Midwest to Midville
Midwest to Midville: repositioning the visual arts in the Midlands, Ikon, 2014
Panel discussion on the current visual arts ecology in the West Midlands region and significant developments over the last fifty years, since the beginning of Ikon (est. 1964)
Featuring: Rachel Bradley, Daniel Pryde-Jarman, Marlene Smith, Steve Trow
Researcher-in-Residence
AHRC Knowledge Exchange Programme, Ikon, Birmingham, 2013
Ikon was used as a base for a series of recorded interviews with West Midlands-based curators. The interviews focused on 2 aspects; the relationship between art and curator activities within their own practices, and secondly, the history of artist-run spaces in the city of Birmingham specifically from 1990s onwards.
Interviewed:
Mona Casey (Colony, Birmingham)
Cheryl Jones (Grand Union, Birmingham)
Nat Pitt (Division of Labour, Worcester)
Andre de Jong (Vinyl, Birmingham)
Karin Kharlberg & Reuben Henry (Springhill Institute, Birmingham)
Craig Barnes (Downstairs, Herefordshire)