Art co-Editor Rachel Willcocks previews seven art exhibitions that you can check out this month...
4UBU
Where: New Art Exchange
When: Saturday 14 August - Saturday 9 October
New Art Exchange is trying something a little different in their Main Gallery space over summer and is inviting the community into the gallery, not only to see works but to engage with visual arts, books, film/moving image, sound, and sculptures. The 4UBU (For you, By us - For you, By you) exhibition is Inspired by recent discussions around the fight for racial equality the exhibition seeks to express the joys of Black life in multiple forms.
Roger Suckling, Self Portraits: Looking Back To 1981
Where: New Art Exchange
When: Saturday 14 August - Saturday 9 October
Travelling back in time and sparking conversations around how Hyson Green has changed over the years, this selection of self portrait photographs of the community 40 years ago was compiled by Nottingham Community Arts Centre (NCAC was originally on the site where New Art Exchange is located now).The self-portraits were taken on a 35mm camera, with black and white film, using a remote shutter release – which can be seen in most of the photos.
Press Start: An Exploration Of Creative Gaming Culture
Where: Lakeside Arts
When: Saturday 31 July - Sunday 5 September
Video games are great for escaping into new worlds and this exhibition highlights some of the creativity within the three billion users worldwide gaming industry. Within the exhibition, the image and screen displays feature the artworks of eighteen artists from different parts of the world who are active practitioners in the creation of films, pictures and comics within video game worlds.
in reality, these things need to be said
Where: Backlit Gallery
When: Friday 6 August - Sunday 29 August
Forgotten histories are brought to the forefront by artists De’Anne Crooks, Arit Emmanuela Etukudo, Rene Matić, Zethu Maseko and Kim Thompson in this group show. The artists use tapestry, soundscape, mobile phone footage, self-portraiture, large-scale portraits, film and spoken word throughout different pieces. The exhibition will enable us to discover themes and stories around reclaiming stolen pasts, embedded systemic gaslighting, the St Ann’s riots of 1958, Jamaican migrants and African spirituality.
Gurminder Sikand, The Weaver of Songs
Where: TG Gallery at Primary
When: Friday 23 July - Saturday 28 August
The works in this exhibition were completed in the past three years by Nottingham based artist Gurminder Sikand and they explore her interests in Indian folklore, cultural symbolism and more recently body building and enhancement. Made up of palimpsests - a manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on earlier writing, Sikand has used sandpaper, wire wool and a technique similar to papier-mâché to add them.
Grey Crawford - Chroma 1978-19
Where: Beam at Primary
When: Thursday 22 July - Wednesday 22 September
Grey Crawford is a photographer whose work transformed in the dark room adding his own experimental colour printing techniques. Crawfords take to editing see’s geometric shapes, lines and gradients into photographs of overlooked architectural spaces of LA’s urban fabric - think parking lots, industrial buildings, and disused gas stations. The exhibition is Grey’s first UK show and will be on show in Beam’s new, simple yet aesthetically pleasing bookshop, gallery, cafe and event space.
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