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This has transformed over time into an evolving gallery-space which wears its history and influences on its sleeve. In 2011, Eastside
Projects was accepted into Arts Council England's National Portfolio, securing funding for a further three years from 2012. The gallery has also received additional funding from a Paul Hamlyn Breakthrough Award and works in partnership with Birmingham City University who support the gallery through project funding and the use of equipment or facilities. In 2017 Eastside Projects closed due to refurbishment work supported by Birmingham City University, Arts Council England, Custard Factory and K4 Architects which resulted in a Ā£250,000 revamp of the site. Eastside Projects
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Cabinet Show" (2009), "Curtain Show" (2010), "Book Show" (2010), "Narrative Show" (2011), and "Painting Show" (2011ā2012). Led by Gavin Wade and Ruth Claxton, the space is run by practising artists, artist-curators, artist-engineers, artist organisers, ect who combine careers within the UK and international art worlds while working at Eastside Projects.
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Jennifer Tee has been a permanent fixture in the gallery since 2010. The handle of the front door is a work entitled "Wilkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome. C'mon in." by Artist
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Adopting the role of the incidental person, the group proposed getting involved in the processes of other organisations, from steel factories to government offices. APG considered artists a hugely underused human creative resource that offered a potential benefit of tangential thinking and making.
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Digbeth area of Birmingham, England. It is a free public space that is imagined and organised by artists. It commissions and presents experimental contemporary art exhibitions and proposes ways in which art may be useful to society. Eastside Projects was founded by six
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Ordinary People EOP, (originally Extra Special People) is an associate membership scheme at Eastside Projects. EOP supports the development of work, ideas, connections and careers and programmes a huge range of events for artists, writers, curators and those with a more general interest in
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As of 2022-2026, Eastside
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Projects opened on 26 September 2008 with its inaugural exhibition, "This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things". Since its launch, the exhibition programme has featured a series of exhibitions that use the mode of a medium to explore different ideas and representations of that
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The current directors are Ruth Calxton and Gavin Wade. Group exhibitions have featured artists and organisations such as Art & Language, Mel Bochner and Grizedale Arts, while past solo shows include Liam Gillick, Shezad Dawood, Carey Young,
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Every year Eastside Projects invites EOP members to write an exhibition proposal for the Members Show in Gallery Two. In 2023 the artist fee was Ā£3000, with a Production fee of Ā£2000
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