Arts of Place

A meeting-point for all who care what we make of our surroundings.

Welcome

“Arts of Place promotes work on cultural histories of landscape, locality and environment. We want to foster rich understandings of places past and present. Our events and mailing list are open to all. Please do join us.”
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Alexandra Harris and Jessica Fay, University of Birmingham

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Daisy Hay on Joseph Johnson and Romantic Birmingham

A lecture in collaboration with Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
3 May 2022 – details below

Features

Explore our writing, talks, collaborations, and opportunities
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“Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap…”

Monday Conversation, 30 May 2022, 5-6pm online.

Daisy Hay: Stories of Romantic Birmingham

Lecture and reception: Tuesday 3 May, 5.30, Arts Building Lecture Room 3.

Songs of Spring

Monday Conversation 25 April 2022, 5-6pm online. With Bethan Roberts and Francesca MacKenney

On Place Value

Monday Conversation 7 February 2022, 6-7pm online: On Place Value

Fire and Ochre: Films by Julie Brook

Video Screening on campus 22 November 5pm: Julie Brook talks on film about labour, rhythm, and the materials of the earth

Tobacco and Feathers… The Art of Looking

Conversation 15 November online: Lauren Working and Lucy Powell discuss art, literature, and colonialism with art historian Stephanie Pratt.

Julie Brook: Arts of Place Artist-in-Residence

We welcome land artist Julie Brook for a summer residency at Arts of Place.

Practical drawing with Julie Brook

On 23 June we held a drawing workshop with Julie Brook. Here’s a taste of some of the results.

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Noticeboard: Upcoming Events in 2022

The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (University of York) has opened up a call for artist residencies!
Initial expressions of interest are due to Sarah Bezan by the 17th of March: more information about the residencies can be found here.

Profiles

Meet our collaborators

Alexandra Harris

Professorial Fellow in English at the University of Birmingham.

Jessica Fay

Teaching Fellow in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of Birmingham

James Metcalf

Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, King’s College London

Jon Stevens

MRes History of Art, University of Birmingham

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What’s on your bookshelf?

Arts of Place members and friends offer a trove of short reflections on items from their bookshelves that have shaped their thinking about place. From classic pieces of nature writing, to contemporary works of criticism and theory, via local history, poetry and novels, we are creating an archive of book recommendations that will help enrich our perspectives.

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Featured image: David Cox, The Cross Roads, oil on panel, 1850, Birmingham Museums and Art Galleries.
Find out more in our Bookshelf entry on Common Land in English Painting, 1700-1850