what’s on guide
September – December 2014 Free Entry
Welcome Welcome to the second of our Bonington Gallery guides. This edition focuses on the culmination of the 170 years celebration that started so successfully in January with our Alumni exhibition, Since 1843: In the Making. As well as celebrating our heritage, we’ll be looking to the future with exhibitions that have been instigated by staff and student research and collaboration with other institutions and experts in their fields. Knitting Nottingham and Crafting Anatomies both draw from the rich traditions of the School of Art & Design in terms of process and research and explore development, both in the use of technology and collaboration.
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Closed for Christmas
MA Fashion Design
Toshiko Imoto,
Friday 12 December 2014 – Monday 5 January 2015 Facebook /boningtongallery Twitter @NTUbongallery
Email: boningtongallery@ntu.ac.uk Visit www.boningtongallery.co.uk for full details.
Looking further ahead, we’re very excited about the gallery actively seeking closer collaborations with national and international partners and next year’s ambitious program begins to demonstrate this. We also want to consider closely our relationship to the city and the other institutions both public and artist-led, and cement the gallery’s position as a vital contributor to the vibrant arts community here in Nottingham. The next time you visit us you will notice some colourful and provocative new artworks adorning the entrance corridor and Foyer space outside the Bonington Gallery. We asked NTU alumnus, Jon Burgerman, to create murals that reflect the creative process and enjoyment of art education; they certainly brighten up the place! We would also like to offer our warmest wishes and thanks to Geoff Litherland who is leaving the gallery team and thank him for all his wonderful work over the previous years and offer our warm welcome to Tom Godfrey who is taking over from Geoff in the gallery management role.
Exhibitions Clockwise from left:
claire bradshaw, MA Textile Design Innovation
Vasiliki Demetriadi,
Emilia Pancheri,
Matthew Robertson,
MA Fashion Design
Bonington Gallery website developments Take a look at our updated website: www.boningtongallery.co.uk It now includes a blog, a community map showing local art events, podcasts and video updates, along with listings of forthcoming exhibitions and events being held at Nottingham Trent University. If you’d like to receive information regarding events and exhibitions taking place at Bonington Gallery, you can join our mailing list by signing up on the website.
MA Graphic Design
MA Photography RPT
Making the Future ‘14 Monday 15 September - Thursday 2 October PREVIEW: Wednesday 24 September, 5 pm – 8 pm A showcase celebration of selected work from postgraduate students across a richly diverse range of art and design practice. This is a unique opportunity to view an impressive and expert range of work from our graduating master’s students across a wide portfolio of creative courses in both the School of Art & Design and the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment.
Exhibitions
Debra Swann Dwelling Thursday 9 October – wednesday 29 October 2014 Preview: Wednesday 8 October, 6 pm – 8 pm Dwelling is a solo exhibition by Debra Swann consolidating her artistic research through sculpture, video and photography. Dwelling is an exploration of the domestic space and the personas that may evolve through these spaces. Thinking about the repetition of tasks and the familiar sites of the home, narratives are created to comment on relentless labour and the strangeness of the comings and goings of the home. A number of historic locations become backdrops, stages or sites for making work. The re-contextualisation of objects made for such places take the viewer through subtle juxtapositions of time and reality. Blurring the relationship between fact and fiction the viewer questions what they are looking at and the process by which history is written and how we establish truth. Debra Swann, Charm 2013 Opposite and front cover: Study for a family portrait (Shrunken Heads)
Referencing the everyday and the domestic, a tension between the real and the unreal is examined.
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George Miles: Views of Matlock Bath Thursday 9 October – Friday 31 October 2014 Bonington Atrium George Miles will be showing a substantial monograph of large format colour landscape photographs, from his recent book launch, Views of Matlock Bath. This show re-presents the interconnections made through the sequencing of photographs within the book and the relationship they bear upon how we view the landscape. Taken over a three year period around the much loved local destination of Matlock Bath, the project was carried out under the mentorship of photographer Stephen Shore. His practice explores how the land is used, viewed, and mediated: both physically and through representations of it.
Clockwise from top:
Debra Swann Study for a family portrait (Skulls) In Pieces, video still Babies (on Sticks) 2013
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GEORGE MILES
High Tor from Artists’ Corner, Autumn237 Lizzie’s bench Heights of Abraham, Autumn233
Exhibitions
Knitting Nottingham Thursday 6 November - Friday 28 November 2014 Preview: Wednesday 5 November 2014, 6 pm - 8 pm
A celebration of Nottingham Trent University’s 170 years of knitting education, design and research. The exhibition will reference Nottingham’s knitting heritage and specialism in knitwear design, as an influence and inspiration for developing new knitting directions and technologies, which challenge current knit practice and offer future-focused ideas. Since 1589, when William Lee invented the knitting machine in Calverton, Nottinghamshire; Nottingham has been a world centre of creativity and innovation in knit design and technology with a world reach in terms of its influence and impact on the manufacture of quality knitwear.
BOMI HAN, MA Textile Design Innovation Opposite:
Rory Longdon, NTU alumnus,
Graduate Fashion Week 2011 Gold award winner
Leading benefactors from the flourishing knitwear industry in the nineteenth century were pivotal in enabling the foundation of Nottingham’s Government School of Design in 1843. As recognition of the industry’s contribution, a pair of locally made stockings were buried within a time capsule in the foundations of the Art School building, Waverley.
events
Transforming Futures:
Distinguished Lecture
Celebrating over 170 years of art and design at Nottingham Trent University
Slaying the Sixth Giant: Reflections on the public funding of the arts, part of the Distinguished Lecture Series
The School of Art & Design was established as one of the earliest Government Schools of Design, founded following an 1835-36 Commons Select Committee inquiry tasked with looking into ‘the best means of extending knowledge of the Arts and Principles of Design among the people’. It concluded that raising the level of public taste through art education would transform society and the UK’s economic fortunes through improved products from the home market – reflecting issues that remain relevant today.
THE 170TH DEBATES Professor Sir Christopher Frayling A series of debates setting the agenda for our future art and design education, designed to interrogate fundamental issues that we as a transforming Art & Design institution wish to consider. Debate topics include:
• Design and Personalisation: does it empower or exploit? Wednesday 24 September 2014
During 2014 we have hosted a number of ambitious celebratory events, and our exciting programme extends right through to the beginning of 2015, with retrospective and future-focused exhibitions and debates, to demonstrate how we support, shape and influence industry.
• The Critical Art School Wednesday 15 October 2014
Visit www.ntu170years.co.uk for details of our upcoming celebratory events.
Visit www.ntu.ac.uk/art-events to book your place.
• New Technologies are Killing Handmade Craft Wednesday19 November 2014 • Who Owns the Image? Wednesday 3 December 2014
Wednesday 12 November 2014 from 6 pm, Newton building, City site Sir Christopher is an award-winning broadcaster on network radio and television, and author of 21 books on the arts, design and popular culture. He was knighted in 2001 for Services to Art and Design Education and was awarded an honorary degree, Doctor of Art (DArt), from Nottingham Trent University in November 2013. This lecture is held in conjunction with our 170 years celebration of Art and Design in Nottingham. Our School of Art & Design has educational roots dating back to the formation of the Nottingham Government School of Design in 1843.
Lecture synopsis: The welfare state in the post-war period set out to slay the “five giants of physical poverty”. It also set out to slay a sixth giant – poverty of aspiration – through, among other things, the public funding of the arts. Seventy years on, it is time to learn lessons and examine this “great experiment.” Visit www.ntu.ac.uk/distinguishedlectures to reserve tickets.
events
Q-Art Crit Friday 31 October 2014, 3 pm - 6 pm
Q-Art is an independent student and graduate run organisation that works to break down barriers, supporting people into, through and beyond art education. The crit is a model of learning whereby artists present their work to a group in order to gain feedback on how that work is being read and ways that they might develop it further. They are part of almost every art course at further and higher level education throughout the UK. Nottingham Trent University will be hosting an open Cross-College Crit, bringing together artists of all backgrounds from across the East Midlands region. These crits provide a supportive and critically engaged atmosphere, which encourages constructive feedback for participants and an opportunity for students to learn from a broad range of perspectives and levels of experience, as well as to learn in a non-assessed peer led environment.
Q-Art actively promotes equality and diversity within the visual arts by encouraging people from all backgrounds, ages and perspectives to engage with art. The crits can enable students to build a network of contacts and support outside of their immediate peer group, and help prepare them for professional life after art school. To participate in the cross-college crit, please email: boningtongallery@ntu.ac.uk
Visit www.q-art.org.uk/crits to find out more.
MA Fashion Futures final show: Bloomb 23 September - 2 October 2014 Monday – Saturday 11 am - 6 pm Ideas on Paper, Cobden Chambers, Pelham Street City Centre, Nottingham I have loved the roses too fondly to be fearful of withering. I have loved the crowns too conceitedly to be fearful of limelight. I have loved rose crowns too viscerally to be fearful of expression. Let creativity explode and ideas blossom… Let it Bloomb! An exhibition of final project work by 2013/14 Nottingham Trent University MA Fashion Futures students. A unique opportunity to view industry related publications from the students at Ideas on Paper, Cobden Chambers (Pelham Street), city centre, Nottingham. MA Projects on display are based on a variety of themes including branding, consumer behaviour, marketing, visual merchandising and art. Image left: Laura Allen, NTU
Develop your professional practice with our new
MFA Fine Art course
Jon Burgerman in Bonington Over the summer our technicians have been busy painting an exciting and vibrant new permanent artwork at the entrance to the Bonington Gallery. We invited alumnus, Jon Burgerman to design a series of large-scale murals that aim to reflect the creative processes, enjoyment and energy of the School of Art & Design. Jon Burgerman is an English-born artist, living in Brooklyn, New York. His work oscillates somewhere between fine art, urban art and pop-culture, using humour
Our MFA Fine Art course gives you the opportunity to develop your practice over an extended period, while engaging professionally with the arts community in Nottingham.
to reference and question his contemporary milieu. Jon exhibits internationally and his work is also in permanent collections at the V&A Museum and the Science Museum in London. Burgerman studied BA (Hons) Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, graduating with first class honours.
You’ll focus on professional practice and audience engagement, widening your own network with partners across the city, and develop your experience of exhibiting. • Study for two years full-time or three years part-time.
Visit www.jonburgerman.com to find out more.
• Develop an informed and established body of work. • Engage with the arts community in Nottingham, including Nottingham Contemporary, New Art Exchange and Backlit. • Work with our experienced Fine Art academic team. • Take part in a programme of professional practice. Images: Lauren O'Grady
• Go on a European exchange through the Erasmus programme.
Find out more To find out more about this course please contact the course leader, Dr Katja Hock. Email: mfa@ntu.ac.uk Tel: 0115 848 8255
www.ntu.ac.uk/MFA
future exhibitions Left:
Andrew Brown,
Returns: Spode Works, Stoke on Trent Right:
Simon Callery,
Chromium Oxide Cut Pit Painting
Made in Wood March 2015
Bonington Gallery
A collaborative exhibition and research event between staff and students from NTU and Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway (KHiB) with a focus on the use of wood and its constructive, structural and tactile qualities.
will be hosting an exciting series of exhibition and events in 2015.
Simon Callery April 2015
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Crafting Anatomies: Materials, Performance, Identity January 2015 This exhibition will conclude Nottingham Trent University’s 170 Year anniversary celebrations, and will explore how the body is interpreted, crafted and reimagined in historical, contemporary and future contexts.
Make:Believe January 2015: Newton Building
In 1994, Callery was included in the exhibition Young British Artists III at the Saatchi Gallery. He paints cityscapes which are abstracted to the point of making them conceptual images. His other exhibitions include Art Now at Tate Britain, and Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris. This exhibition will be created in the Gallery with Callery working with students in an open studio setting.
NTU Art and Design Degree Show Festival 2015 May / June 2015 Showcasing innovative, original work by graduates from the School of Art & Design, and School of Architecture, Design and Built Environment. We have a host of exhibitions, catwalk shows, and other activities for the general public to enjoy. Come and see the next generation of artists and designers, as they prepare to enter the professional creative arena. Visit www.ntu.ac.uk/degreeshows to find out more.
This national exhibition project is a collaboration with the Society of British Theatre Designers (SBTD) and the V&A Museum and being held in the Newton atrium exhibition spaces at Nottingham Trent University, curated and led by Kate Burnett, Reader in Theatre Design.
ICONS OF RHETORIC | 북한의수사학아이콘 June 2015
Returns February 2015
An instant film mosaic of North Korean media by Chris Barrett. Visit www.iconsofrhetoric.com to find out more.
The focus of this exhibition is on the landscape of post industry, explored through artistic research, taking as its point of departure the closed Spode Factory site, in Stoke on Trent.
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Art and Design Christmas Fair Special preview event: Tuesday 2 December, 5 pm – 8 pm Open to the public: Wednesday 3 December, 9 am – 6 pm Bonington building Dryden Street Nottingham NG1 4GG
If you hear the fire alarm, leave the building by the nearest safe exit. Staff will show you the way. Do not use the lifts.
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