UK - West Midlands Claudia Borgna Exhibiting @The Rea Garden NEW
enlarge...	Location: The Rea Garden 1-8 Floodgate Street Digbeth Birmingham West Midlands B5 5ST Preview: 11/03/2010 6pm - 9pm Event dates: 12/03/2010 - 28/03/2010 Claudia Borgna has been resident artist at The Rea Garden since the beginning of 2010. During this time she has been creating temporary site responsive installations from recycled plastic bags. This is an opportunity to see Claudia's final installation at The Rea Garden. http://behindcloseddoors.org.uk/

UK - West Midlands Bald Statements - Exploring Loss, Grief and Change by Jean Parker NEW
enlarge...	Location: Ground floor open 10am-6pm Mon - Tues Whole building incl Art Gallery 10am-6pm Wed - Sun Free Entry The Public New Street west Bromwich West Midlands B70 7PG Event dates: 23/03/2010 - 20/04/2010 A series of sculptures made by Jean Parker as a reflection of her own experience of breast cancer. Sandwell PCT & Bridges Support Services in association with Westhill Endowment. www.thepublic.com

UK - West Midlands Screening 1 NEW
enlarge...	Location: Ground floor open 10am-6pm Mon - Tues Whole building incl Art Gallery 10am-6pm Wed - Sun Free Entry The Public New Street West Bromwich West Midlands B70 7PG Event dates: 13/03/2010 - 25/04/2010 Following The Public’s call for submissions in February we are proud to present a showcase of artists’ film and video work from the across the West Midlands and beyond. This work has been Curated by Caitlin Griffiths www.thepublic.com

UK - West Midlands A documentation of a failed attempt at communication - David Collier NEW
enlarge...	Location: Ground floor open 10am-6pm Mon - Tues Whole building incl Art Gallery 10am-6pm Wed - Sun Free Entry The Public New Street West Midlands West Midlands B70 7PG Event dates: 13/03/2010 - 25/04/2010 West Midlands based artist David Collier explores the frustrations of communication through his own experiences of dyslexia. www.thepublic.com

UK - West Midlands Hearing Unheard Voices NEW
enlarge...	Location: Ground floor open 10am-6pm Mon - Tues Whole building incl Art Gallery 10am-6pm Wed - Sun Free Entry The Public New Street West Bromwich West Midlands B70 7PG Event dates: 13/03/2010 - 25/04/2010 A thought provoking set of installations by young people from around the UK and Sandwell. Designed to coincide with UKYouth’s national initiative of the same name to train young people in the skills to campaign for their rights, especially young refugees, carers, homeless and those from other sections of society who do not normally have their voices heard. Join 100’s of Young people, aged 11-25, from all regions of the UK, in activities ranging from photography, painting with light, e-reporting and many more!’ In a variety of exhibitions showcasing Young People’s experiences from Young Travellers, Homeless, LGBT, Refugees, In Care, BME, NEET, Disabled as well as a collection of campaign’s from UK Youth Voice. • Video footage and animations expressing experiences of Young people with disabilities • Comic strip animations and illustrations detailing the rights of LGBT Young People • Video projections of what female role models look like to Disadvantaged Young Women • A series of short films looking in depth to the stereotypes faced by Young People in Care • The first edition of the Hearing Unheard Voices newspaper depicting positive news articles regarding Young People • Interview footage of Young Refugees experiences • A dance performance of what it means to be a BME Young Person • A series of photography collections showcasing images of stereotypes faced by Young Traveller www.thepublic.com

UK - West Midlands ‘B21’ by Darryl Georgiou NEW
enlarge...	Location: Ground floor open 10am-6pm Mon - Tues Whole building incl Art Gallery 10am-6pm Wed - Sun Free Entry The Public New Street West bromwich West Midlands B70 7PG Event dates: 13/03/2010 - 25/04/2010 Artist Darryl Georgiou begins his residency at The Public with an exhibition of his film B21 - a ‘sound and picture poem’ portraying Handsworth in the 1980’s. Withdrawn by the artist since 1991 The Public now presents a rare chance to view this work once more. www.thepublic.com

UK - West Midlands Robot Invasion by James Johnson-Perkins NEW
enlarge...	Location: Ground floor open 10am-6pm Mon - Tues Whole building incl Art Gallery 10am-6pm Wed - Sun Free Entry The Public New Street West Bromwich West Midlands B70 7PG Event dates: 10/02/2010 - 07/03/2010 “In James Johnson-Perkins’ constructions Mega Bloks, in their bright, shiny, simple colours, mediate ironically between the forms of art and the fantasy of childhood play.” Malcolm Gee, Professor of Art History, Northumbria University. James will also be running workshops to accompany the exhibition. www.thepublic.com

UK - West Midlands Birmingham and West Bromwich Miniature by Elizabeth Short NEW
enlarge...	Location: Ground floor open 10am-6pm Mon - Tues Whole building incl Art Gallery 10am-6pm Wed - Sun Free Entry The Public New Street West Bromwich West Midlands B70 7PG Event dates: 03/02/2010 - 07/03/2010 A series of photographs by Sandwell based artist Elizabeth Short, that present the normally large as strangely small. www.thepublic.com

UK - West Midlands Interactive Drawing by Josh Nimoy NEW
enlarge...	Location: The Public New Street West Bromwich West Midlands B70 7PG Event dates: 06/10/2009 - 07/03/2010 After falling in love with computer programming as a 14 year old schoolboy, Josh Nimoy started making simple games which he gave to his friends at school. By the time he was 18 he had dabbled with hacking and was doing more legitimate and socially responsible programming such as web development. Come and draw with these huge digital screens by New York artist Josh Nimoy. He lives in New York and is now working on special effects for a new Disney movie. And yes, he is related to Leonard Nimoy! www.thepublic.com

UK - West Midlands Mnemosyne followed by A conversation with John Akomfrah & Pervaiz Khan NEW
enlarge...	Location: Ground floor open 10am-6pm Mon - Tues Whole building incl Art Gallery 10am-6pm Wed - Sun The Public New Street West Bromwich West Midlands B70 7PG Event dates: 04/03/2010 - 04/03/2010 Free admission but spaces are limited so please RSVP to info_public@sandwell.gov.uk. Mnemosyne is a poetic essay on the themes of memory and migration, expressed through nine "chapters" that look at the experience of migrant labour in the West Midlands. To create this work John was given access to the BBC's television and radio archives as a part of Made in England, a two-year partnership between Arts Council England and BBC Regions that reflects how England makes art and art makes England. Screenings will continue at The Public until March 7th 2010. "Mnemosyne: a mind-blowing film that merges documentry and artistic essay in a way that astonishes, confounds and moves." by Ken Russell of The Times www.thepublic.com

UK - West Midlands Mnemosyne by John Akomfrah Premiere at The Public NEW
enlarge...	Location: Ground floor open 10am-6pm Mon - Tues Whole building incl Art Gallery 10am-6pm Wed - Sun The Public New Street West Bromwich West Midlands B70 7PG Event dates: 13/01/2010 - 07/03/2010 SCREENINGS ARE HOURLY STARTING AT 10.30AM AND LAST SCREENING AT 4.30PM Black Audio Film Collective artist John Akomfrah screens new work on migration and memory in January, at The Public, for Made in England. Mnemosyne will be shown from 13 January to 07 March 2010, at The Public, West Bromwich. www.bbc.co.uk/madeinengland http://www.macearchive.org.uk A new work by seminal filmmaker John Akomfrah will go on show at The Public January 2010 as part of Made in England, a partnership initiative developed by Arts Council England and BBC English Regions. Akomfrah was given access to the BBC’s television, film and sound archives for Made in England, a project that reflects how England makes art and art makes England. He chose to focus on the experience of migrant labour in the West Midlands to create Mnemosyne, a poetic essay on the themes of memory and migration. Mnemosyne refers to the mother of the nine Muses, the personification of memory in Greek Mythology. The belief was that those souls who chose to drink from the river of Mnemosyne, rather than from Lethe, would remember everything and attain omniscience. Akomfrah’s work questions memory and suggests the possibility for endless re-interpretation of historical events by interweaving archival footage from 1960-1981, with contemporary ‘portraits’ of Birmingham and extracts of new work filmed in a remote snowy landscape. Often referred to as ‘filmed essay’, Akomfrah’s work involves the creation of quasi-fictional scenarios, a questioning of the evidence that we find in archival material. For Mnemosyne, he used the BBC archives as a starting point to explore attitudes, assumptions and understandings about life in the West Midlands during a key moment in Britain’s immigrant history. Material has also been drawn from MACE (Media Archive for Central England) and Birmingham Central Library; joining up archives in this way is one of the pioneering aspects of the project. www.thepublic.com

UK - West Midlands The Public Photo Studio NEW
enlarge...	Location: The Public New Street West Bromwich West Midlands B70 7PG Event dates: 02/01/2010 Make beautiful Studio Quality photographs in our unique public photgraphic studio. Pop in to see what is going on, there will be many projects to take part in. www.thepublic.com

UK - West Midlands Fine Art Exhibition NEW
enlarge...	Location: The Glass Box Gallery Earl Street Coventry West Midlands CV1 5QP Preview: 09/03/2010 18:00 - 20:00 Event dates: 08/03/2010 - 12/03/2010 Students at Coventry University will be holding an exhibition at the Glass Box Gallery in Coventry city Centre starting on Monday 8th until Friday 12th March. The gallery, opposite Browns cafe bar on Earl Street, will show work by Abby Scobbie, Julie Chambers, Vicky Lee and Kathleen Snelson who are all currently in their second year on the BA Fine Art course. Holding the exhibition as part of their professional practice experience they will be exhibiting work produced over the past six months. The show will comprise of paintings, mixed media pieces and sculpture.

UK - Nottinghamshire The Meaning of Style NEW
enlarge...	Location: New Art Exchange 39-41 Gregory Boulevard Nottingham Nottingham Nottinghamshire NG7 6BE Event dates: 16/01/2010 - 10/04/2010 The Meaning of Style Mixed Media Artists include: Vanley Burke, Clement Cooper, Michael Forbes, Gerard Hanson and Barbara Walker Curated by New Art Exchange (David Schischka Thomas) The African Caribbean youth of the late 1970’s/early 1980’s were the first generation in the UK to confront society and demand change on mass. This ‘rebel’ generation in the UK were reflected in the visibility of sub-cultures like the ‘Natty Dreads / Rastas’ and the rise of reggae music with politically aware artists like Bob Marley and, in the UK, Steel Pulse. Young men developed a ‘Rebel’ style that influenced young people from all backgrounds, around the world. Style, fashion, ideology and the ‘Black’ Diaspora may have changed over the years, but young ‘Black’ men in the UK have made their presence felt ever since. In modern society many of the legacy of this 'rebel' style is seen in the fashion of young people from all backgrounds, ethnicity and geographical locations around the world. Ultimately, this exhibition will ask questions of all of us. ‘The Meaning of Style’ will bring together artists that have created portraits of young people using different mediums and create a dialogue and polemic which cross reference the work in the exhibition . Skinder Hundal, Chief Executive - New Art Exchange said: “New Art Exchange is extremely proud to be hosting this extremely important exhibition, which explores some of our seminal artists documenting ‘British Black culture’ from past decades, and highlighting how this has helped influence fashion, music and mainstream culture. It was a time of change, awareness and finally empowerment for many migrant communities in the UK, and the exhibition explores this through various artforms.” The exhibition and accompanying events and educational programme will explore young African Caribbean men’s style and fashion over the last 40 years, and the underlying political, social environment. - Ends - www.nae.org.uk

UK - Worcestershire Fran Horne - Artist Book Print Exhibition NEW
enlarge...	Location: Malvern Hills Gallery, 1 Worcester Road, Malvern, Worcestershire. Malvern Worcestershire Event dates: 01/03/2010 - 31/03/2010 Exhibition of Artist Books and Prints by Malvern based textile and book artist Fran Horne. www.franhorne.co.uk

UK - Gloucestershire SVA - Bee Lines new work by Alice Forward NEW
enlarge...	Location: SVA, 4 John Street Stroud Gloucestershire GL5 2HA Preview: 27/02/2010 3pm - 6pm Event dates: 27/02/2010 - 14/03/2010 The site09 darbyshire award winner. ‘BEE LINES’ features new work by artist Alice Forward, site09 Darbyshire Award winner. Forward's work explores the uneasy and complex relationship between man and nature. The migration of plants, colonisation and the use of both maps and bees as symbolic tools are all significant themes within her work. The BEE LINES associated events start with topening from 3-6pm on Saturday 27 February and from 10am Alice Forward has invited specialist beekeeping groups to set up stalls in SVA's courtyard for the opening of BEE LINES. On Sunday 7 March 11am there will be an 'In conversation' event with Alice Forward and Tom Trevor, director of Arnolfini. For the final Sunday 14 March at 11am there will be a talk by Paul Hand, Beekeeper specialist. Tuesday-Saturday 10am-3pm, Sunday 11am-1pm www.sva.org.uk

UK - Mid Glamorgan Elfyn Lewis - Gestiana NEW
enlarge...	Location: Cynon Valley Museum & Gallery - Amgueddfa ac Oriel Cwm, Depot Road, Gadlys Aberdare Mid Glamorgan CF44 8DL Event dates: 13/03/2010 - 24/04/2010 Exhibition of new paintings, by Elfyn lewis. For more information contact the gallery director Chris Wilson on 01685 886729 or e-mail: Chris.J.Wilson@rhondda-cynon-taff.gov.uk,Open daily between 9am to 4.30pm (except Sunday) www.cynonvalley.co.uk/cv_museum/index.htm

UK - Warwickshire A Room Of Our Own NEW
	Location: The Gallery, Stratford Leisure Centre, Bridgefoot Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6YY Preview: 12/03/2010 7pm - 9pm Event dates: 09/03/2010 - 10/04/2010 Contemporary art by women living in the West Midlands. Saturdays - artists in residence. 9.am -8.pm daily

UK - Worcestershire THE CENTRAL GALLERY AND EXHIBITION SPACE NEW
enlarge...	Location: The Central Gallery & Exhibition Space, 2 St Ann's Road Malvern Worcestershire WR14 4RG Event dates: 10/02/2010 Opening in Spring 2010, a spacious new gallery for hire in the centre of Great Malvern. Available in one or two week slots. Reasonable rates which include heating, lighting and a full alarm system. Further details on: info@thecentralmalvern.co.uk www.thecentralmalvern.co.uk

UK - Worcestershire Worcester Open 2010 Contemporary Art NEW
enlarge...	Location: Worcester City Art Gallery PITT artist-led space 62 Chestnut Walk Worcester WR1 1PR Worcester Worcestershire WR1 1PR Event dates: 24/04/2010 - 26/06/2010 In collaboration with Worcestershire Contemporary Artists and the PITT Studio, Worcester City Art Gallery will be co-hosting the fourth Worcester Open Exhibition. As well as exhibiting work from practicing artists in the West Midlands and surrounding counties, the Open will support professional arts development in the region through a range of additional opportunities and events. The exhibition is not themed but will be exploring the methods of selection and curatorial processes associated with Open type exhibitions and the role of mentor and protégé in visual art galleries. The Worcester Open 2010 Contemporary Art welcomes submissions from artists living in the West Midlands region, incorporating Staffordshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. Submit up to 3 works made since January 2006. 2-D all mediums 3-D sculpture assembleage or installation Video and Audio, time based and digital Live Art proposals with previous documentation Curators: Matt Roberts, Charlie Levine and Nathaniel Pitt Selectors: Matt Price, Anne de Charmant, Andrew Mania, Simon Rees and Sophie Hope Texts by Dave Beech, Freee and Chris Brown Protégés: Alexandria Clark and Nick Ranga DEADLINE 1st MARCH 2010 www.worcesteropen.co.uk

UK - Worcestershire Before Your Very Eyes NEW
enlarge...	Location: PITT, 62 Chestnut Walk Worcester Worcestershire WR1 1PR Preview: 12/03/2010 7pm - 10pm Event dates: 13/03/2010 - 28/03/2010 'Before Your Very Eyes'. An exhibition exploring the unique qualities of the instant photograph. A diverse selection of subject matter is being sought. There is no theme. All formats of instant photographs are eligible. Selected photographs to be supplied unframed and will be exhibited unframed. Call to artists to submit Polaroid / instant photographs for a group exhibition at Pitt artist led project space in Worcester (www.pittstudio.com) Deadline: 1 February 2010 WHEN: March 6th - March 14th 2010 PAYMENTS: None CHARGES: £3 per submission (up to 4 images) to cover costs. Checks payable to Pitt Studio. APPLY: Send up to 4 jpeg images on disc (max 300dpi / max 500 pixels wide) or paper prints to Pitt, 62 Chestnut Walk, Worcester, WR11PR. Do not send originals in the first instance. Please include your name, address and email address. CVs and short statements may also be supplied but are not essential. CONTACT: info@pittstudio.com www.pittstudio.com Deadline: 1 February 2010 Organiser/curator: Charlie Hurcombe www.pittstudio.com

UK - Gloucestershire 2010 Affordable Garden Art Exhibition
enlarge...	Location: Showborough House Twyning Gloucestershire GL20 6DN Event dates: 01/04/2010 - 06/06/2010 The sculpture By Claire Mc dermott, called ’Atmos’ is short for atmosphere and was created to increase the quality of space. By placing the bright flowers in a space that is normally forgotten, the area is reclaimed and starts to have an importance of its own.This work was created by a sense of timelessness and the simple shapes of fallen rhododendrons petals to convey a calm feeling. My vision was to install a carpet of colour with the flowers and give "Harmony" to the sculpture and the space...Title: Atmos; Size - 8.5 high x 11.5 x 10.5; Medium - Bone China & Glaze.......Showborough House holds the Affordable Garden Art Competition and Exhibition in the Spring. A wide variety of good but affordable sculpture, mostly by local or emerging sculptors, can be seen in the natural setting of the one and a half acre garden, which has been renovated over the last five years. Normal opening times. Will be open on Thursday to Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays. www.showborough.com

UK - West Midlands Interchat
enlarge...	Location: The Drum Birmingham West Midlands Event dates: 07/04/2010 - 08/04/2010 Airan Berg, Francois Matarasso, Fundacja Pogranicze, Nova Kultura. A dialogue on arts and communities with local and international perspectives. www.the-drum.org.uk

UK - Hereford Hereford Photography Festival
	Location: Hereford Event dates: 22/10/2010 - 27/11/2010 Commission Opportunity Award: £3,000 Artist fee (to include all expenses) plus production budget to be agreed. Criteria: Photographers, arts and research partnerships: Hereford Photography Festival are seeking to appoint a photographer to develop a proposal and undertake a research-led commission by the end of June 2010. Contact, Caitlin Griffiths Details: The purpose of this brief is to secure the creation of a high quality and innovative exhibition - of new photographic work and archival material - to celebrate the history, regional cultural significance and international presence of ‘The Hereford’ breed of cattle. For full brief and application details please email. caitlin@photofest.org www.photofest.org

UK - West Midlands \"home\"
enlarge...	Location: AirSpace Gallery 4, Broad Street, Cutural Quarter Stoke-on-Trent West Midlands ST1 4HL Event dates: 12/02/2010 - 27/03/2010 AirSpace Gallery is pleased to announce \”Home\” a Group Show Curated by Rachel Marsden. Featuring: Kashif Nadim Chaudry, Samit Das, Chinmoyi Patel, Hetain Patel, Harminder Singh Judge. \”home\” is a group exhibition looking into how, when set in a comparable context with artistsfrom South Asia, British artists of South Asian descent view their own origin and literal physicalsense of location, alongside more figurative investigations and manifestations of the self andidentity, locality and vicinity, foreign and foreignness, home and origin. 11am-5pm www.airspacegallery.org

UK - Shropshire John Penney Art Exhibition , Ludlow Library
enlarge...	Location: Ludlow Library Gallery, Parkway Corve Street Ludlow Shropshire SY8 2PG Event dates: 01/03/2010 - 31/03/2010 Solo Exhibition of paintings for sale by Shropshire artist John Penney. Ludlow Library. artistjohn.website.orange.co.uk

UK - West Midlands Port Knocker Dreams - recent work by Donald Locke
enlarge...	Location: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Lichfield Street Wolverhampton West Midlands WV1 1DU Event dates: 20/02/2010 - 29/05/2010 Donald Locke has lived, studied and worked in Guyana, Britain and the USA, moving backwards and forwards across the Atlantic for a number of years. His artwork explores elements of modernism and folk art and his distinctive sculptures fuse the influences of Western, Caribbean and Southern American culture. Port Knocker dreams is Donald Locke’s first UK solo show since the 1970s. www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk

UK - West Midlands The Vaults Bazaar
enlarge...	Location: The Vaults, Newhall Hill Birmingham West Midlands B1 3JH Preview: 24/02/2010 6pm - late Event dates: 24/02/2010 - 24/02/2010 TROVE is the first gallery invited by ARC to present a one night only exhibition at The VAULTS in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, UK. Each month ARC invites regional guest curators to present an exhibition of works to be exhibited at The VAULTS, with TROVE kicking off their 2010 programme. The Vaults Bazaar brings together a selection of regional and national artists that TROVE invited to take part in this exhibition. Each offering a different proposal of work, each vault will be different from classic painting through film to performance, a truly bizarre mix. Artists include: Jane Ball, Graham Chorlton, Coco DeVille, Caitlin Griffiths, Daniel Lehan, Bigid McLeer, Milk,Two Sugars, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Short and Steve Varndell www.TROVE.org.uk

UK - West Midlands João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva: On the Movement of the Fried Egg and Other Astronomical Bodies
enlarge...	Location: IKON 1 Oozells Square Brindleyplace Birmingham West Midlands B1 2HS Event dates: 03/02/2010 - 21/03/2010 Ikon presents the first major UK exhibition of work by Portuguese artists João Maria Gusmão (Lisbon, 1979) and Pedro Paiva (Lisbon, 1977). The pair create objects, installations and short films which they describe as poetic philosophical fiction. Having worked together since 2001, in recent years there has been increasing international interest in their practice, culminating in their representation of Portugal at the 2009 Venice Biennale. The work of Gusmão and Paiva constitutes a deeply curious investigation into the nature of reality, in which there is constant circulation between fact and fiction. Their projects are informed by a wide range of references, including historical literature, mythology and the occult, which they draw into their own pseudo-scientific investigations. The exhibition at Ikon focuses solely on their short 16mm films, featuring those recently made in Brazil alongside a selection from the last five years. They reflect the artists’ ongoing preoccupations: blindness and vision, metaphysics, the void and infinity. Usually set in deserts or other spartan landscapes, some incorporate a strange cast of characters who enact anarchic rituals or demonstrations, while others are unpopulated, their dream-like quality created by the artists’ use of slow-motion or multiple exposure of the film. All are silent. Projected in a darkened space, the films en masse operate as a visual essay that evokes anthropological mystery. In Experiment on the Effluvium (2009), a slow-motion film of a stone skimmed across the water’s surface resembles a mythological planetary event, while Astronomy Of The End Of The Boot (2009), in which a man observes the skies through a hole in his shoe, demonstrates a more literal way of experiencing the world. Different subjective positions are brought together in a complex conceptual narrative that demonstrates a smart humour. This also informs our reading of an accompanying publication, featuring essays by the artists, writers Marcus Steinweg and Sarah Robayo Sheridan and selected excerpts from the Kabbalah tradition, Fernando Pessoa, Pascal and Nietzsche. www.ikon-gallery.co.uk

UK - Avon 10 Seconds or Greater
enlarge...	Location: Sydney Row & Mardyke Ferry Road, Spike Island, Bristol Avon BS1 6UU Event dates: 23/01/2010 - 06/03/2010 10 Seconds or Greater is a new work by London based artist Rachel Reupke. Formally based on the production of royalty-free stock footage, 10 Seconds or Greater maps the logical progression of a director through a check list of popular scenarios designed to illustrate such commercially lucrative concepts as ‘communication’, ‘relaxation’ and ‘healthy life-style’. Four young actors, two women and two men, good-looking, slim and sensibly dressed, perform a series of domestic rituals in their ready furnished new build apartment. From shot to shot, drinking red wine, preparing food, using wireless technology and working out, progressive variations in role and nuance of social convention are played out while superficially mirroring contemporary trends and popular symbols of personal and professional success. Compiled as an ‘assembly edit' of shots, long fluid camera movements remain whole, leaving visible all available material. The result is a film whose attention wanders between action and art direction, laying equal emphasis on props, performance, emotional and technical content. With an original R&B score by Simon and Matt Ward. 10 Seconds or Greater was commissioned by Picture This and Film London Artists' Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) as part of the Bristol Mean Time Residency. Opening on the same night at Spike Island is Sanity Assassin by Amanda Beech. Following the preview there will be a joint party with dj's in the Spike Island Canteen til late. www.picture-this.org.uk

UK - Warwickshire Jerwood Sculpture Prize Commission Unveiling
enlarge...	Location: Jerwood Sculpture at Ragley, Ragley Hall. Alcester Warwickshire B49 5NJ Event dates: 12/06/2010 - 31/12/2010 Starting twenty-four metres below the ground, Juliet Haysom's ephemeral sculpture Spring is an innovative work that has a direct and active relationship with the landscape. The Jerwood Charitable Foundation is delighted to announce that the unveiling of this unique commission by Juliet Haysom will be on the 12 June 2008 at Ragley, Alcester, Warwickshire. Juliet won the 2007 Jerwood Sculpture Prize for Spring in April 2007 and has since been preparing for the day she can literally 'turn it on'. To create this transient sculptural form, Juliet drilled a borehole down to a local aquifer below the grounds of Ragley. Water present in the ground is then pumped to the surface and driven through a series of nozzles. Its appearance will vary depending on weather and light conditions, but the reliable water source means that it will remain a permanent feature of the within the grounds. The visible vapour created will sustain the turf and surrounding plants before vanishing into the atmosphere and ultimately returning to the ground. It is a special addition to the Jerwood Foundation's Sculpture Collection at Ragley. “Haysom is particularly intrigued by the ways in which each piece of sculpture can make use of the invisible qualities of a place.” Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Art Critic, The Times The Jerwood Sculpture Prize was launched in 2001 as a major initiative of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. The aim of this commissioning prize is to give strong support and encouragement to emerging talent within the medium of outdoor sculpture and to commission new work for the Jerwood Foundation's Sculpture Collection, sited within the grounds of Ragley, Warwickshire. Previous winners include Benedict Carpenter, Gereon Krebber, and Judith Dean. www.jerwoodsculpture.org

UK - West Midlands Cov: Art Fair (spring edition)
enlarge...	Location: The Lock Gallery, Canal Basin Coventry West Midlands Cv1 4LY Event dates: 07/03/2010 - 07/03/2010 Canal Basin Art and Craft Fair for local (and beyond) artist to sell direct to the public! just a big exhibition really with a bit of music and food. 11am-4pm www.TheLockGallery.co.uk

UK - West Midlands The Unwanted Gift Shop
enlarge...	Location: The New Art Gallery, Walsall,Gallery Square Walsall West Midlands WS2 8LG Event dates: 18/01/2010 - 18/04/2010 Do you have any unwanted gifts or bad purchases tucked away at the back of your wardrobe? Do not fear as you can now have your item transformed into works of art! Visit artist in residence Mitra Memarzia at The Unwanted Gift Shop and bring along your kitch ornaments, jumpers and useless gadgets. Mitra's 3 month residency coincides with the gallery's 10th Birthday! Visit the website for further information and to follow and comment on The Unwanted Gift Shop blog. Monday - Saturday and Bank Holidays 10-5pm, Sunday 11-4pm www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk

UK - West Midlands Clare Rojas: We They, We They
enlarge...	Location: IKON, 1 Oozells Square Brindleyplace Birmingham West Midlands B1 2HS Event dates: 03/02/2010 - 10/03/2010 Ikon presents the first UK museum exhibition by American artist, Clare Rojas (b. 1976, Ohio, lives and works in San Francisco). Best known for her folk-inspired practice, Rojas uses a wide range of media, including painting, installation and print-making. Her work is characteristically made by using flat areas of colour betraying her origins as a printmaker, its naïf, homespun style thrown into relief by a knowing subject manner. Thus Rojas challenges, with humour and irony, stereotypical representations of the sexes. The exhibition at Ikon, comprising much new work, marks a shift in Rojas’ practice. Paintings of empty domestic interiors suggest people have just departed, leaving clues of their identities, subtle revelations of gender and class. In other paintings, images of women are increasingly abstracted and yet retain a deceptive playfulness. Stacked conglomerations of shape, colour and pattern evoke figurative presence – a crescent of hair, a waist of a figure – all rendered in Rojas’ distinctive, flat style. It is as if she is reclaiming tropes from early modernist masters, visual languages that were particularly focused on feminine subjects such as the cubism of Picasso or the surreal biomorphism of Miro. Rojas’ paintings will form centrepieces in a larger installation that is the entire exhibition, walls of the gallery covered by a patchwork of painted panels akin to a quilt. Some are focused on particular imagery; others are assemblages of colour and pattern. They combine to recall a myriad of references from West Coast modernism, to Latino folk or Native American craft, outsider art and street graffiti. Ikon’s Tower Room will contain paintings on antique banjos, drawing together Rojas’ musical and literary interests where lyrics describe relationships, sometimes with tenderness, sometimes with pointed humour. Around the time of the exhibition opening there will be a concert in which the artist will perform songs taken from her albums released under the name of her alter-ego Peggy Honeywell. Tuesday - Sunday 11am-6pm. Closed Mondays except Bank Holidays. www.ikon-gallery.co.uk

UK - Gloucestershire the open west 2010
enlarge...	Location: Cheltenham Art Gallery + Museum, Clarence Street(also at Summerfield Gallery), Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 3JT Event dates: 17/02/2010 - 21/03/2010 In this second year of the open west, an annual open competition for the contemporary arts, 34 UK and 6 international artists have been selected to exhibit. The submission covered installation, film, paint, sculpture, print, photography and drawing. The panel of selectors for 2010 included the curators Lyn Cluer Coleman and Sarah Goodwin, together with artists Terry Duffy and Clara Clark. A major award of £1,500 and two additional awards of £750 will be awarded on the night of the preview. 10-4 Mon-Sun www.theopenwest.org.uk

UK - Avon To Be Confirmed
enlarge...	Location: The Bristol Gallery, Building 8, Unit 2, Millennium Promenade, Harbourside, Bristol Avon BS1 5TY Event dates: 16/01/2010 - 25/02/2010 Chantal Powell is a Hampshire based artist whose three dimensional works and installations explore the relationship between emotive found objects and our memories, desires, and dreams. Chantal Powell will be showing works in The Bristol Gallery's next group show, To Be Confirmed, running from January 16th – February 25th 2010. The Bristol Gallery is a contemporary art gallery representing international, national and regional artists working in a wide range of media. Monday – Friday: 9am – 6pm, Saturday: 10am – 5pm, Sunday: 11am – 4 pm, Late night opening: Thursday until 8pm www.thebristolgallery.co.uk

UK - Gloucestershire the open west 2010
enlarge...	Location: Summerfield Gallery, Pittville Studios, University of Gloucestershire, Albert Road, , (also at Cheltenham Art Gallery + Museum) Cheltenham Gloucestershire Glos GL52 3JG Event dates: 17/02/2010 - 13/03/2010 In this second year of the open west, an annual open competition for the contemporary arts, 34 UK and 6 international artists have been selected to exhibit. The submission covered installation, film, paint, sculpture, print, photography and drawing. The panel of selectors for 2010 included the curators Lyn Cluer Coleman and Sarah Goodwin, together with artists Terry Duffy and Clara Clark. A major award of £1,500 and two additional awards of £750 will be awarded on the night of the preview. Mon-Fri 10-4, Sat, Sun 12-4 www.theopenwest.org.uk

UK - Somerset In Absence
enlarge...	Location: The Lloyd Gill Gallery Lee House, Beaconsfield Road Weston-Super-Mare Somerset BS23 1YE Preview: 13/01/2010 7pm - 10m Event dates: 13/02/2010 - 12/03/2010 Mark Morris showing at The Lloyd Gill Gallery ‘In absence’ curated by Jamie Durling, Preview night will commence on Saturday 13th February and start at 7pm and finish at 10pm. Free wine on arrival. The exhibition will include painting, photography & sculpture. Under Jamie Durling’s curation, the exhibition will show works which express a sense of absence, solitude or emptiness. This could mean a fleeting moment of solitude experienced by the artist or the subject of the image. Participating artistsMark Morris Jo Seong HeeTsendpurev Tsegmid Tahnee Lonsdale www.markmorris-artist.com Gallery opening hours are Tuesday to Saturday 10am till 4.30pm www.thelloydgillgallery.com/futureshows.html

UK - Suffolk Colin Moss 1914-2005: Artist & Teacher
enlarge...	Location: Town Hall Galleries, Cornhill Ipswich Suffolk IP1 1DH Event dates: 10/01/2010 - 12/06/2010 A unique opportunity to see a significant number of art works by Colin Moss, from the Ipswich Borough Council collection. An artist, teacher and journalist, he became well known for his honest depictions of ordinary life. He was born in Ipswich but studied at Plymouth and the Royal College of Art. In his mid-twenties he worked on murals for the British Pavilion at the New York World Fair. Then later designed camouflage for the Ministry of Defence. In 1947 he became senior lecturer at the Ipswich School of Art where he taught for 32 years. He founded the Six in Suffolk Group of artists in 1976 and be came chair of the Ipswich Art Club from 1980-1982. Our everyday lives became Moss’ subjects; a woman brushing her hair, people watching a film, a couple kissing and soldier’s playing cards. An inventive artist he could capture these moments in oil, watercolour, prints and drawings. The art on show will reveal the diversity of Moss as an artist and his observations of life. This exhibition is accompanied by a full programme of events. www.townhallgalleries.org.uk

UK - West Midlands Anthony Boswell - New Work. 'Revealed, Retrieved'
enlarge...	Location: White Tree Gallery, 21 Chapel Ash Wolverhampton West Midlands WV3 0TZ Event dates: 12/03/2010 - 19/03/2010 New work exploring the use of drawing and the domestic interior. www.whitetreestudioandgallery.com

UK - Avon ICIA Art Space 1, University of Bath
enlarge...	Location: University of Bath, Claverton Down Bath Avon BA2 7AY Event dates: 04/01/2010 - 18/06/2010 Margareta Kern - Guest Free Admission. Box Office: 01225 386777, Kern's new installation follows her two month residency in Berlin where she investigated the organised mass labour migration from socialist Yugoslavia to capitalist West Germany in the late 1960s. Mainly female, these ’guest workers' (Gastarbeiter) were employed by large companies, and often never returned home. Artists Talk: Thurs 6 May, 7pm-8pm, free. Margareta Kern in Conversation, Mon-Sat 10am-5pm www.bath.ac.uk/icia

UK - West Midlands Water-shed, new work by Edmund de Waal
enlarge...	Location: Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum. Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade Leamington Spa West Midlands CV32 4AA Event dates: 22/01/2010 - 11/04/2010 Edmund de Waal is one of Britain's leading artists working with ceramics. His work is represented in many international collections and has been exhibited widely at art galleries and museums including Tate Britain, MIMA (Middlesbrough), Kettle's Yard (Cambridge), and Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. Recent commissions have included his ambitious 'Signs and Wonders' installation which opened at the V&A Museum in September 2009. In this exhibition de Waal will explore the use of vessels in medical treatments, drawing inspiration from the collection at Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum. As well as examples of the artist's earlier work, the exhibition will feature a new artwork titled 'water-shed', which reimagines a medical cabinet filled with vessels glazed in aquatic blues and greys. Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 10.30am - 5pm. Thurs 1.30 - 8pm. Sun 11am - 4pm. Mon closed except Bank Holidays www.warwickdc.gov.uk/royalpumprooms

UK - Cambridgeshire MARK AERIAL WALLER: THE CASSIOPEIA PLAN
enlarge...	Location: Wysing Arts Centre, Fox Road Bourn Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB23 2TX Event dates: 16/01/2010 - 28/02/2010 Exhibition launch: Saturday 16 January, 4-6pm. Special family launch: Saturday 16 January, 2-4pm Wysing. Arts Centre will officially launch the centre’s year of The Improbable with a solo exhibition by London based artist Mark Aerial Waller. Waller is a film-maker, sculptor, installation artist and occasional writer and editor. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of cinema and brings cinematic references into the gallery through his immersive installations, screenings, events and elaborate films; in which action has been improvised by the cast in fantastical settings, such as a foam cave or a half completed housing development in Dakar. Science fiction meets Greek mythology in some of the most compelling – and improbable – artworks imaginable. A series of readings, screenings, performances and events curated by Mark Aerial Waller will be taking place during and after the exhibition: Thursdays 21 January, 4 & 18 February, all 6-8pm; Weekends 6/7 & 20/21 March, all 12-4pm. Join us for our special FAMILY LAUNCH of the Year of THE IMPROBABLE – a free, drop-in, family workshop in a fantastical setting. 12-5pm daily during exhibitions www.wysingartscentre.org

UK - Essex Making Tracks - Performing Place.
enlarge...	Location: Online at www.performingplace.com Colchester Essex Event dates: 26/08/2009 - 26/08/2010 What shape is your community? Working with community groups in the historic town of Colchester the artist Gordon Flemons has tracked volunteers performing their routine journeys through the streets and surrounding countryside. These paths in space and time were recorded using GPS loggers and used to create 3D drawings and virtual sculptures unique to each group. View the animated drawings on line at: www.performingplace.com www.performingplace.com

UK - Leicestershire Newarke Point - Unknown Student - Michael Pinsky
enlarge...	Location: Newarke Point, 8 Newarke Close, Leicester Leicestershire LE2 7GZ Event dates: 20/05/2009 - 14/05/2011 Detailed drawings of students' rooms are displayed in animated neon on two exterior facades of Newarke Point. They can be seen across Leicester. This process transfers the personal domain to the public domain. Unknown Student celebrates particular students' life by accurately documenting all their possessions. These objects date in time allowing the observer to guess the time that the artwork was installed. Unknown Student is concerned with the most pressing issues which students deal with when they first leave home, which tend to focus on domestic survival rather than academic success. The artwork is a monument to individual students, picked at random, whether they become a great 'success' or simply carry on unknown within the mass of society.

UK - Avon ICIA Art Space 2, University of Bath
enlarge...	Location: University of Bath Claverton Down Bath Avon BA2 7AY Event dates: 21/01/2010 - 19/03/2010 Swindon College - Lines of Enquiry 6 The sixth in a series of exhibitions showing work by graduates of the BA Fine Art Drawing at Swindon College’s School of Art & Design. Free Mon-Sat 10am-5pm www.bath.ac.uk/icia

UK - Greater London Love London Recycled Sculpture Show
enlarge...	Location: WWT London Wetland Centre, Queen Elizabeth's Walk, Barnes London Greater London SW13 9WT Event dates: 04/06/2009 - 04/04/2010 The Recycled Sculpture Show is an engaging and unique art exhibition. It communicates a positive message in support of sustainability, wildlife conservation and the protection of natural habitats. Artists interpret and express these ecological themes through the medium of sculpture, utilising salvaged, reclaimed and recycled materials. This thought-provoking, entertaining and inspiring exhibition has captured the imagination of a worldwide audience. 9.30 - 18.00 www.recycledsculptureshow.co.uk