portfolio

Listed below are the exhibitions that have ran previously in either the Main Gallery, Top gallery or the former police station 3-9 or gallery three at 11-13.

Open Submission Art Exhibition
15th February 2010 – 5th March 2010 (Private View Tuesday 23rd February 2010)

In Collaboration with space for life’s Big green weekend on Saturday 27th & Sun 28th February The Hopkinson gallery, 
are opening the gallery doors and inviting all artists working around the theme of the environment to submit work 
for our open submission exhibition.

The aim of the show is to create an exhibition that creates awareness of the environment and celebrates artists 
working around the themes of the environment and recycling. As an organisation we also aim to provide opportunity 
to for aspiring artists to exhibit their work and to give the public the chance to view, and purchase exciting and 
affordable new work.


   
For more info and submission applications e-mail - contact@taonottingham.co.uk

Work from eight artists, all having worked together at the graphics department at Bell-Fruit Games LTD
in Nottingham, will be displaying personal artwork of various styles and different mediums.

Different Strokes features local artists:
Jon Lyons, Michael Stewart, Richard Gee, Ian Croft, Ady Smith,
Paul Griffiths, Ian Fink and Harj Thandi.

Paintings, drawings, sculpture and prints produced by boys in years 7 - 13 from Nottingham High School.

Reasons to be Cheerful- recent vector paintings by Herb Wiersma

'Art occurs at the point where a form is sincerely honoured by an awakened spirit'
(Lawrence Durrell, 'Clea').

I love drawing and painting. I love that humans can combine marks which only have the 5
variables of colour, direction, curvature, width and transparency, and represent the world around
them. Whether this representation be abstract or figurative doesn't bother me; but I do care about
temperature, joy and beauty.
Conceptually vector software is the most direct digital tool for handling these 5 variables. Each
mark continues to exist as a digital entity in itself. To me this is beautiful, but it is a technical issue
and I don't expect others to be turned on by it. I'm no Stuckist but I like making descriptive pictures
that people can enjoy; and on a practical level vectors allow the production of massive images with
no loss of quality.

Lately I've been seeing how close I can get to oil paint, working from observational drawings. This
throws up an interesting question: is a digital mark inherently less valuable than a manual one? Is
this a market issue? Is this an aesthetic issue?
Not sure how much I care though, as long as I can go on making the marks. I'm lucky enough to
work as a drawing lecturer at Teesside University, where I teach computer games designers. This
enforces discipline, particularly in terms of efficient mark making, gets me in contact with some
frighteningly talented students, plus I get access to some great kit. Above all there's no way of doing
the job and remaining precious about 'art'.
No one else seems to be working in this way, which means that I'm either ahead of the curve or
perverted (or both). For the future I fancy making some really big post-industrial landscapes.

Red Guitar Photography will exhibit for the first time a collection of photograph’s of selected artists such as the Only Ones, Ryan Adams, Drive by Truckers, Billy Joe Shaver, Hayseed Dixie, Marah and Tommy Allsop who have performed at the Cosmic American Music shows over the past 10 years.

Red Guitar Photography is Pete Dutton who has been a big part of Cosmic American Music since the time of the very first show in 1998 at the test match pub in West Bridgford, Nottingham. He has been taking photographs of the live performances since the very first show having accumulated over 5000 images to date.

Pete is a local photographer and over the years his collection of unique photographs of the artists who have played venues from the Maze to the Rescue Rooms right up to Rock City have until now been a hidden treasure. His work ranges from portrait style to a creative take on the artists performance that captures the mood and atmosphere of a live show.

This body or work is the first step in bringing to life the memory of classic shows and unforgettable moments of musical history in Nottingham.

All new black and white drawings, and sketches - and so many of them - in this annual exhibition by the Nottingham Artist.

Nottingham based Graffiti conquistadors Channel Six, working in collaboration with friends and neighbors present a collection of canvas works and hand customized posters and books.

The work celebrates sub-cultures and an emerging DIY ethic, exploring the tensions between social and material conditions and the inner spirit of the young and young at heart.

The exhibition title references the 1972 work of Jean Baudrillard who wrote on the very early emergence of the graffiti of names that spread like a virus from the derelict and poverty stricken ghettos into the New York metropolis in the early 70’s.

“They do not confine themselves to the ghetto, they export the ghetto through all the arteries of the city, they invade the white city and reveal that it is the real ghetto of the Western World”

“From now on they are separate and indifferent under the sign of television and the auto mobile, under the sign of behaviour models inscribed everywhere in the media or in the layout of the city. Everyone falls into line in their delirious identification with leading models, orchestrated models of simulation. Everyone is commutable, like the models themselves.

Contributing Photographers : Alice Fisher - Keeley Gibbons - Jon Marshall - Holly Sawyer

Man exists in a state of distance from reality that he nonetheless remains in the midst of. Photography can act as a medium through which can gauge and increase our knowledge of the world: from viewing the landscapes that surround us, to the people in our everyday lives. This collection of work explores how an image can be all the catalyst we need to make a realization, to discover or to inspire change.

The Community Exhibition
THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Monday April 27th - Saturday May 17th

open night Wednesday 29th April - a great opportunity to socialise with community artists and network.

bring along your artwork on Monday 27th April, from 11am
one artpiece per person, any medium
please ensure artwork is suitable to hang/place
pay a £1 fee for hanging

Paintings by three artists who share a belief that paint smudged and pushed around, can preserve an emotional reaction to reality.

Culshaw's hugely enlarged, sombre, looming portraits show faces heavy with shadows, crumpled by age and experience.

In Kaufman's heads raw, vulnerable flesh emerges from a spasm of paint on the canvas surface.

Leech depicts the movement of crowds; the hurly-burly and noise caught in spontaneous, shorthand marks.

RAW COLLECTIVE
We are a group of Nottingham based photographers, who met while attending digital photography courses at South Nottinghamshire College. On completing the course we decided to maintain our association and form a photography group of like-minded individuals and the “Raw Collective” digital photography forum was formed.

Our aim is to collaborate and organise exhibitions within the Midlands, where each individual is free to fulfil their own creative vision, without any rigid format.

As you look through the individual photographer’s website you will see a range of contemporary imagery covering a diverse range of subject matter including wildlife, landscape, fine art, still life, portraits and social issues.

Photographers
Ken Hood, Pictures by Dezign
Claire Bristow, Maddison Images
Martyn Boston, Nomadphoto
Graham Bell, www3.clikpic.com/aygeebee
Stewart Gregory, Stewart Gregory Photography
Anthony Dodd, Anthony Dodd Photography
Mervyn Mitchell, mervynmitchell.com
Les Marriott, Original Vision Photography

Nottingham Trent University Presents " Lost in Heterotopia".
A show by year two photography students.

Venue: The Art Organisation - main gallery, 21 Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3AJ
Dates: Exhibition open from the 16.03.09 - 27.03.09
Opening Times : 11.00 am- 7.00pm
Contact Details : 07846219640

Lost In Heterotopia

“Heterotopias are most often linked to slices in time, capable of juxtaposing, in a single, real place, several sites that are in themselves incompatible.” Michel Foucault, Des Espace Autres, 1967

Exhibitions, particularly of the photographic variety, are highly peculiar spaces; we visit not to experience the venue, the place itself, but to be transported to others. They are amalgamations of slices of time and place, each slice entirely disconnected from the position from which we view them. Asking a viewer to an exhibition is asking them to surrender themselves to these juxtapositions of disconnections. This disassociation of space and time is precisely what photography itself excels in, allowing photographers the ability to try and make sense of the world by isolating individual instances, ostracising these moments from their inherent connotations and instead giving the creator, and, crucially, the viewer, the ability to re-interpret, re-evaluate, and re-discover meaning in an unimaginably complex world. In Lost In Heterotopia, sixteen photographers have utilised their medium to investigate a vast array of subjects, ranging from the deeply personal, to the global, and we are proud to present here their collection of cuts into space and time, and invite you too to allow yourself to become lost in a multitude of meanings, discussions, and interpretations.

Work from eight artists, all having worked together at the graphics department at Bell-Fruit Games LTD
in Nottingham, will be displaying personal artwork of various styles and different mediums.

Different Strokes features local artists:
Jon Lyons, Michael Stewart, Richard Gee, Ian Croft, Ady Smith,
Paul Griffiths, Ian Fink and Harj Thandi.

"I was born in Hucknall in Nottinghamshire in 1973. I studied sculpture at Bretton Hall College, part of Leeds University and graduated with an honours degree in 1998. Following on from this, I began to produce both oil and water colour paintings, the artistic influences for which come from sources as diverse as: Henry Moore. graffiti art, pop art and abstract expressionism.

Over recent years I have produced a large body of work which follows a constant theme. I feel it would be beneficial for me, if others viewed this work to see if they can empathise with my perception. In essence, my work is a social commentary, with the intention of illustrating peoples’ perceptions of individual aspirations set against societal ‘norms’. What do people strive for and why; and to what extent does ones environment limit aspirational goals? The work attempts to show to what extent societal norms can encourage unrealistic aspirations, yet discourage more realistic ones: whether as an individual or a community.

In my work I use vivid colours, to visualise the outward facard that is the way we see ourselves, or how others would like to be perceived. Interlocking organic forms are used to represent the life pattern of societal norms, moving together, bouncing off and jarring against each other, yet creating a whole that manages to pull together.

This specific set of images illustrates how people work towards ‘individualism’ by following others’ ideas and ideals and conforming to societal norms. Individual aspiration is demoted to seeking the collective approval of one’s immediate peer group and is purely transistional. This was perfectly demonstrated to me during my teaching career; when I asked a pupil what he wanted to do when he left school his reply was instantaneous ”I want to be famous”. When I asked, “ famous for what?”, his reply was equally as immediate: “Don’t know, just want to be famous”."

The Lost Artists Club is a collective of local artists in Nottingham who having been ejected from the mainstream, “found” themselves through a voluntary organisation set up by three local artists, who themselves felt “lost” and through joining with others would benefit and thrive. By promotion and inviting other “lost” artists to form a core group, they could now organise and attract resources for themselves to enable them to flourish.

Now five years old, and with a membership of over 50 artists of various disciplines, photographers, potters, poets and painters, the Lost Artists are proud to be ready for their third exhibition of members’ work.

Each member will submit a selection of their work to be hung and/or displayed in the gallery with a brief résumé so that the visitor can clearly see the talent and potential of the individual artist. Altogether, they will contribute to the overall impression of the group and, as with the previous exhibitions, a unique perspective - and leave the patron with a new insight into the lives and experiences of this diverse artistic community.

Driven by colour and objects of a dominant nature. Clare explores Skyscrapers and prominent horizons. Painting a busy, but atmospheric environment, conveying a sense of tranquillity in an urban landscape.

For Helen, spiritual daydreams depicts an imaginative journey of Buddhism and the powers of nature. Based on memories and experiences she creates her worlds undiscovered through both art and poetry.

Hello, my name is William Harvey and I’m 19 years old, and have studied art for 3 years at New College Nottingham, completing my A levels and Art and Design Foundation course. A huge influence on my work is Alfonse Mucha, whose work is immaculate and exquisitely executed. However, it still explores areas of freedom and fluidity through subject matter and composition. I have tried to apply the same elements in my own work. I also express thoughts and feelings that are sometimes the drive for me to keep on going, to have faith. I like to show this aspect of my work through more unobvious ways as they are more meaningful and personal; they are portrayed to reflect the truth but to offer it as a hopefully beautiful and gracious treat to the eye.

My work is based on people, although my main inspiration comes from colour and nature. I love tiny details, that probably seem insignificant, but I think these are some of the most inspiring things. I love un-posed portraits; I really like to use exaggerated colours or a media that makes it a challenge to mix more than a few shades.
My work is split into two genres; I have my abstract, messy “accidental” work which is very free and expressive. I then have a more traditional style of work, that I feel shouldn’t be dismissed as outdated.
I have been producing work for several years now, and I hope to continue. My style is continually changing, because the people around me and the things that I experience affect my work most.

In this exhibition there are drawings on paper, and paintings which I did using spray paint on found wooden objects. Creating these drawings and paintings was an amazing and positive experience, and each one was a different journey for me. I am really influenced by abstract art and graffiti. I am particularly influenced by the work these inspiring artists around me: Lois Gardner Sabet, Benjamin Hallatt, and William Harvey. I like to use found objects as they come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and conditions, and I like that you can give a neglected object a new life.

MARCUS DARWIN (artists and designers Mark and Sarah Chapman) present Analogue, representing a selection made from 10 years of the artist’s life and work, and using interior design techniques to make the most of the exhibition space at The Art Organisation. We aim to show big, bold, contemporary work, stimulate the imagination of the audience and provide an exciting experience for lovers of modern art.

Born in Ayrshire, Mick spent most of his adult life in Nottingham.
He was an extremely gifted artist and musician: Passionate and uncompromising
with a profound sense for the unconventional. He once painted his garden - plants, hedges and all!
He always had time for others and his enthusiasm and quirkiness was an inspiration.
A well travelled man fascinated by other cultures, he had a particular fondness for Asia. His spirituality was rooted in eastern philosophy and this was evident in both his music and painting.
He was an outstanding individual who left his mark wherever he went.

ANDY PARKINSON aka ANDY POSTMAN
a jeweller, sculptor, painter and performance poet, Andy enjoys making work with unusual handcrafted elements. His signature style incorporates hot – knifed lines with jewel bright colours, wire and handcarved bead ornaments, mirrors set in a rainbow landscape, a wire construction of the green man laughing from a tree…Even broken bus shelter glass, wire from skips, babies discarded dummies and broken action men find new uses with a surreal twist ! Our garden has hidden corners where children can play bells and adults drum next to quoits, nature spirits and ramshead carvings. The local woods have secret bowers left for bolder spirits to explore. Andy is a survivor of the mental health user services, living with bi-polar affective mood swings and a memory damaged by ect. His creativity has proved an outlet for the “swings and roundabouts” of bi-polar and the film Insight in Mind features more of his work. All experiences and materials are grist to Andy s mill and an Aladdin s cave of treasure will be available at the show.

DEE FAIRCHILD
paints abstracts informed by a Taoist contemplation practice known as skywatching. Her canvasses are rich and pleasing layers; slides under a cosmic microscope showing the drift and dance of energy flows. Art for quantum physicists and nature mystics alike ! As a violence survivor with agoraphobia, she believes all experiences lead to a greater understanding of the universe and can strengthen the backbone in facing the world and choosing to stand for peace and justice. It is our own will to go forward that lights the path to a better life. The nothing to something machine can be run on energy harnessed from those bad experiences, and works it herself with art, allotmenteering and fundraising for avi. Paintings that achieve presence without imposition are part of unpicking the social injustice of 21st century life just as much as banners or websites. They invite an individual to know from their own core that global goodwill is the way forward, that space to feel is more important than a clutter of possessions.

50% of all proceeds are to go to ACTION VILLAGE INDIA S BALANCED FARMING PROJECT. This is an organic gardening scheme supporting people in Trivandrum, Kerala to become self-sufficient on their own small garden plots, growing food and medicines, with harvests to market for a small income. It is in partnership with KGSM, a memorial project for Mahatma Gandhi and his work to bring people out of poverty through equality and self reliance. The other 50% covers artists materials and costs of mounting the exhibition. The Art Organisation has very kindly waived its commission to make this possible, for which the artists and avi are very grateful.

the exhibition addresses, using prints, painting, video and sound,
the concept of 'new media art', presenting subversions and corruptions of it.

Jane Steele
Sue Clarke
Dawn Lemon
Jennie Harker
Kit Fry
Norma Howe
Ian Morris
Pam Fletcher
Julie Deacon
Paula McCan
Bob Allen
Ian Macleod Brudenell
Sue Greenaway
Janet Turvill

‘My Nature’
by
Hilary Sommerville

An exhibition of visual works compiled from almost a decade of image collecting. All the photographs used in the exhibition were taken by Hilary in, and around, Cresswell’s Wood: a small copse and environmental idyll, conceived and planted by her late father Ivor Cresswell.
The sky above the woodland is as integral to its survival and development as the very earth it clings to; it is this relationship that Hilary has been compelled to explore and document.

All exhibited works are for sale

light works

This is the work of 10 Nottingham-based photographers.
Its’ vision is broad scanning themes of city, self and societal issues.

Images examine the personal narrative of self-representation; sentiments alluding to people and place within our urban/suburban environment; sense of space and time in light and decay – collectively seeking to challenge what is perceived as the stereotypic.

The exhibition is taking place firstly at South Nottingham College, Charnwood Centre from the 6th to 12th June, then moving to The Art Organisation, Station Street on the 16th to 28th June.

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Adam Luszniak / Alice Whitby / David Kettle / K. Featherstonhaugh / Pascale Duval

	Adam Luszniak Adam’s work revolves around architecture that employs artificial lighting as a facet of the whole design. The intention of the work is to show his viewer how he interacts with this type of building: Through abstraction, he has removed any notion of the architecture as a functional building, leaving only form and light behind. By removing the architecture from its context the intention is that interaction with the photographs will be as playful as possible.
	Alice Whitby Alice’s close, confronting studies of the human face offer a new way to look at faces, away from the social restraints that are associated with looking in the flesh.
	David Kettle My work consists of a series of still portraits, combined with recorded audio. The audio has been compiled from interviews that have taken place over the last half-year. I aim to focus on a wide variety of people’s opinions on the city, their hopes for the city’s future, problems revolving around street crime and future regeneration.
	K. Featherstonhaugh This work portrays spaces as environments that have purpose, touching on aspects of gentrification and the homogenisation of spaces within the urban domain.
	Postcards from the Ghat – Pascale Duval My work represents the time that I spent with a group of children that lived by the Ganges river in Varanasi - India.
	Simon J Richardson Simon’s work is looking into how images can activate memory. Concentrating on landscape and the family portrait he will be using a mixture of video and still imaging to explore the psychology of memory and how it is associated with time and place; the effect of different experiences, and how we focus on certain aspects within our memories, contributing to a persons self identity.
	Daniel Cashmore Daniels work explores the use of digital construction to create a viewing space for portraits that relate to aspects of the subjects personality and ideals, and offer a more personal aspect to images.

Unleashed is a fresh Nottingham led company formed to platform and support the cities vibrant and growing creative industries.Through a heady mix of networking, commisions, education and innovative events Unleashed aims to showcase the best of Nottinghams creative culture and to inspire new ideas and partnerships leading to greater opportunities for all..

Unleashed has invited three of Nottinghams Art studios (Oldknows, Stand Assembly and Tether) to collaborate for a one-night only event based on the question <What is Beauty?>. This unique event is a show, an exhibition,a celebration and most of all, an exploration of the collaborative process. Individual voices working to create a harmony of sorts, finding beauty (possibly) in the most paradoxical of spaces; an old Police Station!
The show will also be the launching of The Art Organisations newest creative space. A derelict building saved from utter decay and ethically renovated for the purpose of offering creative individuals and groups an affordable opportunity to develop and explore.
Expect to be overwhelmed by the show: performance and film, dissonance and noise, humour and perceptive shifts crashing and melting into each other..it will be the best night you will ever spend in a Police cell!!

The paintings of Vincent Goona 'For Sale'
semi-abstract compositions of urban landscapes

This exhibition comprises of a series of visual and sonic works created throughout journeys in Europe and Africa. Throughout these journeys, I collected fragments of the world that captivated me in some way; words, sounds, conversations, images and utilize these raw images to write about, project upon the body or use as inspiration for Installations. My practice focuses upon the art of being present and closely observing the environment I’m in.

I am interested in the relationship between the body and the environment, engaging in a dialogue between nature and culture. My photo-Art explores the relationship between light and environment; when seemingly common place images, sites and spaces are be transformed into fleeting moments of beauty, interest and intrigue; therefore inviting a re-perception, a re-noticing of the ordinary.

When one begins this process of re-noticing, everything around us is different, every light, every sound, every brick radiates with visual and textural uniqueness and our perception of the world can change as the present moment takes over.

‘A tri-exhibit weaved together with a shared foreign journey, constructed through a separate concept interpretation’

TAO invites gallery owner Steve Lowe,
representing artists from The Aquarium, Farringdon Road, London

"the emphasis of the show will be on the affordable and accessible works made by the aquarium and it's artists, but there will be some more expensive originals on display as well." Steve Lowe

see also our events diary for information on special preview performance evening
Saturday 12th April.

James Cauty
Billy Childish
Sexton Ming
Anne Pigalle
Jamie Reid
STOT21stCPLANB
and
Geraldine Swayne

Working with two groups of young persons, through Nottingham City Leaving Care Department, and
Groundwork Nottingham, participation begins with learning the basic understanding and use of an SLR camera,
and the taking of photographs as per an agreed concept to the project, capturing images in and around the community.
Participants will be introduced to The Basement Darkroom, taught how to develop their films and
techniques in hand-printed black and white photography, and encouraged to use methods to produce
a series of prints and imagery relative to the concept.

Following framing and marketing a group exhibition, this project culminates, through this exhibition, with this presentation of the artwork , to the community.

... is one fine artist and two illustrators collaborating to present an exhibition of work.

The multidisciplinary result shows what happens when three emerging artists get to gether to further their story...

An exhibition of contemporary african art, bases on geometry and symbology.
This will be the first show featuring works by Galeb Chabvamperu, a promising young Zimbabwean artist, who will be presenting free hand geometric compositons in a style that he calls UL O LASAL.

After the Holocaust the international community said ‘never again’ to genocide but then came Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and now it’s still happening in Darfur and not enough is being done to protect people from such atrocities.

‘They said never again’ at The Art Organisation, is an exhibition of artists’ individual responses to this request.

Each artist was asked to go through the process of thinking about the holocaust and genocide. Most of the artists involved have no direct experience of genocide and so it was a daunting prospect to create a piece of artwork that did justice to a topic of such gravity. In actual fact, the reflective process is the most critical part of this exhibition, for artist and audience alike.

This event is designed to remind us that we must always remember the lessons of the holocaust in order to try to prevent genocide from happening in the future.

What caused the people of Germany to turn against members of their community, their neighbours, and their friends.

On Friday evening, (25th January) we analyse the above, with Dr Martin Stern, a survivor of the holocaust

(born in Holland of German Parents, arrested at his primary school and sent to Theresienstadt Concentration Camp).

He will speak of his experience and views on the genocide of 6,000 000 Jews (The Holocaust).

(The Aegis Trust was set up to try to prevent all acts of genocide in the future).

We hope you can make it to the event or exhibition, but if not, please take time out to:

The remembrance evening is on Friday 25th Jan from 6.30pm to 8.30pm, prompt arrival, please.

photographic prints by The Bluehouse Darkroom www.bluehouseart.org.uk
Imagery produced 2002 - 2005 in conjunction with UK and charity conservation projects to raise awarenesss of wolves, wolf related issues, wolf myths and legends.

All framed photographs, each measuring 1metre sq, are for sale at January discounted prices.

resident crafts persons from our weekly Saturday Fayre exhibit their wares
recycled vintage jewellery, knitwear, textile crafts - handbags, cushions, lighting and lamps and much more

The Double Impact 'Access to Arts' group exhibition is the celebration of the past three months art workshops exploring the theme of identity. It will be an eclectic mix of creative expression including such pieces as dream pillows, assemblage shrines, soulful signposts, mirror portraits, flags, printed lamps plus interactive elements for the public to contribute to.

Double Impact is an aftercare service in Nottingham for people recovering from substance misuse. The ‘Access to Arts’ project aims to provide weekly quality art activities and visits, to foster personal development and empowerment and to establish long-term independent use of local arts venues and services. www.doubleimpact.org.uk

We also hope that the exhibition will host some work from our partner organisations of Framework (Nottingham’s leading provider of housing, support, training, care and resettlement for homeless and vulnerable people) and City Arts (local arts organisation building confidence, skills and communities through the arts).

The Art Organisation are pleased to announce their first Nottingham/Liverpool link with artists working through The Ropewalks Regeneration Art Project, Liverpool.

Jury’s Inn, Station Street, Nottingham, have got behind the idea of traveling art and artists between cities and have sponsored us to exhibit the work of Steven Gent.

Steve has been very active in the regeneration of our buildings in both Liverpool, where he is based, and on occasions here in Nottingham, utilizing space in Liverpool as a studio and creating a portfolio of imagery through a personal technique using static, and a series of stencil art and painting, and a study of Japanese Calligraphy.

The theme for this work is based on Birds;
caged, near extinct & intensively
farmed and on the structures and concepts
we have of our House/ Home and
Decoration and how this relates to and
impacts on the life of Birds.

BELLISSIMA INTERIOR DESIGN
handcrafted curtains, wallpaper, lamps, lampshades and sculptures.

An exhibition of the varied outcomes of Nottingham curator Anna Marlen-Summers’ collaborative drawing project: round-about. From drawings sent between strangers in the post to drawings scrawled on the walls of a comedy night to comics constructed in a pre 1959 environment.
A number of artists will also be collaborating on a piece to be developed during the course of the exhibition, and their individual work will also be on display. The links between an individual and group practice made apparent to anyone who tries to see the evidence of a particular artist in the collaborative work.

If you would like to be involved in the collaborative
drawing element of this exhibition please contact Anna on
round-about@hotmail.co.uk / 07947376541

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Launch Party: 6 - 8pm,
Thursday 30th August 2007.

T: Benjamin: 07746436718 or Bex: 07971489879
E: brchandler@gmail.com

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For one week, JeeWhizz will be curating an exhibition to give residents and visitors to Nottingham the opportunity to see exciting work which explores broadly the themes of self-image and identity.
Including some of the best work from Nottingham, the East Midlands and further a-field in a variety of media, this will be another great reason to visit Nottingham’s best new arts venue.

Gioia Kinzbruner
Joe Wong
Sandrea Simons
Soo Kwon
Innocent Chikezie
J o o n H K w o n
Cat herin e Prest o n
Tetsuya Fukushima
Leif Gifford
Heather Wharam
Lu c y S t e v e n s

MA zing showcases the work of recent
graduates from the MA Visual Art course
at Nottingham Trent University
School of Art & Design.

Postgraduate students will be
exhibiting a diverse range of artworks
from paintings, animations; audio walks
to drawings and maggot filled chairs.

MA Visual Art graduate Sandrea Simons
will curate the exhibition.

MA students will celebrate
with a Party/Private View on
Friday 27th from 7pm until 10pm
Mon - Sat 11am - 7pm

Ten Schools United Education Action Zone is celebrating three years of curriculum enrichment activity this summer. Over the past three years children at ten primary schools based in Central Nottingham, Hyson Green, Radford, Forest Fields and Lenton have enjoyed a wide range of enrichment activities funded by NDC Radford and Hyson Green. These activities have supported learning and achievement and have included theatre and countryside trips, music, poetry, storytelling, arts, science and sports activity.

Ten Schools United Education Action Zone will celebrate the success of these activities through an arts experience for all children in the ten schools. An arts exhibition will be on display at both the Theatre Royal and here at The Art Organisation on Station Street, NG2. There will also be a developing arts trail between the two venues, so that pupils can experience the beautiful architecture, art and sculpture in permenant display in the city centre.

The exhibition by Dave Bishop (Lord Biro) consists of drawings, collage, cartoons, poetry and election flyers covering Blair's reign of power.

Subjects covered include, the abolition of Clause 4, the Dome Fiasco, the death of the “People's Princess”, Blunkett’s downfall, Sleaze, Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, New Labour spin, Climate Change, Cherie Blair’s hair-dressing bills etc.

Dave Bishop is the only artist and poet in this country to have stood in three General elections (Tatton, Brentwood, Erewash) and four Nottingham City Council elections (Forest, Arboretum, Sherwood) and most recently Wollaton West 2007 where he got 115 votes. These experiences have given him an alternative take on politics in Britain in the last ten years.

As part of this degree show it is our task to create a photographic festival around Nottingham city centre.

The festival incorporates around seventy photographers all of whom are part of the final year photography BA Hons degree. The artwork created will all be photographically based. This will consist of four main genres within photographic practice. Fine art, landscape, fashion and documentary. Within these categories artists can explore the photographic medium using analogue, digital and in some cases moving image. All of which fits the brief set by the Nottingham Trent University in order to complete the degree.

This exhibition, at 21 Station Street, will consist of seven photographers final degree work, this should reflect three years of study and photographic exploration.
These photographers are:

Julian Ellerby

Richard Install

Lisa A Johnson

Hannah McAleese

Carla Mundy

Steven Poxson

Victoria Price.

Anna Edwards-McConway

All of the photographers will benefit in using gallery 21 as their space as we are due to complete the degree this year and it will be a fine example of work that can be achieved within photography.
The whole of our degree is marked on our final degree show so it is paramount that the festival exhibits the best of our work, at present each photographer is in the final stages of shooting and printing their final work.

join us for the closing event, to celebrate this city-wide festival, on June 16th

Neil Heath's paintings combine stories with stillness. With the development of his work, he has become increasingly interested in the honesty of the everyday, the truth of the ordinary. Francis Bacon is a big influence - see the skin tones and distorted twist of the self portrait, Despair to Where. Flesh and the physical are central to Neil's paintings, but there's also the stillness or the story beneath. He is as interested in his medium as he is in portraying his subject. He's obviously fascinated with the depth and texture of painting, with creating an atmosphere. Painting allows him to express the sheer fleshiness of the everyday and the energy and quiet spirit that lies beneath. This could be either sadness or stillness, as with his portrait of Niki. There's a story being told, but it's an uncertain one. Beyond telling the truth of what he sees, he creates ambiguity, atmosphere, story. Camilla Zajac, 2007

The SNEINTON ARTISTS’ GROUP is a collective of professional and non-professional artists and craft makers,living and working in the area of Sneinton, Nottingham.

The group was established in 1999 as a forum to actively encourage the display and viewing opportunities of locally created work within our multi-cultural, inner city community.

It now has a membership of around 40 artists, and so represents many styles of arts, crafts and media, including:

• ceramics • installations • photography • acrylic painting • wood carving • plaster relief
• water colours • 3D constructions • pen, Ink and pencil drawings • film & video • recycled art • digital art • digital music • metal sculpture • hand made cards • fabrics • felt making • jewellery • silversmiths • goldsmiths • light sculptures • embroidered textiles • carnival parade constructions
• costumes & masks • theatre design • graphic design

In this exhibition group members will be showing both new and retrospective work.

Artists include: D.A.Orli, Gillian Smith, Dorota Kaczmarek, Jane Marrows, Matt Keyworth, Max Speed, Dan Rose, Carol Bates, Maddy Newman, Chris Marrows, Amanda Davison, Martha Speed, David Pantling, Caron Lyon, Jonathon Marrows, Robert Stubley, Jean Lamb.

MAKE AND MEET: THREE CITIES CREATE AND CONNECT
Three artist groups from Nottingham, Derby and Leicester will exchange places to present MAKE & MEET in a new form of artist collaboration: DOT will exhibit in Nottingham, My House Projects in Derby and Jennie Syson with Ether in Leicester. Each group along with artists from outside the region and local artists will work together, create new artworks and meet new people in new cities.

Ayling & Conroy, Jennie Syson with Ether and DOT artist groups aim to stretch the art scene in the three main cities of the East Midlands by challenging the topic of collaborations between artists and groups, non-gallery based exhibitions and the perception of this region. MAKE & MEET reflects our shared interest in promoting the 3 cities and the region, specifically as graduates from the East Midlands. We are particularly keen to support graduate retention in the area by providing opportunities for both students and recent graduates across the region.

21 Station Street - The Art Organisation 'DOT'
Featuring Yoke and Zoom, Matt Robinson and other artists, DOT will be constructing the Nottingham arts scene using cardboard, to capture the complex layers of past, present and future. The exhibition is part of the Make and Meet festival, commissioned by Three Cities Create and Connect.

-Alongside the exhibition Matt Robinson will be leading an art workshop for children on Saturday 31st March from 11am-1pm

-Yoke and Zoom, Matt Robinson and DOT will be presenting an artist's talk on Saturday 31st March from 4.30-6pm

-There will be a guided tour of the exhibition on Tuesday 27th March from 5.30-6.30pm

All events are FREE, many thanks for your interest and I do hope to see you there!

An Exhibition of Contemporary Photography.
Unseen is a large-scale exhibition of fresh, new photography. A collective of 28 emerging photographers from Nottingham Trent University are presenting their latest projects for public scrutiny. The work on display covers all aspects of modern photography ranging from documentary to fashion, portraiture to fine art.

Private View 9th March from 1800.
Open 9th – 17th March.
Mon - Sat --1100-1900

This exhibition has now been extended and will also be shown on Monday 5th March.

"The main focus for my practice is the idea of a decadent and disturbing
beauty, objects which at first glance appear tantalising but which, upon
further inspection offer a more terrifying reading. A degree in Textiles
from Goldsmiths College, London, has further contributed to a continuing
facsination with combining unusual material properties, for example
stitching into concrete and also an appreciation for craftsmanship and the
art of making. The endless variation afforded through combining unusual
materials relates, I feel to the constant negotiation of my own cultural
identity, as a British born Pakistani Muslim. What part of me is British or
what part Pakistani is indistinguishable, just as I wish my work to open a
dialogue that never settles, a practice which addresses the liminal spaces
of a dual identity."

Robert Howie Smith and Liam Woodgates present an artistic collection from 4 decades of toys, to their interactive extreme.

large scale experimental black and white photography from The Bluehouse darkroom, Kent

This exhibition is a series of hand-printed black and white photographic artwork of a week spent in Romania documenting the work of the British Charity 'English Outreach'. English Outreach have been working in the country to establish libraries in several towns, for use in the community and education.

For the success of this work, the photograph became a form of communication with the people; language barriers fell, and the camera was accepted. This allowed the priviledge of being able to observe and record, in visual terms, elements of daily life in these small towns of Romania, in and around the important work of English Outreach.

"Media images of post Ceausescu Romania had formed my preconceptions, so I was unprepared for the warmth and generosity thqt greeted me everywhere. This hospitality can often mask the realities of the hardships in people's everyday lives."

Jane also enjoys her skills as a quiltmaker and will include in this exhibition the textile wall hangings which were inspired by her visit.

We are pleased to present a collaborative show of paintings by West-Country-born artist Luke Bevan, and Will Crawshaw from Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

Luke and Will together formed Blew Piranha, a multi-disciplinary arts collective in 2000 to promote their combined creative talents.

Luke and Will met on the same fine art course at Portsmouth University where they created their first collaborative painting. They have been working together on projects for the past ten years, exchanging ideas and images and working within the same theoretical fields, each from their own individual aesthetic starting point.

The creation of Blew Piranha was an attempt to consolidate their collaborative relationship, and to bring focus to their work.

“Blew Piranha has no pre-conceived, unified aesthetic ideals and plans to spread fine art through non-traditional as well as traditional media and environments, creating work for both commercial and artistic settings," says Luke. "As well as being able to offer a variety of original works, Blew Piranha is willing to undertake specific commissions for clients.”

Nick first took to painting in the mid sixties, having trained at art college and initially taking up graphic work. He painted at a prolific rate, increasing the size of his canvases and producing a significant body of artwork until, in the late seventies, he lost inspiration, disillusioned by "the arty pose and pretentious intellect" he felt with the then present scene of artistry within the city.

To satisfy his creativity, he turned his hand to writing. A feature story he wrote titled 'Lemon Radars' brought back his inspiration to paint once more, adding vibrant colours and thoughtful subject matter to the artistic content of his large scale paintings and collages.

In thirty years as a creative artist this is only his second exhibition, and we have pleasure in inviting him back into the scene, and presenting a body of his latest artwork - an exhibition not to be missed.

"In 1998 I went to America and worked with young persons living in foster homes and care homes in New York City. As part of a social experiment, we took a group of youngsters to the mountainous countryside in New York State – a summer camp – and introduced them to outdoor activities, theatre and the arts. These kids turned up with attitude and arrogance, and left with tears – sad to be returning to the city, sad to be leaving the support structure we had created.

I recognized then how important the arts were to helping these young people; how restoring or boosting self-esteem and confidence could lead to greater benefits for the community in large, and I wondered, then, what support would they have in the big city?

From The Bluehouse Darkroom, in Kent; an earlier regeneration project by The Art Organisation, we created the template for education programmes in the arts (www.bluehouseart.org.uk); where artists interact and teach their skills in the community, and we hope to further these learning programmes here at 21 Station Street as part of a whole programme of activities, classes and workshops aimed at the community and especially young persons.

This first exhibition in Gallery Too is dedicated to those original young persons I met in 1998. They are an inspiration that has taken me on a road this far."

Experimental, large-scale (hand-printed) Black and White Photography
from The Bluehouse Darkroom, in Kent.

"Wolstenholme Relocated"
Gordon Culshaw, Jamie Torode
John OHare, Annie Houston, Jessie Blindell,
Nick Williams, Luke Smith

Gordon and Jamie return to the City - having participated in ‘SideShow’
during Nottingham’s British Art Show - and now headline a group show by artists
based at The Art Organisation’s 11 Wolstenholme Square, The Ropewalks, Liverpool L1.
During this year’s Liverpool Biennial, The Wolstenholme Project
featured over sixty post graduate artists in three shows.
This group emanated from excellent reviews of this unique art experience
and are now successfully touring.