This year Grand Union celebrates fifteen years of artist-led activity in Digbeth, the rapidly developing district close to Birmingham city centre. In that time the gallery and artists' studio complex has secured a reputation as a place to experience the best in experimental and socially relevant arts programming. Their events and exhibitions have become a prominent and important facet of the arts ecosystem in the region, and the organisation has demonstrated how the right timing, careful consideration of place and its complex histories, alongside a significant amount of graft, can secure space within major city-wide development; not just for the activities of artists, but for the nurturing of a whole series of meaningful relationships and entanglements.
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