Lirikal Lounge - Voice Performance / Songwriting
Partners
Birmingham Opera Company / John Mostyn
Artists
Martin Glynn, Sarah Miller, Marie Thomas, Avelino Bambi
Apprentices learned more about their own expressive talents and how to hone these in a professional way. They explored, in a serious way, how their talents might help them earn a living.
Birmingham Light & Metal Company - Jewellery / Photography
Partners
Museum of the Jewellery Quarter / Craftspace Touring / Seeing the Light
Artists
Rita Patel, Steve Smith, Mikaela Lyons, Mauro Fornasiero
Gallery 37’s Jewellery / Photography project was thematically linked to the SELF exhibition, which explored our complex physical, cultural and personal identities. Apprentices investigated belonging, our sense of who we are through our relationships with others, and questioned the terms us, them and others.
Memory & Place - Creative Writing / Visual Arts
Partners
Tindal Street Press / IKON Gallery / UCE
Artists
Joss Burke, Polly Wright, Lisa Metherell, Michele Rickett
Ikon Gallery worked in partnership with Tindal Street Press and the University of Central England to develop a programme of creative activity for a group of older participants.
The older participants worked in response to Ikon’s summer exhibition titled Some of the Best Things in Life Happen Accidentally, Ikon at 40. This exhibition showcased work produced by some of the artists that set-up the gallery along with those artists who had exhibitions in the early days of the gallery, and also celebrated Ikon’s 40th anniversary as one of Birmingham’s main cultural institutions.
Participants responded to this by reflecting on their own experiences of the city over the last 40 years, recalling memories of people and places.
Performance & Multi-media - Drama / Performance
Partners
Birmingham Rep / Vivid / Punch music
Artists
Juliet Raynsford, Natalie Hart, Abigail Davey, Antonio Zissou
Apprentices engaged with performance, drama and narrative whilst developing their technical skills and knowledge. Using our notion of time together with architecture, this project developed a performative piece of work combining live performance with technology.
Thematically the project was linked to architecture - used as a device to explore the history of the city, with reference to the current regeneration programme, and its pertinence to and impact on contemporary society/living.
Push - Music
Partners
Crush Music / Custard Factory / SBC
Artists
Nick Green, Colin Peters, Steven Brown, Jozef Remeny
Push was developed in partnership with Crush Music and The Custard Factory, and encompassed the use of a variety of music technology and traditional processes to allow the apprentice artists to create a range of work, that was ultimately collated to produce a CD / Video.
Morph-Haus - Craft / Textiles
Partners
Sampad / Stourbridge College
Artists
Ruth Turnbull, Lorna Rose, James Cangiano, Jo Tremarco
Apprentices on the Morph-Haus project explored a range of craft and textile techniques and investigated the theme of texts and symbols originating from South Asian culture.
From Still To Moving - Dance & Photography
Partners
Birmingham Children’s Hospital / Birmingham Rep / Vivid / Punch
Artists
Gail Wigley, Fran Gkotsi, Keir Williams
For this project, Gallery 37 was situated on the site of the old General Hospital in the heart of Birmingham, providing the maximum number of young people associated with Birmingham Children’s Hospital the opportunity to train alongside professional artists.
Participants produced a range of quality photographic images to be displayed in the trust and created a series of short performance pieces, showcased to patients, staff and families on two hospital sites.