Birmingham artists use empty shop to talk about recession
A Birmingham arts group has pledged to highlight the plight of the high street in a new exhibition in an empty shop.
Birmingham based Curator5 will be hosting a new exhibition featuring six local artists in an empty shop in the Pavilions Shopping Centre, to highlight the effects of the recent recession.
The group, made up of Peter Barcham, Jilin "Lin" Nui, Roma Piotrowska, Sonya Russell-Saunders and Clair Walton are giving six up and coming artists the chance to create work based on their thoughts on the consumer crisis. The project is running in conjunction with Buy Nothing Day, and to mark the event the organisers have brought together Michael Bold, Chris Clinton, Alex Lockett, Adam Radley, Lisa Roffey, Tim Stock who are each contributing to the new show.
Michael Bold from Crewe is using empty boxes, inviting you to buy a box of nothing on 27th November 2010 "Buy Nothing Day" in exchange for a photograph of yourself as a record of the transaction. His boxes will disappear over the duration of the show, reflective of the disappearing high street shop.
Alex Lockett offers free flower seeds do your own guerilla gardening in exchange for a chat about the recession and allotment keeping.
Chris Clinton�s includes beautiful minimalist pieces constructed from recycled materials, while Adam Radley is a graffiti artist exploring the idea of being trapped in consumerism.
Lisa Roffey's film work considers the changing function of the shop space, while Tim Stock has a pile of original photographs of empty shops - do you feel comfortable taking an original art work for free?
To publicise the show, which opens on 25 November and runs until 28 November 2010 the organisers are pushing a trolley around Birmingham on Buy Nothing Day on 27th November 2010.
Birmingham based Curator5 will be hosting a new exhibition featuring six local artists in an empty shop in the Pavilions Shopping Centre, to highlight the effects of the recent recession.
The group, made up of Peter Barcham, Jilin "Lin" Nui, Roma Piotrowska, Sonya Russell-Saunders and Clair Walton are giving six up and coming artists the chance to create work based on their thoughts on the consumer crisis. The project is running in conjunction with Buy Nothing Day, and to mark the event the organisers have brought together Michael Bold, Chris Clinton, Alex Lockett, Adam Radley, Lisa Roffey, Tim Stock who are each contributing to the new show.
Michael Bold from Crewe is using empty boxes, inviting you to buy a box of nothing on 27th November 2010 "Buy Nothing Day" in exchange for a photograph of yourself as a record of the transaction. His boxes will disappear over the duration of the show, reflective of the disappearing high street shop.
Alex Lockett offers free flower seeds do your own guerilla gardening in exchange for a chat about the recession and allotment keeping.
Chris Clinton�s includes beautiful minimalist pieces constructed from recycled materials, while Adam Radley is a graffiti artist exploring the idea of being trapped in consumerism.
Lisa Roffey's film work considers the changing function of the shop space, while Tim Stock has a pile of original photographs of empty shops - do you feel comfortable taking an original art work for free?
To publicise the show, which opens on 25 November and runs until 28 November 2010 the organisers are pushing a trolley around Birmingham on Buy Nothing Day on 27th November 2010.