Birmingham's Public Art

The local publishing house Birmingham Picture Library was founded by Jonathan and Barbara Berg in 1990. In 1994 Positively Birmingham was published and has sold out in 5th editions. Discovering Birmingham was published in 1995 and remains the key guide to the city, used by tourists and others. Invention & Design; Elkington of Birmingham was published in 2021 and tells a story of Jewellery Quarter entrepreneurship. Jonathan Berg came to live in Birmingham in 1978 to study and ultimately became Pathology Director of SWBH NHS Trust and an honorary professor at the University of Birmingham. Jonathan set up Positively Birmingham Walking Tours in 2016 providing public and private tours of the city and with a proportion of turnover donated to the Birmingham based charity Sifa Fireside.

A study of the public art that you can see today in Birmingham. Over 300 colour photos along with a detailed text describing the way that the Birmingham has accumulated the largest collection of public art of any UK regional city.