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The finishing touches are being applied to a brand new mural in Digbeth to announce the last ever season of the BBC’s Small Heath gangster show Peaky Blinders. The large-scale street art in Digbeth Court will receive an official unveiling on Tuesday 15 February.
A series of stunning murals have been unveiled throughout Lozells in Birmingham as part of an interactive arts trail created to inspire local residents. The colourful artworks have been designed at 10 different locations across the north Birmingham neighbourhood by artist Bunny Bread as part of the Gallery37 project, a city-wide 3-year visual arts project…
A mural in Kings Heath commemorating the visit to Smethwick by civil rights activist Malcolm X in 1965, with the art showing solidarity with Palestinians, was vandalised this week but later salvaged with a ‘Choose Love’ slogan written over the damage. The act of wanton vandalism against the artwork has generated more interest in the…
A stunning new street art mural was unveiled today on a rooftop in Digbeth by city artist Gent 48. Selly Oak artist ‘Gent 48’ – real name Joshua Billingham – was commissioned by Birmingham City Council to create the artwork to celebrate a new era for Smithfield Birmingham, as part of the city council’s Be Bold, Be…
West Midlands Police have allegedly been in talks with the owners of a business on whose wall a Palestinian solidarity mural was painted last Monday (May 17). Award-winning Birmingham based artist Mohammed Ali has raised concerns about the unwelcome police attention to his art and shared his thoughts on his social media page.
A striking new mural depicting the historic visit of civil rights activist Malcolm X to Smethwick in 1965, has been unveiled in Birmingham as a show of solidarity with the plight of the Palestinian people. The topical artwork – created by Birmingham based artist Mohammed Ali – reflects on the current escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which has resulted in worldwide protests, including in…
Community organisations in North Birmingham have put a call out for local artists to create interactive art installations and projects to engage and empower local residents, to the tune of £100,000. Gallery37 North – an initiative working on creative projects in and around Aston, Birchfield, Perry Barr, Erdington, Lozells and Handsworth Wood – is looking…
A 7ft graffiti mural has been sprayed in Digbeth to launch the second series of BBC Three show The Rap Game UK. The BBC has released a video showing Birmingham-based artist David Brown aka Panda spraying the artwork of the show in the Zellig car park in Digbeth.
Community organisations in north-east Birmingham have put a call out for local artists to create art installations to engage and empower local residents. Gallery37 North – an initiative working on creative projects in and around Aston, Witton, Birchfield, Perry Barr, Erdington, Lozells and Newtown – is looking to recruit artists from Birmingham for seven new…
Birmingham City Council has issued an apology after a street art tribute to George Floyd was removed hours after being painted in Kings Heath by a Birmingham artist. Mohammed Ali was deeply “saddneed and disturbed” when he discovered his street art tribute to George Floyd had been mysteriously removed. After investigating the issue he found…