July 3rd to July 3rd 2009
£3 Entry
We are happy to host our second Annexinema programme here at Surface Gallary, which takes a broad look at the intersection between film and writing. It includes films by experimental writer B.S. Johnson, fluxus artist Paul Sharits, and conceptual filmmaker David Lamelas.
July 2nd to July 16th 2009
Please note the private view and artist’s talk begins 6pm Thursday 2nd.
A selection of projects made over the last year will be on display, including work from his latest series: Ruptures. The industrial landscape provides the stage on which Tom crafts, installs and excavates to create ephemeral objects and environments that exist solely for the camera. Each scene is constructed life size, presenting disconcerting scenarios that lie in the cusp between reality and fiction.
June 18th to June 24th 2009
A collection of wall-paintings using story and myth as a visual and intellectual frame work to explore Western and Mediterranean heritage, embracing the ancient art, craft and history of his native Egypt.
read moreJune 3rd to June 3rd 2009
Seven visionary films exploring the formal properties of their medium. Everything will be shown in its original format, 16mm or
video, which is an exciting first for Annexinema.
June 2nd to June 12th 2009
As part of the 13th annual Nottingham Trent Degree Show Festival, ‘PHOTORADAR’ the Surface Gallery showcases ‘5 DEGREES’, a showcase of the exceptional work from five of the BA Hons Photography graduates.
Photoradar website : http://www.photoradarfestival.co.uk/
read moreMay 5th to May 10th 2009
Banalarama is a festival of the mundane; a celebration of the passage through boredom into fascination; and is a collective exhibition showcasing the work of 8 Nottingham based artists.
read moreApril 21st to May 1st 2009
Kate Walters - an awarded artist who was shortlisted for, and currently has work touring with, the Jerwood Drawing Prize - brings her evocative drawings to the Surface Gallery. A review of the exhibition can be found here http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/id/2520.
read moreFebruary 7th to February 21st 2009
As part of the new exhibition programme for 2009, Surface Gallery sees the first curated exhibition; ‘Particles, Particles’ within its new venue. The show consists of a diverse range of media; from painting and sculpture to performance and installation, featuring an array of international artists, brought together from Italy, Norway, Japan and the UK.
read moreJanuary 15th to January 24th 2009
As part of this year’s Radiator festival Surface Gallery will be hosting the exhibition ‘Exploits in the Wireless City’. Three artists will be presenting their works as an exploration upon how data networks, virtual mapping and other digital simulation effects our negotiation and perception of the ‘real’ physical world. For more information upon the rest of the festival see the Radiator Festival website.
read moreDecember 6th to December 20th 2008
Anyone can make art. Anyone can buy art.
read moreAugust 11th to August 29th 2008
An international selection of works from artists working in a variety of media.
Private View
12th August 6-8pm
read moreJuly 16th to July 25th 2008
Graduate photographic artists Victoria Siddle and Stephen Turner present two collaborative contemporary works. Exploring themes such as the in-between space, transience, performance, installation and presence.
June 17th to July 10th 2008
Free Film Festival
Please Download timetable for showing times.
June 3rd to June 13th 2008
This show consists of a diverse and intriguing selection of images featuring both contemporary and traditional works created by a group of four undergraduates attending the prestigious photography course provided by Nottingham Trent University.
read moreMay 20th to May 30th 2008
Identify: Put a name to, put into context, recognize, remember.
Time: The unlimited continued progress of existence and events in the past, present and future, regarded as a whole.
Place: A portion of space occupied by or set aside for someone or something.
Thursday 29th May - ‘Identifying Time and Place’ Meet the artists at the Surface from 2pm to 5pm for an informal talk about the work and the inspirations that went into their development.
April 9th to April 15th 2008
‘This Is Not Our City’ is a group exhibition by Julie Kilminster, Jessica Little, Anna Newbon, Catherine Head, Nicola Ann Naylor, Matthew Everatt, Francis O Donnell Smith, Hayley Vann, Alex Thomson, Jane McFadden and Kerry Ann Taylor. Their work stems from photographic, video and painterly backgrounds, sitting well together as an interesting, diverse group exhibition.
read moreMarch 26th to April 7th 2008
A is 4 Art is an exhibition of select artists from De Montfort University’s upcoming fine art talent at the beginning of their careers specialising in painting and drawing.
read moreMarch 17th to March 20th 2008
Surface Gallery’s annual showcase of work by Nottingham Trent University’s Fine Art department finishes with a show from the MA students, Snowball.
This year’s NTU shows brought us 5 exhibitions in 4 weeks. The students have been asked to propose exhibitions in response to the theme It Couldn’t Be Made Up.
read moreMarch 11th to March 13th 2008
Surface Gallery’s annual showcase of work by Nottingham Trent University’s Fine Art department continues with I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.
This year’s NTU shows bring us 5 exhibitions in 4 weeks. The students have been asked to propose exhibitions in response to the theme It Couldn’t Be Made Up.
read moreMarch 6th to March 7th 2008
Surface Gallery’s annual showcase of work by Nottingham Trent University’s Fine Art department continues with Collapse.
This year’s NTU shows bring us 5 exhibitions in 4 weeks. The students have been asked to propose exhibitions in response to the theme It Couldn’t Be Made Up.
read moreMarch 3rd to March 4th 2008
Surface Gallery’s annual showcase of work by Nottingham Trent University’s Fine Art department continues with Apeiron.
This year’s NTU shows bring us 5 exhibitions in 4 weeks. The students have been asked to propose exhibitions in response to the theme It Couldn’t Be Made Up.
read moreFebruary 25th to February 28th 2008
Surface Gallery’s annual showcase of work by Nottingham Trent University’s Fine Art department starts this year with At Play.
One of the gallery’s busiest and most interesting events; This year’s NTU shows bring us 5 exhibitions in 4 weeks. The students have been asked to propose exhibitions in response to the theme It Couldn’t Be Made Up.
read moreJanuary 31st to February 21st 2008
As part of our 2007 Open Show, Turbulence, we offered the prize of an exhibition at Surface Gallery for the two artists who submitted the two best pieces. i like the end again is an exhibition of new work by those two artists.
read moreJanuary 10th to January 25th 2008
Each year the volunteers at Surface Gallery are given the chance to exhibit a selection of their work within the gallery.
The work on show is as diverse, eclectic and broad ranging as the backgrounds from which the volunteers come - ranging from Illustration and Graphic Design to Fine Art, Photography and Cultural Studies.The media chosen by the artists looks set include photography, performance, installation, video and more.
The title represents a maxim often uttered by those who work in this field - encapsulating both frustrations and positive intentions of those trying to make their own way within the arts; a knowing criticism bound with the positivity of progressive self-improvement.
Taken as a kind of new-years resolution for the team at the gallery it also contains the promise of bigger and better things to come in year ahead.
November 21st to November 29th 2007
SeeD presents a body of new work in a variety of media from a group of lecturing staff at South East Derbyshire College. Work exhibited includes textiles, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking and video.
read moreOctober 15th to November 9th 2007
Featuring work in paint, plaster, clay, Wright attempts to exorcise some of the painfully emotional scars left by his personal experiences of racism and bullying while for Berhane it is a celebration of her Ethiopian roots and culture.
read moreSeptember 6th to September 28th 2007
7 resident artists from Florence Trust bring their annual FT07 Summer Exhibition to Surface Gallery.
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August 1st to August 25th 2007
This is an opportunity to view a sample of current contemporary practice from new and emerging artists in one space within the Gallery.
read moreJune 25th to July 20th 2007
Surface Gallery is proud to present its first professional development residency programme. What Shall We Do Now? comprises eight recent graduates, from Lincoln, Loughborough and Sheffield Hallam University. The gallery will first be used as a working studio space for the artists to create their works and then as an exhibition space in which to showcase their final pieces.
read moreJune 5th to June 16th 2007
Surface Gallery is proud to present four BA visual artists who have come together forming an exhibition of seductively intelligent photographic work.
read moreMay 15th to May 19th 2007
The double-take phenomenon is investigated in this exhibition and it is this shared motivation rather than a unifying aesthetic that ties these artists together. All the works in their own way challenge one’s perception, demanding the viewer to reconsider that which is familiar and often overlooked.
Humorous, deceitful, dreamlike or enhancing the formal qualities of common objects, the works in this exhibition call upon our attention to the subconscious ‘rules’ of the order of things: spaces, materials and situations are manipulated and propose to look afresh at our environment and to re-imagine it.
read moreMay 8th to May 12th 2007
The modern world is made up of processes which order, delineate and assign subjectivities to space. It is these rules, the making of purified spaces and regulatory systems, which the artists in Hybrid aim to subvert. The result is an amalgamation of some rather unlikely couplings and strange conflations, which defy customary regimes of classification.
read moreMay 1st to May 5th 2007
Nine MA visual artists have been selected by curators Lucy Stevens and Cat Preston in response to the theme of transition. ‘Transition’, meaning to change and evolve, is used in the exhibition to explore the making and breaking of the rules which inform our experience of the world around us. The result is a series of ominous and amusing games, where rules are open to interpretation.
read moreApril 19th to April 21st 2007
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Spectacles is a collaborative installation, comprised of pieces by three undergraduates, Matthew S. Cooper, Hannah C. Phillips and Samuel Mercer which consumes the whole of the gallery space. In their interconnected, interactive artworks, they invite the audience on an alternative route around a traditional gallery setting and ask us to question the social aspects which direct our understanding of, and movement through, the gallery environment.
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Details of our future programme will be added shortly.
July 2nd - July 16th 2009
Please note the private view and artist’s talk begins 6pm Thursday 2nd.
A selection of projects made over the last year will be on display, including work from his latest series: Ruptures. The industrial landscape provides the stage on which Tom crafts, installs and excavates to create ephemeral objects and environments that exist solely for the camera. Each scene is constructed life size, presenting disconcerting scenarios that lie in the cusp between reality and fiction.
