Dec 30 2009

Birmingham’s People – The Final 15

Category: PhotospaceMatt Murtagh @ 15:06

The Birmingham Photospace group are taking a well earnt Christmas break at the moment but I just thought I’d post this full set of the spotlight images from our exhibition as they’ve not been presented as a series on the blog before. They look much better as prints so if you haven’t then please come down to see them in the flesh.

The whole group would like to wish all our supporters a very happy New Year, we’ve got big plans for 2010 and we hope you’d like to be part of them, stay tuned!

Birmingham’s People runs until the end of January at The Drum Arts Centre.

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Dec 10 2009

Birmingham’s People – Private View

Category: Photospace,Portraiture,birmingham's peopleLiz Garlinge @ 21:40

Matt Murtagh being interviewedLast night marked the private view of our exhibition at The Drum. We had a great night – to see the portraits up and enjoyed by all our guests was fantastic!

We drank cava, looked at the images, wandered round spotting our sitters – faces so familar to us from the choosing of the images – wandering round looking at themselves on the walls.

We had a lively Q&A with one of our artists, Matt Murtagh – who talked more about working with sitters, his inspirations and how the portraits were taken.

We had a great turnout – a huge thank you to everyone who came along to The Drum on a cold, wet Wednesday – we really enjoyed your company. Thank you also to everyone who helped out in some way – Jane for being a super PR lady par-excellence, Ian for taking some amazing photos (these are two of them – we’ll be putting more up in due course!) and for everyone who made a donation on the night, or this morning via our Paypal button.

Patrick talks to the group The show is up throughout December and January – do pop along to see it – and let us know what you think!

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Dec 05 2009

Birmingham’s People 47 – Barrow

Category: PhotospaceMatt Murtagh @ 20:08

This is James Barrow who introduced the Photospace team to the ancient art of Japanese Taiko Drumming which he teaches workshops in.

Find out more at his site here

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Dec 05 2009

Birmingham’s People 46 – Nitesh Scherchan

Category: PhotospaceMatt Murtagh @ 19:55

Nitesh was a charming guy who provided a real outsiders view of Birmingham – see his great video interview below

Nitesh Sherchman from Birmingham Photospace on Vimeo.

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Dec 05 2009

Birminghams People 45 – Mattu

Category: PhotospaceMatt Murtagh @ 19:52

And here’s one of our ‘spotlight’ images that we haven’t blogged yet, a fantastic vibrant picture taken by Jennifer Peel while I was on my lunch…

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Dec 05 2009

Birminghams People 44 – Diana Perowne

Category: PhotospaceMatt Murtagh @ 19:10

Here at Birmingham Photospace we’ve been incredibly busy organising the exhibition, particularly the private view next week, so much so that we’ve rather fallen behind with our blog posts for which we apologise.

Here’s Diana, a really enthusiastic lady…

Birmingham’s People: Diana from Birmingham Photospace on Vimeo.

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