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Relax, explore and improve your photography skills

21/08/2025
Relax, explore and improve your photography skills

Join artist Tom Hicks on a guided photo-journey around the city to learn more about his ideas and explore new approaches to documenting the urban landscape.

Meet at the Chaplaincy, MP Building, Molineux Street at 10am on Tuesday 26 August.

Staff and students are welcome, at the end of the walk lunch will be provided for students who have booked. Whether you join us on foot or by wheelchair, we will travel at the pace of the slowest participant.

Tom will lead us from MP building, the Chaplaincy, into the City Centre. This is an opportunity to photograph architecture, signs and the city environment.

To book a place email please email chaplaincy@wlv.ac.uk 

About Tom Hicks:

Tom Hicks is a visual artist, best known for his work on Black Country Type. Presented via the Instagram account @blackcounyrytype it is an ongoing photographic project. In this series of images he applies his unique aesthetic to the region, focusing on words, typography, handmade lettering and signs. He also photographs ‘types’ of architectural features, objects and the post-industrial landscape of the area.

Tom works in other media, including graphic design, sculpture and film. He was recently commissioned to create a new public artwork for Halesowen.

See more: www.blackcountrytype.com/about

Film: https://www.fusedmagazine.co.uk/creative-postcodes-black-country-type-and-the-poetics-of-place/

Sculpture: https://www.ikon-gallery.org/news/view/tom-hicks-you-are-here-public-sculpture

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