Whilst trawling through files on the hard drive looking for an image we ended up stumbling across some photos of a empty shop project we did in 2007 and decided to blog it.
Before we were called Bring Colour we were going under the name Bring'in Colour and in the summer of 07 we worked in partnership with Coventry Arts collective Dialectic Arts and did a project called "Misleading Appearances" in an empty shop down Spon End Arches.
The driving force behind Dialectic Arts, Artist Kyla Craig had worked her magic and convinced the owners of the building to let us use it as art studios whilst transforming the venue into a space that we could use to have an exhibition.
The building had previously been a furniture shop but was now being used to store tyres, so it was filthy! We got the keys to the place, moved in and made a start.
We worked 24/7, shifted all the tyres, tore down the ceiling, ripped out decaying walls, replaced the loo.......
.........Cleaned the place from top to bottom, Sorted the Roof, Painted everywhere,..........
.......had new lighting and a new circuit board fitted. The place was ready to be used!!!
Artists moved into the space and started to get creative.
The place was being used as a studio space and creative hub. What we had intended! Then the plans got under way to organise the exhibition.
The owners of the building were paying increased attention to what we were up to as we had clearly highlighted the hidden potential of there building.
After transforming the building, setting the date for the exhibition and speaking to the owners about when the project will end and they can have their building back and sorting a date for that, we closed up shop and went to Bristol for a break.
On returning from Bristol the owners of the building had changed the locks, we tried speaking to the owners to see what was going on, but all we got was his employee saying he wanted his building back.
Annoyed, Disappointed, Angry, Frustrated and Upset are a few words that spring to mind!
We managed to get them to open it up for a short while so we could get our belongings back but that is how the project ended!
Still gutted about how messy everything ended, but you learn from your mistakes and there are plenty more empty shops out there! So keep your eyes peeled because we might pop up in your local empty shop!
We popped up the Kasbah for the last time this year to do a spot of decor. Went up and bashed out two balcony banners for their Christmas Eve special "A Nightmare Before Christmas".
We were back down the Kasbah with some UV paint at Halloween. This time with shorter notice and more stuff to paint, two balcony's and both ends of the room. 
Well then, meet the newest member of the Bring Colour family, 'Tigga'.
We were contacted by a new Coventry based record label "Vendetta Bass" to produce some artwork for them. They wanted a logo bashed up, Some artwork for Vendetta Bass's first release "Digital Era - A. English Haters AA. The Sound" and some promo artwork for the Label. So we got busy!
Here's a couple of pics from Henley Green Community Centre, Coventry. We got invited up to facilitate a series of art sessions with the outcome being the young people producing artwork to decorate their newly acquired youth room.
We were contacted by The Oak because they were after some signs painted. We painted two signs to go next to the road and also did them a chalkboard for inside.
Nina from Yardley st. sent a zip folder over of some logo designs that someone had bashed together and asked us to produce something that they could use, so we went to work.
