The make-do-and-mend culture of postwar Britain is the inspiration for an event being staged by two of Birmingham’s liveliest arts promoters at the New Art Gallery, Walsall, next month.Read
The term “face-painting” used to be a denigrating way of referring to the portrait painter’s craft, but Oliver Jones is one young artist for whom the human face holds seemingly limitless fascination.Read
Bilston Craft Gallery has been selected to take part in an unusual competition which could win it an outstanding addition to its permanent collection of contemporary craft.Read
Light House Gallery and Wolverhampton Art Gallery have joined forces to showcase two exhibitions by celebrated contemporary photographer Michelle Sank.Read
Until relatively recently the art of the Nordic countries went virtually unnoticed in Britain, preoccupied as we have been with the various golden ages of Italy, Flanders, Spain, Holland, France and the United States.Read
A set of prints called BUNK!, made by the British artist Eduardo Paolozzi in 1972 but based on scrapbooks made 20 years earlier, has just gone on display at Birmingham University.Read
SOUL sensation Mary Wilson opened an exhibition in Birmingham featuring the glamorous garments she used to wear on stage with Motown supergroup The Supremes.Read
When the painters Adrian Stokes and Marianne Preindlsberger met in Pont-Aven in Brittany in the early 1880s, they embarked not only on a marriage but a shared artistic career which would last 40 years.Read
Robert Perry has devoted so much time to recording sites associated with the two world wars that it is difficult not to see his new paintings of North Wales at the RBSA Gallery as images of conflict.Read
