Events

New Art Birmingham 2005

8 - 10 December 2005

Venue: Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
www.urban-fusion.info/nab

From 8-10 December 2005, New Art Birmingham will showcase challenging and diverse work by regional, national and international artists through an ambitious programme of free exhibitions and events.

New Art Birmingham, project managed and co-produced by Susan McNally and Nicola Shipley and supported by Birmingham Business Link, Arts Council England, Birmingham City Council and Urban Fusion, will feature two shows by internationally renowned curators, Chris Hammond and Kenny Schachter. Visitors will experience the best of emerging creative talent, alongside established international artists.

The Artist with Two Brains, curated by Chris Hammond, will celebrate the phenomenon of the artist duo, from Gilbert and George to the ever-increasing number of young artists who have chosen a dual identity over individual practice.

The exhibition will chart the sudden rise in partnership practices, featuring those that pioneered the phenomenon and some of the newer artist partnerships that are emerging.

GLOBALOCAL, curated by Kenny Schachter, will document 40 years of contemporary art, placing the work of Birmingham based artists in an international and historical context.

An Art Market will run throughout the festival, developing new opportunities for audiences and collectors to meet artists and buy or commission work. Over 60 artists will be represented at the market, which is open to painters, sculptors, printmakers, photographers and digital artists based in the UK.

In addition, Arts Seminars for the artist and collector will run during the festival, supported by Ikon, City Inn Birmingham and New Art Gallery Walsall.

Creative Consultant to New Art Birmingham, David Gryn, said:
“Birmingham is full of promise and opportunity, and I believe it is fertile territory for future art developments and growth. To build on the foundations that have already been set with the launch of New Art Birmingham is an exciting challenge.”

David, who through his own company Artprojx has been involved in audience and collector initiatives for leading London-based arts events including the Frieze Art Fair and the Zoo Art Fair, continued:
“To engage any community to be at the cutting edge of art, there needs to a vibrant culture of creating at the source. Focussing New Art Birmingham on the curator will encourage local and regional artists that they can be based in Birmingham, and the art world will start to come to them.”

To find out more about New Art Birmingham, detailed listings and venues visit www.urban-fusion.info/nab or phone 0121 4641191

For press information please contact Ruth Ward/James Bovill at Neon Communications on 0121 4569303 or Ruth on 07739 403960