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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.

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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”.

Image showing an arrangement of children's toys. In the foreground there is a red car and a yellow car, behind them there are a selection of other modes of transport, inclding planes, trains and motorcycles. Behind there there are many different robot toys of varying shapes sizes and colours.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
Image showing an arrangement of children's toys. In the foreground there is a red car and a yellow car, behind them there are a selection of other modes of transport, inclding planes, trains and motorcycles. Behind there there are many different robot toys of varying shapes sizes and colours.
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A detail of the left hand headlight of the jeep, with the road curving to the right in the background. There has been a small camerawomen lense cable tied to the bumper of the jeep, under the headlight.
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The grill and headlights from a white jeep are on the right of the image. At the left corner of this, there is a male figure, bent over wearing a hat, sunglasses and is attaching something to the side of the jeep.
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A shirtless male figure in green shorts and a hat stands in in front of a white jeep with its driver side front door open. Behind them these is a mountain range. The male is wearing a black wide brimmed hat, looking through a viewfinder.
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A male figure faces the camera, looking directly forward. He is holding a viewfinder in his hands in front of his right eye.
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A white jeep is driving along a dirt road. Around it there are small shrubs, and some hills in the background, with a deep blue sky.
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This amigo shows a road, where you can see the bank at the roadside is mainly sand. Beyond this there are some small mountains, and a clear deep blue sky.
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A yellow jeep drives through dusty hills kicking up dust.
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A white jeep drives round a windy road in a rocky landscape. In the distance a large mountain can be seen.
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A yellow jeep with its boot open is parked on the side of the road, with dusty hills in the background.
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A male figure is leaning over a video camera on a wide low tripod. In the background there is a road gong through a hilly dessert landscape.
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A male figure in a open red shirt, is winking at the camera. He is wearing a hat with a camera gaffa taped to it.
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A male figure is standing with his right thumb up. He is wearing a red, slightly unbuttoned shirt, and is wearing a hat which has a camera gaffa taped to it. He is holding a video receiver in his left hand. In the background, there is a yellow jeep with an open door.
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The bank of the road with some small shrubbery, with mountains in the background, and a deep blue sky.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
in the center, there is a male figure, crouched over a large video camera, on a low wide tripod. Behind him to the right, is a yellow jeep, with its boot and doors poen. In the background are dusty hills.
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a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
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a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
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A male figure in a red shit, wearing a hat with a camera gaffa tapes to it looks into a box connected to his camera. In the background there are some dusty hills.
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a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
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A male figure looks at the camera, wearing a red shirt, and a hat with a camera gaffa taped to it. He is driving from a plastic bottle, looking at the camera.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
Image showing an arrangement of children's toys. In the foreground there is a red car and a yellow car, behind them there are a selection of other modes of transport, inclding planes, trains and motorcycles. Behind there there are many different robot toys of varying shapes sizes and colours.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
Image showing an arrangement of children's toys. In the foreground there is a red car and a yellow car, behind them there are a selection of other modes of transport, inclding planes, trains and motorcycles. Behind there there are many different robot toys of varying shapes sizes and colours.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
A detail of the left hand headlight of the jeep, with the road curving to the right in the background. There has been a small camerawomen lense cable tied to the bumper of the jeep, under the headlight.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
The grill and headlights from a white jeep are on the right of the image. At the left corner of this, there is a male figure, bent over wearing a hat, sunglasses and is attaching something to the side of the jeep.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
A shirtless male figure in green shorts and a hat stands in in front of a white jeep with its driver side front door open. Behind them these is a mountain range. The male is wearing a black wide brimmed hat, looking through a viewfinder.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
A male figure faces the camera, looking directly forward. He is holding a viewfinder in his hands in front of his right eye.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
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A white jeep is driving along a dirt road. Around it there are small shrubs, and some hills in the background, with a deep blue sky.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
This amigo shows a road, where you can see the bank at the roadside is mainly sand. Beyond this there are some small mountains, and a clear deep blue sky.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
A yellow jeep drives through dusty hills kicking up dust.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
A white jeep drives round a windy road in a rocky landscape. In the distance a large mountain can be seen.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
A yellow jeep with its boot open is parked on the side of the road, with dusty hills in the background.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
A male figure is leaning over a video camera on a wide low tripod. In the background there is a road gong through a hilly dessert landscape.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
A male figure in a open red shirt, is winking at the camera. He is wearing a hat with a camera gaffa taped to it.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
A male figure is standing with his right thumb up. He is wearing a red, slightly unbuttoned shirt, and is wearing a hat which has a camera gaffa taped to it. He is holding a video receiver in his left hand. In the background, there is a yellow jeep with an open door.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
The bank of the road with some small shrubbery, with mountains in the background, and a deep blue sky.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
in the center, there is a male figure, crouched over a large video camera, on a low wide tripod. Behind him to the right, is a yellow jeep, with its boot and doors poen. In the background are dusty hills.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
A male figure in a red shit, wearing a hat with a camera gaffa tapes to it looks into a box connected to his camera. In the background there are some dusty hills.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
A male figure looks at the camera, wearing a red shirt, and a hat with a camera gaffa taped to it. He is driving from a plastic bottle, looking at the camera.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
Image from Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)
a male figure in a red shirt, and beige loose fitting trousers is leaping into the air. There are trails of dust underfoot. The landscape is dusty hills with small shrubs.
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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.

A person crouches down holding a drink infront of a projection which says "and Being Alive"
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The yellow artwork which says "The world isn't working" Is to the left. In the background of the image, two people discuss a4 size papers which are stuck to the wall behind them. A person is crouching to the right of the image.
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there are two of the metal frames in the centre of this image, to the right is the yellow mural, and to the left the projection now says "but wait".
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a group of people are standing in front of the artworks, which are on metal frames in the centre of the room. The central artwork is a large metallic ball of foil. In the background there is a yellow backdrop with the words " the world isn't working"
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to the left there is a mural which says "The world isn't working", which is next to a group of people discussing the artwork.
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People are standing viewing the artworks. there are two metal frames which which have vertical strips of fabric creating a partitiotion, and around these there are more metallic foil sculptures which are placed at random intervals around the frames. The left hand side of the image, there is a projection which displays "the end" on a large part of the wall. To the left the yellow mural can be seen saying the words " the world ins't working".
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An image of the exhibition preview, two figures stand infort of a large yellow artwork which says " the world isn't working". To the left there is a takeaway coffee Cup on a plinth.
An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again exhibition preview
A group of people are in front of the artwork which says " the world isn't working"
An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again exhibition preview
This image gives an overview of the whole gallery, in which all of the artworks apart form the projection can be seen. There are several groups of people who are standing, chatting, and examining the varios artworks on display.
An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again exhibition preview
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A person crouches down holding a drink infront of a projection which says "and Being Alive"
An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again exhibition preview
The yellow artwork which says "The world isn't working" Is to the left. In the background of the image, two people discuss a4 size papers which are stuck to the wall behind them. A person is crouching to the right of the image.
An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again exhibition preview
there are two of the metal frames in the centre of this image, to the right is the yellow mural, and to the left the projection now says "but wait".
An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again exhibition preview
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a group of people are standing in front of the artworks, which are on metal frames in the centre of the room. The central artwork is a large metallic ball of foil. In the background there is a yellow backdrop with the words " the world isn't working"
An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again exhibition preview
to the left there is a mural which says "The world isn't working", which is next to a group of people discussing the artwork.
An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again exhibition preview
People are standing viewing the artworks. there are two metal frames which which have vertical strips of fabric creating a partitiotion, and around these there are more metallic foil sculptures which are placed at random intervals around the frames. The left hand side of the image, there is a projection which displays "the end" on a large part of the wall. To the left the yellow mural can be seen saying the words " the world ins't working".
An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again exhibition preview
An image of the exhibition preview, two figures stand infort of a large yellow artwork which says " the world isn't working". To the left there is a takeaway coffee Cup on a plinth.
An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again exhibition preview
A group of people are in front of the artwork which says " the world isn't working"
An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again exhibition preview
This image gives an overview of the whole gallery, in which all of the artworks apart form the projection can be seen. There are several groups of people who are standing, chatting, and examining the varios artworks on display.
An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again exhibition preview
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In response to our exhibition Stephen Willats: Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs, NTU students on the Typography Optional Module created a typeface and re-imagined our exhibition invite. Over two half day sessions, they each created a typeface and type layout for the invite – we are excited to share some of their designs!

Click on them to see them full size

Alya Wahid
Ashleigh Walker
Sze Wan
William Howard
Mahek Sahgal
Harriet Parsons
Hannah Freeman
Amin Erdene
Natalia Posnett
Yoshino Yamasaki
Emiah Vanhorne Newton

In the aftermath of World War II, hundreds of new journals emerged across Europe. This explosion of print was a reaction to the years of privation and lack of cultural contact between nations. It also responded to public discussion about what might now constitute a ‘European’ identity – an issue central to processes of reconstruction and reconciliation in the post-war period.

Translations were an important component of many journals. They introduced readers to foreign movements, concepts and writers, increasing awareness of cultural similarities and differences and forged alliances across national borders. This exhibition brings together a number of these magazines and highlights the overlooked and mostly unacknowledged translators.

The translators who worked for these journals are remarkable individuals. Some had been ‘silenced’ by censorship in the interwar period. Many were refugees, displaced by war, who used their knowledge of foreign languages to gain a foothold in a post-war world. All were talented figures, passionately committed to the transnational circulation of ideas. They understood that dialogue across cultural, political and linguistic divides was an essential precondition for peace and prosperity in Europe.

This exhibition has been curated by Alison E. Martin, JGU Mainz/Germersheim, Germany and Andrew Thacker, Nottingham Trent University.

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).

BOOK YOUR FREE PLACE NOW

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.

Accompanying Stephen Willats’ exhibition Social Resource for Tennis Clubs in the Gallery, we are pleased to dedicate our Vitrines to Control Magazine – the pioneering journal that Stephen founded in 1965, and continues to publish and edit to this day.

Control Magazine’s focus has always been to provide a resource for artists to discuss their work and, in particular, to make connections with other disciplines including social or computer sciences and technology. Across 21 issues, the magazine has published work and writing by over 150 artists, including John Latham, Roy Ascot, Anthony Benjamin, Dan Graham, Mary Kelly, Helen Chadwick, Tony Cragg, Dennis Adams, Lawrence Weiner, Anish Kapoor, Martha Rosler and Jeremy Deller.

In this presentation we’re displaying issues 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 which cover the period of time that Stephen lived and worked in Nottingham, producing such projects as Man from the Twenty First Century (1971) and Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs (1971/2).

Alongside this Vitrines exhibition, we are also delighted to display two new acquisitions to Nottingham Trent University’s art collection. Firstly Art Cognition Manifesto (1969) that Stephen produced and printed here in the Bonington Building and was distributed to various art schools around the country. This continued a tradition of manifesto writing that Stephen had begun in the early 1960s that attempted to shape the thinking of the art community.

The second is The Telephone Conversation, 1974. Although produced 1 – 2 years after Stephen left Nottingham, this interactive work involves several people associated with NTU and was very much informed by the ideas Stephen had been exploring in the city. The work concerns the relativity of people’s perceptions of each other, and the interactive worksheet allows the viewer/participant to construct a model of the situation that reflects their own experience, beliefs and behaviours. Stephen recently stated that his work in the 1970s all came from this singular piece.

Image: Control Magazine Issues 13 and 17, Stephen Willats

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Detail of Control Magazine, Issue Five, 1969
Detail of Control Magazine, Issue Seven, 1973
Detail of Control Magazine, Issue Nine, 1975
Detail of Control Magazine, Issue Six, 1971
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Detail of Control Magazine, Issue Five, 1969
Detail of Control Magazine, Issue Seven, 1973
Detail of Control Magazine, Issue Nine, 1975
Detail of Control Magazine, Issue Six, 1971

Patois Banton is a solo exhibition by London-based artist, writer and curator Cedar Lewisohn. His recent work has focused on intertwining narratives within art history and the contemporary psyche; often done from a black British perspective.

Over the recent 2–3 years we have witnessed various historic museum collections being questioned for ethical reasons related to the obtaining of their artefacts. The mixing together of histories, locations, myths and hidden stories told through these collections has long been central to Cedar’s work. He has recently worked with objects from UK collections such as the British Museum, the Pit Rivers Museum, and the Petrie museum. Objects and artefacts that Cedar engages with are translated and re-contextualised through large and small scale drawings – often processed through wood-carving prints – that become the starting point for a practice that embodies book-works, printed matter, performances, VR experience and the written word.

The title of the exhibition is a fusion of two words that offer further insight into Lewisohn’s practice and his preoccupations. Patois as in Jamaican Patois – the English-based creole language spoken primarily in Jamaica and among the Jamaican diaspora (Lewisohn took lessons in patois over the COVID-19 lockdowns from poet, writer and patois expert Joan Hutchinson), and banton, a Jamaican word meaning ‘storyteller’. Bringing these words together highlights Lewisohn’s interest in exploring Jamaican heritage from both an individual and collective perspective, and the complex and intertwined narratives that have formed as a result of historical events in this country and beyond.

The exhibition will present a range of new and recent works, several of which have not been exhibited before, including a newly commissioned book-work and a large-scale interactive virtual space.

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Untitled (Marduk Prophecy Virtual Space), 2021, Interactive video via games controller. Programming: Alistair Mackinnon. Sound: Engin Hussan.
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Selection of untitled carved wood blocks circa 2014.
Selection of untitled carved wood blocks circa 2014.
Untitled (caveman), 2014, Hand-printed woodcut print, spray paint.
Detail from untitled carved wood block circa 2014.
Detail of untitled carved wood block circa 2014.
Detail from Patois Banton (Linos Book), 2023, Linocut printed pages, Edition of 5.
Patois Banton (Linos Book), 2023, Linocut printed pages, Edition of 5.
Patois Banton (Linos Book), 2023, Linocut printed pages, Edition of 5.
Patois Banton (Linos Book), 2023, Linocut printed pages, Edition of 5.
Detail of Marduk Prophecy (Large Version), 2023, Lithographed printed pages, Edition of 3.
Marduk Prophecy (Large Version), 2023, Lithographed printed pages, Edition of 3.
Marduk Prophecy (Large Version), 2023, Lithographed printed pages, Edition of 3.
Detail of Woodcuts Book, 2015, Hand bound book, woodblock printed pages, Edition of 2.
Woodcuts Book, 2015, Hand bound book, woodblock printed pages, Edition of 2.
Woodcuts Book, 2015, Hand bound book, woodblock printed pages, Edition of 2.
Woodcuts Book, 2015, Hand bound book, woodblock printed pages, Edition of 2.
Black Drawings Book, 2015, Hand bound book, screen printed pages, Edition of 8.
Black Drawings Book, 2015, Hand bound book, screen printed pages, Edition of 8.
Black Drawings Book, 2015, Hand bound book, screen printed pages, Edition of 8.
Selected publications by Cedar Lewisohn.
Front Covers of A Union of Voices, and The First Fourteen Thousand Four Hundred and Thirty Nine Words. 2017, by Cedar Lewisohn.
Front Covers of The Seven Plagues of Seven Angles, 2021, and The Marduk Prophecy, 2020, by Cedar Lewisohn.
Office Poems, 2023. Published by Nottingham Trent University. Design: Josh Daniels.
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Untitled (Marduk Prophecy Virtual Space), 2021, Interactive video via games controller. Programming: Alistair Mackinnon. Sound: Engin Hussan.
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Selection of untitled carved wood blocks circa 2014.
Selection of untitled carved wood blocks circa 2014.
Untitled (caveman), 2014, Hand-printed woodcut print, spray paint.
Detail from untitled carved wood block circa 2014.
Detail of untitled carved wood block circa 2014.
Detail from Patois Banton (Linos Book), 2023, Linocut printed pages, Edition of 5.
Patois Banton (Linos Book), 2023, Linocut printed pages, Edition of 5.
Patois Banton (Linos Book), 2023, Linocut printed pages, Edition of 5.
Patois Banton (Linos Book), 2023, Linocut printed pages, Edition of 5.
Detail of Marduk Prophecy (Large Version), 2023, Lithographed printed pages, Edition of 3.
Marduk Prophecy (Large Version), 2023, Lithographed printed pages, Edition of 3.
Marduk Prophecy (Large Version), 2023, Lithographed printed pages, Edition of 3.
Detail of Woodcuts Book, 2015, Hand bound book, woodblock printed pages, Edition of 2.
Woodcuts Book, 2015, Hand bound book, woodblock printed pages, Edition of 2.
Woodcuts Book, 2015, Hand bound book, woodblock printed pages, Edition of 2.
Woodcuts Book, 2015, Hand bound book, woodblock printed pages, Edition of 2.
Black Drawings Book, 2015, Hand bound book, screen printed pages, Edition of 8.
Black Drawings Book, 2015, Hand bound book, screen printed pages, Edition of 8.
Black Drawings Book, 2015, Hand bound book, screen printed pages, Edition of 8.
Selected publications by Cedar Lewisohn.
Front Covers of A Union of Voices, and The First Fourteen Thousand Four Hundred and Thirty Nine Words. 2017, by Cedar Lewisohn.
Front Covers of The Seven Plagues of Seven Angles, 2021, and The Marduk Prophecy, 2020, by Cedar Lewisohn.
Office Poems, 2023. Published by Nottingham Trent University. Design: Josh Daniels.
Free Lunchtime Walkthroughs

Join Bonington Gallery’s Assistant Curator Joshua Lockwood-Moran for a free gallery tour of our current exhibition on Wednesday 1 March at 1 pm.

Office Poems

Cedar Lewisohn’s publication Office Poems is a collection of poems written from 2019 that share reflections and frustrations on working within an office environment.

These poems have been translated into Patois by Joan Hutchinson, a writer, storyteller and teacher based in Jamaica. Throughout the publication there are numerous drawings by Cedar, resembling doodles that are done when in tedious meetings. Buy a copy online or ask our gallery invigilator on your visit.

About the artist

Cedar Lewisohn has worked on numerous projects for institutions such as Tate Britain, Tate Modern and the British Council. In 2008, he curated the landmark Street Art exhibition at Tate Modern and recently curated the Museum of London’s Dub London project. In 2020 he was appointed curator of Site Design for The Southbank Centre. He is the author of three books (Street Art, Tate 2008, Abstract Graffiti, Merrell, 2011, The Marduk Prophecy, Slimvolume, 2020), and has edited a number of publications. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally for over twenty years and belongs to various collections. In 2015 he was a resident artist at the Jan Van Eyke Academie in Maastricht. Lewisohn has been included in numerous group exhibitions and had solo projects at the bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht (2015), Joey Ramone, Rotterdam (2016), in VOLUME Book Fair at ArtSpace Sydney (2015) and Exeter Phoenix, (2017). Most recently he participated in the group exhibition UNTITLED: Art on the conditions of our time at Kettles Yard, Cambridge where his work was named by The Guardian as “the highlight of the show”.

Header image: Cedar Lewisohn, Untitled, 2022, Lino print on paper.

Join us in the gallery from 6 – 8 pm for a first look around Stephen Willats’ solo exhibition Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs.

Book your free ticket now.

Also taking place on Saturday 8 October is the Tennis Tournament – a live artwork by Stephen Willats, taking place at The Park Tennis Club in Nottingham.

Book your free tickets and join us to watch the Tennis Tournament – a live artwork by Stephen Willats, taking place as part of our forthcoming exhibition Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs.

Background
In 1971 whilst living and working in Nottingham, Stephen initiated an art project with four tennis clubs in Nottingham entitled Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs. Working with a group of volunteers, a number of ‘games’ were devised that reinterpreted the traditional rules and format of tennis. This culminated in an experimental ‘Tennis Tournament’.

Tennis Tournament – Saturday 8 October, 2 – 4 pm
50 years on from the original event, Stephen will once again work with a group of volunteers re-enact the original games of tennis devised in 1971 for a demonstration on Saturday 8th October 2 – 4 pm at The Park Tennis Club in Nottingham – one of the original clubs involved in the project. The public are invited to watch, with lunch and refreshments provided for everyone attending. Participants will represent a wide range of tennis abilities, even those who haven’t played before.

Everyone is invited to the gallery in the evening 6 – 8pm for the launch of Stephen’s solo exhibition Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs, for a glass of wine.

Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October
Stephen Willats, Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs – Tennis Tournament, Saturday 8 October

Opportunity
If you would like to participate in the actual event, please email Tom Godfrey (Director, Bonington Gallery) on tom.godfrey@ntu.ac.uk for further details, by Wednesday 21 September.

Venue
The Tennis Tournament will take place at The Park Tennis Club, Tattershall Drive, The Park, Nottingham, NG7 1BX.

Exhibition launch
Following the Tennis Tournament, we’ll be hosting a free exhibition launch of Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs at the Gallery, from 6 – 8 pm. Book your free ticket now.