Nottingham Articles, Interviews and Features

Exhibition Review: Catching Matter at Beam Gallery

A series of lime plaster boards with interwoven patterns and inky shapes have the appearance of stone tablets with galaxies and...

Under Cover Artist: Maxrock of Totally Brewed

29 June 22

Creating edgy artwork for the Nottingham-based brewery Totally Brewed, Maxrock has always felt a pull toward the scary and dystopian. That’s why he seemed the perfect fit for our fear edition. Combining his love for beer with our theme, we couldn’t be happier with the outcome…

We Chat to Notts Artist Angelo Murphy About His Fascinating Oil Paintings and Winning an Amateur Jackson’s Prize

22 June 22

Nottingham-based artist Angelo Murphy has a special way of capturing the mundane and making it beautiful. His still life pieces are reminiscent of Baroque paintings from the seventeenth century, only he’ll throw in a tin of golden syrup to remind us that this is, in fact, the 21st. The soft colours in his oil paints draw your eyes in, giving you a hazy sense of serenity, and his stunning piece Citrus with Blue Paper has just won the Amateur Jackson’s Painting Prize. We caught up with him to hear about his creative journey so far…

Under Cover Artist: Toby Anderton

30 May 22

What do you call the man who created the gods themselves? Well, we call him Toby Anderton, and he’s here to let you know how he created our epic mythology cover…

Suspended Portals: Notts Graphic Artist Amy Lee Young's New Work Opens at Butter + Sugar

17 May 22

Having opened to the public on Saturday 14 May, Suspended Portals is the new exhibition of mixed media artwork from Nottingham graphic artist, Amy Lee Young...

Under Cover Artist: The Nottingham Horror Collective's Ruth Skrytek

30 April 22

Head Illustrator and Co-Founder of The Nottingham Horror Collective, alongside one half of the witchy music duo Modern Coven, Ruth Skrytek has a knack when it comes to the creatively spooky. After first featuring their illustrations in our October magazine, we knew that there was no one better to design a cover for our magic issue…

Exhibition Review: 'The Magical Four' at Fletcher Gate Art Gallery

29 April 22

'The Magical Four', a group show currently on display at Fletcher Gate Art Gallery, offers a look at the works of four painters, each with their own unique style.

Exhibition Review: A Female Gaze at Nottingham Castle

28 April 22

A Female Gaze crosses the generational divide, as Caroline Walker and Dame Laura Knight question the power of the gaze. As their portraits of women look back at us, we must ask who is really looking at who

Exhibition Review: Editing DH Lawrence at Weston Gallery, Lakeside Arts

22 April 22

A new exhibition at Lakeside’s Weston Gallery explores DH Lawrence’s struggles with censorship, and the changes Nottingham has seen since it produced one of its most famous authors. Hannah Beresford takes a closer look into Lawrence’s salacious personal life.

Exhibition Review: Murmuration at Beam Gallery

09 April 22

Taking inspiration from the aerial flight of starlings, Nottingham-based visual artist Wolfgang Buttress presents new work at Beam Gallery, in his latest exhibition Murmuration

Artist Caroline Walker on A Female Gaze, the new Nottingham Castle Exhibition Showcasing Her Work Alongside Dame Laura Knight's

16 March 22

With A Female Gaze, Nottingham Castle are celebrating the work of two generational talents from the art world. The first is Dame Laura Knight, who, as the first woman elected to the Royal Academy in 1936, was a critically acclaimed and much loved painter who created some of her most iconic work here in Nottingham. The second is Caroline Walker, a renowned British contemporary artist whose rich, atmospheric oil paintings reveal the diverse social, cultural and economic experiences of women living in contemporary society. Despite being born almost a century apart, A Female Gaze celebrates the work of both women, while exploring the developments of women artists over the past hundred years. We caught up with Walker ahead of the exhibition's opening to find out more...

We Hear About the Importance of One Thoresby Street as They Begin Their Search for a New Home

15 March 22

As their time at the iconic location looks set to come to an end, Arts Editor Alex Stubbs explores the important creative hub that is One Thoresby Street…

Under Cover Artist: Emmy Lupin

07 March 22

Emmy Lupin has illustrated for the likes of Adidas and SEGA, as well as clocking up her fair share of LeftLion doodles over the years with her bright, bold and stylish aesthetic. So when it came to deciding who should illustrate the cover of our fashion issue, the choice was unanimous...

Exhibition Review: Karol Radziszewski, QAI-GB-NGM at Bonington

04 March 22

Archives and Queer histories are reflected compassionately in Karol Radziszewski's latest incarnation of his Queer Archives Institute project, as the Polish-born artist brings together Queer stories from Eastern Europe and Nottingham...

Under Cover Artist: Fiona Carr

22 February 22

LeftLion’s Design Assistant gives us the rundown on her first ever cover, a celebration of all things scientific…

Preview: Silk to Silicon at Backlit Gallery

14 February 22

We chat to artist Sebastian Koseda, whose exhibition Silk to Silicon shines a light on the potential challenges of technological change...

Exhibition Reviews: The Eye as Witness and Fragments of Sudan at Djanogly Gallery

10 February 22

As Lakeside Arts presents two chilling new exhibitions, The Eye as Witness and Fragments of Sudan, our understanding of agency, suffering, and war are refigured through photography and virtual reality…

Exhibition Review: Our Silver City, 2094 at Nottingham Contemporary

09 February 22

Sci-Fi and contemporary art join together in Nottingham Contemporary's first exhibition of the 2022 season, Our Silver City, 2094. A time machine to a future Nottingham, where remnants of an old world exist in a vision of the city shaped by an all too familiar climate crisis...

Light Night Returns to Nottingham

02 February 22

The popular event is back for the first time since the start of the pandemic...

Exhibition Review: Without the Sun at Surface

26 January 22

An eight-week long residency for three local artists ends with a thought-provoking group exhibition at Surface…

Under Cover Artist: Moan Zine

23 January 22

We get Moan Zine, a Nottingham-based erotic magazine, to bring their gorgeous art style to the cover of LeftLion. They tell us all about their process and the importance of their publication…

Exhibition Review: John Newling in the Studio at Beam

15 January 22

In this online exhibition, John Newling explores the Earth and ecology through the medium of soil, followed by a short essay. We discuss some of the most poignant works on display…

Hetain Patel’s Exhibition Trinity Comes to the New Art Exchange This January

11 January 22

Showcasing the largest solo exhibition by Hetain Patel, Trinity is coming to the New Art Exchange this January...

Exhibition Review: ESW-213 Pine at TG Gallery

08 January 22

Pine furniture boards are set against bare white walls in TG Gallery, as Lawrence Leaman’s latest solo exhibition explores the intersection of textile, contemporary art, and the humble wooden shelf…

(Un)rest: Young Producers at City Arts Review

23 December 21

The annual takeover of the City Arts window facing out onto Hockley is here. As part of the Young Producers arts collective, The Window Gallery is transformed into a site of protest and rebellion, as placards and works of abstraction fill the space. What happens when we speak up? And what does it look like when art and protest meet?

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