action, with some lovely pics of Lucy Mclauchlan prints they have in stock, a link to The Framers website and promises of new exhibitions on their way.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Friday, September 26th, 2008 ( 3 responses )
Tags: abstractedge, birminghampost, custardfactory, Digbethisgood, eastsideprojects, edingburghfringe, gigbeth, ikoneastside, links, peteashton, sarapreisler, studio4gallery, terrygrimley, thebond, theedge, toblog, Vivid
The two things I decided to link to today made me think that’s Digbeth’s feel for the day:
Eastside Projects gallery launches tonight – I’m planning on going to the launch of this “artist-run space as public gallery and incubator of new ideas” later. But what really grabbed me about the Custard Factory blog’s link to it was the last paragraph:
‘Lets see now. Along with Vivid, Ikon Eastside, The Edge, Studio4, Sara Preisler and the Custard Factory’s own gallery space that brings the number of Art venues in this area up to seven. Unless I’ve missed any. And I know of at least couple more in the pipeline waiting to be signed off, not to mention a massive international touring show looking to land in one of the warehouses nearby. Future’s looking good.’
There is a high and growing concentration of art spaces and galleries in what’s quite a small area. It reminded me of Birmingham Post’s Arts Editor Terry Grimley’s speech at the launch of Abstract Edge at The Bond. He said that Digbeth was being labelled a ‘creative quarter’ back in 1998 and now, after after 10 years “with The Bond and The Custard Factory lapping at each others heels”, he feels we’re finally getting there.
This is in fact the reason Digbeth is Good was born – Pete Ashton felt this hive of activity should be documented and from the amount of time I spend on this blog, I feel like the local creative community just keeps growing and growing. Let’s just hope Mr Elephant’s fears of this developer-friendly trend alienating the older industrial community aren’t realised.
And then I read that Gigbeth is aiming to be bigger than the Edinburgh Fringe. From today’s interweb trawl I feel like Digbeth is optimistic and ambitious when pessimism reigns over the rest of the UK, which is a nice feeling on a sunny Friday afternoon.
In fact, it makes me feel good enough to try and fit in my canal bike ride between now and the Eastside Projects launch, which I’ll hopefully see you at later!
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
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- Lizzy Piffany Digbeth Lost Heritage Project – Liz’ pictures of the project on her Myspace account. In her words, “A group of protesters squatted the Kingfield Heath building on Bradford Street for a weekend in April, took loads of piccies, made a bit of art and generally got very excited about the whole idea of free space for all.” Apparently the owners are planning to flatten it and build a new road right through the middle of it, with luxury apartments on either side. How original.
- Custard Factory « Inspiraculum – Melinda Schwakhofer’s visit to the Custard Factory, featuring some great pictures of Fragile Design’s stock and a vintage Lambretta. The tiny Birmingham Forward jug she bought from the Sunday Flea was actually part of a pair with a tiny chamber pot, which I bought for Jon Bounds. A case of seeing it and thinking of him.
- A Creative Director for Birmingham? – God knows how Creative Republic last night passed me by, but it did. Lucky for me Stef Lewandowski, who stepped in for a poorly bad Michael Wolff, has blogged it. His Birmingham Ambient Creativity Audit, which tells us ‘Don’t Venture Into Digbeth’, is hilarious. Dave Harte’s also done a round-up: Birmingham – The Uncreative City.
- CMYKern – Studio 4 gallery – CMYKern’s take on the gallery in The Custard Factory, with some cool photos. There’s also a post about Ikon Eastside and James Langdon’s promotional material for the gallery.
- You can’t win a raffle without buying a ticket | Birmingham: It’s Not Shit – The Eccentric City newspaper Auction and International Prize Draw is on Tuesday 23rd September 2008, 7.30pm in the Anchor Pub, Digbeth. ‘A cross between Ebay and a CarBoot’, sell and buy items to raise money for the emotional newspaper and enter the raffle to win a page of newspaper to do with as you will.
- The Hearing Aid’s Rogue States review from the gig in The Rainbow on Monday. Support acts were The Likely Lads and This Beautiful Thief.
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