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.
Snowball
Closing event Thursday 6pm
Snowball explores the notion of the sketch or proposal as an imaginative zone unrestricted by the limitations of time and resources. Beginning with a series of speculative drawings and plans from seven selected artists, seven further artists will be invited to work as mediators and translators, moving between these disparate practices, making connections and creating new ideas in response. In turn, these will then be responded to in the gallery by the original group of artists, where the process of ‘drawing together’ or ‘failing to see the link’ is presented as an ongoing and live event.
Events
As part of 'It Couldn’t Be Made Up - Snowball', we held several events over the course of the exhibition. See below for further details.
Interventions and Performances
Throughout the programme there will also be a number of interventions and performances where mistaken identities, secret exchanges and absurd encounters occur in the gallery space and erupt into the public realm.
Includes work by Dominique Humphreys, Bill Nguyen and Alia Pathan.