Issue 6 of MAP is here, exploring exile & migration in regional collections: editor Camilla Smith's introduction kicks things off by thinking about how art works can help us explore migration histories, & introduces a new painting in @BarberInstitutetinyurl.com/43t23hvd
We had a brilliant afternoon launch session yesterday with some of our partners @BM_AG@WolvArtGallery @LeamSpaArtGall @rcc_redmarley@BarberInstitute : exciting times ahead for MAP ... I'll be sharing articles every day over the next week
Have you seen our latest issue of Midlands Arts Papers (@MAP_UoB)?
This issue focuses on exile & #Migration in regional collections 🖼️
Explore the full issue here:👉🏼birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lca…
ALT Fig.10 Chris Neophytou, untitled (Angie Tornado), from the series ‘Always Forward’, 2021, photographic print. Reproduced with kind permission of the artist.
What can a bike in Thinktank Birmingham tell us about histories of technology and empire? A new article by historian Nathan Cardon explores cycling as an act of resistance to British imperial occupation of eastern African @thinktankmuseum @artsatbhambirmingham.ac.uk/schools/lca…
Issue 6 of MAP will be launching shortly (watch this space) meantime there is lots to explore in MAP 5, on intersections between histories of art, sport, and empire, spurred on by (and thinking critically about) the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham... birmingham.ac.uk/map5
Storyteller @AlisonSolomonUK responds to @BarberInstitute exhibition "Miss Clara and the Celebrity Beast in Art, 1500-1860", drawing connections between colonialism and the exhibition of people and animals in short story "Enter Two Zoos" tinyurl.com/mryehfxe
Why does @PotteriesMuseum in Stoke-on-Trent have a collection of South Asian pottery? Curator of Arts Samantha Howard explores collections connections between India & Stoke-on-Trent ⬇️⬇️birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lca…
ALT Wonderland Art Pottery (Bombay School of Art) India, Earthenware vase; scrolling floral all-over decoration painted in white slip and covered in a green glaze (c.1880-90), The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery STKMG:CER2539. Photo Credit: The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
EDITORIAL: Kate Nichols (me!) questions celebratory official histories of the Commonwealth Games & introduces the articles in MAP5, exploring connections between art, manufacturing, empire & sport in Midlands collections @PotteriesMuseum@BarberInstitutebirmingham.ac.uk/schools/lca…
For example: this c18 snuffbox (from @WolvArtGallery). Made in Brum, but its materials (mother of pearl) & purpose (keeping tobacco) were dependent on colonial trade & enslaved labour
What are the connections between art, manufacture & empire in Midlands collections? Find out more in a new special issue of MAP, which critically explores these connections to mark the arrival of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham bham.ac.uk/map5
V excited to announce "Imperial Encounters: Art, museums and education at the crossroads of empire and post-Brexit Britain", conference - 10 June - & an amazing line up of museum practitioners, academics & artists incl. @waji35@ProfDorrothy@TaraMunroe72birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lca…
The #TurnerPrize2021 exhibition - a highlight of the Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 celebrations - opens at Herbert Art Gallery and Museum tomorrow. (1/5)
ALT Neon green background with a white irregular pentagon shape in the centre. Black outline of shape rests above it at an angle. Text in centre reads "Turner Prize 2021" Text at each pentagon point read "Array" "Cooking Sections" "Black Obsidian Sound System" "Project Art Works" "Gentle/Radical" from top left to bottom left.
Come and see The D-Day Darlings at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery on the 17th of September to celebrate their new Spitfire Gallery!
Book now!
@PotteriesMuseumstokemuseums.org.uk/pmag/
Check out this WW2 themed event on Saturday 18th of September to celebrate the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery's new Spitfire Gallery!
Take part in activities which transport you to life on the home front!
Free Entry.
@PotteriesMuseumstokemuseums.org.uk/pmag/
What impact did sculpture have on post-war Coventry (designated Britain’s City of Culture for 2021)? Find out in the article Modern Mercia: A Lockdown Exhibition in the new issue of Midland Art Papers. bham.ac.uk/map
ALT Walter Ritchie, Man’s Struggle to Control the World Inside Himself, (1954-1959), courtesy of Sally Taylor
Love post-war art and design? Check out the new article about the exhibition Modern Mercia: art and design in Coventry and Warwickshire 1945-70 at Leamington Art Gallery & Museum in the latest issue of Midland Art Papers. bham.ac.uk/map
ALT Section of Gordon Cullen’s Mural, (1958), Lower Precinct, Coventry, courtesy of the authors