Birmingham artist, Matthew Robinson, looks at the city in a slightly different way to the rest of us.  In Robinson’s eyes the city is organic, ever changing and evolving.  This project by Matt sees lampposts in Bournville grow and mutate.  Coloured wings and cloud shaped forms sprout from grey and green city posts, playfully restrained on the one hand, due to one being used to seeing items adorn lampposts, yet threatening on the other, what are these things? and where did they come from?  

 

Matthew Robinson’s work is inspired by many oddments, particularly the city, Manga and Sci-Fi, and all of themes are deeply embedded in this series of lamppost work.  They are colourful and aesthetic, lending themselves to Bournville’s idyllic architectural surroundings with ease and subtlety.  The sinister themes found within Sci-Fi culture make these pieces, through time however, appear lost, as with weather they will be warn away and begin to disintegrate, unable to survive in the ‘perfect’ surroundings of Bournville; ‘Mutant Ninja Wood Block’ therefore moves from being a subtle art piece to commenting on the survival and opinions of public art in Birmingham.