Newspaper Article

Final list of artists for city Big Art Project revealed

2015

Overview

As the writer and critic Sally O'Reilly states, [Keith Wilson] creates \"new histories and possibilities\" with his works by \"clashing objects together to override their accepted function\". The artworks [Sullivan JOANNE Tatham] and O'Sullivan make have been described as exploring, just as the Birmingham Big Art Project aims to, the \"mythic potential of art.\". They are also fascinated by \"how art can exist as an event in a particular space and time\". As the writer Skye Sherwin says, [Richard Hughes BIRMINGHAM.BORN] was \"skateboarding and hanging out under flyovers in rainy 1980s Birmingham\" - this is the landscape that has been inspiring him for years. Hughes admits to feeling a little romantic about these early years, playing with mates in shut down shopping centres and other neglected places, though his dad was out of work and life was difficult for many people during Thatcher's term. But, as Sherwin states:\"The way we rose-tint the past interests him as much as time's ravages.\"

• Publisher: Mirror Regional Newspapers
• Subject: BIRMINGHAMBORN, Richard Hughes / Hiorns, Roger Hiorns ROGER / Sherwin, Skye / Tatham, Sullivan JOANNE / Wilson, Keith