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 26th to March 4th 2008
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A is 4 Art
26th March - 7th April
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. Organised by and including Adam Campbell and Adrian Yau, this show will showcase the work of these graduating and upcoming artists from De Montfort University and presents the diverse and varied nature of Fine art at DMU.
Each generation of students encounters a new and changing world. They develop practices that involve working with materials and media, through which they create new experiences for us, the audience. In this way these emerging artists help us to re-imagine the world and its future.
The artists include Amanda Goldsmith, Rebecca Cotton, Stephanie Pollard Adam Campbell and Adrian Yau
Show runs from 26th march - 7 april
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.
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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May 22nd - 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.
April 9th - 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.
