GRAIN At TEN, Open Call
£4,500, Deadline 30th April 2025
PHOTOGRAPHY, HERITAGE & WELLBEING WORKSHOPS
Staffordshire
Afternoon with the Artist: Arpita Shah
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 5th April, 2PM - 4 PM, £3.50 / £3.00
PHOTOGRAPHY, HERITAGE & WELLBEING WORKSHOPS
GRAIN are working with communities throughout Staffordshire
REFLECTOR, Exhibition Tour
The New Art Gallery Walsall, 1st March 2025, 1 - 2pm, free event
Modern Muse
by Arpita Shah, Belfast Exposed, 17th October - 21st December
East Meets West 24/25
GRAIN Projects (Birmingham), FORMAT, and QUAD (Derby)
Heft
by Aaron Schuman, £25.00 + Postage
Lydia Goldblatt, Photographers Talk
Zoom, 26th September, 6.00 PM
Tim Mills, Artist Talk
Coventry Transport Museum, 23rd September, 6.00 PM
The Backbone, by Ayesha Jones
Shine a Light / Who Dared to Dream, The Royal Photographic Society, Bristol, until the 29th September
On Chelmsley, Community Photography Project
Exhibition at Chelmsley Wood shopping centre
New Narratives in Photography Zine
Collaboration with Tasweerghar (Lahore, Pakistan), part of the British Council Pakistan Arts Residency Grants
CONSTRUCT
by Anthony Luvera
Modern Muse
by Arpita Shah, Arts Festival Oxford, 28 June – 14 July
BROTHER
£20.00 + Postage
REFLECTOR
Exhibition at The New Art Gallery Walsall, 26th October 2024 — 9th March 2025, supported by Art Fund
NO MAN’S LAND
by Ngadi Smart, Refugee Week, 17th - 23rd June
PICTURING HIGH STREETS LEGACY PROJECT
Natalie Willatt, Photobook Launch, 25th May, 3 PM, Spode Museum
PICTURING HIGH STREETS LEGACY PROJECT
Coventry, Tim Mills. 30th April – 3rd November 2024, Coventry Transport Museum
THE BACKBONE
Ayesha Jones
New Narratives in Photography, Artist Talk
5th March, 1 PM - 2 PM (UK) / 6 PM - 7 PM (PK), Zoom, Free
PICTURING HIGH STREETS
Tim Mills, Photographer in Residence, Coventry
Picturing High Streets
Natalie Willatt, Photographer in Residence, Stoke Town
Roo Dhissou
Commission
Qisse of The Komagata Maru – A Voyage on Water
An event with Artist Roo Dhissou. 26th Nov 13:00 - 15:00, Midlands Art Centre
Modern Muse
by Arpita Shah
CANNOCK CHASE RESIDENCY
Louise Beer
SEE ME
Ming de Nasty, 12th January - 14th April, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery & Theatre Severn
NEW NARRATIVES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
MAC, Birmingham, UK, WOW Festival at Alhamra Art Gallery and Tasweerghar, Lahore, Pakistan
EAST MEETS WEST
Masterclass Programme, in partnership with FORMAT / QUAD
Re-Framing Culture
Training Programme, in partnership with the Socially Engaged Photography Network
Generations
by Julian Germain, in partnership with Multistory, part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival
GENERATIONS
by Julian Germain, text by Anneka French
GENERATIONS
Family Interview by Anneka French
Faces Of 2022
by Maryam Wahid
GRAIN BURSARY AWARD
Exodus Crooks
YOUNG PEOPLE
Photography Workshops in Shropshire
Celebrating Age
by Kate Peters
Decolonising The Gaze
Arpita Shah, Marywam Wahid, Nilupa Yasmin and Dr Caroline Molloy
EVERYTHING IN THE FOREST IS THE FOREST
by Clare Hewitt
PICTURING WALSALL
Picturing High Streets, Historic England and Photoworks
Our Heritage and Identity
In partnership with SAND, led by artist Ming De Nasty
WAR was never my CHOICE
by Mark Neville and the Ukrainian Youth Art Group
Jonny Briggs
Exhibition, V&A Wedgwood Collection, from the 7th June
Heritage & Identity Portrait Project
Ming De Nasty, in partnership with SAND
Mark Neville
Commission
Lydia Goldblatt
Commission
CONSTRUCT by Anthony Luvera
Exhibition, Snow Hill Square, Birmingham, 14th September – 13th October 2022
Faces of 2022
Birmingham 2022 Festival
GENERATIONS, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Bursary Opportunities
Photo Play
In partnership with Appetite
Agency by Anthony Luvera
Fri 08 Oct - Thu 28 Oct 2021 on Warwick Row, Coventry
Coventry; Visual Stories
by Asia, Aya, Daleen and Mohsin
Coventry; Visual Stories
by Charlotte, Ellie, Jamie, Janson, Prash and Thomas
The Rural Gaze
Commissions, Symposium and Publication.
Open Call for Socially Engaged Photographer-in-Residence in Coventry (1 year)
Deadline to apply May 26th 2021
Covid 19; A Year Lived
FORMAT Festival, Exhibition
What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase
by Edgar Martins
Picturing England’s High Streets – Historic England
A three year project which will deliver six photographer-in-residence programmes at six high street locations across England
Familiar Faces by Adina Lawrence
Newcastle-under-Lyme, Friday 29 January until Sunday 1 August, Collaboration with Appetite
A TIME OF UNCERTAINTY
A Participatory Talk by Tristan Poyser, 29 December at 7pm
Invisible Chains: Photography’s Ingrained Assumptions
by Lewis Bush, part of COVID-19 Responses
Moving towards rupture, resistance, and refusal in Black moving image works
by Jamila Prowse, part of COVID-19 Responses
I am reaching out to you
by Anneka French, part of COVID-19 Responses
Photosynthesis
by Anna Souter, part of COVID-19 Responses
Covid-19 Responses
Commissions & Bursaries
Covid-19 Responses, Birmingham
Commission & Bursaries
Covid-19 Responses, Stoke-on-Trent
Bursaries
Pandemia to Pandemia
by Andrea G Artz, part of COVID-19 Responses
Fugue
by Lydia Goldblatt, part of COVID-19 Responses
Birmingham Lockdown Stories
by Jaskirt Dhaliwal Boora, COVID-19 Responses
Street Cleaners
by Chris Hoare, part of COVID-19 Responses
HAPPINESS
by Dan Dale, part of COVID-19 Responses
A Slippery Slope
by Freddy Griffiths, part of COVID-19 Responses
Field
by Jemima Yong, part of COVID-19 Responses
Metamorphosis
by Ngadi Smart, part of COVID-19 Responses
Playing Their Part
by Shaista Chishty, part of COVID-19 Responses
What would you say
by Andrew Roberts, COVID-19 Responses
All People Are Like Grass
by Barnaby Kent, COVID-19 Responses
The Planting of a Fig Tree
by Chris Neophytou, COVID-19 Responses
from two metres
by Joanna Fursman, COVID-19 Responses
Covid Mirror
by Olivier Jamin, COVID-19 Responses
The Chronicles of Lockdown
by Robyn Clark, COVID-19 Responses
Aftermath
by Sarah Peart, COVID-19 Responses
Life Behind The Front Line
by Holly Johnson, COVID-19 Responses
Andy Pilsbury, GRAIN Photobook Bursary
Awarded for The Flesh and The Fantasy, five stories connected through American culture in the UK
AND IF THE DAY HAD OTHER THINGS TO SHOW, THEY ARE FORGOTTEN NOW
by Alannah Cooper, The Rural Gaze
DIRFT
by Emily Graham, the Rural Gaze
COUNTY LINES
by Guy Martin, The Rural Gaze
MONUMENT TO THE VANQUISHED (after Albrecht Dürer) | ENCLOSURE ACTS
by Leah Gordon, The Rural Gaze
CHARNWOOD FOREST
by Matthew Broadhead, The Rural Gaze
AROUND THE STUMP
by Murray Ballard, The Rural Gaze
THE LIGHT IS DIFFERENT HERE
by Navi Kaur, The Rural Gaze
THE ANTHOLOGY OF RURAL LIFE
by Colin Robins and Oliver Udy, The Rural Gaze
HOLDING THE BABY
by Polly Braden, The Rural Gaze
THE GROWING THINGS
by Sam Laughlin, The Rural Gaze
HARVEST
by Marco Kesseler, The Rural Gaze
New Narratives
Collaboration with Tasweerghar (Pakistan) and Pathshala (Bangladesh) part of Transforming Narratives
International Bursary: Awarded to Laura Dicken
GRAIN Projects and New Art West Midlands £2000 Bursary
Arenig
by Matthew Murray
Made in Brixton
by Nilupa Yasmin, in partnership with Photofusion
‘Too Rich a Soil’
Arpita Shah, Maryam Wahid & Nilupa Yasmin | Exhibition | The New Art Gallery Walsall | 15th Nov 2019 – 19th April 2020
Settling
by Sam Ivin
When The Golden Sun Is Sinking
by Indre Serpytyte
Sixteen
by Kate Peters
THE FACE OF SUFFRAGE
by Helen Marshall, The People's Picture
Inverted landscapes
by David Bethell
Noises
by Lua Ribeira
Sacred Things: Elalmadinah … To The City
by Liz Hingley
Saddleworth
by Matthew Murray
NUCLEUROSIS
by Lily Wales
GRAIN Portfolio Award
FORMAT International Photography Festival
EVOLUTION Explored
Magnum Photos Exhibition, Shrewsbury
The Fireside and the Sanctuary
by Mark Wright
GRAIN Bursary 2017
Awarded to Caitriona Dunnett
EAST MEETS WEST
Exhibition of Contemporary Photography and Moving Image
GRAIN Audience Development Survey and Strategy
Thank you to everyone who contributed
International Photography Residency
Dimitri Haddad and Anneka French
Kern Baby, A Child For Sacrifice
by Faye Claridge
Spirit is a Bone
by Broomberg & Chanarin. £25.00 + Postage
Responding to the Archive
GRAIN initiated professional development activities
In Camera: Mat Collishaw
18 September 2015 – 10 January 2016 The Gallery, Library of Birmingham
ALBUM 31
by Sophy Rickett and Bettina Von Zwelh
Mining the Archive
A collaboration with The Swarm and University of Birmingham Digital Humanities Hub
5 PLUS 5
Exhibition exchange, Madrid - Birmingham
I Sell the Shadow to Save the Substance
by Lucy Hutchinson
The City of Six Towns
by Mark Power
Guangzhou Exchange
by Andrew Lacon and Stuart Whipps
EMPIRE
by Jon Tonks
PLANE MATERIALS
Co-commission for Brighton Photo Biennial 2014
Mat Collishaw Commission
Co-commission with Library of Birmingham and The New Art Gallery Walsall.
After the Image
UNSEEN Photo fair
GRAIN Growth
Business Development
The Photographers’ Wall
a space in the Library of Birmingham dedicated to photography and photographers
The Black Kingdom
by Brian Griffin. £35.00 + Postage
Findings
by Tom Hunter
