#brumpics

[joanneemmsart]

Mind the gap..

New Street Station, Birmingham

[platform58]

#SUPPORTARTISTS Reposted from @paula_gabb Delighted that I have handed over, #New #comission at the weekend #painting of @thebcag Birmingham Contemporary Art Gallery by @thenia #oilpainting 60x80cm canvas please go along when it's back open & view my new #collection as well they're will be having #exhibition of #photos showing the #city during #isolation must be seen. #gallery #artcollector #birmingham #loveart #myart #passionate about my city #love to capture my city on canvas #vistbirmingham #brumpics #brumbloggers #brumart https://www.instagram.com/p/CAVD1_pJU75/?igshid=e31pkc1yau9s

[brummiephotography]

#brumpic #brumcanals #birminghamlife #birminghamcanals #blackandwhite #monochrome #bhamcanals #bhamphotography (at Birmingham, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYmd5oQj9yz/?utm_medium=tumblr

[littlepictureco]

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot

[archilovers]

ARCADE 📷: @imranscope . . . #igersbirmingham #bhamgram #birmingham #ilovebrum #birminghamlife #ichoosebirmingham #bbcmtd #igersuk #weallshootphotos #brumpic #ukpotd #capturingbritain #snapseed #archilovers #architecture #gloriousbritain #lines #perspectives #photocollage #layoutappforinstagram #design #symmetry

[roxyburger]

“Spaghetti Junction” motorway postcard, Birmingham. Picture: Brumpic

[gina1892]

Victoria Square, Birmingham, England ☺️👌🏻🇬🇧 #EHD_16 #Birmingham #BirminghamUK #England #unitedkingdom🇬🇧 #thisisbham #brumpics #birminghamlife #victoriasquare #ig_uk #igersengland #igersbritain #ig_britain #capturingbritain #photosofbritain #britains_talent #photosofengland #mybritain #mytravelgram #instatravel #travelphotography #wanderlust #travelmemories #traveladdict #loves_united_kingdom #icu_britain (at Victoria Square, Birmingham)

[jon-darling]

Sign @SirTonyBerry petition: Have BBC Midlands today and all regional BBC news available in HDhttps://t.co/GREEmLuX0g pic.twitter.com/cABBlkALnz

— Brumpic (@Brumpic) March 12, 2021

[rowanwhittington]

Contextual Studies lecture with Ally Standing

Ally Standing - Lecturer in Contextual Studies at School of Visual Communication

- Taking notes is crucial, helps cement information in your mind and form connected ideas and arguments 

- Engage with appropriate sources, think independently and critically, articulate ideas in verbal and written forms. 

Psychogeography 

- Critical urban walking, “how places feel”

- It is an academic and artistic crossover lying somewhere between cartography, art, geography, psychology, social history and urban aesthetics.

- Term comes from 1955 but the practice stretches back much further

- “The study of precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals.” - Guy Debord, 1955, An Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography

- “A whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities... just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape.” - Joseph Hart, 2004, A New Way of Walking

Standing’s work with Birmingham’s iconic landmarks

King Kong statue 1972, Birmingham Manzoni Gardens 

For 6 months in 1972 the statue was exhibited in Manzoni Gardens in Birmingham as part of national competition for young artists, with the chosen sculptures being distributed to major UK cities. It was met with divided opinions and a campaign for it to be taken down. The city council decided not to purchase it after the exhibition and it got sold to King Kong Car Co by Five Ways. The statue was then sold to a market in Edinburgh and painted pink, before finally ending up in a car park in Penrith. It has since been re-exhibited in Leeds.

Standing used the Birmingham Library archives to further research ‘The Manzoni Monster’ and create art around it, including a window display for Selfridges in 2015. 

When I went to further research ‘the Manzoni Monster’, I found I was using an article written by Standing for Brumpic -  https://www.brumpic.com/manzoni-monster-ally-standing . 

Birmingham Central Library

Birmingham Central Library was opened in 1974 and was the main city library until 2013, whereupon it was replaced by the Library of Birmingham and demolished in 2016. It was built by John Madlin, a Birmingham based architect, in the brutalist style as part of an ambitious new development project by Birmingham City Council. The project ran out of money mid way through building, leaving the original utopian haven to become “just piss soaked concrete.” It became a homeless hotspot and the original stilt-like structure was covered up by glass panels and turned into shop units. 

The building gained architectural praise for being an icon of British brutalism, however Birmingham City Council blocked the building from being listed by English Heritage twice until 2016, when it was demolished. Between 2010 and 2011 it was the second-most visited library in England, seeing 1,197,350 visitors that year. 

I find this story particularly interesting as despite growing up with my mother in Norfolk, I was born in Birmingham and lived here until I was four. My father and two half siblings remained in the city, meaning I would visit multiple times a year but was never particularly involved with the city and its history. I find this perspective of Birmingham fascinating, as it is both home and entirely alien to me, a key point in why I moved here for university. Although artistically I find it hard to connect with architecture, I found this part of Standing’s lecture especially interesting because I remember driving past the building site for the Library of Birmingham every time I visited, with each journey seeing it closer and closer to completion, and yet I always (and still do) thought it was hideous. It became a joke with my father every time about how ugly the circular rings and bold colour choice on the outside were. Although I don’t remember the Central Library, it captivates me how crucial Birmingham’s libraries have been to my childhood memories and how landmarks of the city have such personal connections to my life. 

Spaghetti Junction

Standing wanted to do a collaborative piece about Gravely Hill Interchange (Spaghetti Junction) but struggled to find a contextual link. Along with her collaborator for the project, Bruno Grilo, she began speaking to a man under the junction one day when walking there and had a conversation with him about the area. He had moved there 40 years prior to the closest house to the roads, and could see and hear the cars constantly. He decided to make a sanctuary for himself by planting a rainforest in his front garden, aptly naming it ‘The Land of Green Silences’.

https://www.allystanding.com/land-of-green-silences

Own creative practice

- What do you really care about?

- How do you want it to function?

- What do you want to find out?

Create with PURPOSE.

Critical thinking

Critical thinking is defined as “the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement.”

Everything which has been designed or made reveals/conceals many different contexts and stories.

Use podcasts and videos to research:

- Intelligence Squared

- 21st Century Mythologies

- BBC World Service - The Documentary 

- BBC Radio 3 - Arts and Ideas

- TED talks

- Abstract: The Art of Design and Explained on Netflix

[100viewsofbrum]

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This is my print ‘Library Reflected’. Right at the end of the printing process on this one, there is a rather fiddly series of key blocks that show the library reflection. It is a bit of a tense moment because a lot of time goes into getting the print to this point and making sure that the eight small engraved plates are all inked and registered correctly is no mean feat with slightly wobbly hands. Anyway this one is just what I’m after. #10 in the edition, i will list it for sale later today on my website £150 unframed with free P&P. #birminghamlibrary #birminghamrep #get_imprinted #imprinted_vids #reflection #visitbirmingham #hellobrum #ilovebrum #brumpic #birminghamlife #brumlife #printmaker #reliefprintmaking #birminghamart #viewsofbirmingham #inkonblock #justprintmaking #printmakersofinstagram #printmakingstudio #engraving #keyblock https://www.instagram.com/p/BxwpD2djn4-/?igshid=1syc8bjydoi4r

[joanneemmsart]

Instagram- @joanneemmsart - @birminghamstreetscapes

[platform58]

#SUPPORTARTISTS Reposted from @paula_gabb End of day 2 progressing slowly but surely Broad St rest of the building and curry house sign to do then onto the foreground then finish off with folk walking in the street.about half way now. As for the last #oilpainting I finished glad to say it's dry now. How's your day been. Bit mix weather oh tonight we had a visitor in the garden, glad to see him returning beautiful #hedgehog don't you just ❤️ them. #Oils #brumhour #lovebrum #loveart #bham2020 #brum #gallery #brumpics #brumart #artworks #artculture #artsy #ArtHelps #arttherapy if you finding things are getting you down try #arts & #crafts order #online and discover your creative side you be surprised how relaxing and takes your mind off the day. If you like me the hours go by & before you know it you watching the 🌅 Take care #BeSafeOutThere #stayhome Thanks for looking https://www.instagram.com/p/CAVDkmkpBJ9/?igshid=13s6uyon7tgo5

[brummiephotography]

#birminghamlife #thecustardfactory #onlyindigbeth #brumpic #bhamphotography #birmingham #brumlife #bhaminstagram (at Birmingham, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTm46KQjqG0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[littlepictureco]

Decay. Pavement parking all around yet garages left to ruin.
Stirchley, Birmingham
Fuji X-Pro1 XF23mm f1.4

[dkpete]

Blossom Moments, Oozells Square, Birmingham - Spring 04/2018 . #oozellssquare #sony_photography #prettyinpink #travelchannel #signsofspring #worldinbloom #inspiredbypetals #brummie_gems #iluvbrum #bhamgram  #brumpic #visitbirmingham #bhamvisuals #everydaybrum #BirminghamLife #brum #birmingham2022 #westmidlands #ikongallery #cherryblossomtree #igersbirmingham #ofquietmoments #thisisbham  #oozellssquare  #brindleyplace #loving #lovinglife #mydiaro (at Birmingham, United Kingdom)

[roxyburger]

Birmingham Repertory Theatre postcard. Picture: Brumpic