Join us on Friday, 5 December for a very festive Digbeth First Friday at Grand Union gallery. To usher in this special season, we’ll be celebrating the end to a fantastic year with open studios, artist-led workshops, artwork sales, cakes and bakes from the Minerva Group, and theatrical Digbeth caroling lead by experimental opera company Infinite Opera.
Venue: Modern Clay
‘Barkle and Tranklements’ Book Launch with performance by Joanne Masding
Join us in Modern Clay to celebrate the launch of Corridor8’s most recent book, ‘Barkle and Tranklements’. Grand Union Studio Artist Joanne Masding will perform an edited version of her text ‘Building Fluff’, commissioned by Corridor8 as part of this publication. ‘Building Fluff’ considers the actions and tasks involved in developing ideas and making artworks, and is activated in a live reading within the surroundings of Modern Clay ceramics studio, in which the text is partly set.
Barkle and Tranklements: Art Writing from the Midlands is the latest book from Corridor8. Through case studies and interviews, rituals and fictions, diagrammatic explorations and art-historical essays, Barkle and Tranklements surveys the scenes, spaces and studios where art happens in the Midlands and explores the usefulness of considering regional identity in a contemporary art context.
There will be two 12-minute long performances, at 7pm and 7.30pm. Modern Clay will be open from 6 till 8pm, so stop by, meet the writers and the Corridor8 team, and celebrate this wonderful new publication.
Corridor8 is a not-for-profit platform for contemporary visual arts and writing in the North and Midlands of England.
Exhibition and Winter Studio Sale
Join us for a presentation of work from a group of Fine Art students and a sale of wares from Modern Clay coop members.
The Level 5 students from Birmingham City University produced ceramics at Modern Clay, bringing their practices into the clay studio and responding to its context, facilities and working processes.
We’ll have a selection of ceramics made by members of Modern Clay coop available to buy and take away on the night.
Studio Outlet spring/summer 2023 collection launch
Celebrate the new set of works joining Studio Outlet on Friday 5 May. All are welcome to browse the works in person and make purchases to take away on the night. With first works from new Studio Outlet artists Rowena Harris and Emily Mulenga, who both have connections to Birmingham, and continuing longer-term relationships with artists, there are new works from Simon and Tom Bloor, Leah Carless, Emily Speed and Stuart Whipps. There will also be the opportunity to browse works recently added to the Studio Outlet roster from Mark Essen, Andrew Gillespie, Fay Nicolson, Katie Schwab and Nicola Singh.
Studio Outlet sells unique works, test pieces, one-offs, experiments, models, maquettes and more, that are made by artists in the process of developing new work and making exhibitions.