Open Show 2010

July 19th to August 9th 2010

Surface Gallery presents Open Show 2010 which this year will be held between 20th July
and 7th August 2010.

This exciting annual exhibition once again explores new creative avenues and encourages
unique and experimental work. Open Show provides up and coming artists with the
opportunity to enter and compete in an international open call out exhibition, and acts as a
platform for showcasing individual art pieces non basis of artists background and previous
achievements.

Carl Slater

June 15th to July 3rd 2010

Filing the Unfiled : Unfiling the Filed, is a solo show of recent works by Carl Slater in which the photographic and the sculptural are combined through archiving and documentation.

RAW

May 24th to June 4th 2010

Open Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm daily. Private View - Wednesday 26th May 7 - 8.30pm.

Third year NTU photography students present their final year degree show.

Arts and Crafts Fair and Workshops

May 15th to May 16th 2010

Come and join us at Surface Gallery in Nottingham for an exciting weekend of stalls, workshops and activities…

Surface Dwellers

May 5th to May 13th 2010

This month Surface Gallery presents its first in house exhibition of 2010: Surface Dwellers, an impromptu group exhibition showcasing the work of our many surface inhabitants.

War on Want

April 20th to April 24th 2010

The Document 2010 competition was launched by War on Want and Bond & Coyne in the summer of 2009 to scour the globe for the next generation of documentary photography undergraduate talent. Applicants were asked to look at the issue of Crisis and change – The human face of the Economic Meltdown, a timely and highly pertinent topic. 

Speedboat Matchsticks

March 27th to April 15th 2010

Open Show 2009 winner Laura Taylor returns to exhibit a solo body of work which derives from experiment, play and the relationship between form and function

Mine The Mountain

March 6th to March 19th 2010

Mine the Mountain draws upon the artists’ personal experience at sites of historic trauma, such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Majdane; Ypres and Verdun, to engage in themes of the past, the present, family history, memory and the anonymous individual in history. 

The perfection of the iMperfect

February 23rd to February 27th 2010

A collection of unusual and explorative Photographs that set out to examine and challenge the notion of the perfect image, aiming to reveal that beauty is found in imperfection.

Measure and Purpose

February 9th to February 13th 2010

Kate Brigden and Pippa Gatty

‘Measure and Purpose’ is an exhibition engaging with ideas of exploration, pseudo-scientific study and the drive to explore and to explain.

Last Orders at the Bar: The Demise of the Great British Pub

January 16th to January 30th 2010

Chris Etchells

“Last Orders at the Bar” documents the loss of the traditional British pub.

These photographs act not as an obituary for the British public house, but a petition against their decline and a testament to a different era. 

Postcard Show 2009

December 5th to December 18th 2009

Private View 4th December 6 – 8pm
Surface Gallery will be hosting its popular annual Postcard Show Exhibition from the 5th - 18th December 2009. This year’s exhibition promises to present an eclectic selection of work produced by a vast and varied collection of artists, all brought together by the 6 x 4 postcard sized format.

Expect a wide variety of styles and mediums ranging from painting, photography, illustration, mixed media and sculpture.. This is a fantastic opportunity to purchase one-off art pieces at an affordable price of £20, for anyone looking to buy a unique and thoughtful Christmas gift.

Waiting Room

November 19th to November 25th 2009

This November, Surface Gallery presents the work of five young and talented, final year, fine art students of Loughborough University. The exhibition ‘Waiting Room’ brings together a set of creative artists who share the mutual aim of experimenting with interactive and participatory practices in art.

Part I

November 10th to November 14th 2009

New work from a newly formed studio group Sixes & Sevens, an umbrella organisation supporting a number of artists committed to hosting diverse art events and collaborations throughout Nottingham and the East Midlands. The show brings together a varied mix of practices and interests that exist within the group.
Private View: Monday 9th November 2009 6pm – 9pm

Ten Years of Surface

October 9th to October 29th 2009

10th October – 25th October
Birthday Celebration 9th October 2009, 6pm – 9pm

This October Surface Gallery will be celebrating its 10th Anniversary and to mark this special occasion the gallery will be hosting a special volunteer exhibition. ‘Ten Years of Surface’ aims to celebrate and explore the past ten years of the gallery as a volunteer-run arts organisation, whilst giving both past, and current, volunteers the opportunity to exhibit work in the gallery space for this unique show.

East Midlands Finest

August 21st to August 29th 2009

The exhibition consists of a diverse range of media; including painting, photography and sculpture to film and installation, featuring a selection of recent graduates from the following local universities: Loughborough, De Montfort, Derby and Nottingham Trent.

The Private View will be held on the 21st August 6-9pm, where you will be able to come along to view the work and meet participating artists.

Open Show 2009

July 23rd to August 7th 2009

Please Note: Thursday the 23rd will be the private view which be open from 6pm)
Surface Gallery will be celebrating its 10th anniversary this October, and this year’s Open Show marks an ambitiously curated and successful annual exhibition. This year’s show is hosted for the very first time in Surface Gallery’s new and exciting space on Southwell Road.

ANNEXINEMA: WRITING

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. 

The Cut

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. 

Baptism of Hailstones

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.

Annexinema

June 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.

PHOTORADAR

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/

Banalarama

May 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.

Kate Walters

April 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.

Particles Particles

February 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.

Radiator: Festival and Symposium 2009

January 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.

Postcard Show 2008

December 6th to December 20th 2008

Anyone can make art. Anyone can buy art.

Arts and Craft Fair 2008

November 22nd to November 23rd 2008

Forms are available from our opportunities section for pitches.

Open Show 2008

August 11th to August 29th 2008

An international selection of works from artists working in a variety of media.

Private View

12th August 6-8pm

Transient

July 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.

De Profundis-Out of the depths Free Film Festival

June 17th to July 10th 2008

Free Film Festival
Please Download timetable for showing times.

EXIIT Photo Festival 2008, @ the Surface Gallery

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.

Identifying Time and Place

May 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.

This Is Not Our City

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.

A is 4 Art

March 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.

It Couldn’t Be Made Up - Snowball

March 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.

It Couldn’t Be Made Up - I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter

March 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.

It Couldn’t Be Made Up - Collapse

March 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.

It Couldn’t Be Made Up - Apeiron

March 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.

It Couldn’t Be Made Up - At Play

February 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.

i like the end again

January 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.

Must Try Harder - The Volunteers’ Show

January 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.

Postcard Show 2007

December 11th to December 21st 2007

SeeD

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.

Golly!

October 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. 

Working Together

September 6th to September 28th 2007

7 resident artists from Florence Trust bring their annual FT07 Summer Exhibition to Surface Gallery.

Turbulence - Open Show 2007

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.

What Shall We Do Now?

June 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. 

Four LUX

June 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.

Rules of the Game - Double Take

May 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.

Rules of the Game - Hybrids

May 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. 

Rules of the Game - Transition

May 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. 

Rules of the Game - Spectacles

April 19th to April 21st 2007

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.

I Am Solitary I Am An Army

August 31st - September 11th 2010

I Am Solitary I Am An Army, features 20 emerging artists who were individually selected for inclusion. Each of the artists’ work responds to questions of identity and individuality, and each artist can be seen as shaping the direction of international and contemporary painting, sculpture, video, and photography

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Carl Slater

June 15th - July 3rd 2010

Filing the Unfiled : Unfiling the Filed, is a solo show of recent works by Carl Slater in which the photographic and the sculptural are combined through archiving and documentation.

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