Wheatley Bequest Fine Art Fellowship 2013/14

The School of Art, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, seeks applications from practising fine artists for a Fine Art Fellowship under the terms of the Wheatley Bequest. The Fellowship has been created by Birmingham City University in conjunction with the Trustees of the Wheatley Estate and is the outcome of a generous bequest by the late Richard Wheatley.

The Fellowship offers an exciting opportunity for an artist at the commencement of or at a critical point in their professional career, to further develop his or her practice, based in the School of Fine Art.

Some opportunity for teaching will be given and the successful applicant will be expected to become a full and active member of the academic and research community within the Department.

Value: £9000 over a ten-month period. More information on the fellowship can be found here.

Deadline for applications: 4pm, Friday 5 July 2013.

Save the date: The Rootless Forest

The Rootless Forest is a mobile artwork, a mini-forest made of real trees and soil planted on a boat that travels at walking pace along the Birmingham and Black Country Canals. From The Rootless Forest we hear recorded stories about adjustment, homecoming and relocation told by two families from the military and UK Afghan communities in Birmingham. The soundscape is a collaboration between artist Beth Derbyshire and voice director Tara McAllister-Viel.  This project asks the question: If the soil beneath our feet shifts, what happens when that foundation shifts and how does our understanding of home alter?

Alongside The Rootless Forest there is an exciting educational and engagement programme titled Offshoots, which is provided by The New Art Gallery Walsall, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, and Sampad. In addition, a series of symposia and artist’s talks are being developed under the title Beyond the Pale in partnership with Cathy Wade, Lecturer at BIAD. Beyond the Pale will embrace themes of boundaries and notions of occupation, and will bring artists, curators and galleries together in locations throughout Birmingham and Walsall. A hand-printed newspaper, The Forest Express, will capture and publish themes and ideas associated with the project.

LAUNCH PARTY: SATURDAY 8 SEPTEMBER, BRINDLEYPLACE, BIRMINGHAM

For more information please visit www.therootlessforest.com

Twitter: @rootless_forest, Facebook:  /therootlessforest