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Hope from the Heart of Ukraine
Two years of war is a heavy weight to carry. Friction Art club has created a space for young Ukrainian artists to express themselves and mark this anniversary. Through these difficult times we want to honour these difficult stories and show our solidarity – your voice matters. Art is a powerful tool for sharing stories […]
Seasons greatings and see you in the New Year!
Wishing you all be merry and bright, with twinkling lights and cozy nights. Wishing you all the best this winter season! We’ll be closed now until 2nd January 2024
Renewing the Edge
Renewing the Edge As you know, we’re undertaking a major refurbishment of the Edge. This means we’ll be closing for the best part of a year. There’ll be big changes at the Edge, but we’ll be ensuring the soul remains the same. Major changes are: A new, super-accessible ‘changing places’ facility on the ground floor […]
Celebrating Local Legends
On the 9th September our Art Club celebrated local legends as part of Balsall Heath Second Saturdays, bringing our local legends to people at the Market to discover and chat about their local legends. The event followed much research and preparation – Savhanha Nguyen worked with our Art Club, leading workshops, researching local legends with […]
Current artist in residence Jose Witteveen
We’re really pleased to be hosting Rome-based Dutch artist Jose, over July and August. Jose is an artist, photographer and master printmaker and is being hosted at the Edge and working over a range of our current projects. In her own words: ‘ Jose Witteveen, an artist in residence at Friction Arts this month, lives in […]
Windrush75 – whose story is it?
We had a great day supporting organisations and events on Windrush 75, including our own ‘Leaning into the Wind’ Exhibition at The Library of Birmingham until 25th August, and a special event at Handsworth Library. Through photography, interviews, conversations, portraits, we’ll be meeting at places like Soho House, Library of Birmingham & Moseley Road Baths […]
Support Artist Job Opportunity
Friction Arts are on a quest to find the right Support Artist to work with an inspiring group of young people with different needs and abilities. Our Art Club is a free, weekly term-time Club, which supports young people aged 8-18 yrs old to explore their culture, work and spend time with their alternative peer […]
Kenya Journal #5
Days 7-9 In some ways these days have run into each other. We’ve mostly been mapping, working on archival stuff and planning the rest of the residency, including working out how we can most effectively and usefully share our practice with Kenyan artists. Syowia shared a map of the Nairobi art scene with us, and […]
Kenya Journal #4
Day 6 The early part of the day was spent preparing for the afternoon’s barbecue, with everyone making themselves busy moving tables and chairs around, and chopping and slicing fruit and vegetables. Quite a feast was created, with Kibe manning the piece de resistance that was the barbecue, big enough to hold the whole goat […]
Kenya Journal #3
Day 4 The early part of the day was full of breakfast, (coffee), then being now rested and at home, inevitably having to catch up with some admin. This happily included reviewing photos from our ‘Talking Drum Fest’, which happened immediately before we travelled here. We’re looking forward to the edit Sohelia, our Iranian filmmaker […]