During the summer of 2008, ten disabled actors from Teesside University were asked to explore their own day-to-day movements: dancing, cycling, cleaning, walking, running and eating. The resulting work, Motion Disabled, uses motion capture and 3D animation to create a kinetic connection with the human form – beautiful everyday, virtual movements highlighting all the intricacies and uniqueness of each person’s physicality.
Nottingham Trent University is proud to present this exciting installation by Simon McKeown, which enables the viewer to engage and explore ideas of normality and difference.
15 Years of Philip Watts Design – A retrospective presents of one of the UK’s leading creative design companies. NTU graduate Philip has designed an extensive and diverse range of award-winning products since the conception of Philip Watts Design, and this exhibition will show some of the most memorable: candle holders, mooing cow salt and pepper pots, giant melting staircases, radiators, door handles, lights and urinals.
Philip Watts Design has exhibited in over 20 countries, spanning four continents, and this will be the first time all this work will be seen together as a complete history of creative output.
This exciting and directional exhibition showcases a collection of innovative textile designs by Professor Junichi Arai and Dr Kinor Jiang from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. A series of striking combinations of colour and texture, their work captures the essence of oriental style with a contemporary direction.
Bonington Gallery is proud to present Metallic Sound as part of an exhibition exchange between The Hong Kong Polytechnic and Nottingham Trent University, reflecting the strong educational links between both universities through established fashion and textiles research.
Join us for a first look around Emily Andersen’s exhibition Somewhere Else Entirely in the Gallery, and Nottingham Women’s Centre in our Vitrines.
NTU staff and students are welcome for a first look round from the slightly earlier time of 5 pm.
Free food will be available from 6 pm – first come, first served!
The menu will be:
Vegan Balti with Rice & Mixed Salad (V)
Chickpea, spinach & sweet potato Balti served with rice and fresh mixed salad (vegan, vegetarian & gluten free).
Thai Red Chicken Curry with Rice & Mixed Salad
Thai red chicken curry with mangos & sweet peppers served with rice and fresh mixed salad (halal & gluten free).
From 7 pm, the United Voices Choir will sing a selection of songs chosen for their positive and uplifting messages
Photography will be taking place. There is lift and stairs access and an accessible toilet.
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.
Join Bonington Gallery’s Director Tom Godfrey for this gallery tour of our current exhibition – Patois Banton by Cedar Lewisohn.
Tom will introduce Lewisohn’s artistic practice and the broad array of artwork on show, including a rare opportunity to peek inside several of the large-scale book-works displayed altogether for the first time.
• The event is free to attend with limited capacity.
• Booking is required.
• Please meet in the Bonington Foyer at 12.55pm for a prompt start.
• The event will last up to an hour, within the gallery.
Join Bonington Gallery’s Assistant Curator, Joshua Lockwood-Moran, for this gallery tour of our current exhibition – Patois Banton by Cedar Lewisohn.
Josh will introduce Lewisohn’s artistic practice and the broad array of artwork on show, including a rare opportunity to peek inside several of the large-scale book-works displayed altogether for the first time.
• The event is free to attend with limited capacity.
• Booking is required.
• Please meet in the Bonington Foyer at 12.55pm for a prompt start.
• The event will last up to an hour, within the gallery.
Join us in the gallery from 6 – 8 pm for a first look around Cedar Lewisohn’s exhibition Patois Banton and Spaces of Translation – European Magazines, 1945-65 in our Vitrines.
NTU staff and students are welcome for a first look round from 5 pm.
Menu
Jamaican inspired curried lamb with, squash, ginger and natural yoghurt (GF)
Sweet potato and black bean curry (V, Vg, GF, DF)
Rice and peas (V, Vg, GF, DF)
White cabbage, red onion, yellow pepper, pineapple and parsley slaw (V, Vg, GF, DF)
V = Vegetarian
Vg = Vegan
GF = Gluten free
DF = Dairy free
This event will take place at Bonington Gallery.
This event has now sold out, please email boningtongallery@ntu.ac.uk to be added to the reserve list
What truths are your poems telling? If not for the reality of your poems, what truths would never be spoken at all? In Poetry as Ferocity Workshop: Writing Your Truth with Radical Honesty, we’ll chart a course for radical honesty in verse, seeking to grow stronger roots for your poems to anchor themselves.
Focusing on work by female Caribbean poets Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné and Safiya Sinclair, we draw on their powerful subversion in writing. Using innovative exercises, we unlock the most potent ways to tell the truth our poems require.
Poets have always been political agitators, defenders of the right to wield uncomfortable truths. What truths do you bring to the table, ready and roaring to be told?
NOTE: This workshop is open to people aged 18 and over. This workshop involves discussion of potentially triggering content and strong language.
Shivanee Ramlochan is an Indo-Trinidadian poet, critic, and essayist, whose first poetry collection, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (2017), was shortlisted for the 2018 Forward Prize. Ramlochan’s next work, the creative non-fiction Unkillable, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in Autumn 2023. Shivanee is the Book Reviews Editor for Caribbean Beat Magazine and works closely with Bocas Lit Fest, the Caribbean’s largest literary festival.
Join Bonington Gallery’s Director, Tom Godfrey, for this hour-long gallery tour of our current exhibition – Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs.
Free and open to all, gain a unique insight into this exhibition and Stephen Willats’ work. Explore the origins of Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs (1971/2) through the archival material on display, and how Willats’ early years in Nottingham proved influential to his subsequent career. This walkthrough will also look at the new works the artist has recently made in response to revisiting Nottingham and the original locations of Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs (1971/2).
Spaces are limited, and booking is required. Meet in Bonington Foyer (outside the doors to the Gallery) at 12.55 pm for a prompt start.