BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Bonington Gallery - ECPv6.18.3.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Bonington Gallery X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://boningtongallery.co.uk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Bonington Gallery REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20250101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260925T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261212T150000 DTSTAMP:20261012T141444Z CREATED:20260707T070019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261012T141444Z UID:10000603-1790330400-1797087600@boningtongallery.co.uk SUMMARY:Alan Lodge: Common Grounds – Counterculture & Confrontation since 1976 DESCRIPTION:Bonington Gallery is delighted to present Common Grounds: Counterculture & Confrontation Since 1976\, the first major survey exhibition of photographer Alan Lodge (b.1953)\, one of the most significant chroniclers of British counterculture\, protest movements\, and grassroots activism over the past 50 years. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlan Lodge: Celebration\, Summer Solstice\, Stonehenge Free Festival\, June 1982\n\n\n\nCommon Grounds brings together a wealth of material documenting travelling communities\, free festivals\, free party and rave culture\, environmental campaigns\, and anti-war protest since 1976. As a former member of a travelling community\, Lodge offers a perspective on people\, places\, and subcultures that is raw\, uncompromising\, yet intimate. The strength of Lodge’s work lies not only in its photographic and documentary quality\, but also in its evidential power\, having on numerous occasions been used to protect and advocate for the very communities it represents. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlan Lodge: Battle of the Beanfield\, Wiltshire\, June 1985\n\n\n\nFeaturing over 100 photographs alongside 35mm slide projections\, moving image\, personal archives\, and previously unseen material\, Common Grounds will be a spatially ambitious exhibition that provides an expansive overview of Lodge’s practice and a life dedicated to activism. It also includes legal correspondence and documentation from Lodge’s own encounters with police and authorities\, foregrounding themes concerning the shifting relationships between collective identity\, civil liberty\, dissent\, environmental responsibility\, public space\, and state authority. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlan Lodge: Confrontation\, Summer Solstice\, Stonehenge Free Festival\, June 1981\n\n\n\nLodge’s work has appeared in publications and journals worldwide. His photographs have also been featured in documentaries and films\, including Operation Solstice for Channel 4\, Jeremy Deller’s BBC documentary Everybody in the Place: an Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992 (2018) and most recently Aaron Trinder’s documentary Free Party: A Folk History (2023). He was interviewed for Daniel Ward’s film\, Lonesome Ghosts (2025)\, shown at Peer\, London and spoke to Stewart Lee about the Battle of the Beanfield in the R4 podcast ‘What happened to Counter-Culture?’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlan Lodge: Castlemorton festival\, Malvern\, Worcestershire\, May 1992\n\n\n\nAlan Lodge’s work has been shown in exhibitions across the UK including Radical Landscapes (2022) at Tate Liverpool. International exhibitions include Black & White Surveillance (2020) with TG at the Salon de Normandy\, Paris. His work has also appeared in publications & journals including The Guardian\, Independent\, i-D\, Select\, Café Royal Books\, Sounds\, Purple\, Huck Magazine\, Flash Art\, DJ\, Radio Times\, New Statesmen & Society and Squall. His publications include Stonehenge: Solstice Ritual\, a photographic account of the rituals taking place at Stonehenge.Alan received a BA(hons) (1993) and MA (2013) in Photography from Nottingham Trent University. \n\n\n\nalanlodge.co.uk \n\n\n\nA publication featuring an interview between Alan Lodge and Jeremy Deller will be available during the exhibition. \n\n\n\nMore information about Alan Lodge\nAfter a brief career as an emergency paramedic in the London Ambulance Service\, Alan “Tash” Lodge took up photography and documented the emerging free festival movement in the late 1970s. In 1985\, Lodge and his family joined the Peace Convoy on its annual journey to Stonehenge\, where he was involved with\, and photographed\, the clashes between the police and travelers in what became known as the Battle of the Beanfield\, resulting in one of the most violent mass arrests in British history. \n\n\n\nIn 1990\, Lodge moved to Nottingham to study photography at Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University)\, where he became involved with the city’s influential music collective DiY Sound System\, which held free parties across the UK. Among his most celebrated images are those capturing partygoers at Castlemorton Common in Wiltshire\, widely regarded as the largest illegal rave in British history\, which led to the introduction of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994. In recent years Lodge has continued to extensively document his involvement and attendance of public demonstrations and festivals\, and is active in various welfare and advice agencies\, including Festival Welfare.  Lodge is known for his documentation of police surveillance and was a regular contributor to Indymedia UK. His website offers guidance on the rights of photographers documenting public places and demonstrations.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n Image has no caption\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nPhotographs by Jules Lister URL:https://boningtongallery.co.uk/event/alan-lodge-common-grounds-counterculture-confrontation-since-1976/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://boningtongallery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/0039_03slide-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260925T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261212T170000 DTSTAMP:20261012T142016Z CREATED:20260807T090152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261012T142016Z UID:10000604-1790330400-1797094800@boningtongallery.co.uk SUMMARY:Bonington Vitrines #31: The Velvet Acronyms – It’s a Wonderful Protest  DESCRIPTION:Bonington Gallery is pleased to present It’s a Wonderful Protest\, a new exhibition by The Velvet Acronyms\, a collaboration between artists Anna Li and Simon Raven. Anna & Simon’s work uses satirical ‘crip humour’ to challenge ableism in the arts\, from the ghettoisation of disability art to condescendingly ‘celebratory’ forms of inclusion. \n\n\n\nThe area where the Bonington Vitrines are located will be transformed into an ‘Exclusion Zone’ for performance in which participation is encouraged – from taking part in an absurdly upbeat ‘Wonderful Protest’ to joining a ‘Psychic Music’ ritual aimed at relieving student debt. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition includes an archive of previously unseen films\, prominent performance relics\, photographs\, posters\, and participatory interventions. Some spaces will intentionally be left unfinished\, allowing new documentation and traces of live performances to accumulate during the exhibition. \n\n\n\nAbout The Velvet Acronyms\nThe Velvet Acronyms (VA) is a collaboration between artists Anna Li (UKR) and Simon Raven (UK). Inspired by Disabled Avant-Garde (DAG)\, a satirical organisation founded by Aaron Williamson and Katherine Araniello whose work in performance\, video\, and intervention challenges negative perceptions of disability. Their practice combines crip humour\, absurdity\, and social critique\, positioning disability as a critical and epistemological lens rather than a fixed or medicalised identity. Anna and Simon bring distinct embodied perspectives into a shared inquiry informed by the social model of disability. Drawing on avant-garde art and experimental performance\, VA interrogates cultural\, political\, and aesthetic structures\, pushing disability art beyond representation towards confrontation\, irony\, and lived experience.  \n\n\n\nWebsite: https://www.velvetacronyms.art/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/velvetacronyms/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@VelvetAcronyms \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n Installation view\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nDocumentation photographs by Jules Lister. \n\n\n\nHeader image credit: A Wonderful Protest at The King’s Cross station\, London\, UK. Anna Li\, Simon Raven\, Aaron Williamson\, and Alana Young. Photo by Olena Litvinova. 02 June\, 2026.  URL:https://boningtongallery.co.uk/event/bonington-vitrines-31-the-velvet-acronyms-its-a-wonderful-protest/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://boningtongallery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/Website-crop_A-Wonderful-Protest-at-The-Kings-Cross-station-London-UK.-Anna-Li-Simon-Raven-Aaron-Williamson-and-Alana-Young.-Photo-by-Olena-Litvinova.-02-June-2026.-copy-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261111T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261111T200000 DTSTAMP:20261105T121751Z CREATED:20260907T142217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261105T121751Z UID:10000609-1794421800-1794427200@boningtongallery.co.uk SUMMARY:Film screening & Q+A: Daniel Ward – Lonesome Ghosts  DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of Lonesome Ghosts (2025) by Oxford based artist Daniel Ward\, a film exploring the ramifications of undercover policing in the UK\, featuring Bonington Gallery exhibitor Alan Lodge.Organised into four chapters\, the work moves between filmed and found footage\, official police documents\, evidence and personal testimony\, and offers an examination of the complex affinities between personal commitment\, state violence and visual culture.Each chapter centres a different voice or material: a meeting with an exhausted and lonely political organiser; silent footage of a funeral filmed by an undercover policing unit in 1979; an interview with a photographer who discovered he was the target of police surveillance; and a filmmaker grappling with the dreams and failures of collective filmmaking. Threaded throughout the work is a mutual consideration of politics and visual depiction. Ward focuses on the camera as a central device and\, in turn\, the purpose of both documents and documentary\, as well as collective and group work.Produced by Ward over a three year period using an iPhone and an inexpensive digital camera\, the footage and its treatment is\, at times\, intentionally out of focus or underexposed: subjects are kept slightly out of shot\, or at the edge of the frame\, encased in shadows. Ward’s use of sound\, from undefined field recordings to abstract audio samples\, further emphasise the work’s interest in representation and depiction\, contributing to the film’s underlying atmosphere of paranoia and fear. \n\n\n\nThe screening will feature written contributions from writers Hannah Proctor and Sam Dolbear. These are based upon spoken responses they gave as part of an event at Pelican House entitled Making Sense of Spycops\, that included a screening a Lonesome Ghosts. \n\n\n\nBook your free ticket here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLonesome Ghosts is 52 minutes long and will be followed by a Q+A with Daniel Ward & Alan Lodge\, convened by Tom Godfrey (Bonington Gallery Curator & Director). The gallery will remain open until 6.30pm to allow people to visit Alan’s exhibition prior to the event. \n\n\n\nAbout Daniel Ward\n‍Daniel Ward (Coventry\, 1991) lives and works in Oxford. His work has been shown at HKW\, Berlin\, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin\, and the Museum for Photography\, Berlin\, amongst others. He was the inaugural recipient of the Michael O’Pray Prize in 2018\, an award for new writing on moving-image art supported by Art Monthly and Film and Video Umbrella. He was commissioned by City Projects to write The Politics of Production\, a report examining the conditions for producing experimental film in the UK\, funded by Arts Council England and published in 2019. His writing has been published in Artforum\, Art Monthly\, Texte zur Kunst and New Left Review: Sidecar\, amongst others. He is currently a PhD candidate at University College London\, writing on 20th century British art\, politics and film from 1982 to 1997. \n\n\n\nwww.danielward.live \n\n\n\n\nAbout Sam Dolbear\nSam Dolbear is a writer\, teacher\, and researcher based in London. He has written books on the avant-garde radio producer Ernst Schoen (co-authored with Esther Leslie; Goldsmith Press\, 2023) and the palm-reader and sexologist Charlotte Wolff (MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE\, 2024). He’s an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins and a Visiting Fellow at the Warburg Institute. He co-founded the audio-radio collective MayDay Radio\, where he is collecting an archive on the London Lighthouse\, a centre for people with HIV/AIDS opened in 1988.www.samdolbear.net \n\n\n\n\nAbout Hannah Proctor\nHannah Proctor teaches history at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. She is the author or Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso\, 2024). She is a member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective and a contributing editor at Parapraxis. She is currently interested in revenge.www.hannahproctor.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLonesome Ghosts was first shown at Peer\, London in Autumn 2025\, as part of a solo exhibition by Daniel Ward of the same title.  URL:https://boningtongallery.co.uk/event/film-screening-qa-dan-ward-lonesome-ghosts/ CATEGORIES:Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://boningtongallery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/Web-version.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261118T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261118T200000 DTSTAMP:20261103T112108Z CREATED:20261021T133732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261103T112108Z UID:10000613-1795026600-1795032000@boningtongallery.co.uk SUMMARY:Film Screening: Operation Solstice – The Beanfield 1985 (40th Anniversary Edit) DESCRIPTION:Bonington Gallery is pleased to screen a special 40th-anniversary re-edit of Operation Solstice first released in 1991. This updated version features recently recovered and previously unseen video testimony alongside newly added archival material. Together\, these elements create the most comprehensive account yet of what became known as the Battle of the Beanfield. \n\n\n\nThe film revisits the events of 1 June 1985\, when hundreds of people set out in convoy for Stonehenge to establish what would have been the 11th People’s Free Festival. They never arrived. \n\n\n\nThe events of that day resulted in what many regard as the worst incident of police violence in modern British history. The operation involved 1\,300 officers from six police forces. Homes and vehicles were destroyed\, 536 people were arrested in what remains the largest mass arrest of civilians in English legal history\, children were taken into care\, and seven dogs were killed. No public inquiry was ever held. \n\n\n\nThe confrontation took place against a backdrop of growing government efforts to bring both the free festival movement and the travelling way of life to an end. It reflected the increasingly militarised policing strategies that had also been deployed during the miners’ strike the previous year. \n\n\n\nThe Battle of the Beanfield followed shortly after the eviction of the RAF Molesworth Peace Camp\, from which the travellers’ Peace Convoy took its name. It was a period in which those seen to oppose government policy were frequently characterised as the “Enemy Within” and subjected to surveillance\, infiltration\, marginalisation and\, in some cases\, physical confrontation and legal sanction. \n\n\n\nThis anniversary edition also includes a recent interview with entrepreneur and campaigner Dale Vince\, filmed by Aaron Trinder\, Giulia Franchi and Gareth Morris. \n\n\n\nFilm duration 1hr. There might be an informal opportunity for a Q&A with Alan Lodge following the screening. \n\n\n\nBook your free ticket here. URL:https://boningtongallery.co.uk/event/film-screening-operation-solstice-the-beanfield-1985-40th-anniversary-edit/ CATEGORIES:Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://boningtongallery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/4AAE495D-2AE6-413A-87B5-13A08374DF84.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261121T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261121T140000 DTSTAMP:20261103T112007Z CREATED:20261021T133709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261103T112007Z UID:10000612-1795258800-1795269600@boningtongallery.co.uk SUMMARY:Poetry at Bonington Gallery: Fran Lock & Jac Common DESCRIPTION:Bonington Gallery is delighted to host poets Fran Lock and Jac Common for a relaxed session of readings\, with complimentary coffee and refreshments provided. \n\n\n\nFran Lock is known for work that combines political urgency\, formal innovation and fierce lyrical energy. Joining her is Nottingham-based poet Jac Common\, whose writing explores queer ecologies\, nonhuman worlds\, collective life and alternative futures. \n\n\n\nThis event takes place towards the culmination of two exhibitions: Common Grounds – Counterculture & Confrontation Since 1976 by Alan Lodge in the gallery\, and It’s A Wonderful Protest by The Velvet Acronyms in the Foyer. \n\n\n\nAbout Fran Lock\nDr Fran Lock is a poet\, essayist\, editor\, amateur medievalist\, and rescue-dog parent. She is the author of numerous chapbooks and sixteen poetry collections\, most notably Hyena! (Poetry Bus Press\, 2023)\, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 and for the PEN Heaney Prize 2024. Fran was the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University 2022-2023\, and is a Commissioning Editor at the radical arts and culture cooperative Culture Matters. She is a newly-minted core tutor on the MA at Poetry School in London. She lives between Cambridge and Kent. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nAbout Jac Common\nJac Common is a noisy writer and derelict gardener from Nottingham. Their work has been published in places like SPAM\, Permeable Barrier\, Tentacular\, fourteen poems\, and The Journal of Evolutionary Biology. As part of the Coneffluents collective with K Lewis Hood\, they attend to queer\, anti-colonial and nonhuman life ways in wet-land ecologies and infrastructures. Work from this has been published in Futch Journal\, exhibited as a microbial installation at the Glasgow International Arts fair\, and intentionally dropped into the Channelsea River. Jac’s first pamphlet of poetry\, Wetbulb\, was published in 2024 by Osmosis Press; and their most recent pamphlet\, EARTHLIGHTS\, was published by Datableed in 2026. \n\n\n\n\nBook your free ticket here. URL:https://boningtongallery.co.uk/event/poetry-at-bonington-gallery-fran-lock-jac-common/ CATEGORIES:Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://boningtongallery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/Image-for-e-flyer_Screen-res-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20270115T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20270115T200000 DTSTAMP:20261104T112020Z CREATED:20260916T141724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261104T112020Z UID:10000611-1800036000-1800043200@boningtongallery.co.uk SUMMARY:Exhibition launch: Andy Earl – Flash and Blur / Mark Dennis – When Attitudes Become Attitude DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of the second exhibition in our 2026-27 season\, an exhibition of photography\, video and archival material by the critically acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Andy Earl (b. 1955). Spanning four decades\, the exhibition traces Earl’s remarkable career\, from his time as a photography student at Nottingham Trent University (1974-1977) to the present day. \n\n\n\nAcross a career that includes more than 200 album covers\, editorial commissions for Rolling Stone\, NME and Q magazine\, and projects for Canon\, Samsung\, Deutsche Bank and the BBC\, Earl has photographed some of the most influential cultural figures of the past half-century. \n\n\n\nAlongside the main exhibition\, we are delighted to present When Attitudes Become Attitude organised by Mark Dennis\, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University for our Vitrines programme. \n\n\n\nOn the evening\, Bonington Gallery will also be hosting a book launch for Schools of Art by past exhibitors John Beck and Matthew Cornford. This book brings together over 75 photographs and capsule histories representing various schools of art from across Britain\, including NTU’s Nottingham School of Art & Design. Published by Trolley Books. \n\n\n\nEnjoy a free welcome drink\, delicious food (first come\, first served!) and music. \n\n\n\n\nFree\, all welcome\n\n\n\nPhotography will be taking place (please let our photographer know if you don’t wish to have your photo taken)\n\n\n\nRefreshments and music\n\n\n\nThere is a lift and stair access to the Gallery\, and an accessible toilet\n\n\n\n\nBook your free ticket here. URL:https://boningtongallery.co.uk/event/exhibition-launch-andy-earl-flash-and-blur-march-dennis-art-school-histories/ CATEGORIES:Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://boningtongallery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/85-20260320-VTPX3101.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20270116T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20270306T150000 DTSTAMP:20260916T140951Z CREATED:20260817T123805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T140951Z UID:10000607-1800093600-1804345200@boningtongallery.co.uk SUMMARY:Andy Earl: Flash and Blur DESCRIPTION:Bonington Gallery is delighted to present Flash and Blur\, an exhibition of photography\, video and archival material by the critically acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Andy Earl (b. 1955). Spanning four decades\, the exhibition traces Earl’s remarkable career\, from his time as a photography student at Nottingham Trent University (1974-1977) to the present day. \n\n\n\nIn 1978\, Earl exhibited at The Photographers’ Gallery in London as part of an exhibition exploring contemporary European photography. The painterly quality in Earl’s photographs attracted the attention of music impresario Malcolm McLaren\, who subsequently commissioned Earl to create the cover for Bow Wow Wow’s debut album – a re-enactment of Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe. In 1979\, Earl was invited to participate in Venice 79\, a major international survey of contemporary photography presented as an extension to Venice Biennale series. These early opportunities and exhibitions helped establish Earl’s reputation on the international stage and marked important milestones in his burgeoning career. \n\n\n\nAndy Earl: Bow Wow Wow\, Reigate\, Uk\, 1981\n\n\n\nFollowing an accidental kick to a tripod during a photoshoot\, Earl embraced the creative possibilities of combining movement\, slow shutter speeds and sharp flash photography. The resulting aesthetic became his signature ‘flash and blur’ technique\, defining much of his work from the late 1970s through to the 1990s and attracting the admiration of photographers including David Bailey. Accompanying many of Earl’s photographs are stories and anecdotes that reveal the encounters and relationships Earl developed with his subjects\, several of which will be shared in the exhibition. \n\n\n\nAndy Earl: Ascot\, 1977\n\n\n\nAcross a career that includes more than 200 album covers\, editorial commissions for Rolling Stone\, NME and Q magazine\, and projects for Canon\, Samsung\, Deutsche Bank and the BBC\, Earl has photographed some of the most influential cultural figures of the past half-century. His subjects include Annie Lennox\, Madonna\, Morrissey\, Pink Floyd\, Oasis\, Prince\, Mick Jagger\, King Charles III\, and Sir David Attenborough. In the 1990s\, Earl produced the iconic photographs of Johnny Cash used for American Recordings\, the first album in Cash’s celebrated collaboration with producer Rick Rubin. \n\n\n\nAndy Earl: Johnny Cash\, American Recordings\, Ballarat\, Australia\, 1996\n\n\n\nBeyond his photographic practice\, Earl has directed and contributed to more than 20 music videos. Among his most pioneering projects was his work on the Michel Gondry-directed video for The Rolling Stones’ Bob Dylan cover Like a Rolling Stone\, which combined 12\,000 still photographs captured using two handheld cameras and animated in sequence. The resulting visual effect echoed Earl’s flash and blur experiments from the late 1970s and proved highly influential in the development of the technique later known as Bullet Time\, most famously employed by The Wachowskis in The Matrix films. \n\n\n\nThrough photography\, film and archive\, Flash and Blur celebrates Andy Earl’s enduring contribution to visual culture and reveals the innovative spirit that has defined his work for more than four decades. \n\n\n\nCredit for main image: Andy Earl: Duran Duran (Rio)\, London 1983. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlash and Blur is a continuation in a series of recent solo exhibitions by Andy Earl that first took place at TheGallery at Arts University Bournemouth – See or be Seen (October 2025) and the follow up Andy Earl X Bankside Yards (May 2026)\, both curated by AUB TheGallery Curator Violet M McClean. URL:https://boningtongallery.co.uk/event/andy-earl-flash-and-blur/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://boningtongallery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/Simon-Le-Bon_Website-crop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20270116T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20270306T150000 DTSTAMP:20261104T111042Z CREATED:20261102T142549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261104T111042Z UID:10000614-1800097200-1804345200@boningtongallery.co.uk SUMMARY:Bonington Vitrines #32: When Attitudes Become Attitude  DESCRIPTION:For the 32nd instalment of our Bonington Vitrines programme\, we are delighted to present When Attitudes Become Attitude organised by Mark Dennis\, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. \n\n\n\n In the wake of government reports\, resignations and shifting ideas of what art could or should be\, this presentation offers a picture of an academic discipline in crisis. During the 1970s Conceptual artists\, to a varying extent\, influenced the Fine Art teaching at ‘Trent Poly’ (Now Nottingham Trent University)\, often in tension with the management and more established models of art education. This influence offered models of artistic activity that challenged and mocked both art school values and the institution of the Polytechnic\, plugging the students in to current art discourse\, wider political and cultural agitation and a wider network of art students in other parts of the country. \n\n\n\nThis presentation is a display of administrative ephemera and memoranda\, course projects\, posters and student publications\, detailing a microhistory of Nottingham Trent Polytechnic Fine Art Department. The specific archival material is aired to piece together different perspectives\, to put them in conversation with a broader historical context\, and to ask how they might speak to the current situation in art education. \n\n\n\nAbout Mark Dennis\nMark Dennis is an artist\, researcher and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. Mark has researched various aspects of late 20th Century British Art\, notably early Conceptual Art. He completed his PhD at Coventry University where he examined the influence of Art & Language on the Fine Art dept there and in art schools around England and Wales. Mark’s thesis Strategic​​ Anomalies:​​ Art ​​&​​ Language ​​in the ​​Art​​ School​​ 1969-1979 can be read here. \n\n\n\n\nImage: Masthead from ‘Issue’\, a student run journal that ran in the late 1970s at Nottingham Trent Polytechnic. URL:https://boningtongallery.co.uk/event/bonington-vitrines-32-when-attitudes-become-attitudes/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://boningtongallery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/11/Web-image-copy_3-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20270127T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20270127T140000 DTSTAMP:20261104T111834Z CREATED:20260916T140821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261104T111834Z UID:10000610-1801054800-1801058400@boningtongallery.co.uk SUMMARY:Free Lunchtime Walkthrough: Flash and Blur (BSL Interpreted) DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free guided tour of Bonington Gallery’s latest exhibitions with BSL interpretation. \n\n\n\nBook your free ticket and enjoy a guided tour of Flash and Blur\, an exhibition by Andy Earl\, led by the Gallery’s Director\, Tom Godfrey. \n\n\n\nAlong with an introduction to the exhibition\, Tom will talk through the accompanying Vitrines exhibition\, When Attitudes Become Attitude.  \n\n\n\nThis event will last up to an hour. 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