Our gal Georgia Fry on how skateboarding helps her approach her art...
Charlie Delaney gives us the lowdown on his film Trentside...
They've got a wicked opportunity for you arty lot..
Local photographer and skateboarder Vic Camilleri talks us through his photographic statue...
From Donald Trump being held hostage on Derby Road, to glitched-out riot police down Sneinton Market, there’ve been a few paste-ups appearing around the city of late. We managed to pin down the person responsible for the political artwork across Nottingham, and got ‘em to do a cover for us. Here, Displaced/Replaced talks about what inspires them, and why they’re questioning the system through art...
Kurdish native, Gaylan Nazhad, spent two years on the frontline, taking photographs and learning the stories of those displaced from the regional war between Kurdistan and ISIS. Gaylan resides in Nottingham where he is a filmmaker, photographer and the owner of a barber shop on Derby Road. With help from anthropologist Ben Houghton, he’s put together a book of his photography, 101 Beads: Kurdistan in War, which shares some bleak truths from his experiences on the frontline…
Our Adrian went to Backlit to find that although Mountain of Tongues has just finished, but nothing stops him from a good review. Better late than never, he says...
We headed down to Primary for an art walk led by children from Mellers Primary School...
Nottingham artist Nicola Halford gives us the lowdown on her glass panel painting...
Our Adrian popped dahn to the New Art Exchange to check out the Darbar Fringe Festival...
Panya Banjoko explores the powerful exhibition about black dolls and how they have been perceived...
We had a chit-chat with Trekka Benjamin, who is jettin' off to the states on the Roosevelt Scholarship to learn about how we can improve community arts in the city...
The local artist on her love of chaos...
We joined a celebration of Nottingham’s diverse art scene housed in a breathtaking non-gallery space…
The local artist on her process...
Backlit’s new exhibition Mountain of Tongues is devoted to the transmission of languages in the Caucasus region – on the border of Europe and Asia – which Arab geographers call "Jabal Al-Alsun" or "Mountain of Languages". The show features works by local artists like Leila Al-Yousuf and Ryan Heath, as well as the internationally renowned collective Slavs and Tartars, or the “archaeologists of the everyday” as they call themselves. We grabbed a coffee with Ryan Heath to find out more…
Linder Sterling is a fascinating character. In the mid-seventies, she edited herself down to one name, hung out with some of the biggest musicians of the decade and became one of the key artists in the British punk and post-punk movement, using her preferred technique of photomontage to create her politically charged artwork. The House of Fame has been convened by Linder and includes work of her own, work from those who have inspired her, and loans from Chatsworth House, where Linder resides as Artist in Residence.
Advertising bombards our everyday lives, our data isn’t safe anymore, we can’t escape consumerism and it all seems a bit bleak, doesn’t it? What if we could take that advert for the jasmine scented extra-frothy body wash that we can't seem to avoid and replace it with art? Replace the ordinary with something extraordinary. If your peepers have been extra focused, you may have noticed that across the East Midlands, that is exactly what’s happening...
We got down to the National Justice Museum for The Drawing Dead, a concept birthed by our very own ketchup correspondent, Tommy K. All we knew was that there was a zombie on trial in Nottingham, and we had been called up to be the court artists, so over to High Pavement we plodded...
We got down to New Art Exchange's latest exhibition Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail The Dark Lioness
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...
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...
Local artist, Siddharth Varma, on his beautiful ink masterpiece...
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...
