Nottingham Articles, Interviews and Features

Art Review: Zanele Muholi's Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail The Dark Lioness at New Art Exchange

We got down to New Art Exchange's latest exhibition Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail The Dark Lioness

Wolfgang Buttress Loves Bees

Following its success at the Milan Expo in 2015, we spoke to Wolfgang Buttress about The Hive, in issue #75. The local artist created a huge, metal beehive pavilion that highlighted the bee’s importance to our ecosystem, and it was partnered with a soundtrack inspired by the buzzy boggers, written by Tony Foster and Spiritualized’s Kev Bales. The album, One, was critically acclaimed, and the crew took the pavilion experience to the stage with a soundscape throughout 2016. We caught up with Wolfgang himself, and asked him a few questions about his career so far...

Exhibition Review: Scaling the Sublime – Art at the Limits of Landscape at Djanogly Gallery

29 March 18

Romanticism, in literature, art, music and thought, changed the world. But as this new exhibition at Djanogly Gallery hopes to show, the tropes, moods and key landscape interests of the Romantic movement of the early nineteenth century now influences a new generation of artists. The show-stopper here – and effective summary of the show – is Mariele Neudecker’s big installation After-Life which succeeds in referencing a broad range of Romantic artists and issues...

Art Works: Siddharth Varma

25 March 18

Local artist, Siddharth Varma, on his beautiful ink masterpiece...

Strike Site: Exhibition Curator Sacha Craddock Talks Unreality and Insistent Physicality

22 March 18

Strike Site is an exhibition which attempts to create the contradictory yet palpable sense of the temporary that comes with an exhibition of arts. Now in it's second manifestation, after being previously exhibited at Pi Artworks London, curator Sacha Craddock worked closely with the Nottingham Refugee Forum to explore notions of displacement, movement, freedom and barriers...

Crop Up Gallery: The Student Run Curatorial Group Giving Art Students Their Big Break

22 March 18

As any depressed graduate will tell you, a lot of jobs will ask you for experience in your field. But you’ve been too busy studying… well, sort of. Actually you’ve been playing prosecco pong and skinny dipping in the Market Square fountain. When were you meant to get this experience anyway? Well, that’s where Crop Up Gallery is lending a hand...

Art Works: Keith Bloody Mary

12 March 18

Our #99 cover artist on his dutty collage work...

Exhibition Review: STRATA:1 at Surface Gallery

05 March 18

STRATA is a series of exhibitions that explore the "raw medium of paint". In STRATA:1, the first exhibition of the series curated by Sarah Cunningham, the artists use paint to explore the entwining theme of nature and humanity. The styles of the five artists are vividly juxtaposed, creating a startling but effective exhibition that, as a whole, seems to highlight how much humans impact our natural landscape...

Art Review: Strike Site at Backlit

05 March 18

Strike Site brings together a number of artworks created in response to the current refugee crisis. Spanning several rooms of former factory Backlit, the pieces evoke contrasting feelings of stubborn presence and fleeting transportability. Seeking refuge from the snow, we followed curator and Chair of the Board of New Contemporaries Sacha Craddock on a tour around the exhibition...

Have You Seen These Stickers Around Nottingham?

17 February 18

In the digital era, it’s easy to bury your head into the depths of a black mirror and miss your surroundings when getting from A to B. Look up with a pair of wide peepers, and you’ll be amazed at how much art is hidden in plain sight. You’ll start to notice the little characters dotted around the city: a worm on a phone box, a carrot on a lamppost, a political uprising in a disused doorway. Nottingham’s streets are covered in stickers and posters just waiting to be noticed. We hunted far and wide to catch five of the many street artists dotted around the city...

THiNK are Running an Album Art Competition for their Spring Open Exhibition

13 February 18

Have you ever looked at an album cover and thought “I could gi’ that a go”? If so, then you can show off your artistic prowess at THiNK’s Spring Open Exhibition. Whether you’re an established artist or just interested in trying something new, between Thursday 29 March and Sunday 29 April, you can have your artwork hanging in a proper gallery. With no entry fee and the competition open to all ages, there is only one rule: all works must be original pieces.

Art Review: From Ear to Ear to Eye at Nottingham Contemporary

08 February 18

Featuring work from almost twenty artists and researchers, this exhibition tells stories from across the Arab world. Through photography, sculpture, music and video, the artists paint a picture of countries with a fierce, independent identity, both separate from and entwined with the violent depictions we see in the media...

Art Review: The Real DMZ at New Art Exchange

31 January 18

The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a no-man’s-land strip that has divided North and South Korea since the end of the Korean war in 1953. Contrary to its name, it’s one of the most heavily militarized areas in the world, and has been the unwitting inspiration for some seriously interesting pieces of art...

The Renewal Trust Opens Community Art Hub in Sneinton Market

08 January 18

It’s set to be a one-stop-shop for people to find out more and get involved with local art across the city.

Flood Plains Modelling with Ian Bartlett

30 December 17

Art Works: Hannah Yates

25 December 17

A local artist lets us in on her creative process...

Art Works: Adam Willis

12 December 17

Origami Girl

Surface Gallery Leftovers Volunteer Show

02 December 17

The variation was simply stunning. In one corner you had Displaced/Replaced with his glitched photo montages coming to life, and another you had stunning glasswork by Phoebe Joy.

Art Works: Marcus Gillmore

22 November 17

The Letter F

The Colour of Love Project

22 November 17

Whether you’re head over heels in love or not, many of us think we know what all that lovey-dovey stuff is all about...

Conceptual and Abstract Art at Rough Trade Nottingham

18 November 17

Review: The 2017 Jarman Awards

10 November 17

The 10th anniversary edition of the Jarman Award celebrated a diverse group of artists whose work defies categorisation into any singular genre. We headed down to Nottingham Contemporary to check out the shortlisted artists' work

Art Works: Adam Brett

09 November 17

Toy Photography

Art Review: Sounds Like Her at New Art Exchange

08 November 17

Seven women, from a variety of different backgrounds, have brought their work together to create Sounds Like Her the New Art Exchange. They’re using their voices, language, noise, textures, music, sonic structures and non-sonic materialisations of sound all to grab your attention and make you think about things from new perspectives...

Happy 40th Birthday to City Arts Nottingham

06 November 17

City Arts is a community arts organisation based at the bottom of Hockley that’s done nowt but good for local people. The creative boggers turned forty in September, and are celebrating their anniversary with a year-long series of events for everyone to get stuck into. We delved into a bit of their history, had a chat with a few of the organisers, stuck our party hats on, and did a little dance...

TRCH - Twentieth Century Boy

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