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Ort Gallery

Artist-led gallery space in Balsall Heath Birmingham facilitating dialogue in the community & exhibiting ambitious projects

Ort Gallery is an artist-led exhibition space in Balsall Heath, Birmingham with the social mission to facilitate dialogue in the community. Through our work we explore what role an international programme of contemporary art can play in community strengthening. We exhibit ambitious and daring new art work in an old factory space and ensure every exhibition has a strong impact on the local area and

it’s residents. We work with socially engaged internationally acclaimed artists (previously Ellie Harrison, Leah Gordon, Juneau Projects, Paul O’Kane and Pil and Galia Kollectiv amongst others) in order to ensure that the art-work is not just shown but lived through our audiences. This is done in a variety of ways such as workshops, poetry events, walks, talks and by the audiences becoming part of the projects. We are an approachable venue, inviting new audiences to the space and celebrating the diversity of Balsall Heath and Birmingham. Ort Gallery’s curatorial programming is concerned with bringing world-class art to an area lacking cultural activity and engaging the audiences in an organic and meaningful way. Balsall Heath is considered a deprived neighbourhood, and our aim is to raise the profile of the area through cultural events as well as promoting community cohesion and quality of life. Our engagement programme grew organically out of events we hosted for the community. The artists we work with are dedicated to social change and deal with issues found in Balsall Heath within their practices. We aim for the artists we work with to represent the diversity of people in our immediate area. We believe quality is achieved in many different ways, one of which is to give up and coming artists a platform to exhibit their work and to kick start their career. Ort Gallery pays all the artists we work with a fair wage based on a-n guidelines. Artists are welcome to submit proposals for future projects. For more information please e-mail: info (a) ortgallery.co.uk with a short introduction.

27/05/2026

Permeable Body, Porous Time: ‘We Year’ Writing Workshop W/ Char Heather | Crip Resistance II

Join us for this writing workshop led by of , in response to new film, ‘We Year’

When: Tuesday 16th June, 2 - 4 pm ⏳

Where: Online via Zoom 👾

Access ♿️

This event will include comfort breaks throughout its duration as well as live BSL interpretation upon request☝🏽 This programme will be running on Crip Time 💫 As a result, we endeavour to reschedule events should any of our contributors not feel well / experience a change in capacity in the lead up to and/or on the day of the event itself 💜

Tickets 🎟️

Register via Eventbrite (see link in bio) 🔗

This event is part of the larger We Year Programme, a series of interdisciplinary events and workshops inspired by and responding to the themes of the film We Year by Sop, held by various crip and disabled friends and allies, including RestFest, The Remote Body, as well as Resting Up Collective x Ort Gallery via the Crip Resistance II programme.

Other events include:

The world premiere of We Year, hosted by from 15th – 28th June and a special edition of Crip Film Club with and where we will be watching Sop’s film, ‘We Year’ 🎬together, followed by an informal Q&A with the artist and a broader chat about the film 🗣️

✨ About the facilitator ✨

Char Heather is a writer/researcher interested in narrative cripping, and the founder of ‘the remote body’. Their work on crip writing has been published in FUTCH, GROM, and Lassitude, and is forthcoming in ASAP/Journal. They recently edited Out of Sorts: the remote body Anthology of Narrative Cripping, which you can find at www.theremotebody.bigcartel.com

✨ About Crip Resistance II✨

An online programme of events exploring disabled, sick, mad, and crip modes of resistance and remote community care ❤️‍🩹 produced by in collaboration with 🖼️ The programme’s print publication, documenting and expanding on its themes, will also launch this year 📒 20% of the event and publication proceeds will support ✊🏽

07/05/2026

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21/04/2026

We are thrilled to announce we will be collaborating with Resting Up Collective on a second iteration of the Crip Resistance programme we launched last year ❤️‍🩹

✨ About Crip Resistance 2.0✨

Crip Resistance 2.0: Holding Space, Building Community, is an online programme of events exploring disabled, sick, mad, and crip modes of resistance and remote community care produced by RUC in collaboration with Ort Gallery 🧡

This year, the programme’s focus on building community is demonstrated via the bringing together of a wider network of crip organisations, collectives and artists 💫

This interdisciplinary collaboration will feature a series of online events and workshops🎨🖌️🎞️

The programme’s print publication, documenting and expanding on its themes, will also launch this year 📖

20% of the event and publication proceeds will support Disabled People Against Cuts 🚫✂️

Programme to be announced in due course 🗓️

Stay tuned 👀

18/04/2026

🥥 🥭 Fruity Artwork 🍓 🍒

Wonderful artwork created in today's workshop led by Sam - big thanks to all the artists!

Our family workshops take place every third Saturday of the month. Send us a DM if you are interested in joining.

14/04/2026

🌑 Volunteer With Us 🌑

Do you have a few spare hours here and there to help out? We are looking for helping hands particularly during our children’s workshops and live events 🎨🎤

We appreciate you lending your precious time. We ensure all our placements are beneficial for you and us making sure we offer you travel expenses, buy you a drink and meal and provide you with other in-kind support such as references for future work applications or support with finding opportunities! 💫

If you’re interested in volunteering with us, please drop us an email at [email protected] or DM us 💌

24/03/2026

✨ Meet Rose our Creative Nourishment facilitator ✨

Rose works as an art therapist and creative workshop facilitator in partnership with schools and organisations across Birmingham. She also provides therapeutic support to foster carers as well as running her own private practice for individual art therapy.

She works from person-centred and embodied approaches to promote creative practices for rest, self-discovery and community care.

Rose has previously facilitated the Art Therapy programme at Ort Gallery and will now be facilitating monthly Creative Nourishment sessions, focusing on process and material led art making as a sensorimotor experience, providing opportunities for creative play in conversation with others.

06/03/2026

We have scheduled a break in public programming as part of our annual Spring closure, coinciding with Ramadan and Eid from Monday 9th - Saturday 21st March. The Ort Team will resume working in a slow and gentle way when we return to work w/c 23rd March.

For all those observing Ramadan, we send you blessings for a month of reflection and spiritual growth 🌤️💖

Artwork and 📸 captured by as part of the Hamara Ghar / Amar Ghor exhibition, presented in partnership with and for the Balsall Heath Living Room Project (2023)

05/03/2026

✨ Meet Tasnime our new Admin + Support Lead ✨

Tasnime Jubayer first encountered art in her adult life after stumbling upon an adult creative workshop at Sparkhill Library. For the past 5 years, she has regularly attended workshops at Ort Gallery alongside her family and has since co-led and designed a programme of workshops aimed at homeschooling families with Maslaha. Tasnime has also facilitated children’s reading circles at MIAH Foundation and has most recently exhibited artwork with her children at The Gap Arts Project. Her interests include arts education, decoloniality, love, community, and justice. She is currently working with BVSC as a Community Researcher, exploring children’s use of smartphones.

Tasnime will be responsible for supporting day-to-day operations at Ort Gallery, including, but not limited to, exhibition and events planning.

04/03/2026

✨Meet Danni our new Artist Membership Lead ✨

Danni Ebanks-Ingram (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, producer and community facilitator working at the intersection of performance, cultural production and system change. Rooted in q***r politics, ecology and collective care, their practice champions those on the periphery.

Their people-centred, equity-driven approach supports radical imagination and collective action.

14/01/2026

Meet .studio our second and final Deliberation Artist in Residence of 2026 ✨

Ifrah’s practice and material interrogations of producing abject objects relies upon sensorial textures and appearances in order to evoke feelings of uncomfortableness, yet familiarity within the viewer. They create post-humanist forms which have sensorial qualities and use materials like flock to represent hair, or latex which acts as skin or silicone as flesh. By utilising skin and flesh like materials they are able to mimetically reproduce aspects of the human body, which helps to elicit a familiarity with the viewer’s body and the sculptural bodies. By establishing a bodily similarity with the viewer and the sculpture, desires of interaction within the viewer are awoken – eliciting a wanting to touch or to physically interact with the sculptures.

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496 Moseley Road
Birmingham
B129AH

Opening Hours

Wednesday	10am - 2pm
Thursday	10am - 2pm
Friday	12pm - 5pm
Saturday	12pm - 4pm

Telephone

+447938428394

Website

http://www.ortgallery.co.uk/

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