@bctype

Artist. Books: I.D.S.T (The Modernist, 2020), The Dereliction (Hercules Editions, 2021) Black Country Type (The Modernist, 2023) Ay It (BCU, 2025)

 Black Country, UK
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Joined November 2018
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NEW BOOK! I’m delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of my new book: Black Country Type   Published by @modernistmag Full details here: bit.ly/BCTBOOK This hardcover edition features over 100 photographs. Foreword by John Myers #blackcountry #ayit – at Wolverhampton, England
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Black Country Type@bctypeOct 3
Replying to @Theleaguemag
Bring back full kit managers
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R. M. Francis@RMFrancisSep 23
In Jan 2027, Transformer is out w/ @Zer0Books . Edited by me and Anthony Cartwright &cover design by @bctype . We've got poetry, fiction and essays exploring the shifting landscapes of the Black Country and you most definitely want to get a copy of it: collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-…

Transformer from Zer0 Books

Transformer brings together essays, poetry, and fiction that celebrate and interrogate the Black Country in equal measure, from it...

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Led Zeppelin News@ledzepnewsAug 14
Robert Plant wrote the foreword for a new photo book about the Black Country ledzepnews.com/2026/08/14/ro…

Robert Plant wrote the foreword for a new photo book about the Black Country

Robert Plant has written the foreword to “Black Country Type II”, a new book that collects photographer Tom Hicks’ images of the Black Country.Plant has called the 144-page book “a startling study...

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Ruth Millington@ruth_millingtonJun 2
For @Telegraph, I wrote about the case of the missing masterpieces at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Where are great works by William and May Morris, the city's radical Surrealists, Sandro Botticelli, Orazio Gentileschi, Simone Martini, Eugène Delacroix and Canaletto?
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Absolutely wonderful to have a new book in stock from local artist Tom Hicks! Black Country Type II is another beautifully produced volume of smart, droll and fascinating photographs, perfectly capturing the spirit of our place. Click & Collect: waterstones.com/book/black-c…
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the modernist®@modernistmagMay 21
Black Country Type II Photographs by Tom Hicks. Book Launch and exhibition closing. Thursday 28th May. 6.00 pm at the modernist, 58 Port Street, Manchester. All welcome. buff.ly/aUwRZrc
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the modernist®@modernistmagMay 20
Black Country Type II, photographs by Tom Hicks - available now from the modernist. buff.ly/9FKLrKC
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#wwfc #fwaw #wolves – at Wolverhampton, England
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the modernist®@modernistmagMay 13
'a work of genius' says Robert Plant. Black Country Type ll, photographs by Tom Hicks. Published by the modernist. Available now. the-modernist.org/collection…
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Out today in paperback! Ben Aitken's Sh*tty Breaks: A Celebration of Unsung Cities. Featuring, among other places, an enjoyable and amusing visit to #Wolverhampton, and a cover photograph by local hero @bctype, whose own new book will be with us very soon! waterstones.com/book/shitty-…
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Robert Clayton@robclaytonphotoMay 4
Short film written and narrated by #JonathanMeades about Rob Clayton's "Estate" documentary photography here: robclayton.co.uk/Estate-Film…
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Arts Connect@ArtsConnectWMApr 27
📢"BOYS IMPACT IN ART" FREE CPD WITH ARTIST BLACK COUNTRY TYPE📢 FOR PRIMARY, SECONDARY, FE and HE teachers of art🎨 🏫Wolverhampton School of Art 📅16 May 🕰️10-2pm 💷FREE Join us at this workshop led by artist Tom Hicks AKA Black Country Type @bctype 🧵
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Beatties: Exterior / Interior #blackcountry #bosted #artdeco #architecture #ayit
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birmingham modernist@modernistsocBHMApr 13
Join @bctype and Steve Marland on a photo walk in Walsall... the-modernist.org/collection…
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Birmingham Dispatch@brumdispatchApr 11
🧵 On Birmingham's historic Station Street is the nearly 120 year-old Electric Cinema. Film enthusiasts know it very well. Others might not. But beyond film fans, the Electric could become very significant for Brum at large. At least, that's the bet of Ian Francis.
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manchester modernist@modernistsocApr 3
New exhibition at the @modernistmag From this Saturday.
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the modernist®@modernistmagMar 18
Black Country Type by photographer Tom Hicks - "a startling study of our fractured, crazy place" says Robert Plant, former singer of Led Zeppelin Help bring Tom's book to publication - see our Crowd funder here - buff.ly/7Snv0YI
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Deborah Harries@deborahharriesMar 14
“I am wholly in favour of a designated heritage site at Station Street, that celebrates the UK’s first-ever repertory theatre, its oldest (working) cinema and an internationally important site of global music heritage and culture, in The Crown." blackcountryradio.co.uk/news…

Party pledges to ‘save’ Black Sabbath pub

For several years now, a Birmingham pub steeped in cultural history has remained vacant and a shell of its former self.

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the modernist®@modernistmagMar 11
"a startling study of our fractured, crazy place" says Robert Plant, former singer of Led Zeppelin. Help bring this book to publication - see our Crowd funder here - crowdfunder.co.uk/p/black-co…
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A proper bostin’ article on the Black Country’s premier visual chronicler @bctype bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg1…

'Startling study of fractured, crazy Black Country'

Tom Hicks' art celebrates the quirky and often-overlooked sights around the Black Country.

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