Our research projects

Eastside Projects: Building a hospital art gallery

Gavin Wade’s Mobile Wall System with 164 permanent pole positions on a square grid (After Adolf Krischanitz & Freder...

This unique research project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund aims to enhance understanding of the role...

In this exhibition, The Sleepless Theatre , the notion of the ‘theatre’ has three tiers of meaning. First, it ref...

To our artists, what matters is not only the visual language and material, but also methodological approaches of their...

BCU researcher Dr. Lauren Walden, based in the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, has recently completed a three-year rese...

Dr. Shiyu Gao, awarded Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Birmingham School of Art, has created a unique art exhibition...

This Birmingham City Council funded project seeks to establish a Cultural Action Area (CAA) within the historic Jewell...

Building on a recent Co.Lab pilot project at BCU this application brings West Midlands National Park lab research to ne...

'Small performances' is an interdisciplinary project that will make a substantial contribution to the history of print...

Producing a powerful, contemporary remake of a famous early 1900s Suffrage play, working with Bedfordshire's LGBTQ+ com...

Examining the role of arts and humanities in developing inclusive forms of education for children with disabilities. ...

The Kipper and the Corpse saw Stuart Whipps pay homage to the iconic Longbridge Motor Factory by restoring a classic 1...

Speculative Natures, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, explores the role of contemporary art in imagining environmental ...

Seeking to investigate, research and use unseen parts of archives as catalysts for the creation of new artworks.

The project aims to explore how gathered materials can be combined and presented to create something new, making not a...