Soup ptVI Artist Residency and Development Programme, is the new iteration of the established Soup residency programme, providing a combined approach to the growth of local artistic talent, in partnership with Asylum Gallery, Wolverhampton.
This time we are offering you the opportunity to have a guided tour of the show at 5pm, if you don’t like the hustle and bustle of a private view. You’ll also have the chance to hear the artists talk about their respective residencies up to this point from 5.30pm. Simply chose the ticket option that’s right for you!
Expect incredible sculptures, painting and myth making, candy sweet rugs and shapes, glowing radioactive drenched digital collage and uncanny valley dolls.
This is the final stage of the artist’s group residency before Molly Cleaver, Ambie Drew, and Lily Wales embark on their solo exhibtions in Asylum Gallery later in the year. Running until 25/5/23, open Wednesday – Saturday 12-4, and Sunday – Tuesday by appointment.
Featured artists:
Molly Cleaver
Ambie Drew
B4g_Lord
Lily Wales
Soup pt VI Artist Residency and Development Programme, is the new iteration of the established Soup residency programme, providing a combined approach to the growth of local artistic talent, in partnership with Asylum Gallery, Wolverhampton.
This is the second stage of the residency where Molly Cleaver, Ambie Drew, B4g_Lord, and Lily Wales will be joined by mid-career artists Tereza Buskova and Paul Newman. Throughout April Tereza and Paul will be mentoring the group as they work towards their final group show in May. Expect gorgeous rugs, crazed pigeons, neon uncanny valleys, radioactive collage, Slavic mythology, and dreamy landscapes!
There will be a free artists’ talk at 5.30pm. Find the booking link in our Instagram bio.
We are pleased to announce the first project of our new residency program for 2023 – Pressure Cooker: Soup ptVI!
Soup ptVI Artist Residency and Development Programme, is the new iteration of the established Soup residency programme, providing a combined approach to the growth of local artistic talent, in partnership with Asylum Gallery, Wolverhampton.
Here’s your chance to meet the artists who will be showcasing their current practices before embarking on the residency through until August. The gallery will be open Wednesday – Saturday 12pm-4pm until 17th March.
Featured artists:
Molly Cleaver
Ambie Drew
B4g_Lord
Lily Wales
Stryx Gallery has 15 lively artist studios varying from small to large, shared and individual spaces.
The Stryx Studio Holders Show brings a selection of their work into the gallery. 2023 is shaping up to be a very exciting year for Stryx, and studio holders are a crucial part of this. Here’s your chance to come and catch up with the creme de la creme of Digbeth’s artist scene.
Participating artists:
Alena Adamkova
Courtenay Welcome
Alex Billingham
Marcin Sz
Sophie Mackfall
Dawn Denton
Abigail Braithwaite
Crow Dillon-Parkin
Will Parslow
Tamsyn Preedy
Japhet Dinganga
Cesar De Cesaro
Jasmine Lee
Curated by Magdalena Jasiak
We’re celebrating the second birthday of our Online Shop for December First Friday!
The Stryx Shop Winter Fair brings 12 artists works into the gallery. It’s a chance to see their work up close & personal and nab some of the best & unique seasonal gifts Digbeth has to offer. All our artists currently live and work in the West Midlands: here’s your chance to support local artists whilst gaining some unique stocking fillers! Everything from digital prints to jewellery, we guarantee there’s something for everyone.
The show will run from 2/12/21 – 11/12/21. 12pm – 4pm Saturday and Sunday 3rd,4th & 10th, 11th December.
Cash and card payments welcome and encouraged.
Artists include:
Paul Newman
Lucy Andrews
Marcin Sz
Lexi Strauss
Jakub Ceglarz
Matthew Springer
Hira Butt
Dan Auluk
Kurt Hickson
Dinosaur Kilby
Ed Wakefield
B4g_Lord
Francesco will be concluding his residency at Stryx which began in October, as he has been constantly creating Birmingham landscape/ cityscape paintings. Francesco has utilised motifs from Matisse’s The Dance, dropping figures into popular Brum destinations including the Botanical Gardens, Cannon Hill Park and Moseley Bog.
He will be painting live during the opening of November DFF. All paintings created during this residency are for sale through the shop on our website. www.stryxshop.co.uk
Francesco will be commencing his residency at Stryx, creating Birmingham landscape/ cityscape paintings.
He will be painting live during the opening of his exhibition on 7th October as well as exhibiting his first artworks created in Birmingham as part of the residency. Throughout the month he will be inviting the public to the gallery or places he will be painting from to experience the process of art creation. He will have a closing exhibition on November 4th as part of the next Digbeth First Friday. All paintings created during this residency will be for sale through the shop on our website. www.stryxshop.co.uk
Stryx have collaborated with Queen Alexandra College Community Hub Women’s Peer Support and Social Group members to deliver a series of socially engaged workshops co-created by the participants. We have invited artists Magdalena Jasiak and Hira Butt to work with the Community Services users to create a textile piece referring to strong and safe communities and spaces for women through a series of contemporary artisan meetings inspired by past times women’s meetup groups.
During the contemporary artisan meetups the community and the artists have engaged in discussions around subject matters important to each individual group member, whilst participating in artistic wellbeing activities, creating positive affirmations and building new connections.
This project is part of Birmingham 2022 Festival for the Commonwealth Games.
A group show by Dan Auluk, Sally Bailey and Sarah Fortes Mayer.
Fragments. Fractured remnants – separate, broken, other. Here are traces – traces suggesting something, but invariably something less than the whole. Here we are witness to this melancholy place of lost narratives and re-imagined connections; the assemblage of traces, whisper the possibility of these many stories all at once – and we wonder at what might have been…
Dan Auluk is an artist-curator & film maker interested in exploring how we communicate and interact through experimental encounters.
As a sculptor, Sarah Fortes Mayer delves deeply into the processes of ageing, challenging traditional expectations of this human condition.
Sally Bailey is a painter – embedded within the interfaces and interstices existing and emerging between Painter/painting/Painting (as subject/process/object).
Out To Dry by Andy Freeman and Sam Penn is a project and installation exploring how the microplastics used in clothing make their way into waterway systems via washing machines.
The installation consists of a series of washing machines which tell the story of microplastics. The machines present homespun experiments that raise questions about how clothes are made, worn and washed, what traces our clothes leave on waterways, and how plants and riverbeds, people and animals are cohabiting with the millions of microscopic particles hidden in the mud and water.
The project aims to provoke new understandings of microplastics and the journey they take through the pipes in our houses from the clothes we wear.
Check out the show and meet the artists.
Initially commissioned by Metal for Estuary 2021 festival and funded by Arts Council England