Written by Nicky Getgood on Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: chen shaoxiong, eastsideprojects, heather morrison, ink city, ivan morrison, Pete Ashton, thisisthegalleryandthegalleryismanythings
Eastside Projects launched last Friday with the new exhibition This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things. The European conflict map was an interesting idea, even if it did look like the police outline of a dead dinosaur’s body, and I really enjoyed Chen Shaoxiong’s Ink City films. But unusually no-one there was talking about the art, but the space housing it. It’s set to evolve over the next 9 weeks to house ‘a layered and complex gathering of artworks, events and processes’. The real highlight for me was the office space, the artwork Pleasure Island created by Heater & Ivan Morrison in this picture by Pete Ashton. It’s like a jagged, angular little house on the prairie and I’m very jealous of the people who get to work within it.
Written by Nicky Getgood on Thursday, September 11th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: artsfest, billdrummond, Birmingham Irish Club, Birmingham Irish Heritage Group, Birmingham St Patrick’s Festival, birminghamcitycouncil, clareedwards, Digbethisgood, eastsideprojects, fromthegroundup, gigbeth, graphiquillan, heathmilllane, irmingham Irish Community Forum, links, screenwm, thisisthegalleryandthegalleryismanythings, toblog
- ABOUT CLARE EDWARDS « Un-convention Blog – Meet Clare Edwards, Gigbeth’s highly qualified Director. More importantly, her favourite pie is also my choice: steak and ale (although I will stretch to beef and guinness). Great minds think alike.
- News from Eastside Projects « Fused Magazine – Eastside Projects on Heath Mill Lane opens on Fri 26th Sept 7-10pm with This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things with a lot of artists, including BILL DRUMMOND! I like him.
- Spaghetti Gazetti: Irish heritage and arts events at artsfest Birmingham – The Birmingham Irish Community Forum, Birmingham St Patrick’s Festival & Birmingham Irish Heritage Group are running events as part of Birmingham’s artsfest this weekend, mostly in the Birmingham Irish Club. Loads of great music and dancing.
- finding the creative needles in birmingham’s haystack – Graphiquillan, spurred on by Creative Republic this week, rants articulately about Birmingham City Council’s crap approach to creativity in Birmingham and begs for No Logo. A musician once told me that the Council agreed to fund their music video only if the Birmingham City Council appeared within it. Says it all really.
