2020 may have been a bit of a letdown, but once restrictions allow it, we can’t wait to visit a range of art exhibitions. Here are a few new shows you can look forward to. All dates are subject to change, so be sure to check before visiting...
Reactor: Here the Gold Ones Meet - Bonington Gallery
Welcome to the Cosmic Care Home. Bonington Gallery will be showing a performance-fiction work by Reactor, a Nottingham-based art collective, exploring an imagined present-future-past inhabited by characters collectively known as the Gold Ones. With an evolving narrative, the show comprises video, performance, games and installation. Runs Sat 6 Feb 2021 - Sat 13 Mar 2021.
Phoebe Boswell: Here - New Art Exchange
What does it mean to belong and to be free? This question is at the heart of Phoebe Boswell’s exhibition, and draws on a personal history rooted in colonial traces and contradictory legacies. Combining drawing with digital technology, she creates immersive installations and works that layer drawing, animation, sound, video, and interactivity. Boswell’s art aims to find a language to articulate and celebrate the nuance and complexity of communities, voices, hearts, and histories which, like her own, are often marginalised, simplified or sidelined as 'other'. The show is currently postponed, so look out for an opening date.
Viviana Troya - One Thoresby Street
For the past year and a half, Viviana Troya has been One Thoresby Street’s New Contemporaries Studio Bursary Holder. Marking the end of her residency, Troya will exhibit new work, exploring notions of displacement of time and absence, and the question of who and where we are in time via technology. Runs 27 Feb 2021 - 27 Mar 2021
One Thoresby Street website
The Annotated Reader - Bonington Gallery
“Imagine you’ve missed the last train. Is there one piece of writing that you would want with you for company in the small hours?” In a project by artist Ryan Gander and critic and writer Jonathan P. Watts, this question was posed to nearly 300 leading artists, academics, writers, musicians and designers working today, inviting them to submit a piece of writing with their personal annotations. In addition, you’ll find a vending machine where you can purchase a USB stick containing the entire catalogue of texts. Runs Sat 27 Mar 2021 - Sat 15 May 2021
Allison Katz: Artery - Nottingham Contemporary
London-based Canadian artist, Allison Katz, draws on puns and language games, exploring the gap between language and visual representation. It includes a number of new and recent works created in London during lockdown, and explores questions of intimacy without touching, circulation and slowness. Katz’s paintings will be playfully hung among and behind a series of angled walls, apertures and peepholes. Runs 15 May 2021 – 31 Oct 2021
Nottingham Castle Collection - Nottingham Castle
This spring, you can see highlights from the Castle's world-class art collections ‘back home’ in four newly-refurbished galleries. Artworks include firm favourites by Richard Parkes Bonington, Dame Laura Knight, Magdalene Odundo, Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Dame Lucie Rie, JMW Turner and more - joined by exciting new additions from artists including Goshka Macuga, Zanele Muholi and Edmund de Waal. Nottingham’s nationally-important medieval alabaster sculptures will also share the stage, along with a new Nottingham Lace Gallery.
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