The Studio4 gallery at the Custard Factory gets a nice profile in The Guardian’s Urban Undiscovered microsite.

Future Systems’ dramatic, aluminium-clad Selfridges building in the new Bullring Centre may be the icon of Birmingham’s inner city regeneration, but the real seed of the city’s cultural rebirth has been sown 10 minutes down the road in Digbeth. The old Bird’s Custard Factory is now home to 20,000 sq metres of club, theatre, media and workshop space – among it, a small but vibrant gallery called Studio4, the nerve centre of Birmingham’s new art underground.

Studio4 is a joint venture between the Outcrowd Collective and Beat13, two local street/folk art cabals who have graduated over the last six years from hosting coffee-shop shows, via temporary displays at the Custard Factory, to owning their own permanent space within the complex.

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