CONCRETE NATURE

Featuring; Carolyn Blake, Jen Dixon, James Fowkes, Paul Newman

The Showcase Gallery, 130 Pershore St, The Jubilee Trade Centre, Birmingham, B5 6ND

Dec – Jan 2024 by appointment. Contact; phnewman73@hotmail.com 07766187030

Concrete Nature explores four individual relationships with urban concrete, through walking, commuting and recording experiences, memory and re-imagining.  Their documents are translated through collage, painting and photography. Each artist presents alternative and overlapping perspectives; interpreting modernist infrastructure and its juxtaposition with nature, the romantic notion of the ruin as explored in art histories and the translation of urban concrete with materials including cardboard and paint.

@carolynblake  @jennifdixon @Jfowkes_art  @paulhnewman

The Visitation, Don Quiote II: Yellow Mountain, & After the Storm are featured in;

Worlds Away: Art, at The Midlands Arts Centre; mac birmingham. @macbirmingham.

2 Sept – 26 Nov.

Featured Artists: Cheryl Beer, Frank Brangwyn, Dalziel + Scullion, Ming de Nasty, Joan Eardley, Ufuoma Essi, Madge Gill, Frederick Hubble, Juneau Projects, John Kippin, Dame Laura Knight, Rona Lee, Richard Long, Lisa Milroy, Rebecca Moss, Mariele Neudecker, Mary Newcomb, John Newling, Paul Newman, Kathleen Ryan, Ian Skoyles, Sir Stanley Spencer, Sarah Taylor Silverwood, Mimei Thompson, Georgia Tucker, Alfred Wallis, Grace Williams, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

Curated by Rachel Bradley

This exhibition brings together artists who have been inspired by the natural world and its power to stimulate feelings of belonging, mental and physical wellbeing. Artworks consider a range of views from the romantic vision of nature as a therapeutic companion to a new contemporary era of ‘climate anxiety’ and its enormous global challenges.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Condor and The Mole, 2011. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London © Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

Kindly supported by The Grimmitt Trust in Memory of Marjorie Welch, MK Rose Charitable Trust, Roughley Trust, Arts Council England, and players of People’s Postcode Lottery.