The Arches Project

Christmas is the time for giving. We have made it easy for you to do something great this Christmas. As always we need your donations to help fund our charity which drives up and coming artists into the career they are dreaming of. Easy fundraising allows you to donate to us every time you shop online! It costs you absolutely nothing extra but every single penny you spend helps us to do a lot of amazing things for our artists. We can develop our space and improve in our day to day charity life. Continue to shop as normal with your favourite retailers and supermarkets then when you check out using easy fundraising a portion of what you spend will come to us. So thank you in advance. Just before you start frantically Christmas shopping online, follow the link below and you can help an artist get on their feet, without getting off yours! https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/archesproject/

“WITHOUT IMAGINATION THERE ARE NO DREAMS, WITHOUT DREAMS THERE IS NO ART, AND WITHOUT ART THERE IS NOTHING”  #MarjaneSatrapi Imagination is the land of endless possibilities , the spark of new ideas that leads innovation and change , the creative inspiration to shape and inhabit new worlds or make ours a better one. We want to celebrate imagination  focusing on a specific genre: Fantasy . Therefore, get ready as  from  19th to 21st August 2016  an unprecedented event is taking place at The Arches Project - Birmingham... Extravagant Imagination is the first event of its kind in the West Midlands, an  unmissable appointment for  fantasy  artists and fans. Whatever you are, costumer-maker, role player, film-maker, prop-maker, live-action, costume player, set-maker, make-up-artist or other, this exhibition is a must for you. We feel that people behind the scenes often don't get the accreditation they deserve , so we want to celebrate and showcase those people an

Here is a big poster by  Frédéric Art  which represents in a comic way a surreal meet up among characters from different eras and centuries. Go through the scenes and spot the path he creates through the ages! Let’s learn about that directly by  Frédéric Art ’s words… “What can I tell about this drawing? First of all, what pushed me to draw this topic? I am keen on studying History and so I wanted to apply this knowledge to my cartoon, being inspired by the ‘chaotic’ cartoon strips by  Guillermo Mordillo , an amazing Argentinian cartoonist. In fact, the scene in this cartoon is very chaotic as well... I mean, it doesn’t follow a chronological order. I preferred this kind of approach, because it allowed me to create a drawing with a very funny and humorous effect, as the viewer tries to linger and analyse every single character and situation that I have delineated. This artwork surely summarises my artistic style that is to create art that draws the viewer's attention an