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Wanderlust speaks of the places, real, imagined and metaphorical, that we travel to through our practice as artists, designers, thinkers and educators.  It invokes the desire to wander exploring the world as we find it, often straying from the path and discovering a new route.

This exhibition is a snapshot survey of experimental practice across the range of disciplines in the School of Art & Design. The works featured demonstrate the complex process of creation undertaken by practitioner / researchers within the School community including academic, technical and support staff.  Wanderlust is curated as a dialogic space, where varied and diverse practices are placed in proximity to each other, opening up possibilities of new discourses, collaborations and projects.  A series of events will tease and test out these possibilities starting with the private view on Wednesday 12 January 2011.

Formed in London in 1942, The Design Research Unit were responsible for some of the most important design produced in post‐war Britain.  They pioneered a model for multidisciplinary practice, being the first consultancy in the country to bring together expertise in architecture, graphics and industrial design.  

This exhibition is the first of its kind, mapping the history of the group and the currency of their designs.  It spans more than four decades of their work, focusing on some of their most significant projects and charting their ambition to bring elegant and functional design to all sections of society.  

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A Cubitt Gallery touring exhibition

Cockroach Diary and Other Stories brings together works spanning 25 years that convey a compelling sense of both the ordinary and the bizarre in British life. This major exhibition is the first survey show by Anna Fox, one of the most significant photographers to emerge for the new wave of British colour documentary of the 1980s.

As well as Cockroach Diary, this exposition features world including Country Girls, Pictures of Linda, The Village, 41 Hewitt Road, My Mothers Cupboards and My Father’sWords, Back to the Village, and Notes from Home.

Twenty Six Years Later from Professor Lei Cox consists of a multiple of new photographs, new video installations and some retrospective video and photography pieces dating from 1985.

Lei’s early work strived to find surreal and unusual in a pre-digital world, starting with raw and untreated shots. Sometimes these were carefully staged, as he cheated with light and shadow. The vast possibilities of blue-screen super impositions, digital effects snd digital sound processing later influenced his work, allowing him to create complete surrealism with Hollywood-like special effects.

His ;later work moved away from this notion, questioning reality against the synthetic. New ideas were contemplated and realised: videos were shot on location in the real world; all single takes, no special effects, and “pure”.

An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again explores repetition as a tool for the manipulation and contour; of the masses. It considers the relationship between repetition, sound and the image. How sound activates text and how repetition of words actions can create a sense of familiarity or a relationship with something.

An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again uses selected artworks, situations and conversation ot understand some of these thoughts and ideas.

Supported by Arts Council England, this exhibition has been produced by artist and NTU Fine Art graduate, Candice Jacobs. Bringing together works form fourteen different artists in three locations across the city: Trade Gallery, One Thorsby Street and The Bonington Gallery.

Artists exhibiting at The Bonington Gallery are: Athansios Argainas, Young Have Chang Heavy Industries, Candice Jacobs, Jack Strange and Mark Tichner.

Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is delighted to invite Giorgio Sadotti to speak as part of the 2017 Fine Art Live Lecture Series.

(b.1955, Manchester) Sadotti lives and works in London. He gained his MFA at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA, 1981; MA Sculpture at Manchester Polytechnic, Manchester, Britain, 1978; BA Hons at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, Britain, 1977.

Sadotti will be exhibiting at Bonington Gallery from Friday 24 February until Friday 31 March 2017, in his current solo exhibition, SHAPELESS IMPACT NOT TIME SLOW IS (FLITS BY).

Recent and forthcoming solo exhibitions include:

Recent group exhibitions include:

ABOUT THE FINE ART LIVE LECTURE SERIES

The Fine Art Live Lecture Series is an initiative by Nottingham Trent University’s Fine Art course, whereby creative practitioners are invited to deliver a lecture to current students. The lectures are also open to staff, alumni and the general public.

The lectures take place during term-time only.

Archipelago (ˌɑːkɪˈpɛlɪˌɡəʊ) 1. a group of islands 2. a sea studded with islands [C16 (meaning: the Aegean Sea): from Italian archipelago, literally: the chief sea

An exhibition presented by staff from the School of Art & Design that featured experimental practice from a range of art and design disciplines. The works demonstrated the complex process of creation undertaken by practitioners / researchers within the School community.

Artists were asked to consider themselves and their practice as islands, which sit in proximity to other islands. An island could be the work of one practitioner, that of an established collaboration, or a group brought together by a common concern. These islands were represented spatially within the exhibition to create a place of dialogue and exchange.

Lucuna by artist Joy Buttress investigates the current interpretation of lace in contemporary visual culture. Lacuna explored the interface between skin and pattern which is created by lace fabric when worn on the body.

The work in this exhibition portrayed human skin through the use of leather and latex; embedding meaning and emotive boundaries through the application of decoration and pattern. Hand processes that include forms of stitch, and machine processes of laser etching and digital embroidery, were combined to create unfamiliar surfaces.

Joy’s research was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

This exhibition explored how the ritualistic activities of these groups and individuals can be realised by actors and interpreted in moving image.

Exhibiting artist Ben Judd used performance and video to explore notions of scepticism and belief, freedom and immersion, by positioning himself and the audience as both participant and observer.

Previous work has explored Ben’s relationship to particular occult and esoteric beliefs such as witchcraft, shamanism and spiritualism; as a sceptic he attempts to test the extent and nature of his own beliefs and preconceptions.

亂 — Confusion, state of chaos.

In the ancient form of mandarin the title represents the creative processes and working practice that facilitated this exhibition. Dance artist Lucia Tong, Dance4 and Nottingham Trent University MA Framework students collaborated to create an immersive and interactive installation – interpreting the meaning of Luàn through movement, installation, photography and textiles.