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Viewing Festival of Quilts 

The Wick Culture - Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
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The Wick Culture - Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
Above  Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
The Wick Culture - Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
Above  Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
The Wick Culture - Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
Above  Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
The Wick Culture - Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
Above  Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
The Wick Culture - Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
Above  Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
The Wick Culture - Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
Above  Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
The Wick Culture - Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
Above  Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
The Wick Culture - Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
Above  Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
The Wick Culture - Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
Above  Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
The Wick Culture - Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
Above  Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
The Wick Culture - Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts
Above  Courtesy of The Festival of Quilts

Festival of Quilts 
NEC, Birmingham
 
3-6 August 2023
www.thefestivalofquilts.co.uk/ 

A festival of quilts. As the rising awareness of the craftsmanship of Quilts takes form, why not take a trip to Europe’s leading patchwork and quilting event, The Festival of Quilts, as it returns to the NEC to celebrate its 20th Anniversary. 
 
Launched in 2003 in partnership with The Quilters’ Guild, The Festival of Quilts sees individuals worldwide come together and share their passion for quilting. Two decades on, and it is now the biggest quilting show in Europe, with an expected attendance of over 22,000 quilting fanatics. Featuring a global quilt competition, workshops, talks, and a vast array of quilting materials, find your perfect patch this weekend. 
 
Incoming from the States is a quilter, author, teacher and host of the hit YouTube channel ‘The Midnight Quilt Show’, Angela Walters. Describing quilting as her therapy, Walters will share her various skills in a series of workshops and talks. So sewing machines at the ready, start tapping that peddle, and hear the sweet tune of the Singer sewing machine as you glide into the NEC this weekend. 
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Dates
03 August 2023 — 06 August 2023

Viewing Dave White: Extinct

The Wick Culture - 'Dave White: Extinct' at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
Above  ‘Dave White: Extinct’ at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
The Wick Culture - 'Dave White: Extinct' at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
Above  ‘Dave White: Extinct’ at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
The Wick Culture - 'Dave White: Extinct' at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
Above  ‘Dave White: Extinct’ at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
The Wick Culture - 'Dave White: Extinct' at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
Above  ‘Dave White: Extinct’ at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
The Wick Culture - 'Dave White: Extinct' at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
Above  ‘Dave White: Extinct’ at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
The Wick Culture - 'Dave White: Extinct' at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
Above  ‘Dave White: Extinct’ at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
The Wick Culture - 'Dave White: Extinct' at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
Above  ‘Dave White: Extinct’ at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
The Wick Culture - 'Dave White: Extinct' at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
Above  ‘Dave White: Extinct’ at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
The Wick Culture - 'Dave White: Extinct' at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
Above  ‘Dave White: Extinct’ at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
The Wick Culture - 'Dave White: Extinct' at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
Above  ‘Dave White: Extinct’ at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
The Wick Culture - 'Dave White: Extinct' at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
Above  ‘Dave White: Extinct’ at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
The Wick Culture - 'Dave White: Extinct' at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery
Above  ‘Dave White: Extinct’ at Kiklo Spaces, photographer: Henry Wood, courtesy of Loughran Gallery

Dave White: Extinct 
Kiklo Spaces 
 
31 July – 9 September 2023
www.loughrangallery.co.uk/exhibitions/40-dave-white-extinct

Travel back in time and head to Hampshire to wonder at the gigantic dinosaurs as contemporary artist Dave White presents ‘Extinct’ at Kiklo Spaces.
 
Breathing new life into a childhood obsession with Dinosauria, ‘Extinct’ is a series of works that have taken form through lifelong research and the imagination of White. Starting as a pencil to paper in small sketchbooks, White worked from skeletons and specimens. Developing these studies and harnessing their personality over time, White presents large-scale and rich oil paintings that span a lifetime from the artist and the world. 
 
“For the past decade I have created works that focus on the inhabitants of the natural world, their beauty is something we take for granted in the abstracted world we live in. Their fragility and scarcity and their fight for survival has been the catalyst and focus of my work.” – Dave White
 
Produced in secrecy over 18 months and hiding in the confines of White’s studio, these paintings now stand firm in a new environment at Kiklo Spaces. With some paintings standing over 7ft tall make way to Hampshire to stand in the presence of these immense reptiles, as White imprints the beauty of what could be lost in our world today.
 
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Dates
31 July 2023 — 09 September 2023

Doing Tate Play: Rasheed Araeen

The Wick Culture - Rasheed Araeen Zero to Infinity in Venice, 2016-17, installation view, Arsenale, 57th Venice Biennale. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery. Photograph Italo Rondinella.
Above  Rasheed Araeen Zero to Infinity in Venice, 2016-17, installation view, Arsenale, 57th Venice Biennale. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery. Photograph Italo Rondinella.
The Wick Culture - Rasheed Araeen Shamiyaana. Food for Thought: Thought for Change, 2016-17. Kotzia Square, Athens. Photo by Yiannis Hadjiaslanis. Courtesy Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery
Above  Rasheed Araeen Shamiyaana. Food for Thought: Thought for Change, 2016-17. Kotzia Square, Athens. Photo by Yiannis Hadjiaslanis. Courtesy Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery
The Wick Culture - Shamiyaana—Food for Thought: Thought for Change
Above  Shamiyaana—Food for Thought: Thought for Change
The Wick Culture - Rasheed Araeen Zero to Infinity in Venice, 2016-17, installation view, Arsenale, 57th Venice Biennale. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery. Photograph Italo Rondinella.
Above  Rasheed Araeen Zero to Infinity in Venice, 2016-17, installation view, Arsenale, 57th Venice Biennale. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery. Photograph Italo Rondinella.
The Wick Culture - Rasheed Araeen Zero to Infinity in Venice, 2016-17, installation view, Arsenale, 57th Venice Biennale. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery. Photograph Italo Rondinella.
Above  Rasheed Araeen Zero to Infinity in Venice, 2016-17, installation view, Arsenale, 57th Venice Biennale. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery. Photograph Italo Rondinella.
The Wick Culture - Rasheed Areen Zero to Infinity at Brent Biennal 2020 Photo: Justin Piperger. Courtesy Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery
Above  Rasheed Areen Zero to Infinity at Brent Biennal 2020 Photo: Justin Piperger. Courtesy Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery
The Wick Culture - Rasheed Areen Zero to Infinity at Brent Biennal 2020 Photo: Justin Piperger. Courtesy Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery
Above  Rasheed Areen Zero to Infinity at Brent Biennal 2020 Photo: Justin Piperger. Courtesy Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery
The Wick Culture - Rasheed Araeen Zero to Infinity in Venice, 2016-17, installation view, Arsenale, 57th Venice Biennale. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery. Photograph Italo Rondinella.
Above  Rasheed Araeen Zero to Infinity in Venice, 2016-17, installation view, Arsenale, 57th Venice Biennale. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery. Photograph Italo Rondinella.
The Wick Culture - Rasheed Araeen Shamiyaana. Food for Thought: Thought for Change, 2016-17. Kotzia Square, Athens. Photo by Yiannis Hadjiaslanis. Courtesy Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery
Above  Rasheed Araeen Shamiyaana. Food for Thought: Thought for Change, 2016-17. Kotzia Square, Athens. Photo by Yiannis Hadjiaslanis. Courtesy Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery
The Wick Culture - Shamiyaana—Food for Thought: Thought for Change
Above  Shamiyaana—Food for Thought: Thought for Change
The Wick Culture - Rasheed Araeen Zero to Infinity in Venice, 2016-17, installation view, Arsenale, 57th Venice Biennale. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery. Photograph Italo Rondinella.
Above  Rasheed Araeen Zero to Infinity in Venice, 2016-17, installation view, Arsenale, 57th Venice Biennale. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery. Photograph Italo Rondinella.
The Wick Culture - Rasheed Araeen Zero to Infinity in Venice, 2016-17, installation view, Arsenale, 57th Venice Biennale. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery. Photograph Italo Rondinella.
Above  Rasheed Araeen Zero to Infinity in Venice, 2016-17, installation view, Arsenale, 57th Venice Biennale. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery. Photograph Italo Rondinella.
The Wick Culture - Rasheed Areen Zero to Infinity at Brent Biennal 2020 Photo: Justin Piperger. Courtesy Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery
Above  Rasheed Areen Zero to Infinity at Brent Biennal 2020 Photo: Justin Piperger. Courtesy Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery
The Wick Culture - Rasheed Areen Zero to Infinity at Brent Biennal 2020 Photo: Justin Piperger. Courtesy Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery
Above  Rasheed Areen Zero to Infinity at Brent Biennal 2020 Photo: Justin Piperger. Courtesy Rasheed Araeen and Grosvenor Gallery

UNIQLO Tate Play: Rasheed Araeen
Tate Modern

22 July – 28 August
www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/uniqlo-tate-play/uniqlo-tate-play-zero-to-infinity

Come and Play at Tate Modern.

Not to be missed, the immersive and interactive exhibition by Rasheed Araeen, ‘Zero to Infinity’. Part of the innovative Uniqlo Tate Play, ‘Zero to Infinity’ is an endlessly changing sculpture created to spark joy. Araeen invites the public to arrange and rearrange 400 brightly coloured cubes in a group activity staged in Tate’s Turbine Hall. Initially stacked as a grid, more participants equals more possibilities where the creative potential of the public comes to life before your eyes. First devised by Araeen in 1968, it has been displayed across the world, including the 57th Venice Biennale and is now on your doorstep.

For post play refreshments, head to Araeen’s ‘Shamiyaana IV’ (Food for Thought: Thought for Change). exploring the idea of togetherness and the collaborative act of creation. Featuring four colourful gazebos with tables and chairs inside, the installation encourages appreciation of the art of everyday life, such as cooking and eating food, playing, and reading. Gathering around the table to share food, participants are encouraged to exchange stories. As the rain continues, find joy and community through colour on Bankside.
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Dates
22 July 2023 — 28 August 2023
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