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Skate Nottingham presents 'Concrete Heritage, Rolling Archive' A story of skateboarding, art & culture in Hyson Green. ‘Concrete Heritage, Rolling Archive’ is a festival celebrating the story of skateboarding, art and culture in Hyson Green, delivered across Maples Street skatepark and New Art Exchange through a programme of free skateboard coaching sessions, creative workshops, and […]
Our Yard: Foundations is a mixed-reality experience that explores the ongoing celebration of the positive impact of immigration on the UK, told through the lens of Sound System Culture, finding joy in defiance, in community, and in music – from community halls to pirate radio buzzing through living-room walls. This exhibition focuses on the early […]
“Achieve the highest rank of Ace, and then you graduate and go home to your families. (If they'll have you, but that's between y'all.) An Ace listens to the housemen and his house father; he does his work without shirking or malingering, and he applies himself to his studies. An Ace does not roughhouse. He […]
In this new exhibition Simeon Barclay draws upon a rich vein of pop cultural sources, producing works that activate complex cultural histories, whilst exploring the ways in which we navigate identity, both imposed or self-curated. Combining a diverse range of media, Barclay creates reductive, sophisticated works that engage with aspects of aesthetics, British culture, subjectivity […]
Please join us for a celebration of Christopher Hanson’s powerful new exhibition, Portraits in Silence – The Symbolism of Identity. Through a captivating series of large-scale, realistic portraits, Hanson challenges traditional notions of representation, focusing on individuals who have been historically excluded from classical portraiture. Trained at the London Academy of Representational Art, Hanson’s classical approach […]
Step into the world of Christopher Hanson’s powerful new exhibition, Portraits in Silence – The Symbolism of Identity. Through a captivating series of large-scale, realistic portraits, Hanson challenges traditional notions of representation, focusing on individuals who have been historically excluded from classical portraiture. Trained at the London Academy of Representational Art, Hanson’s classical approach is […]
The NAE Open returns for its fifth edition with a bold, diverse and stimulating exhibition showcasing painting, video, live art, photography, textiles and sculpture. Selected through a competitive open call, the featured works are by Nottinghamshire-based artists and artists from the global ethnic majority* across the UK. A panel of neighbours, artists and curators reviewed […]
Through Our Eyes is a powerful new exhibition featuring the work of more than 50 children from Scotholme and Forest Fields Primary Schools. The project invites us to see Hyson Green through their eyes; vibrant, complex, and full of wonder. Guided by professional photographer Ismail Khokon, these young creatives explored photography as a tool for […]
The Lovers sees internationally renowned artist Sunil Gupta present his critically acclaimed photographic series, Lovers: Ten Years On (1984/85), alongside a new body of work produced with artist and husband Charan Singh, titled Lovers, Revisited (2023/2024). Created 40 years apart, both collections depict LGBTQIA+ couples, as directed by the sitters, photographed in their homes. Gupta, […]
19 October 2024 – 11 January 2025 Manish Harijan, born in Nepal and currently living in Sheffield, was the recipient of the NAE Open Future Exhibition Prize in 2023, and this resulting exhibition, Untouchable Utopia, presents a dynamic, new body of work in painting and sculpture. The son of a shoemaker from the so-called lower […]
19 October 2024 – 25 January 2025 Mohammad Barrangi is an Iranian-born, UK-based artist working with print, murals, and sculpture. His practice draws from the aesthetics of Persian art and is informed by his lived experience of exile and disability. The Last Rain in Wonderland is an exhibition of new and existing works that merge […]
The NAE OPEN returned for its fourth iteration with a presentation of works that includes paintings, video, live art, photography, textiles and sculpture. This dynamic exhibition was created through a competitive open application process for Nottinghamshire-based artists and Global Ethnic majority* artists living anywhere in the UK. Tasked to seek out the most innovative and […]
