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Nottingham Voluntary Action Centre, 7 Mansfield Road, Nottingham, NG1 3FB
What are you? Where do you come from? What happens if where you come from changes, do you change too? What happens if they close where you come from? Does it matter?A modest but thoughtful exhibition at the Surface Gallery, Nottingham pushes at Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
20 - 28 May 2008
Reviewed by: Bryan Eccleshall
Completion deems its host ready for exterior consumption, yet what happens when an exploration is forced into the spotlight unresolved? Nicola Pomery and Mark Selby showcase a series of provocations that have not reached finality. Instead, Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
31 January - 21 February 2008
Reviewed by: Rhiannon Worgan
Nottingham Trent University's Fine Art department presents it's emerging students in five back-to-back shows at the Surface Gallery. Each exhibition is themed by the phrase It couldn't be made up and commences with the debut show At Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
25-28 February 2008
Reviewed by: Amanda Young
Stories and dreams from Ethiopian origins form the basis of these intriguing ceramics, which Elshaday Berhane insists be judged on an emotional level rather than equate it with the exhibition title ‘Golly’[1], shown at the Surface Read on…
Surface Gallery , Nottingham
15 October - 9 November 2007
Reviewed by: Beverley Sterling
Burning Holes (part of Rules of the Game) Surface Gallery, NottinghamIn the darkened basement of the Surface Gallery, islands of detailed miniature artwork awaited inspection. The pieces were beautifully displayed on piles of old books, rejecting Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
4 April 2007 to 4 April 2007
Reviewed by: Charlotte Pratley
On discovery we are besieged by a dizzying barrage of arbitrariness in which individual works wrestle for rights to an accommodating space. Pervaded with fragmentation and heterogeneity, this general feeling of perceptual flux is perhaps facilitated Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2 February – 3 March
Reviewed by: Aaron Juneau
‘Hortus’, showing work by Danica Maier and Jane Thurley, is a show of contradictory proportions: four pieces of work in a gallery the size of Surface Gallery at first seem barren, but become detail-rich as one looks closer. Thurley Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
20 June – 22 July
Reviewed by: Bianca Winter
Outspeak, an exhibition of work by recent graduate Ian Nesbitt, has a strong community-work ideal, and is thus a challenging undertaking for a contemporary gallery. The exhibition space is dominated by ten television sets, each featuring a single Read on…
Surface Gallery
10 October 2005 to 10 October 2005
Reviewed by: Bianca Winter
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