Check out i-D‘s recommendation of the best things to watch, see and do this week (1 Ocotber, 2018)… including our current exhibition, The Accumulation of Things!
Thanks to 10 Magazine for featuring The Accumulation of Things as their 10’s To See.
The feature includes a preview of the exhibition, plus interviews with three of the exhibiting artists: Joy Labinjo, Evie O’Connor, and Julie Greve.
Our September/October exhibition has been included in the Dazed & Confused list of “Art shows to leave the house for this month”.
Check out the full feature here, which also includes exhibitions at Tate Modern, Barbican, and Somerset House.
Ruth Angel Edwards’ solo exhibition, Wheel of the Year ! Effluent Profundal Zone ! has recently been picked up by Bubblegum Club – a ‘cultural intelligence agency’ based in Johannesburg.
Here is a selection of news articles from our exhibition Its’ Our Playground: Artificial Sensibility, and a selection of posts from our instagram page on the installation from the show.
It’s Our Playground Artificial Sensibility featured on KubaParis, October 2017.
Lila Matsumoto’s ‘ekphrastic response’ to It’s Our Playground Artificial Sensibility featured on MAP, October 2017.
It’s Our Playground Artificial Sensibility featured on thisistomorrow, October 2017.
Mark Patterson reviews Giorgio Sadotti’s solo exhibition for the Nottingham Post’s Entertainment Guide. Featuring thoughts from Giorgio, the review also includes more about the background and aims of the exhibition, as well as Giorgio’s time spent studying here at NTU.
Here is a selection of posts from the exhibition Mould Map 6 — Terraformers.
21 September 2016
Yesterday James Langdon and Peter Nencini ran a workshop for visitors on the mysterious science of Pataphysics, in connection with Mould Map 6 — Terraformers.
Below are a few photos from part of the afternoon, where participants were reorganising an existing text using alternative methods of paragraph blocking, led by James Langdon:
22 September 2016
Earlier this morning, Hugh Frost of Landfill Editions gave NTU Art & Design students an introduction to the Mould Map series.
20 September 2016
Hugh Frost and Leon Sadler’s magazine-turned-exhibition has been featured in Frieze and AIGA’s Eye On Design!
In the reviews you can read more about the origins and ideas behind the show, including: Hugh and Leon’s approach to editing and curating Mould Map, tying together such a diverse group of artists, tackling heavy social political issues, and possible plans for future editions of Mould Map.
Read the full article in Frieze here
Read the full article in AIGA – Eye On Design here
23 September 2016
For your Friday – here’s a great little review of the Terraformers exhibition over on It’s Nice That.
Don’t forget to enter our #MouldMap6 competition. Design your own Terraformers armour to be in with a chance of winning Mould Map / Landfill Editions goodies.
Mould Map 6 — Terraformers continues on Monday. Open weekdays from 10 am – 5 pm.
7 October 2016
For an exhibition that doesn’t seem to take itself too seriously, my response to Mould Map 6 — Terraformers follows in the same vein. Not to say I haven’t found the work intellectually valuable (I actually found a lot to take from it), but the aspect of Terraformers I have found myself contemplating most is the description of the exhibition. Or really just one line of it; that for this show the Gallery contains a “group exhibition / walk-in magazine”.
There was once a time, before I came to Nottingham and began studying Fine Art, when I thought a publication had to be on paper. I thought it had to have lines of words. I thought it had to be carried in hands and found soggy in the rain. I thought it had to fit a category. Soon after my arrival in the city, and upon crawling out from the rock I had apparently been living under, I discovered zines. This opened up my world to self-publication and all the practicalities of the printed word that is no longer essential there. Ever since, for me, the confines of “a publication” have ebbed away in to the peripheral. Still, Mould Map 6- Terraformers, has once again been a revelation.
I never thought a publication could BE an exhibition. I never thought it could be this colourful, have a film piece, and a computer game. But the thing that stuck is I never thought a publication could be walk-in.
I was left considering the words “walk-in” above all else. To me, “walk-in” is a domestic term. You get walk-in showers, walk-in pantries. As a girl growing up having a walk-in wardrobe was a thing of envy. But never a walk-in magazine. The bright colours of the exhibition against the stark white walls of the gallery space remind me of the early 1990’s computer graphics, of the episode of Goosebumps when the protagonist was sucked in to the computer, and the stretching 3D shapes of early screensavers. It is as if a magazine was sucked in to a void and dissected but then frozen, suspended for us to encounter. As I walk around the exhibition and traverse the different surfaces of visual information I agree with those wardrobe ready preteens, everything is better when it’s walk-in.
Dominique Phizacklea
Fine Art, Year 3
This months Frieze magazine features a great article by Jonathan P.Watts (NTU Lecturer, writer, critic) examining how gentrification in London is impacting upon the lives of artists who live and worth there. The article uses Nottingham (& Norwich’s) burgeoning artist-led communities as examples of how critically engaged and sustainable practices can establish themselves away from ‘major’ cities. The article uses several specific examples including The Midland Group, Stand Assembly (now One Thoresby Street), Primary, TG & Tyson, and the ever vital Outpost Gallery in Norwich.
This article accompanies a recent Frieze commissioned film of the same title that can be watched here.
You can keep updated and get an overview of artistic activity in the city via the Nottingham Art Map.
have shaped its position within the city of Nottingham as a leading exponent of innovative exhibition practice.”
Read all about our autumn season of exhibitions and find out more about the Gallery over on Aesthetica Magazine’s website