2011 - 13 - Curator, Aedas Presents
Aedas Presents enabled the work of more than 30 artists from West Midlands’ including those still at university or college, to be showcased to over 2000 of Birmingham’s business and arts community at its Colmore Plaza home between 2011 - 2013.
Aedas Presents was the brainchild of Marketing Coordinator at global architectural practice Aedas, Kate Eagle, and independent curator Charlie Levine. Key supporters included the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design at University College Birmingham, the Birmingham Library and the Royal Institute of British Architects.
It was founded to support and showcase the work of emerging artists, students and graduates from local universities and colleges and to help them get on the first rung on the career ladder. Aedas is a progressive practice dedicated to design excellence, sustainability and providing solutions for the built environment that benefit communities from around the world.
This ethos remained very much the way forward for the built environment and Aedas wanted to help invest in its future. One way of doing this was to find a way to engage with young up and coming talented designers and provide them with an opportunity to showcase their work. Helping them to climb that first rung of the design ladder will enable them to be seen and heard in what is a highly competitive work environment.
At the time of the idea’s inception Aedas had recently moved into their new regional office home, Colmore Plaza. With floor to ceiling glazing and an active frontage to the building this huge atrium was simply ideal to hold the types of showcase events they had in mind.
There was clearly a demand for this type of city centre showcase venue as Aedas Presents received an overwhelming expression of interest from a number of art quarters which means that they showcased exhibitions beyond the initial one year goal. It was a great achievement one that culminated in the hugely successful event, Thrift Radiates Happiness.
Artists: Hannah Ainsworth, Matthew Andrew, Tom Butler, Spartacus Chetwynd, Elly Clarke, Chris Clinton, Tom Crawford, Jo Gane, Caitlin Griffiths, Anne Guest, Ellie Harrison, Craig Marchington, Karen McLean, Mecanoo, Bharti Parmar, Kate Peel, Matthew Robinson, Dan Salisbury, Sparrow+Castice, Julie Tsang, Ed Wakefield, Nicole Wilson and Mary Yacoob plus students from BCU.
Aedas Presents was the brainchild of Marketing Coordinator at global architectural practice Aedas, Kate Eagle, and independent curator Charlie Levine. Key supporters included the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design at University College Birmingham, the Birmingham Library and the Royal Institute of British Architects.
It was founded to support and showcase the work of emerging artists, students and graduates from local universities and colleges and to help them get on the first rung on the career ladder. Aedas is a progressive practice dedicated to design excellence, sustainability and providing solutions for the built environment that benefit communities from around the world.
This ethos remained very much the way forward for the built environment and Aedas wanted to help invest in its future. One way of doing this was to find a way to engage with young up and coming talented designers and provide them with an opportunity to showcase their work. Helping them to climb that first rung of the design ladder will enable them to be seen and heard in what is a highly competitive work environment.
At the time of the idea’s inception Aedas had recently moved into their new regional office home, Colmore Plaza. With floor to ceiling glazing and an active frontage to the building this huge atrium was simply ideal to hold the types of showcase events they had in mind.
There was clearly a demand for this type of city centre showcase venue as Aedas Presents received an overwhelming expression of interest from a number of art quarters which means that they showcased exhibitions beyond the initial one year goal. It was a great achievement one that culminated in the hugely successful event, Thrift Radiates Happiness.
Artists: Hannah Ainsworth, Matthew Andrew, Tom Butler, Spartacus Chetwynd, Elly Clarke, Chris Clinton, Tom Crawford, Jo Gane, Caitlin Griffiths, Anne Guest, Ellie Harrison, Craig Marchington, Karen McLean, Mecanoo, Bharti Parmar, Kate Peel, Matthew Robinson, Dan Salisbury, Sparrow+Castice, Julie Tsang, Ed Wakefield, Nicole Wilson and Mary Yacoob plus students from BCU.
