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.

This year the Surface Gallery curatorial team have selected over 30 art pieces from
27 different artists and collectives out of hundreds of entries. This ambitiously curated
selection aims to be a diverse and exciting overview of current contemporary art exploring
a multitude of practises, styles and mediums. The exhibition finalists include local artists,
recent graduates and emerging artists from across Britain and as far and wide as the USA.

This year’s Open Show artists are:
Ingrid Berthon-Moine
Alistair Ruff
Bill Jacobs
Chris Bassford
& Jonathan Ryall
Debbie Locke
Emily Strange
Emma Cousin
Zoe Anspach
& Eira Szadurski
Hayley Harrison
Janet Morrow
Jonathan Kelham
Julie Fagan
Justine Nettleton
Lyndsey Searle
Luke Drozd
Madeleine Burt
Marcus Munnelly
Matthew Hoyland
Michael Barrett
Nerea Martinez de Lecea
Nick O’Reardon
Pat Moss
Sally Childs
Sonia Stanyard
Steven Ingman
Tutte Newall
Alice Thickett

Out of the 27 finalists one winner will be selected and awarded a solo show at Surface Gallery in 2011. A panel of established artists and curators based in Nottingham will judge and select the work and the winner will be announced at 7.30pm during the open evening on Monday 19th July. The panel of external judges includes John Newling, Artist and Professor of Installation Sculpture at Nottingham Trent University, Jim Waters, Curator at Nottingham Contemporary, Andrew Brown, Artist and Senior Lecturer in Visual Arts at Nottingham Trent University and Becie Gamble, Artist and Co-Director of Surface Gallery.

Surface Gallery invites you to come and judge the artwork for yourself at the Opening Evening on Monday 19th July between 6-9pm. This will be an opportunity to view the work first time and celebrate this year’s budding artists.

Thanks to all the applicants that helped make this years show so varied.
The winner of this years show is Janet Morrow with her sculptural installation ‘Monstorous Birth’

I Am Solitary I Am An Army

20 International Emerging Contemporary Artists

August 31st to September 11th 2010

Beers Lambert Contemporary Art has been invited by Nottingham’s foremost contemporary art venue, Surface Gallery, to curate its upcoming exhibition of emergent contemporary art. The exhibition, entitled 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. Culled from over 13 different countries worldwide, including Turkey, Israel, Malaysia, Greece, Australia, South Africa, Canada, the US, and the UK, the exhibition will explore current and progressive trends and pathways in international emergent art.

The approach for the exhibition was to remove expectancy away from work dealing with an exclusively figurative approach to the exhibition’s theme; as a result, the work in I Am Solitary encompasses a more conceptual and abstract understanding of ideas around ‘identity’ and ‘individuality’. The works included comment on the relation to the individualistic moment of creation, the solitary subject, the remote instance, or even the viewer’s relationship to the displayed work. Above all, each artist was selected due to the passionate and engaged nature of their work.

The exhibition opens on Tuesday the 31st of August to Saturday the 11th of September, with a private view and reception between 7-10pm on Thursday the 2nd of September. Gallery Hours are Tuesday to Friday 12pm-6pm, and Saturday 11am-5pm.

Beers Lambert Contemporary Art was founded in Vancouver, Canada with the intention of supporting and advancing the careers of exceptionally talented young artists. They currently operate out of Vancouver; London, England; and Berlin, Germany, representing some of the most talented emerging artists from around the world.

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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