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Eastside Projects is an artist run pluriverse based in Birmingham✨Incidental Artists✨ @seemaworld_ @harrietbowman @nu.melissandre.varin (Senegal!)
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We are delighted to announce that Raheel Khan is the 9th Incidental Artist and Wheatley Fellow for 2026–27.
Raheel’s project starts by tracing the histories between Mirpur and Birmingham, moving between intergenerational language, labour and religion. He’s interested in how these things become embedded in objects and spaces over time, and how they sit within larger mechanisms around the movement of people, engineered displacement, economic policy and belief.
In 1967, the Mangla Dam flooded 280 villages in Mirpur, Azad Kashmir. The British government, which had part-funded the project, negotiated priority work permits as the terms of compensation. Those permits did not begin the movement between Mirpur and Britain, but accelerated existing routes into industrial towns and cities, including Birmingham and the wider Midlands.
At a moment when calls for ‘remigration’ and mass deportation have become increasingly visible, and when media narratives of Pakistani Britain are too often stripped of histories that complicate the politics of exclusion, the absence of this story in the public consciousness is not benign. A community that constitutes the majority of British Pakistanis has been made illegible to the country it helped build.
Raheel’s feasibility study will begin with relationships that already exist - his extended family and community networks across Birmingham's Mirpuri neighbourhoods are the first point of entry, not as research subjects but as the people who already know which mosque holds the oldest congregation, which takeaway has been on the same street for thirty years, which taxi firm is still run by the same family who came over in the 1970s. From there the work will expand outwards through the networks those relationships open.
The Wheatley Fellowship is a partnership with Birmingham School of Art at Birmingham City University.
03 Nov 2026
Big shout out to @sol__miles our outgoing Artist-Curator Trainee after a glorious busy challenging 18months of Eastside activity and adventures. Thankyou for keeping space ship EP on track and Ai free! You will go on to great things now. Let’s keep making art together ✊💥
1st image: photo by Sahjan Kooner, words/characters from Waiting for Godot. X
13 Nov 2026
Last weekend Eastside Projects hosted the Syllabus IX cohort for their second gathering of the year! 🌱💭
Syllabus artists joined the teams from Eastside Projects, Wysing, artist lead Harun Morrison and various artists, curators and organisers from Birmingham to spend time together, share ideas and experience multiple artworks.
On Friday, we settled in at Eastside Projects with a collective reading of Pauline Oliveros’ ‘The Earthworm Also Sings’, led by Harun. An introduction and casual Q+A with the team at Eastside Projects covering how artist-led spaces can offer an alternative way of working, and where curation and artist practice intersect was followed by a baked potato lunch with people who are making things happen in the city. In the afternoon, we visited Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery for a screening of John Akomfrah’s ‘Handsworth Stories’, expertly introduced by Senior Curator Ian Sergeant.
We rounded the night off at Digbeth first Friday taking in live performances as part of Fierce Jam, hosted at Eastside Projects, and Shenece Oretha’s ‘Grounding’s at Grand Union.
Saturday we took a trip to Moseley Bog for a tour led by archaeologists David Smith and Henry Chapman covering everything from the pollen record to bog bodies, and finished the day with a workshop, discussion and super slow walking exercise led by Shenece Oretha.
Sunday kicked off with telepathic exercises led by Harun, followed by planning for the next gathering in Sheffield.
Thank you to everyone who joined us this past weekend to make for a very special gathering: @granduniongallery @oooretha @ikongallery @joannemasding @fiercefestival @sophiemackfall @seemaworld_ @modern_clay @flatpackfestival @supersonic_fest @radicalexhibition @birmingham_mag
Syllabus IX artists:
@jessica_a_ashman
@billingham_alex
@queenneoprene
@umamahamido
@__nataliemitchell
@femme.castratrice
@aillarok
@productionsbysymone
@jonnyjwalker
Syllabus IX is delivered in partnership with Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, Live Art Development Agency (LADA), PS², Site Gallery, and Studio Voltaire (Associate Partner/Alumni Gathering Host), and funded by Freelands Foundation.
#syllabusix
13 Nov 2026
we are honoured to introduce Muhsana Ali as Filling Each Other's Cups resident artist, Muhsana presents 2 new artworks within 100 SOXLA/SOMETHING YOU NEED: a mosaic and a film about 'Kersa', the artist approaches it as an important Senegalese value referring to decency and respect towards oneself and others. Something to be remembered, nurtured, and preserved.
🏹✨️join us for the grand opening of our off-site exhibition:
22nd November
17h30
Behind Mermoz Grand Mosque / deriere la Grande Mosque de Mermoz
*expect a convivial and warm atmosphere with prayer time (optional).✨️
bio: Muhsana Ali is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, mosaic and installation. Following a 1997 Fulbright Fellowship researching African art across seven countries, she developed a community-based practice. In 1999, she created an exhibition on the transatlantic slave trade in Abidjan, integrating street youth through artistic and literacy training. After moving to Senegal in 2002, she co-founded the Portes et Passages du Retour association with artist Amadou Kane Sy, establishing a rural Center for Art and Holistic Development in 2005. Her work includes numerous public murals and mosaics, notably a monumental commission for the World Bank’s Dakar headquarters in 2025.
12 Nov 2026
We are delighted to welcome artist @iyeketi in conversation with Imann Gaye, founder of Ban Workshop, Gavin, co-founder of @eprjcts and artist @nu.melissandre.varin who initiated four years of experimentation with both organisations, presenting the project Filling Each Other’s Cups.
This convivial shared moment will touch upon the good, the bad and the ugly of working with materials, running independent artist-led spaces across different contexts and geographies, co-resourcing, and the preservation of heritage and culture.
You are invited to the opening of 100 SOXLA/ SOMETHING YOU NEED, from 15:00 to 17:00 on Saturday 21st November.
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At the intersection of sculpture, design and digital storytelling, Aminata Collé Mboup is a multidisciplinary sculptural artist born and raised in Dakar, Senegal, and based between Dakar and Toronto. Bringing an afro-indigenous and futurist perspective to her work, she explores the intersections of materiality, culture and artisanal expression.
Rooted in ideas of time and memory, her practice uses imagination to explore the fluidity and transformation of the self across ancestral and contemporary experiences. Alongside her personal practice, she collaborates with brands and cultural institutions including Maison Margiela, NONSENSE Magazine and University of Toronto Hart House.
This project is supported by @britishcouncilsenegal @fluxus_art_projects @mybcu
11 Nov 2026
🗣FINAL CALL OUT FOR EOP’S WINTER FAIR 2026!!🗣
You have until TOMORROW, Friday 6th November, 5pm to apply to be a stall holder at this year’s fair.
The Winter Art Fair will take place on Friday 4th December, 6- 8pm and Saturday 5th December 12-5pm.
Anything you sell must be made by you ‼️(and under £200). Apart from that, there are no limits!
⛓️💥To apply please visit the link in our bio ⛓️💥
05 Nov 2026
📣 Meet @orla.toland joining @vidhi.jangra as the new Artist Curator-Trainee!!!! 📣
Orla Kurkierewicz Toland is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores visibility, representation, and the mechanisms of the living archive.
More recently, Orla's focus has shifted toward the concept of the sample: examining what it means to extract, appropriate, and repurpose imagery, text, and signage. Informed by growing up within an industrial landscape, alongside a family history in trades and East Midlands factory work, her practice investigates how industrial aesthetics intersect with queer identity and humour.
Recent exhibitions and co-curatorial projects include The Matter of Remaining (Surface Gallery, Nottingham, 2026) and L Words (The Good Rice, London). Additional group exhibitions include Obscene Pomegranate III (BACKLIT, Nottingham, 2026) and Perennial (Haarlem Art Space, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, 2026).
To see any of her work checkout @orla.toland 🌸
📸 Photograph by Ece Batur @ebtrrr
04 Nov 2026
Go Midlands! 🚐
Join us for a series of artist-led Away Days exploring the art scenes of Birmingham, Leicester and Nottingham!
Bringing together artists from Primary, Two Queens @twoqueensleicester and Eastside Projects @eprjcts , Go Midlands! is an opportunity to discover creative spaces, meet artists, curators and organisers, exchange ideas and make new connections across the region.
Each organisation will host a visit to their home city, sharing the people, projects and spaces that make up their local art scene.
📍 Location: Nottingham
📅 Thursday 12 November 2026
🏠 Hosted by PRIMARY
Open to resident artists and members of all three organisations. By signing up, you’ll be joining us for two more Away Days over the coming year. Our first away day was hosted by Eastside Projects in Birmingham, our second event will be hosted by @weareprimary in Nottingham.
RSVP to your host organisation by Friday 6 November.
#GoMidlands #PrimaryNottingham #TwoQueens #EastsideProjects #MidlandsArtists
04 Nov 2026
Calling all artists, creators and thing-makers!
Apply for this year's
₊˚✧🪩✧˚₊‧EOP Winter Art Fair ₊˚✧🪩✧˚₊‧
This year it is on for a full TWO days. And it will be bigger than ever- with access to our gallery space as additional room!
The fair opens its doors on December's Digbeth First Friday and the day after:
📅 Friday 4 December, 6-8pm
📅 Saturday 5 December, 12-5pm
This is a great opportunity to sell work, including original artworks, editions, publications, festive decorations, jewellery, cards, or stocking fillers (with a maximum selling price of £200).
The only condition is that the work must be made by 🫵YOU🫵
⛄ EOP members who joined before September 2026 can apply with no table fee
⛄ Non-members and later joiners pay £30
⛄ We provide the table, you keep 100% of your sales
Apply by 5pm on Friday 6 November. Link in bio!
03 Nov 2026
UPCOMING EXHIBITION 🫶🏾
100 SOXLA / SOMETHING YOU NEED
21 November - 19 December 2026
Muhsana Ali, Imann Gaye x Mudbelly, n:u (melissandre varin), Seed Archives, Gavin Wade, and Ban Collective
their strategy
for survival in a word
collaboration
opening events 21 November 3-5pm @banworkshop + 22 November from 7.30 in Mermoz
Within the OFF programme of the 16th Dakar Biennale @biennale_de_dakar_officiel
more info incoming 🏹
This project is supported by @britishcouncilsenegal @fluxus_art_projects @mybcu
Visual @annadgne @uncoated.office
02 Nov 2026
🍂 OCTOBER RECAP 🍁
heres what we got up to (amongst other things):::
🔵 'This resting, patience' a live art dance performance by Ewa Dziarnowska, we hosted one tentacle of the many limbed Fierce Festival.
🛞 'How to Roll a Tyre' a studio visit come performance with Harriet Bowman, featuring our very own Gavin Wade
🤖 'Waiting for Robot' an ergodic play
November brings:
🎭 Fierce Jams on Digbeth First Friday 6 Nov. Featuring performances by Xhosa Cole, Shuyi Gao, Anna Himali Howard, Pablo Pakula, Katy Baird. 630-930PM.
🚍 Local Superstar by Seema Mattu continues at FACT Liverpool
🎄 Winter Art Fair applications close Fri 6 Nov
💻 Radical Sabbatical applications to a close on 20 Nov.
⛐ Our EOP Away Day to Nottingham on 12 Nov
30 Oct 2026
Apply Now! Radical Sabbatical 2027 Residencies
Radical Sabbatical is a collaboration between University Collections, University of Birmingham and Eastside Projects which offers the opportunity for two artists to each undertake a six-month residency at the University of Birmingham centred on research and development.
📝 Friday 20 November, 11.59pm – Application deadline
🤝 £3,500 Artist Fee + £500 Production Budget
🌐 link in bio
30 Oct 2026
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