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Figurative Art Now

There’s still time to view works by Annette Pugh and Angela Maloney in Figurative Art Now, an exhibition that explores the breadth of representational painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking in the UK today.

Works were selected by an eminent panel of judges:

• Jo Baring, Director of the Ingram Collection
• Andrew Gifford, Artist
• Clare O’Brien, CEO Federation of British Artists
• Barbara Walker, Artist
• Jonathan Watkins, Director of the Ikon Gallery

Exhibition continues until 20th September 2021

Online Only

Birmingham Artspace welcomes two new painters to the studio. Jack Foster and James Birkin, both graduates from Coventry University MA painting course, have become our most recent members and we are looking forward to their contribution to the studio dynamic.

Jack Foster, ‘Stilgrenzen’, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2019

‘Birds’, by Ruth Spencer has been purchased for the New Art Gallery Walsall Collection.

The work is a response to the democracy protests in Hong Kong and protests in general and will form part of a series of works by Midlands artists, chosen by the gallery for their new capsule collection, Twenty Twenty, representing significant events of the past twelve months.

An online art\write project including video works by Graham Chorlton and Annette Pugh https://www.artwrite.net/

We are pleased to announce that Angelina May Davis was shortlisted for the Jacksons Painting Prize reaching the last 42 from a submission of 5634.