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Petition update, 03 September 2007

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Birmingham City Council brags that is committed to investing in the city’s

creative industries, yet 21 year old Birmingham Artists’ group was recently

given just one month’s notice of its funding being stopped.

Birmingham Artists have been an important resource for the city for two decades. Its members fly the flag for Birmingham nationally and internationally as well as working with Birmingham communities and schools.

The fact that BA was only given one month’s notice of the funding being cut is

disastrous as it does not allow the organisation to make alternative

arrangements. Effectively this will bring an end to the city’s only membership

based artists’ group and studio provider.

BA has a membership of 150, runs an experimental gallery, supports young

aspiring artists and provides crucial information and networking opportunities

for Birmingham’s artist community. BA’s studio complex at Lee Bank Business

Centre includes the Birmingham Print Workshop, the only artists’ printing

facility in the region . BA has pioneered

exhibitions in non gallery venues allowing people

from all walks of life to come into contact with the city’s visual out put.

Current signatories

Pamina Stewart, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• jeff sturgess
• Julia Gilbert
• jonathan kennedy
• Tariq Khaliq
• Ed Lea
• Sabine Gollner
• kate pemberton
• Craig Bick
• Kate Adams
• Bernard McCarty
• Sue Knox
• Michelle Lord
• Amy Clarke
• Alison Finn
• Rachel Harris
• Tamar Whyte
• Mandy Bray
• Penny Gaize
• Brendan Patrick Flynn
• Geoffrey Sims
• Phil Wilkinson
• Jane Anderson
• Matthew La Croix
• Carey Hendron
• Anna Cook
• Alice Miles
• Kerry Thomas
• kathryn matthews
• Clive Stubbs
• hugh jarrett
• Lyle Bignon
• Louisa Davies-Foley
• Alicia Dubnyckyj
• Paul O'Leary
• Kirsty Smith
• Steve Farley
• elizabeth lee
• Mo White
• David Phillips
• David Lewis
• Ben McPhee
• Claire King
• anne guest
• Brian Morgan
• Shaun Morris
• Lisa Metherell
• Wendy Stewaret
• kerry phillips
• Andrew Hunt
• James Byrne
• Mitch Pryce
• Jo de la Salle
• Lenora Minto
• Alan J Poole
• Laura Davenport
• Phil Woosey
• Ceri Griffiths
• Nick Currey
• Hannah Rumsby
• Rebecca Tebbett
• David Miller
• Andrew Cowie
• Andy Pryke
• Philip Burrows
• Brendan Joseph Ball
• Maureen Ann Ferguson
• Jo Spencer
• Daljit Singh
• Phillipa Leckenby
• alan cheeseman
• Graham Carlow
• Zoe Charaktinou
• N Payne
• Karmjeet Kashmir
• Kerry Hopkins
• Sebastian Barnes
• david smith
• Louise James
• elisabeth williams
• Sarah Mayhew
• Angela Maloney
• Pat Jones
• Chris Sutton
• Heather Tweed
• Fiona Banford
• Anne Watts
• Maria de Regla Garcia-Bernal
• Isla Crawford
• Rose Padmore
• Polly McDonald
• Margaret Anderton
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• Jim Wyatt-Lees
• Mark St.John Ellis
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• Anne Crews
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• Anne Giddings
• Dr G M Lawrence
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• Deborah Robinson
• Rob Lawley
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• simon thomas
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• luke unsworth
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