White House Visit to Birmingham
Friday 25th October
10am-6pm
Train: London Euston to Birmingham New Street
Join The White House for a trip to Birmingham. We will be visiting:
Modern Clay, a studio project set up in 2017 and since 2019 has been run by co-operative membership. It is based in Digbeth, Birmingham and is a working studio run by its eight artist members: Leah Carless, Kate Egawa, Mark Essen, Joanne Masding, Sophie Mckinney, Suzi Osborn, Laurie Ramsell and Sarah Taylor Silverwood. We will meet with Mark Essen to hear more about how Modern Clay is run, why it was set up and how the co-operative make decisions.
Grand Union is a gallery and artists’ studios complex in Digbeth, Birmingham. GU support learning, creating numerous contexts for art and life to intersect, with many projects taking place outside of the gallery. We will be meeting with Collaborative Programme Curator, Jo Capper, to hear about Grand Union’s work across the city.
We will also see Grand Union’s current exhibition, And what it became is not what it is now, curated by Louise Hobson and offsite commission, Cooking Sections’ The Empire Remains Shop.
Eastside Projects is an artist run multiverse, commissioning, producing and presenting experimental art practices and demonstrating ways in which art may be useful as part of society. Eastside Projects provides vital infrastructure, supports best practice and works to expand the role of the artist run space. We will visit current exhibitions, Unreal Estate by Sofia Niazi and Weakest Link by Lady Skollie.
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This visit forms part of Mutual Restructure, a programme of research and activity to explore The White House’s structure; interrogating its model, governance systems, decision-making processes, how it operates and cooperates, to move towards a new model of independence.
If you are interested in joining us for the trip or for more information please email Charlie on charlie@createlondon.org
The White House will cover travel costs for the trip and lunch, please note there are a limited amount of spaces.
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Part of Mutual Restructure, a programme of research and activity to explore The White House’s structure; interrogating its model, governance systems, decision-making processes, how it operates and cooperates, to move towards a new model of independence. Mutual Restructure will see us work with our communities to undertake a process of collective learning, to test out and generate a new model that is reflective of our ethos and representative of our community; spanning programme, governance and operation.