Hopeful Beginning to the End
I could hear a church with hot pink doors purring as I walked towards it through the ‘wrong side of town’ in Gainsborough, East Midlands. So it was these pulsating vibrations that introduced me to the...
View ArticleWhat Can We Learn From Medieval Torture Instruments?
In a work by Venetian artist Sebastiano Del Piombo titled The Martyrdom of St Agatha (1519), the talented painter captures excruciating pain in the face of St Agatha of Sicily. In the painting, St...
View ArticleCharlie Phillips: The Urban Eye
Street life, interracial relationships, fashion, Carnival and images of bohemia are captured in Charlie Phillips’ latest exhibition Charlie Phillips: The Urban Eye. The collection of striking ‘captured...
View ArticleCreating Monument: Stuart Hall and John Akomfrah
Tomorrow some of the nation’s leading artists, filmmakers and cultural commentators will gather at New Art Exchange in Nottingham to explore the practice of artist-filmmaker John Akomfrah, and the...
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Come Back to Where You Are
Is it possible to eradicate our conditioned response to ‘pose’ in front of the camera? Can you capture through photography or video the shift in ‘conscious experience’ frequently described in...
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Identity and our Common Culture
Not Necessarily in the Right Order is an audio-video installation that responds to Nottingham’s diverse multicultural demographic, exploring the social significance of ‘carnival’ and ‘festival’ as one...
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Re-connecting with Archives from the Caribbean
Caribbean through a Lens is a photographic exhibition examining representations of race, culture and identity using archive images of the Caribbean from The National Archives Collection....
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