TETHER Nottingham Newsletter
Art Exhibitions Venue Video Opportunities
Debra Swann - Trouble in Paradise
ends March 15th.
The Wasp Room is currently exhibiting new works by Debra Swann, made during a three-week residency. Swann’s artwork is driven by her interest in science and a desire to travel through time. She adopts personas as a way of exploring the boundaries between reality and fantasy. The installations she creates are rich in imagined narrative but use everyday materials like sellotape and brown paper in their construction.
Tom Down - A Far Sunset
March 26th - April 11th.
Private View: March 24th, 6-8pm
The Wasp Room is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Tom Down, a recent graduate from Wimbledon School of Art. Down will transform the space in to a quasi-archival space, utilizing and displaying a collection of diverse images, objects and text, in which distinctions between the found and the constructed are continually blurred.
For more information, download the press release, or visit The Wasp Room website.
Digital Broadway
Throughout March
at Broadway Cinema (view map)
Tether have been invited to curate this month’s Digital Broadway programme of original videos and animations. Including work by artists James Brown, Anthony Peskine and Joseph Mann, the films possess a shared concern for fantasy, absurdity and playful innocence. Using cinematic techniques reminiscent of early and amateur cinema –cut-outs, stop-frame animation, home-made ‘green screen’ effects- Tether’s commissions are beautifully awkward and imaginative.
For more information, visit broadway.org.uk or our minisite.
Traversing Territories closing event
March 12th, from 7pm
at Tether Studios(view map)
Traversing Territories is a collaborative project founded in 2005 between Nottingham Trent University School of Art & Design and Musashino Art University, Japan. Through the exchange and collaboration of students from both universities, various territories of media, space and time are explored in experimental forms. This year’s UK manifestations of the project will be shown at Tether and Backlit, creative spaces established by recent graduates of BA(Hons) Fine Art.
Fictions
March 19th - April 8th at Bonington Gallery (View map)
Private View: March 19th, 6-8pm
Fictions’ brings together the work of eight contemporary artists who explore the boundaries between fact and fiction. Taking its name from the collection of short stories by Argentinean writer Jorge Louis Borges, the exhibition draws on the paradoxical scenarios he creates. In Borges’ world, ideas of language, time, memory and truth surpass our everyday expectations. As an exhibition, ‘Fictions’ aims to sketch out these relationships within the context of our contemporary society.
Download the press release or click here for more information.
Tether are currently seeking volunteers to work with us on two projects: The Wasp Room and Tethervision. To find out more information, click here or contact us at opps@tether.org.uk.
Call for Submissions: The Art Crawl
Proposals are being sought for The Art Crawl, a multi-venue, all night event to be held in Nottingham city centre on the 29th May. The night will begin at Tether Studios alongside the launch of ‘Murder at the Kremlin’, an exhibition at The Wasp Room. The Art Crawl will then visit a number of pubs, venues, and gallery spaces in the city where artworks will be exhibited and experienced, before returning to the studios for screenings and performances, concluding with breakfast at sunrise.
For more information, click here on contact artcrawlnottingham@gmail.com
Tether have recently been awarded funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, to support the development of the groups activity, including The Wasp Room gallery and Tethervision.
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