(Featured image above © Ben Harriott  www.urbenmedia.com) Max Kandhola is an established UK photographer who has exhibited widely in Europe and the USA. He is currently Head of Photography at Nottingham Trent University. Although his Asian working class upbringing is present in his work, he is one of the few photographers I know who is able… Read More

The current display at Jennie Syson’s gallery features three site-specific works by Liam Aitken, with accompanying soundscape and repository project consisting of a series of documentaries. This is Aitken’s first solo exhibition, after recently winning the SYSON prize at the Open exhibition at Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, for a sculptural work entitled ‘Totem’.… Read More

32 postcards of free original art will be placed across Nottingham City by Fine Art Degree students at Central College Nottingham for the public to find and keep on Thursday 3rd April. Eight students have worked in collaboration with Rosie MacLennan coordinator of the 52 Artists for Bulwell project to explore ideas around what makes… Read More

  Hi! My name is Ian Jones, I am an Artist and Illustrator from Nottingham. I create Surreal and Mystical images with a Street Art, Grungey edge using a variety of traditional and Digital techniques. The good people at Creative Nottingham have kindly offered me the chance to write a series of blogs about my work… Read More

Today we welcome Michelle Keegan to the Creative Nottingham team. Michelle will be blogging once in a while for us so we thought we’d ask her a few questions about who she is and how she got here… I came to Nottingham to teach Fine Art at South Notts College back in 1991 [now called… Read More

It’s International Women’s Day on Saturday and, while you could do admirable and worthy things like campaign against FGM or raise money for Women’s Aid, why not also support a female fool? Not the one writing this post but an actual fool from The Nomadic Academy of Fools. Here, let them explain: ‘Fooling is a… Read More

Hello everyone, I’m Amy and I’m a newcomer on the Creative Nottingham blog- I am the youngest and newest addition to the team. When I decided I’d like to give a helping hand to those at this site, I had a flood of ideas I could use. I came up with a regular feature I’d… Read More

Since 1986 when I packed my crimpers, hairspray and black eyeliner and headed South to study Fine Art (at what was then Trent Polytechnic now Nottingham Trent University – NTU) I’ve lived in Nottingham. Not the only student to settle in their student city I’m sure. My claims to fame from my time at NTU… Read More

Prologue: It’s a fact that our city centre is a veritable treasure chest of secondhand shops. This series of posts will explore the rise of vintage in Notts, introducing some of the enthusiasts involved and showcasing a lesser-known aspect of retail that attracts students and locals of all ages. If you often hurry past Hopkinson… Read More