08/05/2026
Welcome to our first wave of Beauty & The Beast artists, a group of brilliant, bold, wildly talented humans who are each, in their own way, wrestling with the chaos and tenderness of this city.
Anne Guest - Cyanotype & Acrylic
Anne gives us two absolute Brummie icons and turns them into a celebration of the city’s humour, history, and resilience. Her cyanotypes honour the everyday creatures and stories that make Birmingham what it is.
Ali Chan - Ceramics
Ali’s vessels carry the quiet pressure of city life - CCTV shapes softened by human hands, surveillance interrupted by brushstrokes that refuse to behave. Her work is a reminder that even in rigid systems, life finds a way to move, resist, and stay soft.
Alissa Blackshaw - Found Object Sculpture
Alissa takes a traffic cone (yes, the universal symbol of “don’t you dare”) and turns it into a creature with feelings. Industrial debris becomes something tender, spiky, vulnerable, and strangely alive. It’s post‑human Birmingham at its finest.
Anita Roye - Abstract & Found Object
Anita brings concrete and watercolour into the same room and somehow makes them get along. Her work is about destruction, repair, and the messy, beautiful process of becoming yourself. It’s grit and softness in one breath, very Birmingham.
Annie Colloby - Poem
Annie rewrites the fairy tale through the streets of Digbeth. A Birmingham dandelion stands in for the enchanted rose, and the Beast becomes a creature of working‑class love, sacrifice, and self‑acceptance.
Anthony L Hansle - Photography & Digital Imaging
Anthony places Ozzy the Bull against Baskerville House, letting Beauty and Beast stare each other down. Industrial muscle meets architectural elegance. It’s the whole city in one frame.
Their work is in the gallery now so come see all of this in real life, it deserves to be experienced beyond your own screen. It hits different in the flesh.
Beauty & The Beast is open until 29th May.
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