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January – July 2015Free Entry

Welcome A new year, a new focus. This season aims to enrich education and research, with the intention of opening minds, building relationships and pushing boundaries. As we embark on 2015 the Gallery embraces an exhibition programmefilled with international collaborations, and we hope you will join us towitness this exciting new direction. We start the season with Crafting Anatomies, curated by NottinghamTrent University’s Creative Textiles Research Group. This exhibitionbrings together a curious and beguiling collection of artworks by nationaland international researchers who explore the body’s materials,performance qualities and identity. In February we welcome a group of multidisciplined artists andresearchers from NTU and Sheffield Hallam University. Returns formedpart of an International Research Project titled Topographies of theObsolete, set up by Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway; and focused on the disused ceramics factory in Stoke-on-Trent, Spode Works.In spring the Gallery will become a place for learning. Soft Painting is acollaboration between a group of BA (Hons) Fine Art students andrenowned painter Simon Callery, whereby large-scale paintings will becreated.  For the duration of this exhibition the connections between themaking, installing and exhibition of artwork are exposed. The public areinvited to witness and engage with the entire process.We close this season’s programme with an exhibition which focuses onthe use of imagery in the media, in this case images of North Korea, a place often shrouded in secrecy. Icons Of Rhetoric takes theseimages and polarises them, making them appear as instant snap-shotsimmediately changing their impact on the viewer.

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CRAFTING ANATOMIESWEDNESDAY 7 JANUARY – WEDNESDAY 4 FEBRUARY 2015

Crafting Anatomies will place the humanbody at the centre of a multidisciplinarydialogue; exploring how this organism hasbeen interpreted, crafted and reimagined inhistorical, contemporary and future contexts.

The exhibition will dissect attitudes andapproaches towards contexts of the body byshowcasing visionary practices of leadinginternational artists, clinicians and designers.These will be featured alongside anatomicalexhibits selected from historical collectionsincluding films from The Wellcome Trustarchive.

Organs crafted by silk worms, bespokejewellery cultured from human skin cells and couture garments constructed usingplastic surgery cutting techniques are justsome of the intriguing projects that will be on display.

A variety of practitioners will take part,including » Boudicca » Shelly Goldsmith » Amy Congdon » Richard Arm » John Pacey-Lowrie » Juliana Sissons » Karen Ingham » Marloes ten Bhömer » The Human Harp Project and many more.

A series of talks, demonstrations andworkshops will also accompany theexhibition, culminating in a symposium tohighlight the rigour in approaches to thissubject by the individuals featured in the show.

This exhibition is curated by Amanda Briggs-Goode, Katherine Townsend andRhian Solomon – members of the Creative Textiles Research Group at Nottingham Trent University.

www.ntu.ac.uk/creativetextileresearch

Left:JESSIE WHITEGetting it WrongRight:Widow, Eyewear by Emma Montague,Photographed by Saga Sig

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CRAFTING ANATOMIESWEDNESDAY 7 JANUARY – WEDNESDAY 4 FEBRUARY 2015

Clockwise from top left:Left:Ana Rajcevic,Animal (detail)

Nuala Clooney, Memory Of You, 2014

Richard Arm, 3D printed model of human heart

S Goldsmith, Mother’s Touch

AMANDA COTTON, Wee Ribbon

DI MAINSTONE,Human Harp Project(Appears on front cover)

Clockwise from above:Amy Congdon, Biological Atelier

Marloes ten BhÖmer, Material Compulsion Treacle

David Gates, 100 legs

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WEDNESDAY 14 JANUARY – FRIDAY 30 JANUARY 2015

NEWTON BUILDING, NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY

Society of British Theatre Designers (SBTD) in collaboration with the V&A museum and Nottingham Trent University.

Make/Believe brings together anextraordinary range of contemporarydesigners and artists in performance to show a collection of new work – all made inthe last four years. It reveals the ideas andprocesses behind visually arrestingperformance made by UK designers hereand internationally.

The exhibition will feature work that definesthe edges of this art form; in industry andmusic festivals, large scale events such asthe Olympics, Paralympics, communityopera, found space and promenadeperformance; in digital, heritage and mediacontexts. It will also give praise to theintimate and highly valued work thatdesigners are currently doing in education,health and various community settings.

Make/Believe at NTU is the first stop in atouring exhibition; selected work willsubsequently be shown at the PragueQuadrennial in June 2015, at the V&A for ninemonths from July 2015 and at festivals andvenues throughout the UK from March 2016.

Opposite page:Designer Gary McCann, PhotographerMarco Borggreve,The Barber of Seville, Nationale Reisopera 2013This page, clockwise from the top:Designer Nettie Scriven, PhotographerPamela Raith,Gulliver's Travels, Lakeside Arts Centre 2012Costume Designer Marie-Jeanne Lecca, Moses in Egitto, Welsh National Opera2014Costume Designer Marie-Jeanne Lecca, Moses in Egitto, Welsh National Opera2014

MAKE/BELIEVEUK DESIGN FOR PERFORMANCE 2011 – 2014

Make/Believe is curated by Kate Burnett, Reader in Theatre Design at NTU

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RETURNSTHURSDAY 12 FEBRUARY – WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH 2015

Andrew Brown, Returns: Spode Works, Stoke on Trent

Returns is part of an on-going collaborationbetween Nottingham Trent University and Sheffield Hallam University (SHU).Established in 2012, it formed part of an International Research Project titled Topographies of the Obsolete, set up by Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway; and focused on the disused Spode ceramics factory in Stoke-on-Trent.

The aim of the research is to deepen and develop our understanding of the post-industrial landscape with specificreference to the industrial ruin. Through a series of residencies and workshops, a cross-disciplinary group of artists andresearchers from a range of international art institutions, set out to explore the socio-economic histories, industrialarchitecture and production remains of the former Spode Works, the results ofwhich were exhibited and published during the British Ceramics Biennial inSeptember 2013.

Moving forward, this exhibition at BoningtonGallery will be the first showing of the newlygenerated outcomes, with a subsequentexhibition taking place at Sheffield HallamSIA Gallery in Winter 2016. Each exhibitionwill be a new development from the workpreviously exhibited, demonstrating theprogression of the research.

The exhibition takes a variety of outcomesincluding; the re-contextualisation of pre-existing objects, the development of site-specific lens-based work, as well asperformance and sound.

The exhibition brings together artisticresearch from NTU » Andrew Brown » Joanne Lee » Danica Maier » DebraSwann; and from SHU » Chloë Brown.Recent fine art graduates who participated in the original Spode project will work inresident during the exhibition, from NTU » Ciaran Harrington » Christine Stevens.

Read more about the research project by visiting topographies.khib.no

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MADE IN WOODTHURSDAY 12 MARCH – FRIDAY 27 MARCH 2015

Made in Wood is a collaborative exhibitionand research event between staff andstudents from the School of Architecture,Design and the Built Environment atNottingham Trent University and BergenAcademy of Art and Design Norway (KHiB).

During this period the Gallery will betransformed into a living workshop, studio,discussion room and site-specific exhibitionspace. Open to the public throughout,visitors will be able to watch the exhibitiontake form and evolve.

The aim of this project is to explore ideas and focus on the use of wood as material,and its constructive, structural and tactile qualities.

Through this practice-based research activitystructures, objects, interventions, drawings,texts, documentation and artefacts will beproduced and presented across the period of the exhibition.

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SIMON CALLERYSOFT PAINTING

MONDAY 13 APRIL – FRIDAY 15 MAY 2015

The title Soft Painting aims to draw ourattention to the actual physical qualities of apainting rather than acting as an introductionto an image or to suggest a narrative. SimonCallery creates paintings that communicateon a physical level. A painting can be soft orhard as much as it can be red or green.

Simon will be working in the gallery spacewith a selected group of Nottingham Trent BA (Hons) Fine Art students to produce anumber of large-scale works. Rolls of canvaswill be washed and prepared for saturation inpigmented distempers – a process where theindustrial starch is removed from the canvasand the dense and highly coloured mediumis washed into the softened fabric at hightemperature. These worked canvasses willbe hung off frames to dry before being cutup, sorted and sewn into the formalconfigurations of soft paintings. The resultingworks will be installed in the Gallery as theprocess unfolds to complete the show.

For the duration of this exhibition the Gallerywill become a space for learning where theconnections between the making, installingand exhibition of artwork are exposed. Thepublic are invited to witness and engage withthe entire process.

Clockwise from below:Chromium Oxide Cut Pit Painting 2009Burnt Umber Painting Oolite2012Black & Green Wallspine 2013

Wiltshire Modulor2010 - 2013

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What are you currentlyworking on at the moment?

Right now, on my studio wall, or heaped onthe studio floor are a number of works. Theremight be up to 10 works on the go and theyare all at different stages. Some are part of a growing body of paintings I call Pit Paintings. These are circular stacked and layered paintings that are cut away toexpose their interior. I also have a number of different sized soft paintings. These arehanging canvasses that have had all theusual stretchers and woodwork removed.The most recent of these are full of holeswhere I have begun to pick at and piercethe marked and pigmented surfaces withscissors or blades. Some of the paintings in the studio at the moment were begunduring this summer when I was working on an archaeological site in North Wales.

‘Soft Painting’ – interestingtitle, can you tell us moreabout what it means?

I was looking for a title that drew attention tothe actual physical qualities of a paintingrather than a title that might label an image orsuggest a narrative. Since I am not workingwith images, I am interested in makingpaintings that communicate on a physicallevel. A painting can be soft or hard as muchas it can be red or green.

How long have you beenworking in this way, and wheredid it start?

I have been developing this way of workingfor over five years now. An important time forme was my AHRC research fellowship, calledthe Thames Gateway Project*, which ran from2006 - 2009. It was a period of great focusand I was working in the field with OxfordArchaeology, a commercial archaeology unit,at a number of excavation and constructionsites within the changing landscape of theThames Estuary regeneration zone. Theemphatically physical character of these sitesled me to question the capacity of image tocommunicate the material qualities oflandscape in painting.

Your paintings have a veryphysical presence, is it thephysical process that drivesyou as an artist?

The physical character of the work is a resultof recognising that if you remove image frompainting, as I have done, then you mustdevelop new physical forms and qualities tofill the void. I might well start a work with anidea of what I want in mind but it alwaysdissolves away as the physical reality ofmaking a painting gets underway. The finaloutcome of a painting is determined by whatmaterials can do as I work them.

You originally trained as asculptor. Has this influencedthe way you work?

Yes, I finished my degree at Cardiff in thesculpture department although I started it inpainting. I think what I was doing then iswhat I have done a number of times since. This is to work outside the parameters of theconventional territory of painting in order toget a better understanding of painting. I callmyself a painter and I call my works painting.I recognise that these paintings often sharequalities associated with sculpture. Iembrace this

Can you tell us about yourongoing work with theInstitute of Archaeology atthe University of Oxford?

I have worked with the Institute ofArchaeology for many years now. I am veryfortunate to be invited to their digs. Therelationship grew from a residency where Iwas invited back each summer over a seven-year period. Recently I have beeninvited by archaeologist Professor Gary Lock

to work at the excavations of an iron age hillfort in the Clwydian Hills in Denbighshire. I always go on site slightly nervous andunsure about what I will produce. It is alwaysexperimental. These experiences oflandscape and exposure to evidence of pasthuman activity has provoked me to thinkabout painting in a completely new way. The relationship between time and material is tangible in these places and this has had a profound impact on my approach.

What excites you about theprospect of working withstudents at NTU?

Most of the time I work on my own. It issolitary and in general this is what is needed.There are times when it is important tocollaborate with other people to create anenergy and a dialogue, to have to think outloud, to generate masses of material and towork as part of a group to make large-scalework that you couldn’t possibly do alone. Iwant to do this at NTU and I want to exposethe entire material-generating and decision-making process when making work for an exhibition as an integral element of the exhibition. Perhaps the mostexciting prospect is to see how working witha group of students will influence what can be made.

*Simon Callery Thames Gateway Project Arts & Humanities Research Council Fellowship, University of the Arts Wimbledon and Oxford Archaeology, 2006 – 2009.

IN CONVERSATION with SIMON CALLERY

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ART AND DESIGN DEGREE SHOW FRIDAY 29 MAY – SATURDAY 6 JUNE 2015

Nottingham Trent University will onceagain open its City site in a celebratoryfestival of art, design and innovation.

Showcasing the original, innovative and inspiring work being produced within theinternationally renowned School of Art & Design, and School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment at undergraduate level, the festival is always a highlight of the University's calendar.

Far left to right:Amy Battey, BA (Hons) Design for Film and Television

Rebecca Swann, BA (Hons) Fashion Knitwear Designand Knitted Textiles

Melanie Jakubson, BA (Hons) Fine Art

NOTTINGHAM SHOWSCATWALK SHOWS BA (Hons) Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles Catwalk Show: Wednesday 20 May, 6 pm and 8 pm (ticketed event)BA (Hons) Fashion Design Catwalk Show:Thursday 21 May, 6 pm and 8 pm (ticketed event)

COMMUNITY DAY: Saturday 6 June 2015The Community Day is especially designed for young people to come along and explore the shows with their friends and family. The day will include exclusive guided tours of theshows, art and design workshops and competitions.

LONDON SHOWSGraduate Fashion WeekFree RangeD&AD New BloodNew Designers (part 1 and 2)

Visit www.ntu.ac.uk/degreeshows to view the full details.

DEGREE SHOWS AT A GLANCE

Images in this section are representative of the high level of undergraduate talent you can expect to see in the show.

Left:Emily Moya Addis, BA (Hons) Photography

Eun Joo Kyung, BA (Hons) Theatre Design

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ICONS OF RHETORIC 북한의수사학아이콘

Looking in, With a View to Looking Out

THURSDAY 18 JUNE – FRIDAY 10 JULY 2015

CHRIS BARRETT and GIANLUCA SPEZZA

To what extent does the way we receive andperceive images in the digital era affect thetransmission and circulation of ideas,ideologies and forms of knowledge? Does‘media massification’ pose any ramificationsin regards to the current communicationclimate being a place where ‘the worldcomes to us, not us going out to the world’.

Icons of Rhetoric offers a different approachto documenting North Korea, mergingestablished news media practices with morecontemporary ones. Creators, photographerChris Barrett and researcher / writer GianlucaSpezza, introduce us to the often-cited ‘mostisolated country in the world’, North Korea.They do this in order to explore visualrepresentation and the contextualisation ofmedia images.

By reinterpreting images that already exist inthe public domain, the work plays on anaesthetic of authenticity. It objectifies anotion of perception while using instant filmas a method for exploration into a visualsyntax, a syntax that frames an increasinglypolarised and digitally dependent world.

Left to right, top to bottom:CHRIS BARRATT, Untitled

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This information can be made available in alternative formats.Please note that whilst Bonington Gallery has taken all reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of the content within this guide at the time of printing, we reserve the right to remove, vary or amend the content of the guide at any time. For avoidance of doubt, the information provided within the content of this guide is for guidance purposes.Some images in this guide are representative of the artist's work and may not be in the final exhibitions.

ART & DESIGNDEGREE SHOW 2015FRIDAY 29 MAY – SATURDAY 6 JUNE 2015

2015 UNDERGRADUATE OPEN DAYS

www.ntu.ac.uk/opendays

Tuesday 30 June 2015Saturday 19 September 2015Saturday 17 October 2015 Saturday 14 November 2015Wednesday 9 December 2015

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