For many of the artists involved with Outside In, communicating using language is not possible. Because of this, many of them use their art to communicate with the people around them, and to share their worlds with others. To accompany the exhibition, Outside In is hosting a panel discussion focusing on art as communication, looking at how creativity can be vital for people without language to maintain their independence.
Based on the work of Finnish Outsider Artist Erkki Pekkarinen featured in the Radical Craft exhibition, come and construct 3D forms by weaving, plaiting and bending different materials. Use bright plastics, twigs and rushes, to experiment and play in this workshop.
Aradne makes jewel-like figurative stitched works. Ian Sherman's assemblages are of miniature extraordinary worlds made using found objects. Both artists draw upon autobiography and the imaginary to create works which use material process as part of the construction. In relation to the Radical Craft exhibition, they will be in conversation with Alice Kettle, who is herself an artist working in textile. She also wrote the chapter 'Outside, Inside and In Between' for Hand Stitch Perspectives (2012), which illustrated work of artists who consider themselves outside of the artistic mainstream.
Come and create a face using air dry clay. Explore the Radical Craft exhibition, use your imagination and be inventive adding old things that you recycle onto your art. Bring along bits and pieces to add such as buttons, wool, old jewellery or anything that would bring your face to life.
Craftspace will be talking about our work in youth mental health.
Maker-Centric will be showing their work at Utopia Festival in London.
An exhibition celebrating creativity by self-taught artists from across the UK and abroad who make work in a private domain outside the mainstream.
The exhibition will tour to eight venues around the UK.
A spellbinding performance with fire, live and electronic music and glass blowing.
A spellbinding performance with fire, live and electronic music and glass blowing.
A spellbinding performance with fire, live and electronic music and glass blowing.
In:Site Festival returns to Birmingham City Centre for a sixth year this September and sees a new group of recent graduates transforming the outdoor space around the cathedral with an ambitious programme of craft ‘interventions.
Commissions are created daily, Monday to Friday, outside in the Cathedral Square. The work will be on display until the 11th September.
A display of artworks by applied arts graduates featured in In:Site Festival.
Also at:
Purecraft Bar, Waterloo St, Birmingham
& NatWest Branch, 1 St Philips Place, B3 2PT