A lecture by Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia University, New York & 2011 J.C. Smith Trust Fund Senior Visiting Scholar followed by a...
A subtle critique of the sexual politics of photography is often apparent in Anne Collier’s images. Nina Power, author of One Dimensional Woman, will be discussing...
Morgan Fisher is one of the most influential avant-garde film makers of his generation. He began working in Los Angeles around the same time as Jack Goldstein. Though...
In the mid-1970s Jack Goldstein made a series of vinyl records featuring sound effects used in the production of Hollywood movies. 37 Years is an experimental sound work...
The artist and writer Cedar Lewisohn curated the Street Art exhibition at Tate Modern in 2008, as well as co-curating last year’s Rude Britannia at Tate Britain. He is...
A walk through that focuses on the “private life of public images” by Polly Staple, Director of Chisenhale Gallery. “Collier often chooses particular motifs such as...
Dr diBello of Birkbeck University is the author of books on both feminist critique and photography. She is currently researching the relevance of the photograph to...
Artist Henrietta Simson appropriates and manipulates found images to question the supposed truth of the photographic image. She also merges early Renaissance images with...
Writer Oliver Burkeman will speak about his new book Help! How To Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done, based on his weekly Guardian column. Speakers are Dr...
Nottingham Contemporary presents a major exhibition by Anne Collier, one of the most exciting artists working with photography to have emerged in the past few years.
The...
Jack Goldstein has been called the most important “artist’s artist” of the last 30 years. A key “missing link” between 60s and 80s art, his work spans...
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In March of 2010 John Newling was approached to develop a work in collaboration with Bronislaw Szerszynski...
In this introductory lecture Dr Anna Lovatt of The University of Nottingham will introduce three key themes important to recent art which will be explored in future...
Wednesday 12 January, 7-9pm
Free, The Space, book with the link below
This is the fourth event in a series offering a platform for Nottingham and Midlands based...
Five of Nottingham Contemporary’s team of Gallery Assistants will give a talk about the current exhibition, British Art Show 7 between 6pm – 7pm.
Gallery...
Postgraduate researchers from across the East Midlands will lead a tour of the city that shares their work with the general public in a series of innovative and creative...
Campbell will discuss his film Bernadette, a portrait of Bernadette Devlin, the fiery republican Mid Ulster MP from 1969 to1974 – the youngest woman ever elected to the...
Anja Kirschner will talk about the film the Last Days of Jack Sheppard (2009) showing at Nottingham Castle. The writer Brian Dillon described it as “a Hogarthian frieze...
Brian Griffiths made the giant sculpture in the window of Nottingham Contemporary. He is known for his theatrical sculpture and installations. Of his work he says “For...
Join three distinguished art critics as they discuss what they might write about British Art Show 7. They will also examine the reviews of the exhibition in a What The...
Olivia Plender, The Lost Works of Johan Riding
Sat 20 November, 2pm - 3pm, Nottingham Contemporary, free.
Performance with Craig Burnett and Nick Santos-Pedro. Booking...
Otolith Group, Screening of Otolith 1 - 3
5pm - 8pm, The Space, Nottingham Contemporary, free.
Shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize, The Otolith Group is named...
George Shaw studied at Sheffield Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. He worked as a teacher in Nottingham, and had studios at the Oldknows building and in Eastwood....
Nominated for the Turner Prize in 2009, Hiorns has worked with fire, foam, copper sulphate and animal remains to explore the physical and psychological resonances of...
The BAS7’s subtitle In the Days of the Comet is the inspiration for this detailed look at the history of the heavens above and our culture below. From the earliest...
Music, performance and poetry inspired by the H.G. Wells novel In the Days of the Comet – the subtitle of BAS7. The galleries will be open late, and we will be...
Installation artist Matthew Darbyshire presents images of previous projects and discuss his new work for BAS7, shown at Nottingham Contemporary.Using contemporary design...
Wayne Burrows edits Staple, the East Midlands new writing magazine. He is part of a long tradition of poets who double as art critics. In these workshops he will examine...
Schmitz’s soundtracks and visual trailers “envelope and buffer the outer membranes” of BAS7 across its three sites. In this presentation he will address escapism,...
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