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Art Archive
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Return of the Burgerman and Links round-up
Posted on June 27, 2011 | No CommentsExciting Street Art Exhibition at Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery Saturday 2 July 2011 Organised by the V&A – this highly prestigious exhibition features an exhibition by one of our own highly talented exports. Most Nottinghamians will recognise by now the name ‘Jon Burgerman’. ... -
Special Event Blog – Nadine Spencer
Posted on June 23, 2011 | 1 CommentIt’s the Nottingham Trent degree show for Decorative Arts. Turning a corner, a shining towering metropolis, glowing with light and promise, represents Nadine Spencer’s idea of “A World of Yesterday’s Tomorrows”. Rising up above a mirror that helps illustrate the painstaking work that went into... -
Ways of Seeing
Posted on June 21, 2011 | No CommentsNottingham Contemporary’s latest exhibition – Huang Yong Ping and Wael Shawky – is coming to a close this Sunday, 26 June. And with it comes to an end my first experience of being a Gallery Assistant (GA). Having always been a visitor, or someone working... -
Introducing our new Guest Blogger – Yelena Popova
Posted on June 13, 2011 | No CommentsA warm welcome to Yelena who will be joining us as Guest Blogger for the next two weeks. Yelena is a Russian born artist living and working in Nottingham, based at Oldknows Studios. This year she became a finalist of The New Contemporaries 2011 and... -
Guest Blogger – A rose by any other name…
Posted on June 2, 2011 | No CommentsSo, I’ve decided that it’s now or never and I’m going to start my own creative business, but what should I call this burgeoning empire? So many of the great crafty puns have been taken and at a loss for inspiration, I turn to the... -
Links Round-Up: Birth and Rebirth
Posted on May 24, 2011 | No CommentsThis round-up sees us welcoming back some established events, plus saying hello to fresh faces too: always a pleasure thanks to Nottingham’s dynamic creative scenes! First up, a can’t miss celebration in Market Square – as in, you literally cannot miss it if you pass... -
Links round up – Who needs Mary Portas?
Posted on May 20, 2011 | 1 CommentSo you may have seen earlier this week that the government has called in celebrity retail expert and queen of glam Mary Portas to examine our drab and half empty high streets. But I’m not sure that we need her in Nottingham. Consider, if you... -
Guest Blog – Running My Creative Business
Posted on May 7, 2011 | No CommentsMy day off is Tuesday; on that day I mainly do figures and if I’m knackered I knit instead. That means I work six days in the shop which is quite something. We open at 10.30am so I set off around 9am to get there... -
Something to make you smile
Posted on May 6, 2011 | 1 CommentIn a previous blog I questioned if doing creative stuff is what makes us happy or happiest. An interesting discussion ensued, and with some fascinating, philosophical comments about the meaning of life in reply…all good stuff! If you missed the article, here is the link... -
Links Round-up: An arty start to May
Posted on May 3, 2011 | No CommentsWell the holidays are over, for now – but what a marvelous thing to have a week ‘bookended’ by bank holidays – might even be rarer than a solar eclipse! Hopefully you made the most of it (if you had the opportunity). Now it’s back to work, but...
