Visual Artists Collective

09/10/2024

Our beautiful otter, Flora, is on eBay.

Have a little look and a bid 🤞🥰

All money goes to helping these beautiful creatures 😊

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276658048966?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=lOC93tLJRPy&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

19/07/2024

Support local - a few of our group attend Stourbridge Life Drawing Group - professional models £8 - 7pm-9:30pm bi weekly on a Monday !

14/05/2024

We are currently exhibiting at Russell's Hall Hospital until 10th June!

This is our third exhibition at the Hospital with various new works available-!

Note* With every sale made 20% goes to the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Charity Trust. 👍

18/04/2024

Phil Jennings and Heather Wilson Art from the Visual Artists Collective will be displaying a few paintings in the open exhibition The Drip Coffee Company. Can't wait 🤩

Pop along to the exhibition open on Friday 19th April at 6:30. Should be a great night of coffee and art 😀 🥰

27/03/2024

11/03/2024

Oh look at this....Flora is still out and about 🥰

If you've spotted our special guest Flora you can pick up your free Otter Spotter sticker from our Coffee Lounge, open every day from 9.30am to 3.30pm.

Flora and friends are visiting sites across the Black Country until the end of May as part of the trail from Dudley Zoo. The zoo have worked with The Art Yard to design 8 otters, who will be auctioned off to raise funds for the UK Wild Otter Trust and the Himalayan Otter Network.

You can spot each of Flora's friends at Red House Glass Cone, Dudley Libraries, Dudley Canal & Tunnel Trust, Dudley Archives and Local History, The Village Hotel in Dudley, Duncan Edwards Leisure Centre, and Dudley Zoo

Find out more at www.dudleyzoo.org.uk/spotter-otter-trail/

25/02/2024

Oh in the news again 🥰

DUDLEY Zoo and Castle’s colourful otter sculptures have hit the road and headed out to community locations around the borough.

21/02/2024

Oh look where Flora is 🥰😍

If you're visiting us before the end of May you might spot our special guest, Flora, peeking out of a window on our South Wing Terrace!

Flora and friends are visiting sites across the Black Country as part of the trail from Dudley Zoo. The zoo have worked with The Art Yard to design 8 otters, who will be auctioned off to raise funds for the UK Wild Otter Trust and the Himalayan Otter Network.

You can spot each of Flora's friends at Red House Glass Cone, Dudley Libraries, Dudley Canal & Tunnel Trust, Dudley Archives and Local History, The Village Hotel in Dudley, Duncan Edwards Leisure Centre, and Dudley Zoo

Find out more at www.dudleyzoo.org.uk/spotter-otter-trail/

12/02/2024

Super write up in the Stourbridge News 😁🥰

DUDLEY Zoo and Castle has launched a community art trail to shine a spotlight on the threats facing otters.

10/02/2024

It's been a secret project in the pipeline for around six months now. We were asked to design and paint an otter for Otter Day at . And today we finally attended the awards ceremony and otter trail to celebrate. All the otters are utterly awesome and everyone involved should be really proud 🥰😁
Phil Jennings Heather Wilson Art Carrie Hutchinson Oliver Vilcans

Thank you to Dudley Zoo and The Art Yard in organising the event.

"Bringing local community art groups together in a collaborative art project, Dudley Zoo and Castle brings you ‘Spotter Otter’!

Over the past few months, eight otter sculptures have been colourfully decorated, inspired by a variety of themes including the zoo, wildlife, the Black Country and pop culture.

Launching February half term, find the otters around the zoo site, before they’re installed at various venues around the Dudley borough. They will then return to the zoo for the summer holidays.

At the end of the season, the otters will be auctioned off to raise funds for two ‘otterly’ amazing charities – The UK Wild Otter Trust and The Himalayan Otter Network."

29/01/2024

Don't forget to visit this amazing coffee shop and exhibition. It's on until 3rd March. Get yourselves down there have a coffee and purchase Art 🥰👍😁

The Drip Coffee Company

Phil Jennings Carrie Hutchinson Heather Wilson Art Visual Artists Collective