Craftspace Craft Collective | Created in Birmingham – News that Craftspace will be in the Custard Factory’s Vaad Gallery on Saturday 23rd January, 12-6pm with a ‘Craft Collective event aimed at encouraging young people from inner-city Birmingham to develop their interest in craft.’ Craftspace say the project will ‘focus on ideas of guerrilla craft, DIY Craft and Craftivism’, which isn’t how I traditionally think of craft activities because I’m an old fuddy-duddy, so I’m guessing it’s a nice and fresh approach.
The substandard pics I took are in the slideshow above. It was so much fun, especially when we thought up the idea for a Destroyers calendar – tasteful yet sexy shots of the Destroyers boys with strategically placed instruments. Fiona got started with shooting Mr September:
Destroyers Mr September by Katchooo
Lovely. Then we made our way to The Custard Factory, where art supplies shop The Bench were celebrating their 7th birthday with some sort of graffiti-athon thing.
Unfortunately some paint ended up in the pool, which meant murky waters for the cardboard coracle race in Sunday’s Digbeth O’Lympics. The Bench are recent additions to The Custard Factory, where they’ve been for a couple of months after moving from Quinton.
Before heading home I had a another look around Inkygoodness’ Wonderland exhibition in the Vaad Gallery.
inkygoodness « More Canals than Venice – On 12th – 27th September inkygoodness will be showcasing the work of new illustrators, artists and designers at the Custard Factory.
For their show Wonderland, the creations of 30 international illustrators, artists and image-makers will be on display at Vaad Gallery in the Custard Factory. The artworks will include wall murals, drawings, plush toys, installations and framed prints by some of the hottest emerging talents working in the industry today.
The show is open daily and is free! The launch night is on 11th September from 6.30-9.30pm and will feature DJs & live music.
The Custard Factory – Nancy Hart & Gerard Finegan present: “Being There” @ The Vaad Gallery in August ‘ 09 – Being There is an exhibition which combines artwork from two very different artists – US artist Nancy Hart presenting her new collection of drawings from her recent visit to Italy and Gerard L Finegan from Birmingham is premiering a retrospective collection of photographs taken from around the world Australia, USA, Cuba, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Italy, Ireland and Great Britain over the last 20 years.
Opening reception is on Tuesday 4th August. The exhibition is 5th to 9th August 2009 at 10.30 am to 6pm (Sunday 10.30am to 1pm).
Here’s some pics I took at the launch of the Arts All Over the Place two-week residency in the Custard Factory’s Vaad Gallery, which is on until Thursday 16th July 2009.
Arts All Over the Place – BSMHFT – Arts All Over The Place is ‘A packed programme of events, which have been organised with particular attention to being accessible for people who experience mental distress…’
They’ll be in starting a two-week residency in the Custard Factory’s Vaad Gallery from tomorrow, Thursday 2nd July to Thursday 16th July 2009. There’ll be an arts exhibition, arts workshops and live entertainment, including:
VIP PREVIEW PARTY on Thursday 2nd July 2009 ~ 3.30pm – 6.00pm (By exclusive invite only)
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Friday 3rd July to Thursday 16th July 2009
CHILDREN’S ART DAYS on Sunday 12th July and Monday 13th July – family-friendly printmaking workshops with artist Jackie Rankin, presented by CRAFTCARE to celebrate the national Children’s Art Week event.
GRAND FINALE on Wednesday 15th July 2009 – boosted by BRAINSTORM
The Mono exhibition launched in the Custard Factory’s Vaad Gallery on Thursday evening – local photographers Scott Cartwright, John Edwards and David Hall’s group show concentrating on monochrome imagery.
Cartwright’s ‘found’ images were very interesting. The old photos, which were never developed by those who took them but left in their cameras for Cartwright to resurrect, all seemed to have been taken 50’s America and had some strange quirks in the old, damaged film (such as a pair of faint legs coming down over the heads of smiling family).
However, I was found myself more taken with the huge cameras used to take more recent images than the actual photos. They looked like something from the late 1800’s rather than a current camera.
