N T U Festival: the Island

Today - Saturday 23 March 2024

At Surface Gallery

Price Free

Times 18:00 - 17:00

NTU Festival: The Island

13th – 23rd March

Opening Nights: Tuesday 12th and Tuesday 19th March, 6-8pm

This March sees the return of the annual Surface collaboration with Nottingham Trent

University with the 13th NTU Festival: The Island.

Following the success of last year's festival, Inside, Outside, Together, Apart, this year's selected Fine Art students will use a critical and reflective approach to curate group exhibitions in response to the festival's title by exploring the idea of The Island as a potent site of the imagination onto which we can project fantasies, aspirations, and possible futures. The Island is a physical space and an imaginary one, a place of utopian isolation that is both destination and point of departure for this year's selected artists.

The NTU Festival offers selected Fine Art students the opportunity to curate a group

exhibition that establishes their practice outside of the university. Surface provides a

supportive and professional environment for the students to plan and show their work. Two exhibitions will run concurrently in each week of the festival.

Week One

Main Gallery and Project Space

Exhibition dates: 13th- 16th March
Opening Night: Tuesday 12th March, 6-8pm

Truth or Trash

Amy Dipple / Gabriella Klitou / Hena Mistry / Chloe Preece / Ella Smart

Foraged From the Fleeting

Lucy Davies / Jessica Lewis / Rhianna Pierson / Kate Richardson

Week Two

Main Gallery and Project Space

Exhibition dates: 20th- 23rd March
Opening Night: Tuesday 19th March, 6-8pm

Wherever You May Wander

Vidhi Jangra / Nada Khartabil / Lucy Nelson