Join us for the launch of a new exhibition featuring over 120 works by contemporary working-class artists and photographers.
Curated by photographer, writer and broadcaster Johny Pitts, After the End of History emphasises the perspectives of practitioners who turn their gaze towards both their communities and outwards to the wider world. Find out more.
Dr Paul Adey is a HE lecturer of Music Performance and Music Business at Confetti Institute of Technologies.
Performing under the artist name of Cappo, he has practiced hip hop lyricism for over two decades. During this time, he has had the privilege of appearing at many of Europe’s premier live music venues, performing alongside artists such as Public Enemy, Skepta, and The Sleaford Mods.
Throughout his career, he has released music on various record labels including Tru-Thoughts and Ninja Tune, and featured live on BBC Radio One (John Peel), BBC Radio 1 Xtra, and BBC Radio 6 numerous times.
Paul’s interdisciplinary research focuses on popular culture, literary devices and musical concepts such as intertextuality and allusion, and the semianalysis of song lyrics. The interdisciplinary nature of Paul’s research links his work to Music, English, Creative Writing, and media studies.
Claude Money is a record producer and PhD researcher from Nottingham via Singapore and Spain. Based at Sirkus Studios, he’s been known to work on projects of all genres, but is consistently influenced by the stylings and history of Library Music, Soul, Jazz and Hip-Hop, as well as the traditional folk music of his broad and eclectic cultural background.
Outside of the record industry, he produces music for the screen. He has created bespoke pieces for the BFI and Netflix as well as BBC’s Inside Out, London Fashion Week and the Sailing Grand Prix.
Since 2016, He’s produced a wide variety of tracks for artists including Pete Beardsworth, Emily Makis, Wariko, President T, Window Kid and Snowy. His breakout single was his remix of Misti Blu Two by Amillionsons featuring siblings Taka Boom, Chaka Khan and Mark Stevens, available now on vinyl via Amillionrecords.
Claude’s previous career as a journalist eventually led him to the world of live music. As a promoter he’s worked with headliners such as Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Talib Kweli, Pharoahe Monch, Saul Williams, KRS One, Children of Zeus, The Pharcyde and Ghostface Killah. His passion for the culture has now led him full circle. In October of 2024 Claude will begin a new role at the Nottingham Trent University Doctoral School as a researcher where he will be recording and transcribing the oral histories of Nottingham’s hidden Hip-Hop history, a previously unexplored and under-researched area of UK cultural history.
Join us for a first look round a new photographic exhibition by John Beck and Matthew Cornford, focusing on the region’s art schools, and the vital role that they play in the cultural life of our cities.
Accompanying the exhibition, in our Vitrines you can discover archive materials and memories relating to the history of Nottingham School of Art & Design, established in 1843.
There is lift and stairs access and an accessible toilet.
Thanks again to everyone who attended our preview night of Waking the Witch: Old Ways, New Rites, it was an incredible evening and a great way to open our 2019-2020 season!
Here are a few highlights from the night, including a fantastic opening performance from Ben Jeans Houghton, who expressed aspects of his own magical practice through a harmonic voice and the spoken word, using repurposed effects pedals, loopers, ritual tools, and costume.
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Don’t forget to check out the exhibition for yourself, open until Saturday 16 November.
Thanks to everyone who came along to yesterday’s double preview event… what a great way to launch our autumn season of exhibitions!
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Special thanks to all of the curators and artists involved in putting together both exhibitions –
Bonington Vitrines #8: House of Wisdom
(left-right) Tuna Erdem and Seda Ergül (Istanbul Queer Art Collective), Dr Cüneyt Çakırlar, and Mine Kaplangı (Collective Çukurcuma)
The Accumulation of Things
(left-right) curator Adam Murray, Julie Greve, Joe Bloom, Evie O’Connor, Alicia Jalloul, Max Prus, Tom Godfrey.
Both exhibitions are now open until Saturday 27 October. For more information, visit the exhibition pages.
Image from the opining of our exhibition It's Our Playground: Artificial SensibilityImage from the opining of our exhibition It's Our Playground: Artificial SensibilityImage from the opining of our exhibition It's Our Playground: Artificial SensibilityImage from the opining of our exhibition It's Our Playground: Artificial SensibilityImage from the opining of our exhibition It's Our Playground: Artificial SensibilityImage from the opining of our exhibition It's Our Playground: Artificial SensibilityImage from the opining of our exhibition It's Our Playground: Artificial SensibilityImage from the opining of our exhibition It's Our Playground: Artificial SensibilityImage from the opining of our exhibition It's Our Playground: Artificial SensibilityImage from the opining of our exhibition It's Our Playground: Artificial SensibilityImage from the opining of our exhibition It's Our Playground: Artificial SensibilityImage from the opining of our exhibition It's Our Playground: Artificial SensibilityImage from the opining of our exhibition It's Our Playground: Artificial SensibilityImage from the opining of our exhibition It's Our Playground: Artificial SensibilityImage from the opining of our exhibition Bonington Vitrines #3 London's CallingImage from the opining of our exhibition Bonington Vitrines #3 London's CallingImage from the opining of our exhibition Bonington Vitrines #3 London's CallingScarlett Cannon (left) and Juliana Sissons reminiscing about the 1980s, over the content of the vitrines in London’s Calling.Scarlett and Tom… Scarlett also brought her dog, Maude along… be sure to follow @scarlettandmaude on Instagram for more.Image from the opining of our exhibition Bonington Vitrines #3 London's CallingScarlett met up with long time friend and NTU Photography lecturer Emily Andersen last night, too.Image from the opining of our exhibition Bonington Vitrines #3 London's CallingImage from the opining of our exhibition Bonington Vitrines #3 London's CallingImage from the opining of our exhibition Bonington Vitrines #3 London's CallingJuliana Sissons chatting with Joey and Camille (It’s Our Playground), in front of Simon Callery’s newly installed work, Wiltshire Modulor (small, 2010-2013)After everybody left, It’s Our Playground stuck around to document their show before they return to Paris…Image from the opining of our exhibition It's Our Playground: Artificial SensibilityImage from the opining of our exhibition It's Our Playground: Artificial SensibilityIt’s Our Playground: Jocelyn Villemont and Camille Le Houezec
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Image from the opening of All Men By Nature Desire To Know
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Detail form the exhibition Icons of Rhetoric, now open in the main gallery space
Icons of Rhetoric opened today, and has been featured on several sites across the web (as well as being featured in ArtRabbit’s openings this weekand on their Instagram feed!). Check out the links below:
Following on from the #NTUDEGREESHOW, our next exhibition opens on Thursday this week!
Detail from our upcoming show, Icons of Rhetoric
Icons of Rhetoricis a project created by photographer Chris Barrett and writer Gianluca Spezza which gives us a unique look at “the most isolated country in the world”; North Korea. The exhibition includes over 40 images which are crafted from taking still images from North Korean television broadcasts by the country’s state news network. The pair use appropriated images developed on instant film, to comment on how the West uses such images to reinforce its own limited stereotypical views of the country.
“We’re exploring the idea of ‘seeing is believing’ in the digital age” says Barrett. “People’s concerns about human rights in North Korea are perfectly valid and important issues but it’s dangerous for us to entirely base our understanding on a narrow binary image of good and bad often focused on sensationalised information skewed in favour of click bait ridicule or ridiculous hearsay’. It’s true North Korea is a very difficult place to cover but this should not allow for the anything goes #rareglimpse reporting that seems to surround the country”
Take a look at a few photos of the set-up and exhibition below, and stay tuned for more info over the coming weeks. Be sure to follow @IconsofRhetoric on Twitter / Instagram and use #IconsofRhetoric to have your say.
Here is a selection of blog posts form Simon Callery’s recent solo show, Soft Painting
Soft Painting has begun!
Simon Callery with students dying fabric for the show Soft Painting
Soft Painting has begun! Come and take a look as the exhibition unfolds between now and the preview on Wednesday 29 April, when the paintings will be completed and on show for further two and a half weeks. Visit the exhibition page for more details.
Soft Painting: Week 1
Simon Callery has now been working in the gallery since Monday, along with a select group of BA (Hons) Fine Art students from here at NTU and Nottingham-based artists.
Here’s a quick recap of the week in photos:
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Soft Painting Week 2
Here are some progress shots from this week, taken by local artist and photographer, Julian Hughes:
Assistants: Yajie Jiang and Joshua Wheeler
For more of Julian’s work, be sure to follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
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Soft Painting Week 2 Recap
With just a few days to go until the preview, work on Soft Painting will continue through the weekend. Here’s a recap of the process from this week
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Simon Callery: Soft Painting: Midway Preview – in photos:
From 13 – 29 April, Simon Callery worked in the gallery space with a selected group of Nottingham Trent University BA (Hons) Fine Art students, and a group of Nottingham-based artists to produce three large-scale works. These works will now be on display in the gallery until Friday 15 May. Come and take a look!
Here’s a few photos from last night’s midway preview – thanks to all who came along.
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New addition to the Nottingham Trent University collection
We are delighted to unveil the latest addition to the Nottingham Trent University art collection from artist Simon Callery. Simon joined us in 2015 for his solo exhibition Soft Painting. Wiltshire Modulor (small, 2010-2013) will be on permanent display in Bonington Gallery’s foyer space.
The recent opening of our new exhibitions also marked the un-veiling of the latest addition to the NTU art collection. This joins a host of works and artefacts on display in our foyer that relate to past exhibitions and we’ll be contributing to this selection going forwards.
