As long as it lasts
Friday 18 September- Saturday 17 October (plus Sunday 27 September)
Simon and Tom Bloor
As long as it lasts sees the outside brought inside as the double height gallery is filled with living silver birch trees that tower above a collection of sculptures and ink drawings on day-glo paper.
Including the artists' proposals for unrealised public artworks the exhibition takes an ironic look at unsuccessful attempts to populate areas of redevelopment and communal space in cities with art for the benefit of the public. The Bloors' interest in the utopian potential and the failed reality of such development projects has further led to the inclusion of other sculptural elements as plinths and planter forms surrounding sixteen silver birch, a pioneer species that coloniize waste ground. Ink drawings and the reworking in gouache of newspaper cartoons suggest further layers to the interpretation and reception of such public art works.
Exhibition organised by Eastside Projects, Birmingham.
Photograph by Stuart Whipps. Courtesy of Eastside Projects, Birmingham.
