West Midlands Open

Floor 3 | 20 May — 25 September 2022

The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to present, for the first time, the West Midlands Open, an exhibition of recent artworks in various media by artists from, or connected, to the region. The exhibition follows an open-call to West Midlands artists, including those currently attending an art school in the region or educated here in the past 10 years.

The Gallery received over 500 entries from across the region, spanning Greater Birmingham, The Black Country, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. From these, a panel of independent judges and Gallery staff selected 250 works for exhibition.

The West Midlands Open celebrates the quality, diversity and vibrancy of the local visual arts ecology and provides a platform and selling opportunity for artists in the region.

All works in the exhibition can be viewed below, ordered alphabetically by first name, and sorted via category;

Addy A Adam — Still Not Safe To Tell A Truth Today

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Addy A Adam — Still Not Safe To Tell A Truth Today

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Addy A Adam — Still Not Safe To Tell A Truth Today

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  • Artwork description:
    Martin Luther King Jnr., integrated within the back drop of a brick wall juxtaposing Elvis Presley song lyrics, personifying King's famous words: "I Have a Dream". White-washed bricks concealing a graffitied truth, (revealed by illuminating the rear of the canvas), represent the nature of historical and contemporary cover ups, and the proverbial coming up against a brick wall for the truth to out.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic and Acrylic Gel on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Alice Walter — End of The Rainbow

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Alice Walter — End of The Rainbow

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Alice Walter — End of The Rainbow

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  • Artwork description:
    ‘End of the Rainbow’ is a collage on canvas. A clock-shaped, chaotic cycle of cute cartoons ask the viewer to read shifting symbols that hang uneasy in the indigo. Pastel tones and soft edges mask trauma, missing moments and invisible acts only seen on the faces on of the little ponies - cut and stuck in a state of fight or flight. Within the circle is a cluttered collage interior, creating a labyrinth littered with domestic obstacles. Just above centre sits a baby’s bassinet, a paper pocket, that holds a miniature sealed envelop enclosing a hand printed letter, written to ‘Baby Unborn’. Through this gesture, the canvas itself becomes a message to absence, illusion and the endless hope that limitless love lies at the end of the rainbow.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Paper, acrylic paint and hand-printed letter in envelop on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.alicewalter.co.uk

Andreea Pislaru — Self-portrait

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Andreea Pislaru — Self-portrait

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Andreea Pislaru — Self-portrait

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  • Artwork description:
    This painting is part of an ongoing series that presents the artist as a cat. The character represents the experience of being an immigrant in the UK and the feeling of not belonging to a specific place. This is accentuated by the background which makes the subject float without any spatial references. Each work contains symbols specific to the East European cultures, presented in a humorous manner. For example, the headscarf, branded clothes (Adidas in slav cultures), and the half-naked figure that usually is observed at male-only, not females. In this way, the work brings into conversation East European gender stereotypes. The cat is also a street animal in the UK, which in relation to immigration, serves as the outsider. In art history, the cat has been used as a describer of the female character, usually in a negative manner. Here, the cat is characterised using other symbols which brings mystery to the piece.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylics on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • https://www.instagram.com/andreeapislaru90/?hl

Andrew Howe — That First Home Feeling

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Andrew Howe — That First Home Feeling

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Andrew Howe — That First Home Feeling

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  • Artwork description:
    From a series of drawings and paintings inspired by walks in Shropshire and surrounding areas, in which I made observations of cabins, caravans, sheds and make-shift shelters of various kinds. Each place revealed evidence of previous or ongoing habitation, usually by persons unknown. The circumstances of their abandonment are also unknown or ambiguous, which provokes curiosity in the human stories behind these secretive dens. In their isolated woodland surroundings, these places could be viewed as idyllic retreat or desperate refuge. In the works, I invite contemplation of primitive living from multiple perspectives including the dual viewpoints of ancient human history and a dystopian future. Gaston Bachelard’s “Poetics of Space” was a reference in my reflections on precarious living conditions.
  • Date:
    July 2020
  • Medium:
    Oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    http://www.andrew-howe.com
  • https://www.facebook.com/andrew.howe.503645/

Angela Dooley — Aspects of the Rotunda reflected in Grand Central

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Angela Dooley — Aspects of the Rotunda reflected in Grand Central

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Angela Dooley — Aspects of the Rotunda reflected in Grand Central

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  • Artwork description:
    Recently I have been using landscapes to explore the notion of trying to create images that produce an almost common emotion irrespective of the observer. My current work is centred on Birmingham City centre landscapes that result from the reflective surfaces that adorn many of its recent buildings; in particular Grand Central Station. Here are images that are ambiguous and bizarre , real structures presenting unreal reflections in a kaleidoscope of changing colour and pattern but which hopefully instil in the observers an underlying feeling of spontaneity and transience, as they are drawn into these scenes of distortion.
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    Watercolour
  • Category:
    Painting

Angela Dooley — Hill Street reflected in Grand Central

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Angela Dooley — Hill Street reflected in Grand Central

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Angela Dooley — Hill Street reflected in Grand Central

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  • Artwork description:
    Recently I have been using landscapes to explore the notion of trying to create images that produce an almost common emotion irrespective of the observer. My current work is centred on Birmingham City centre landscapes that result from the reflective surfaces that adorn many of its recent buildings; in particular Grand Central Station. Here are images that are ambiguous and bizarre , real structures presenting unreal reflections in a kaleidoscope of changing colour and pattern but which hopefully instil in the observers an underlying feeling of spontaneity and transience, as they are drawn into these scenes of distortion.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Watercolour
  • Category:
    Painting

Angela Maloney — Nocturn 2

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Angela Maloney — Nocturn 2

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Angela Maloney — Nocturn 2

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  • Artwork description:
    This painting is from a body of work originally started at the beginning of the global pandemic, when our love of bird song was briefly renewed and our reliance on the natural world for our own sense of well-being intensified. A comment on our human intervention with the fragile natural world and loosely based on Victorian dome jars, it aims to reflect on the inescapable evidence of humankinds’ need to take what we can at any cost. The purposely inverted colours in the painting aim to give it a nocturnal feel, suggesting time suspended, dreamlike, on hold, pending the dawn of an uncertain future.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    acrylic on linen
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.angelamaloney.co.uk/index.html

Anisa Nazz — Grief

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Anisa Nazz — Grief

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Anisa Nazz — Grief

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  • Artwork description:
    A golden female silhouette turning her back on sorrow and grief. The harsh etchings coming out from the sides depict the pain of this woman. The geometric style patterns represent the complexities she is going through. This painting was created at a time of loss for me. I struggled to grieve and so I threw myself into painting this day and many hours of the night. Ironically, it helped me come to terms with losing a loved one and address my sorrows. Even though it was created during a very difficult time, this piece was so healing for me that I am actually left with positive emotions whenever I see it.
  • Date:
    September 2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on cotton Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.anisanazz.com/
  • https://www.instagram.com/anisa.nazz/

Annette Pugh — Cafe Scene

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Annette Pugh — Cafe Scene

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Annette Pugh — Cafe Scene

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  • Artwork description:
    This painting is informed by a black and white photograph found in a discarded tourist guide. The image has been adapted with many figures removed leaving the focus placed on the relationships between the remaining subjects.
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    acrylic and oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.axisweb.org/p/annettejanepugh/

Anthony Hall — Blue

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Anthony Hall — Blue

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Anthony Hall — Blue

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  • Artwork description:
    I love working in oil on gesso because you can move backwards and forwards with sanding , painting and drawing. I was introduced to the work of Roger Cecil through a series of posthumous exhibitions at Machynlleth, Cardiff and Brecon and have been influenced by his edited back abstracted way of working . This painting 'Blue' is a series of shapes and the spaces in between with two elements of colour, the Blue is the title of my most played album by Joni Mitchell.
  • Date:
    Februry 2020
  • Medium:
    Oil on gesso on panel
  • Category:
    Painting

Azeem Akhtar — Crooked Cops

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Azeem Akhtar — Crooked Cops

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Azeem Akhtar — Crooked Cops

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  • Artwork description:
    ''Crooked cops'' - Oil on gsm paper Following the grotesque murder of Sarah Everard the public felt vulnerable and incensed with those designated to protect and serve. However anger, resentment, and hatred, after all, tend to disappear when one makes a serious attempt to understand the unfathomable. Much in the same way Creams conveys his understanding of the ways of the world, Creams has a way of portraying dark elements within jigsaw pieces wrapped with a veil of optimism...of hope - a light that stirs even the darkest of souls.
  • Date:
    01/04/21
  • Medium:
    Oil
  • Category:
    Painting

Beer Baby — Big Squeeze

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Beer Baby — Big Squeeze

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Beer Baby — Big Squeeze

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  • Artwork description:
    'big squeeze' exudes embrace. It is a depiction of a hug, however I try not to put too much emphasis on what I see in my pieces and welcome interpretations from others. This is why I champion abstraction in each painting and allows me the freedom to have multiple possibilities in each piece; before and after creation. If I don’t feel connected to the moment whilst creating, my feelings and to the colours, I struggle to create. It’s this connection that fuels my process. For this piece in particular I wanted to paint that connection.
  • Date:
    06.02.22
  • Medium:
    spray paint on MDF board
  • Category:
    Painting

Bethan Jayne — The time I went to the 76th Annual West Midland’s Icons Party

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Bethan Jayne — The time I went to the 76th Annual West Midland’s Icons Party

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Bethan Jayne — The time I went to the 76th Annual West Midland’s Icons Party

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  • Artwork description:
    As we are a couple of West Midlands superstars, my dog and I were invited to the annual disco/jelly buffet to celebrate. Upon entering the premises, we were immediately brought in to a conga line with Jasper Carrott, Dipsy from The Teletubbies and who I thought was Alison Hammond, but may have just been a lookalike. Dr Samuel Johnson, the most distinguished man of letters in English history, was too late to join the conga and so sulked upon a space hopper. John Cadbury was not actually invited, but somehow bribed Brum to sneak him in. He was later removed by the security team, who was made up of English new wave band Duran Duran.
  • Date:
    December 2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic Paint on Paper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.bethanjayne.co.uk/

Bethan Jayne — The time I threw cauliflower at Gino D’Acampo

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Bethan Jayne — The time I threw cauliflower at Gino D’Acampo

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Bethan Jayne — The time I threw cauliflower at Gino D’Acampo

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  • Artwork description:
    I was testing out some recipes from my new Gino D’Acampo cookbook ‘Italian Family Adventure’ and decided to try a supposedly delicious cauliflower-based pasta. However, as I got in to the cooking, I realised that I had to cook the cauliflower for an entire hour and forty minutes, which left me so hungry. In a fit of rage, I hunted down Gino, which was very easy due to the large neon sign which said ‘Gino this way’. I entered him evil lair, which had a floor made a spaghetti hoops (the most evil of foods). Gino was stood creating plans on his chalkboard while his assistant Jason Panini Press stood on his shoulder. I threw the cauliflower at him, which disintegrated on impact due to the long cooking time. This created a cauliflower mask on his face. As I left, I managed to take a look at the plans on the chalkboard. Gino was created a Grandma Bike (a bike with the head of a grandma). She takes you all the way to Grimsby and Werther’s Originals come out of her mouth.
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic Paint on Paper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.bethanjayne.co.uk/

Bethany Dartnell — SMALLBROOK QUEENSWAY

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Bethany Dartnell — SMALLBROOK QUEENSWAY

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Bethany Dartnell — SMALLBROOK QUEENSWAY

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  • Artwork description:
    Painting of Birminghams Iconic Smallbrook Queensway. An area I have walked often, and became a favourite view when sitting from coffee shops above. It's not only full of nostalgic memories of walking to meet my dad after a day roaming around town but also an incredible example of what Birmingham has left of its Brutalist scene.
  • Date:
    February 2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic paint and pens on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Bethany Dartnell — PERSHORE STREET

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Bethany Dartnell — PERSHORE STREET

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Bethany Dartnell — PERSHORE STREET

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  • Artwork description:
    Original artwork of Birmingham's now lost Pershore Street. Once again, rich in nostalgia for me as a frequent visitor to the markets, ice rink and city centre as a whole as a kid we would often park here. It's been a heavy feature in my artwork for years but mainly in Photography. When they started knocking it down I wanted to immortalise it for life. Contrasting the dull grey tones with bright backgrounds has become a common factor for me in trying to portay a lighter side to brutalism.
  • Date:
    June 2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic paint and pens on canvas board
  • Category:
    Painting

Bobbie Whittaker — Purple Rain

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Bobbie Whittaker — Purple Rain

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Bobbie Whittaker — Purple Rain

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  • Artwork description:
    Purple Rain was a response to: 1. That horrible kind of rain that just takes up a whole day and is constantly just dripping down your window. My work is increasingly becoming inspired by nature and how I respond to nature and my surroundings. I was so sick of rain and those days where you don’t want to leave the house. I wanted to try and make something beautiful out of one of those blue days and convince myself that you don’t always need blue sky to have a good day. 2. Exploration of the limits to which I can push oil paint. I enjoy experimenting with oils to see how far I can push them. In this piece I tried to add as much spirit as possible without removing colour. I love how this brings the extra texture and pattern to the piece. I hope that people viewing this work will relate to the constant that is the British weather, get a little cultural nod to Prince and be able to look deeper into the work to see the textures and patterns to show that even rainy days can be beautiful.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil and Spray Paint on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.bobbiewhittakerart.co.uk/

Branko Marinkovic — Cutting Myself to Pieces

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Branko Marinkovic — Cutting Myself to Pieces

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Branko Marinkovic — Cutting Myself to Pieces

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  • Artwork description:
    Currently I am working in mixed media and exploring a more illustrative way of working, my recent works have centred on current events and emotional and mental health. “Cutting myself to pieces”; is an illustrative mixed media piece I created during a creative frenzy in lockdown. I am interested in contemporary visual language and figurative work that mixes text and image as is often the case in the majority of shared media we currently consume.
  • Date:
    Aug 2021
  • Medium:
    Mixed Media
  • Category:
    Painting

Brian Shillitoe — New Place I

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Brian Shillitoe — New Place I

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Brian Shillitoe — New Place I

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  • Artwork description:
    New Place I uses acrylic based paints and inks on wooden panel, to create an abstract sense of light and movement through a landscape space. The surface of the panel introduces the sense of a natural materials within the work.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic based paint and ink on wooden panel
  • Category:
    Painting

Carolyn Blake — 15:43 Passing Stockton-on-Tees

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Carolyn Blake — 15:43 Passing Stockton-on-Tees

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Carolyn Blake — 15:43 Passing Stockton-on-Tees

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  • Artwork description:
    The painting is an exploration of my journey as a passive and regular traveller preferring to stare out of the window. This was on a journey from Birmingham to Newcastle-upon-Tyne in September 2021.Here the poetic in the everyday is symbolised in the old shed, whose use we can only guess at, contained within the confines of National Rail land. This shed standing proudly nestled below the trees has also become the canvas for the graffiti artist.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.carolynblake.com

Carolyn Blake — 15:37 Passing Stockton-on-Tees

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Carolyn Blake — 15:37 Passing Stockton-on-Tees

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Carolyn Blake — 15:37 Passing Stockton-on-Tees

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  • Artwork description:
    The painting is an exploration of my journey as a passive and regular traveller preferring to stare out of the window. My intention is to give the unremarkable a presence. The unremarkable in this instance is the content of the composition, a clump of trees, shown slightly off centre, growing on land occupied by housing. In the middle ground, an extended fence decorated with graffiti butts onto railings which semi exclude a parkland area. In the foreground is the unattended area of railway land between the tracks and boundary fencing. Nothing special, just a passing moment.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.carolynblake.com

Catherine Wynne-Paton — time

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Catherine Wynne-Paton — time

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Catherine Wynne-Paton — time

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  • Artwork description:
    A cluster of the oldest stars in the universe, based on the Hercules Globular cluster in M13 contains stars of 12 or so billion years old, their light takes 22 thousand years to reach us and though the spent stars in their final stage of life are gathering together, they make a wondrous, delightful form which I relate to the smaller scale, yet no less incredible feat of the human brain, of neurons and the excitement of idea formation, of the similar unknowns between the landscape of the brain and the landscape of the universe. The known, the unknown and the vast spaces in between. A childhood habit of mine was to mentally put the unfathomable universe in a cardboard box in a giants home and now I am thinking about what happens when you remove the box?
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.wynnepaton.co.uk/

Celia Johnson — Stack 2 (Park Lane Industrial Estate)

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Celia Johnson — Stack 2 (Park Lane Industrial Estate)

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Celia Johnson — Stack 2 (Park Lane Industrial Estate)

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  • Artwork description:
    Stack 2 (Park Lane Industrial Estate) is part of a series based 0n site visits to the Park Lane Industrial Estate in Wolverhampton. Painted loosely and quickly, it depicts a stack of skips - its provisional quality reflecting the precarity and contingency of the industrial estate and its communities. This work (and Stack1) explore the contemporary experience of the industrial estate to make visible underrepresented communities of labour and to explore the legacy of Midlands Industrial giants that closed at the end of the seventies.
  • Date:
    February 2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on board (birch plywood)
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    http://www.celiajohnson.co.uk

Christine Gordan — Magpies

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Christine Gordan — Magpies

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Christine Gordan — Magpies

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  • Artwork description:
    My painting Magpies is based on my observations of Magpies on my regular walks out in nature at my local nature reserves - Priory Wood and Forge Mill Lake. I love the character of these birds and their distinctive black iridescent and white feathers. I love their boldness, cockiness, intelligence and their distinctive chatter, which can often sound very frenzied. Despite the bad press that these birds can sometimes have attached to them Magpies are quite amusing and a joy to watch.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic Paints on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Clive Sayer — Bistro Scene

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Clive Sayer — Bistro Scene

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Clive Sayer — Bistro Scene

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  • Artwork description:
    This scene is an amalgam of many local pub and restaurant interiors I have visited. I have attempted to capture the noisy and busy atmosphere of such places
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic
  • Category:
    Painting

Courtenay Welcome — framing dreams of freedom

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Courtenay Welcome — framing dreams of freedom

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Courtenay Welcome — framing dreams of freedom

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  • Artwork description:
    This piece embodies the transitional state of ones sense of self - depicting internal dialogue [thought] surrounding the biracial identity. Playing with the material obligations of traditional art objects. This piece anchors collective consciousness // shared perspectives surrounding political race relations and de-colonial practices. This piece belongs to a collection of works with underlying themes of freedom, identity, social change, race, memory and space-time consciousness.
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    installation
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://courtenaywelcome.com/

Dan Booth — Raft

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Dan Booth — Raft

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Dan Booth — Raft

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  • Artwork description:
    The painting is based on a found image of migrants in the back of a lorry in Austria. This type of image has become ubiquitous as the various migrant crises have unfolded in recent years. I considered the image hopeless and tragic, and it sat in my sketchbook for a while before I decided to use it. It is not clear whether the figures are still alive. It also seemed to reflect a voyeuristic role on behalf of the viewer which I found unsettling - the observer sees the forms inside the back of the lorry from a distance. When I came to make the painting I altered the colours and flattened the forms, giving as much attention to the inanimate mechanism of the lorry as to the human figures. I wanted to enhance the cold, dehumanising aspect of the image. I gave the painting the title Raft in reference to Theodore Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa and have used a similar palette and introduced some elements from this painting.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://dannyvile.co.uk/

Dan Booth — Laura and Peter – 4 months, 2 days

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Dan Booth — Laura and Peter – 4 months, 2 days

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Dan Booth — Laura and Peter – 4 months, 2 days

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  • Artwork description:
    The subject of this portrait is my wife Laura and son Peter, who was then 4 months 2 days old. At that point we were still sitting with him every evening while he slept on us on the sofa before going to bed. I wanted to contrast the banal routine and domestic environment with the actual emotion of caring for Peter, and the strength of my wife. I have left some of the underpainting visible and used loose brush strokes for the background to contrast with the sharper details of the figures. I want the room to look like it might fall apart if it wasn’t for Laura’s presence.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://dannyvile.co.uk/

David McGuire — Place

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David McGuire — Place

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David McGuire — Place

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  • Artwork description:
    ‘Place’ 2022 This location is nearby. It is not a place where we would chose to spend our time, but so much is owed to this place. The old factory has had old windows and doors bricked up and new doors added so many times. It has been adapted in order that people may continue to work and prosper, and as new demands are made it will be altered again. It has seen off the Kaiser, Adolf, Red Robbo and Dominic of Barnard Castle, they all come and go, but this place stays.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic and collage on board
  • Category:
    Painting

David Walton — Rosaceae No.3

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David Walton — Rosaceae No.3

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David Walton — Rosaceae No.3

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  • Artwork description:
    Celebrating Florence Nightingale’s statistical achievement. In 1858 Florence demonstrated, using a rose diagram, that epidemic diseases caused far more deaths than battlefield wounds in the Crimean War. Soldiers were dying from preventable infections and the cleanliness in hospitals reduced these deaths by 99 percent. Rather that presenting her evidence as a dry bar chart, she created a graphic diagram using coloured wedges to deliver her message. Her rose chart was the inspiration for my series of shaped paintings.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on wood
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.davidwaltonart.co.uk

Daya Bhatti — Devi

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Daya Bhatti — Devi

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Daya Bhatti — Devi

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  • Artwork description:
    The painting is an exploration of identity and culture. The essence of the piece is a celebration of woman and culture - depicting a strong and empowered woman who embraces her identity. The piece is a connection to culture, and how generations foster connections with family and ancestors through tradition. At its core, Indian adornment is a visual expression. The role of the adornment in the painting is to express cultural identity, display creativity (represented by the paintbrush) and as a whole is a tool for self-expression and belonging . The nath (nose ring) is considered to have spiritual significance. The adornment of the necklace is believed to attract bliss for the wearer and impacts the aura of the women. The name ‘Devi’, meaning divine, relates spirituality with the feeling of empowerment from wearing traditional adornment.
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Oil on Paintbrush
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.dayaillustrations.co.uk
  • https://www.instagram.com/dayaillustrations/

Daya Bhatti — Complexion

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Daya Bhatti — Complexion

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Daya Bhatti — Complexion

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  • Artwork description:
    This collection explores women of colour of South Asian Heritage. The series was made in response to colourism within the culture which is a big issue even today. Instead these paintings celebrate and empower women. The focus on the eye purposely illustrates a vision for change and for a future of equality, inclusivity and representation.
  • Date:
    Nove 2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on Board
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.dayaillustrations.co.uk
  • https://www.instagram.com/dayaillustrations/

Edgington — JE1233177

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Edgington — JE1233177

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Edgington — JE1233177

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  • Artwork description:
    The title of this work is taken from the artist's patient number whilst a patient with the mental health home treatment team in 2012. The nude male body is used to explore vulnerability, truth and isolation.
  • Date:
    January 2021
  • Medium:
    Mixed media on paper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.edgington-co.com

Edward Jeavons — Red Swimmers

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Edward Jeavons — Red Swimmers

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Edward Jeavons — Red Swimmers

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  • Artwork description:
    The starting point of this series was the romantic idea of swimming at night with a group of friends. The original studies were quite figurative but these evolved through their encounter with the painting process to become something much more mysterious and abstract. Although vestiges of the figures still remain I became much more interested in the abstract idea of forms dissolving and appearing across the surface.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on Paper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.edwardjeavons.com/

Edward Jeavons — Red Velvet

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Edward Jeavons — Red Velvet

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Edward Jeavons — Red Velvet

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  • Artwork description:
    The starting point of this series was the romantic idea of swimming at night with a group of friends. The original studies were quite figurative but these evolved through their encounter with the painting process to become something much more mysterious and abstract. Although vestiges of the figures still remain I became much more interested in the abstract idea of forms dissolving and appearing across the surface.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on paper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.edwardjeavons.com/

Eiko Matsuura — Inner Journey

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Eiko Matsuura — Inner Journey

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Eiko Matsuura — Inner Journey

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  • Artwork description:
    This work represent a "place" where you can think and rest, to make choices and decisions in a safe, relaxed, nostalgic and imaginative cocoon, which provides an opportunity to create at anytime and anywhere, free from fear and distraction. It is a return to ones nature in order to find answers to what you are searching for.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    egg tempera
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    http://www.eiko-matsuura.com

Gabrielle Roberts-Dalton — Syncope – Menopause Series

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Gabrielle Roberts-Dalton — Syncope – Menopause Series

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Gabrielle Roberts-Dalton — Syncope – Menopause Series

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  • Artwork description:
    ‘Syncope’ – Menopause series depicts the sensation of fainting brought on by anxiety. The oil painting was started in June 2021 inspired by an Indian ink drawing I created at the end of 2019. Part of my Thin Tissue sub- series. I have kept part of my charcoal drawing visible to make it more other worldly. This piece is part of a large body of work (over a 100 pieces) about the Menopause, started back in 2017. Depicting or conveying emotions and experiences around the menopause and body ageing. Trying to explore imaginative narrative, that is often unclear and secret, brings ambiguity and gets at things not realised. Once made, the personal becomes less private and the viewer can interpret the images as they want.
  • Date:
    June 2021 - Jan 2022
  • Medium:
    Oil paint and Charcoal on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Gillian Tandy — Virus Autumn dispersal 2

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Gillian Tandy — Virus Autumn dispersal 2

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Gillian Tandy — Virus Autumn dispersal 2

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  • Artwork description:
    Topical, expressive work dealing with spread and dispersal of Covid 19 and dispersal and decay of leaves, seeds and red, referencing spread of natural forms and of the Virus. Work deals with movement and transience of the above as seen in space basically depicted here as as a white painted background.
  • Date:
    Autumn 2021
  • Medium:
    mixed media collage on canvas unframed
  • Category:
    Painting

Graham Chorlton — Interior

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Graham Chorlton — Interior

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Graham Chorlton — Interior

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  • Artwork description:
    This painting shows a domestic interior. The image is arrived at through layering of acrylic paint, each layer responding to the last. Certain details are picked out more precisely with oil paint. The image is only just suggested in places, implying a fragility to our experience. The chief visual element here is illumination, and there is a consciousness of the emotional power of light in the history of painting.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    acrylic and oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    http://www.birminghamartspace.org/

Graham Chorlton — Headlights #3

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Graham Chorlton — Headlights #3

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Graham Chorlton — Headlights #3

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  • Artwork description:
    The ethereal illumination depicted in this painting is derived from a pool of light formed by headlights in a deserted nocturnal car park. There is very little detail here, the image on the edge of existing or being read. This is part of a series of work that uses light and empty space to suggest the mystery of the every day.
  • Date:
    2020-21
  • Medium:
    acrylic and oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    http://www.birminghamartspace.org/

Hannah Broadhead — The Addict

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Hannah Broadhead — The Addict

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Hannah Broadhead — The Addict

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  • Artwork description:
    The Addict is based on Caravaggio's Bacchus another part of my series portraying recognizable images and shifting their focus to emphasize certain characteristics of the original painting. This image gives the viewer no focal point the gaze is shifted to reveal multiple faces unsettling the viewer. The painting is painted using traditional methods of glazing to replicate Caravaggio's piece It is a painting in which the title explains it all
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on Panel
  • Category:
    Painting

Hannah Parkes — LIGHT #1

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Hannah Parkes — LIGHT #1

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Hannah Parkes — LIGHT #1

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  • Artwork description:
    'Light #1' depicts a minimal window structure with a view out to a warm toned sky. The painting invites the viewer to stop and spend a moment of quiet reflection. The structure guides the viewers gaze upwards out of the window, aiding the narrative of a grander structure beyond the canvas borders. Bold lines of architecture provide a sense of place and grounding. This is contrasted by the muted blend of colours that make up the sky. They provide a soothing warmth that is reminiscent of summer evenings and a lingering, low-lying sun.
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://hannahparkes.co.uk

Hannah Parkes — LIGHT #2

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Hannah Parkes — LIGHT #2

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Hannah Parkes — LIGHT #2

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  • Artwork description:
    'Light #2' depicts a minimal wall structure with a view overlooking a blended warm toned sky with translucent clouds. The painting invites the viewer to stop and spend a moment of quiet reflection. The structure provides a frame in which the viewer is able to gaze at the vista beyond. Bold lines of architecture provide a mixture of place and grounding combined with slight abstraction. Warm strips of orange bouncing from the sides of the structure provide insight into a setting sun to the right of the viewer. The light touch of clouds in the distance offer a glimpse of movement in what is a largely still scene. Blended colours of the sky further provide a soothing warmth that is reminiscent of summer evenings.
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://hannahparkes.co.uk

Hannah Quill — Hang tight

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Hannah Quill — Hang tight

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Hannah Quill — Hang tight

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  • Artwork description:
    Both ‘Where did it come from?’ and ‘Hang tight’ were created and completed mid pandemic. Varying in scale, surface, colour and materials, both paintings explore the structures and surfaces of bodily forms within. Investigating internal bodily processes, the process and medium of painting acts as a bodily medium itself. The title ‘Where did it come from?’ suggests the unknowing, capturing light, surroundings and tonal ranges. ‘Hang tight’ includes bodily structures gripping to the surface of the canvas, and the exploration of layering as a method.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    PinkGrip, white acrylic paint and fluorescent pink pigment.
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://hannahquill.wixsite.com/hannahq

Hannah Quill — Where did it come from?

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Hannah Quill — Where did it come from?

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Hannah Quill — Where did it come from?

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  • Artwork description:
    Both ‘Where did it come from?’ and ‘Hang tight’ were created and completed mid pandemic. Varying in scale, surface, colour and materials, both paintings explore the structures and surfaces of bodily forms within. Investigating internal bodily processes, the process and medium of painting acts as a bodily medium itself. The title ‘Where did it come from?’ suggests the unknowing, capturing light, surroundings and tonal ranges. ‘Hang tight’ includes bodily structures gripping to the surface of the canvas, and the exploration of layering as a method.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://hannahquill.wixsite.com/hannahq

Helen Garbett — Limpet Ecosystem

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Helen Garbett — Limpet Ecosystem

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Helen Garbett — Limpet Ecosystem

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  • Artwork description:
    'Limpet Ecosystem' is a watercolour painting which is part of a body of work investigating and illuminating the entangled relationship between humans and limpets over time. Limpets are commonly encountered all around Britain’s shoreline, seen in abundance clinging to rocky outcrops at low tide. So familiar in fact that they go largely unnoticed but, if given a little attention these fascinating creatures emerge in all sorts of other places, revealing a complex trail of archaeological, historical, ecological, scientific, cultural, and imaginary lines. My initial research shows that limpets have played a significant role in human history as food, fishing bait and grave offerings for example. They are also the focus of scientific research covering many disciplines including medicine, engineering, and marine ecology.
  • Date:
    January 2022
  • Medium:
    Watercolour
  • Category:
    Painting
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jack foster — Studio light still life

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jack foster — Studio light still life

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jack foster — Studio light still life

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  • Artwork description:
    A still life painted during the winter of 2021/22 with changing light conditions
  • Date:
    February 2022
  • Medium:
    oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
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