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| The Wrong Exhibition This is Throwstar's most ambitious project to date. We wanted to adequately value and honour the artwork of young artists, challenge people to consider their position on absolute morality, and demonstrate to the art and educational communities here that Christians care about the whole person and can put on events of high professional quality and excellence. We challenged young artists from 11 Birmingham secondary schools to answer the question ‘What is wrong with the world?’ through a piece of fine art. Over the course of the academic year, we taught lessons on art and morality in the schools and facilitated art and graffiti workshops. Then we coordinated several preliminary exhibitions where hundreds of pieces by the young artists were put on display. The strongest of these pieces were hung in the Custard Factory Gallery alongside contributions from a dozen professional artists, including New York artist Makoto Fujimura and Northern Irish artist Ross Wilson As well as teaching a few seminars discussing his work, the history of Japanese art and the impact of 9-11 on his view of ‘wrongness’, Makoto also worked with Birmingham experimental music group, Iacon, on a live art/music collaboration piece about bad news, called ‘Wolf Ticket Lament' |
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