This from the Self Service mailing list, announcing the next in the series of Pub Conversations:
Thursday 17th Jan from 7.30pm
back at our usual venue:
The Lamp Tavern,
257 Barford Street,
Birmingham.
B5 6AH
Aside from directions and past conversation podcasts, our website is playing up at the moment so it isn’t up-to-date. Instead, please see the biographies below to realise why this is a night in the pub not to miss.
Places are free but please rsvp to selfservice[at]hotmail.co.uk to book.
Also, please pass this on to your mailing lists and any others who may be interested.
Douglas White
A Royal College of Art graduate, Douglas White has won the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award, and a Mann Drawing Prize. He was also shortlisted for the Jerwood Sculpture Prize and the Jerwood Drawing Prize. He has also won the Cockburn Art Prize (1999), the Southsquare Art Scholarship (1996) and the Margaret Pollock Scholarship (2004). His work was selected for the New Contemporaries exhibition in 2004 and 2006. His first solo show was held in October 2006 at Paradise Row, London.
Justin Coombes
Another Paradise Row solo show artist, Justin Coombes is a Goldsmith’s graduate, specialising in photography. He was short-listed for the Paul Hamlyn Award 2007 and the Vordemberge-Gildewart Prize 2006 and won the BOC Emerging Artist Award in 2005. He also has work in the British Government Art Collection.
Returning from a hiatus of a few months, Pub Conversations is back with a slight variation in the format in order to address the urgent issue of studio provision within the city.
I’m assuming Tindal St. and Lee Bank will have their share of representation, but there has to be more to Brum’s studios than that so it would be good to see some new faces to share their views. Likewise we’d love to hear from recent graduates who are maybe looking for somewhere to operate from – what do you want and what would be workable for you?
I’m not sure if this one will be podcast, so make sure to book a place via selfservice@hotmail.co.uk
Here’s the information from the mailout:
PUB(LIC) CONVERSATION ABOUT STUDIOS AND ARTISTS’ WORKSPACE IN BIRMINGHAM
Guest speaker and host: Lucy Byatt, Director of Spike Island, Bristol.
In December, after a six month stay of execution, Birmingham Artists will lose the subsidy for their studios at Lee Bank. This space was the only Birmingham City Council subsidised artists’ workspace in the city. Meanwhile other studios (including those the majority of Self Service members inhabit) are in privately owned buildings that are often cold, damp, insecure and uninsurable.
Self Service feel this most recent withdrawal of support for artists’ practice, should act as a catalyst for a wider discussion about the lack of affordable, fit for purpose studio provision and production facilities in the city
How should artists in Birmingham respond to the council’s action?
Could artists be doing more to demonstrate the intrinsic value of arts practice to the city?
Are successful models for studio provision just about providing artists with space to work?
Is the Creative Industries agenda at odds with the realities of most artists’ practice?
With these, and many more, questions in mind we have have invited Lucy Byatt to host a pub(lic) conversation around this issue.
Everyone is welcome, though as we are limited by space, booking is essential. Please email selfservice@hotmail.co.uk to book a place.
Lucy Byatt was educated at Brighton University, Glasgow School of Art and Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. In 1995, after working as an artist over a number of years, she joined Visual Art Projects in Glasgow as Co-Director and in 2000 she established The Centre, an independent commissioning organization where she worked with artists including Graham Fagan, Toby Paterson, Simon Starling, Siobhan Hapanska and Vong Phaophanit
Spike Island is a national centre for the production and exhibition of contemporary art. Located in Bristol, Spike offers excellent studios as well as project and exhibition space for the making and showing of ambitious new work. Spike Island emerged from an artist run initiative developed in the late 70’s, Bristol Art Space. Whilst it is no longer ‘artist run’ the values of support to artists and those developing their career within the contemporary visual arts remains a high priority.
Self Service invites a series of speakers to converse with a guest of their choice in front of an audience in the Lillie Langtry room at the Old Lamp Tavern, Birmingham.
In our quest to counter-balance the flood of talks about development/infrastructure of the arts/creative industries in the city of Birmingham, we’re talking about art practice over a pint.
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