A Jewellery Quarter architecture practice is hosting a programme of art installations outside its offices next month to celebrate collaboration between artists and architects.
A quartet of artists will turn the space in front of BPN Architects in Mary Street, which is normally used as a car park, into an exhibition hall.
The practice described the space, which is the only entrance into and out of the building, as gloomy, lacking identity and fairly typical of buildings in the Jewellery Quarter which give no indication as to what is happening inside.
The selected artists are illustrator and communicator Alexi K, film maker David Poole, printmaker Jacqui Dodds and artist Rich White.
They will strive to examine exactly what the space means to the immediate and wider area and activate it in new and exciting ways, according to BPN.
Artists were chosen from a shortlist of 12 after the architecture practice launched a search via its website and arts body Turning Point West Midlands.
Each one will have the space to themselves for a week during September to demonstrate their skills, styles and media and also have the opportunity to work with architects and technical staff.
A fifth artist, Amy Lunn, has been appointed to document the project using photography and video.
The installations will be funded primarily by BPN, with support from the West Midlands branch of the Royal Institute of British Architects.