{"id":331843,"date":"2025-12-23T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331843\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:00:07","slug":"new-artwork-appears-next-to-well-known-birmingham-banksy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331843\/","title":{"rendered":"New artwork appears next to well-known Birmingham Banksy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The artwork was part of a collaboration between Ikon gallery, the Jewellery Quarter Development Trust (JQDT), Birmingham City University, and Mr Kitson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Mahony from JQDT said it was important public spaces reflected the realities facing communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;By using the Banksy site as the setting for an annual winter intervention, we can draw on the Jewellery Quarter&#8217;s creativity to focus attention on those who need it most during the colder months and direct support to organisations like SIFA Fireside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All funds raised went directly to SIFA Fireside, supporting their work with people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ikon&#8217;s artistic director Linzi Stauvers said the city had a wide collection of public art and this latest installation fit perfectly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Over time, these works can get overlooked and their social commentary dampened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Unfortunately, this is the case with Birmingham&#8217;s Banksy, which is barely visible behind layers of perspex and condensation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Dion Kitson&#8217;s sculptural response is not only a homage to another artist, but an acknowledgement of their call to action,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artwork was part of a collaboration between Ikon gallery, the Jewellery Quarter Development Trust (JQDT), Birmingham City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-331843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}