The New Art Gallery Walsall is working in partnership with Multistory to present Nothing Gold Can Stay. Initiated as part of Multistory’s artist development programme, Blast Creative Network (BCN), this opportunity sits under the Assembly programme strand, which supports and platforms emerging artists in the Black Country through a yearly exhibition.
This year we have supported Mia Banks, Mandeep Dillon and Tegen Kimbley. Through process and the formal parameters of sculpture, moving image and photography, the artists consider the complex tensions between time, the production of images and the ethics of viewership, exploring how practices of slowness and deep attention ask us to view the world differently.
On Saturday 18 October join all three artists for an informal introduction to their work.
This event is free, booking is required.
Artist biographies
Mia Banks is a multidisciplinary artist from Walsall, specialising primarily in sculpture with elements of photography. She combines mass-manufacturing and handcrafting techniques to extract and replicate everyday textures, aiming to encourage audiences to pay closer attention to their surroundings by offering a neurodiverse perspective. She has shown work at 01902, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Creative Art Showcase 24 and Stryx amongst others. She previously won the Bowater Prize For Excellence (2024) and the Gertrude Emily Griffin Prize (2023). She studied at Sandwell College, and went on to undertake her BA and MA degrees at the Birmingham School of Art, and is currently in the process of undertaking her PhD in Art and Design.
Mandeep was born in Tipton to immigrant parents who spent their working lives in local factories and foundries. This upbringing gave her a deep awareness of race, deprivation, and social justice — themes that have shaped her life and career. She completed a BA at Trent Polytechnic and went on to work as a documentary filmmaker in regions affected by conflict and natural disasters. In 2019, she earned an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, where she received the Madame Tussauds Fine Art Prize. She has since been shortlisted for the Ingram Prize, exhibited widely, and undertaken several residencies, including a year-long programme at Buckinghamshire New University
Tegen Kimbley is a documentary photographer based in the Black Country. She graduated from The University of South Wales in 2018. Recent group exhibitions include Surreal Solihull (2025), PRISM Photography Open 2025, Midlands Arts Centre (2025), Narcissus in Bloom, Ffoto Cymru 2024, CYCLES, The Gap (2024), The Technician Show, hmv Empire (2022), Offsite 9: Wolverhampton Outdoor Market (2022). Exploring manmade environments Tegen documents the people and objects that inhabit them, creating narratives around the everyday and over-looked. Through considered composition, she attempts to generate dialogue around current environmental, social and economic issues, whilst creating a sense of atmosphere and place.