School of Art

BIAD MA Show 2009

Art Based Master’s Programme:
MA Fine Art
MA Art Practice and Education
MA Contemporary Curatorial Practice
MA Digital Arts In Performance
MA Arts, Health & Wellbeing

to download the catalogue for this years show click here

School of Art, Margaret St,
Birmingham, B3 3BX
T: 0121 331 5970
Public opening times and dates:
Sat 5 – Sat 12 Sept
Weekdays 10am – 5pm
Weekends 10am – 4pm

 

Summer Show 2009

Venue: Margaret St, Birmingham. B3 3BX; Tel: 0121 331 5970

(map for Margaret Street School of Art)

• Sat 13 June - Sun 14 June, 10 am - 6pm
• Thurs 18 June - Friday 19 June, 10am - 5pm
• Sat 20 June - Sun 21 June, 10am - 4pm
• PRIVATE VIEW - Wed 17 June 6 pm - 8 pm

 

Three short films by BA (Hons) Fine Art Students

A film about Margaret Street by Shell Graham, a final year student.

Tim Robottom, a final year student, talks about his fine art practice and experience, and his use of the building to present an ongoing series of interventions using plastic and found objects.

Josephine Reichert, a final year student, talks about an exhibition of student work she co-curated in the school of art gallery space. This is actively encouraged throughout the course enabling students to develop key professional practice skills.

 

Wheatley Fellowship 2008 / 09

Juneau Projects have been selected as the Wheatley Fellow based in the School of Art 2008/09. Formed in 2001 as a collaborative practice, Ben Sadler and Phil Duckworth have exhibited nationally and internationally. Their work engages with people and folk histories, bringing together live work and installations in new interactive combinations. Their work encompases video, installation, performance, sculpture, photography and painting., featuring an array of natural imagery such as animals, birds and landscapes, which seek to express how we think we feel about nature in the 21st century.

 

fine art student Vickie Wood scoops first prize

Vickie Wood, BA Fine Art Student, has won first prize in this years Louisa Anne Ryland Travel Scholarship Award. Vickie beat fellow students from BIAD to win £1000 & a £250 travel bursary from Study Link student tour operators. To see all the Ryland entries click here.


Colmore Plaza commission


Leah Draisey (final year fine art student) and Matt Foster (second year fine art student) have completed an impressive commission on the side of the Birmingham Mail and Post building, as part of the new Colmore Plaza development in the city centre, not far from Margaret Street. It has been a great opportunity to work collaboratively and to develop a whole range of professional skills.


Cut out of sheet aluminium, sprayed red, grey and white, and floated on the wall surface, the piece is the result of months of planning and fabrication. The design, which takes it's colours from traditional newspapers, is based on notions of mapping, routes and networks.


margaret st. Fine Art workshops


A selection of new photographs showing students at work in the Margaret St. Fine Art workshops. Click here to view


Artist Teacher Scheme: A short course for artist teachers


The national programme of continuing professional development courses for artist teachers: A short course for artist teachers. To find out more you can download the leaflet accompanying the course here.


School of Art - Margaret Street tour

The School of Art tour is a short film shot on location at the Margaret Street site in Birmingham City Centre. It is ideal viewing in support of our Open Days or even if you are just curious to see what goes on inside this historical building. The tour includes student work-in-progress, studio spaces and workshops and is accompanied by a voiceover from BA course director John Wigley.

Watch the Margaret Street Tour


A short film by Postgraduate students

Postgraduate students take you on a tour around this years MA Fine Art Show at the Margaret Street site.

Watch the MA Show Tour by Rob Shard


In Conversation: Cornelia Parker, Damian Ortega & Jonathan Watkins

This is one of a number of activities the School of Art has organised with the Ikon Gallery throughout the year, uniting two important centres of contemporary practice. This event, chaired by the director of the IKON, Jonathan Watkins, explored the work of the two international artists currently showing at the Ikon and Ikon Eastside.

Read more about this event on biadart.com

Nether Hall Park Sculpture

This exciting new work by third year BA(Hons) Fine Art student, Chris Johns, is to be sited at Nether Hall Park in Great Barr, Birmingham, in conjunction with a new housing development.  It is designed in the form of a large-scale horizontal face sundial, one of the earliest types of device for the measurement of time. Its geometry is specific to its precise latitude, showing the time according to the angle of the shadow cast by the upright gnomon.

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MA Fine Art Show 2007 Everything Changes

The MA Fine Art course is renowned regionally, nationally and internationally for the high quality of the work produced; the relationship fostered between art and philosophy defines it as unique. The course is one of the longest established courses in the country with a reputation to match its history. The educational experience it offers is intrinsically bound up with its city centre location within the Department of Art and it is this experience, alongside a sense of history and continuity that attracts artists from all over the world. This year’s show also presents the work of artists from the Art and Education course who have developed their individual practice within particular educational contexts towards the reinvigoration of art education itself.

Visit the biadart.com gallery space for details about this year's show entitled Everything Changes