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The Ens Project is Leo Asemota's long standing work in which the Nigerian born and London based artist's concerns are informed by the influence of technological, social and cultural phenomena on the psyche. This exhibition at New Art Exchange presents phase one of the project the artist has been working on assiduously from 2005 and which is still unfolding.
Comprising photographs, drawings, sculptures and video installations of performances at the National Portrait Gallery and at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, "First Principles" traces the development of the project from three primary sources: an ancient ritual of head worship by the Edo peoples of Benin called Igue; Victorian ambition and the British punitive expedition against the pre-colonial Kingdom of Benin in 1897; and Walter Benjamin's text "The Art Work in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility", an essay important for its analysis of the impact advancements in technology has had on art and our perception of it.
Exhibition review by Critical Writing Collective (C.A. Morgan)
/www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/1840861
Curated by David Schischka Thomas
16 September - 26 November 2011 |
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Cecilia Järdemar and Sara Heitlinger
Patrin – signposts Romany Gypsies left for their travelling fellows – was once the language of travellers, maps and stories shared by an ethnic community, present in Britain since the 1500s.Through digital photography, sound, oral history and maps this exhibition shows a contemporary form of patrin.
21 May - 3 September 2011 |
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The Zone is the first solo exhibition by Ramallah-based audio-visual artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme in the UK. A new site-specific installation, it explores the unique social dynamics that have brought about the eruption of a consumerist culture into the Palestinian struggle, amidst an increasingly dystopian environment.
21 May - 20 August 2011 |
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Curated by Saleem Arif Quadri MBE
New Art Exchange is proud to present Raghu Rai - one of the world's leading photographers in his first solo exhibition in a Public Gallery in the UK. Working in partnership with commercial gallery Aicon who have spaces in New York, Delhi and London; this is a major exhibition of his work, exploring India’s cultural and social backgrounds and history.
Raghu Rai became a photographer in 1965, working with The Statesman, and "India Today" during its formative years. He has worked on trailblazing picture essays on social, political and cultural themes. In the last 18 years, Rai has specialised in extensive coverage of India, and produced more than 18 books, including Raghu Rai’s Delhi, The Sikhs, Calcutta, Khajuraho, Taj Mahal, Tibet in Exile, India, and Mother Teresa.
Earlier an official photographer for Magnum, his photo essays have appeared in many of the world’s leading magazines and newspapers including Time, Life, GEO, The New York Times, Sunday Times,
Newsweek, The Independent, and the New Yorker. Rai was awarded the ‘Padmashree’ in 1971, one of India’s highest civilian awards ever given to a photographer. Besides winning many national and international awards, Rai has exhibited his works in London, Paris, New York, Hamburg, Prague, Tokyo, Zurich and Sydney.
29 January - 30 April 2011 |
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A Hayward Touring exhibition
The British Art Show is widely recognised as the most ambitious and influential exhibition of contemporary British art. Organised by Hayward Touring, it takes place every five years and tours to four different cities across the UK. Now in its seventh incarnation the British Art Show opens in Nottingham, and tours for the first time in 20 years to the Hayward Gallery, followed by venues in Glasgow and Plymouth. It is curated by Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton.
The 39 selected artists have been chosen on the grounds of their significant contribution to contemporary art in the last five years. All artworks included have been produced since 2005 and encompass sculpture, painting, installation, drawing, photography, film, video and performance, with many artists creating new works especially for the exhibition. British Art Show 7 will mark a change in direction from previous years, moving away from the model of a survey show to an exhibition with a marked curatorial focus.
23 October 2010 - 09 January 2011*
* Please note, the last day to view British Art Show at New Art Exchange is Saturday 8th January 2011 |
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Your Space is an experimental period where New Art Exchange highlights new and innovative, local and community projects in our spaces. Over the past few months we have worked with local artists, musicians, schools and local organisations to collaborate, develop and nurture new talent.
New Art Exchange always aim to encourage, enable and support new and local talent through our Arts and Education programme. Working with these local agencies, we’re providing a platform for art, performances, development, and more practical spaces for learning workshops and events. New Art Exchange is proud to be supporting the following projects and resulting exhibitions. |
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Bicentennial Portraits of
Latin American Women in England
As part of his Highfield Fellowship at the University of Nottingham, documentary and fine art photographer Dr John Perivolaris has produced a series of photographic portraits and video interviews; reflecting on the twenty-first century legacy of Latin American women’s contribution to Latin American Independence struggles in the Nineteenth Century. The series of portraits Perivolaris has produced form part of the 'Gendering Latin American Independence' project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by Professor Catherine Davies, at the University of Nottingham.
Participants have offered their thoughts on the struggles of Latin American women since Independence, role models who have inspired them, as well as the challenges currently faced by women in Latin America and the diaspora. As part of Night of Festivals
13 September - 2 October 2010
Admission: Free |
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Ed Pien
Memento is a contemplation of the human condition: how we act and react to the inescapable forces that shape us. Memento has been developed out of research into the plight of illegal immigrants, such as the Chinese who remain hidden in society (think of the tragedy that beset the cockle pickers), the faujis, from India as well as the “burnt ones” - young Moroccans, who often take great risks in the hope of living a more significant and meaningful life. Some, attempting to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, perish along the way.
24 July - 4 September 2010 |
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Suki Chan
Suki Chan’s practice combines light, moving image, electronics and sound within mixed-media installations to explore our physical and psychological experience of space.
In a London of fast-blinking lights and speeding commuters, cars and trains leave luminous comet-trails marking their passage through the night, and individuals reflect on freedom in the urban metropolis, or seek escape from the repetitive habits and conditions it enforces.
For further details: www.fvu.co.uk
24 July - 4 September 2010 |
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Celebrating 21 Years of Mela in the UK
Photography and mixed media
New Art Exchange is proud to launch this special exhibition that documents 21 years of Mela in the UK since its launch in Nottingham and Bradford. For this project Bradford and Nottingham Mela Networks have joined forces to deliver this exhibition of photographs, film paraphernalia, and text exploring the historical and social context of Mela's over the past two decades. Featuring photography by Tim Smith, Nadeem Haider (APNA Arts), Ashok Mistry, Alan Lodge, Bartosz Kali and more.
To submit your own story on the Mela, visit: http://www.mela21.co.uk/yourstory.html
29 May - 24 July 2010
Preview: 28 May, 6pm |
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Harminder Singh Judge
Curated by: Michael Forbes
Mixed Media
Harminder Singh Judge describes himself as an artist trapped in a perpetual love triangle with religion, art and pop culture. He has a deep interest in the visual and conceptual mixing of religious mythologies with personal experience, pop culture and folklore.
For New Art Exchange Judge has created an installation involving animals derived from mythical and religious histories merged with marketing techniques employed by corporate and commercial enterprise.
24 Apr - 3 Jul 2010
Preview: 23 April, 6pm |
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Nadim Chaudry
Mixed Media
Nadim Chaudry won the Nottingham Castle Annual Open - New Art Exchange Prize in 2008. He launches his first ever solo exhibition at New Art Exchange, which explores religious belief, secular identity, historical cultures and sexuality.
24 Apr - 22 May 2010
Preview: 23 April, 6pm
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Mixed Media
Artists include: Vanley Burke, Clement Cooper, Michael Forbes, Gerard Hanson and Barbara Walker
Curated by New Art Exchange (David Schischka Thomas)
New Art Exchange presents an exhibition exploring the presence of young African Caribbean men in Britain over the last 40 years.
Young African Caribbean men have often been portrayed as low achievers and perpetrators of crime in British society. But now, with Barack Obama winning the presidency of the biggest superpower in the world, will we see these same young men portrayed in a different light; a source of huge potential for the future? Will the achievement of black youth in Britain over the last 40 years be recognised and honoured?
16 Jan - 10 Apr 2010
Preview: 15 January, 6pm |
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Tahera Aziz
Sound Installation
‘[re]locate revisits an ordinarily public ‘place’ that retains the traces of a deeply significant event; it is concerned with the processes involved in struggling to preserve the memory of that event whilst offering new insights. The idea for the artwork flows from the tragic events surrounding the racially motivated murder of 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence near a bus stop in south London in 1993, and the deep impact this has had both privately, for the Lawrence family, and publicly.
16 Jan - 10 Apr 2010
Preview: 15 January, 6pm |
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In partnership with New Art Exchange
Celebrating Art & Craft in the East Midlands
This January sees the launch of an extra special Nottingham Castle Open to celebrate the creativity of the East Midland’s artists and makers. For many years, the Open has thrown a spotlight on some of the talented artists that live and work in our community. However, with more space and more prizes than ever, 2010’s Open promises to be an even bigger visual feast.
This years judging panel includes: Gordon Cheung (Artist), Shelley Goldsmith (Textile Artist) and Sheila McGregor (Chief Executive, Axis)
Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery
23 Jan - 7 Mar 2010 |
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Sculpture and Paintings
Pork Knockers are intrepid individual gold prospectors, searching the jungles of the mythical El Dorado. Living in Guyana, UK and USA, Locke's influence has been acknowledged in seminal British exhibitions such as 'Back to Black' and 'The Other Story'. With this, his first solo show in the UK since the 1970's, we loudly reassert his place in British Art.
Curated by Indra Khanna and produced in partnership with The New Art Exchange.
26 Sep - 30 Dec 2009
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Paintings
Venkat Raman Singh Shyam
and Rajendra Kumar Shyam
This wonderful style of paintings are the living expressions of the people of the Pardhan Gond tribal communities of India, producing artwork that is deeply linked to their daily lives. The colours and textures show the natural beauty concepts of Pardhans, traditional shapes and symbols.
Like other Gonds, the Pardhans' traditional visual arts included decorating their homes with auspicious designs and basic imagery created in low-relief clay sculpture or natural pigments such as charcoal and limestone.
Please see this link here for news of the Pardhan Gond project to a large elephant scupture for the Elephant Parade: http://www.talleststory.com/adivasiartstrust/mediapage.html
6 Nov - 30 Dec 2009
Preview: 5 November, 6pm |
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Video Installation
An exploration of visual, spoken, and movement languages in Hetain Patel’s work is key to his investigations into Identity. In this new video installation he plays with the idea of cultural assimilation through imitation. Being British born he looks at the possibility of trying to understand an Indian mindset, or at least the mindset of the Indian immigrants that make up his immediate legacy.
This work sees the artist stepping into his father’s shoes, imitating his words, gestures and mannerisms. Patel takes the movements from his father’s work place into his own working environment - a studio. Developed in parallel with his new live work TEN, this piece requires a very specific choreography - a duet between performer and cameraman.
26 Sep - 31 Oct 2009
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Photography
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. The underlying thread of the exhibition highlights how the unfortunate emergence of a new kind of slavery is inextricably linked to the 'ascent' of a global economy. The compendium explores a range of examples, including child labour in Bangladesh, sex slavery from Ukraine to Western Europe and the sexual enslavement of South Korean women by Japanese troops during the Second World War.
A Hayward Touring exhibition in collaboration with Autograph ABP and Magnum Photos.
1 August - 13 September 2009 |
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Mixed media
An(other) Story is the first collective exhibition of its kind in the UK, combining multiple art forms from all over India. The exhibition brought together a show of Indian arts and crafts from British collections and new commissions from India. The exhibition explores the diversity of artistic styles and techniques, which have been embraced for centuries throughout India, including styles - Madhubani, Warli and Gond.
2 May - 19 July 2009
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Multi-media Exhibition
A solo exhibition by international, award-winning artist Zineb Sedira. Born to Algerian immigrants, Zineb’s video installations and photography explore notions of displacement and exile. This exhibition takes the sea as a space of movement and a metaphor for cultural exchange.
This critically-acclaimed exhibition is currently touring Europe:
Iniva London, May - Jul 09
Pori Art Museum Finland, Oct 09 - Jan 10
7 February - 19 April 2009 |
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Mixed media
Historical and cultural explorations of identity defined New Art Exchange’s debut exhibition, with a spotlight on artists from Nottingham. The exhibition reflected on issues faced by ‘Black’ artists in the UK, inviting exchange around notions of Culture, Identity, Time, Space and Home. Artists: Said Adrus, Elshaday Berhane, Harjeet Kaur, Samson Kambalu, Michael Forbes, Hetain Patel, Keith Piper, Gary Stewart, Nazir Tambouli, Andrew Wright.
6 September - 26 October 2008
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