Join us for June’s Digbeth First Friday to celebrate the launch of ‘Matter Out of Place’, an exhibition curated in collaboration with the University of Birmingham’s 2026 MA Art History and Curating Cohort, marking Grand Union’s eighth year working with UoB.
‘Matter Out of Place’ gathers 12 Grand Union studio artists who recover the discarded, inviting them to respond to ideas of waste in relation to their own practices and the context they work in. Guided by the assertion that ‘waste is matter out of place’, this exhibition seeks to expand understandings of how the neighbourhood, materiality, and artistic practice shape and subvert understandings of waste and re-use.
Featuring work by Simon and Tom Bloor, Roo Dhissou, Sireen Martin, Joanne Masding, Farwa Moleldina, David Rowan, Sarah Taylor Silverwood, Natasha Taheem, Courtenay Welcome, Matt Westbrook, Stuart Whipps, and Nilupa Yasmin, ‘Matter Out of Place’ invites you to reconsider how we commune with waste.
