EM24: Spotlight on Lucy Davies
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EM24: Spotlight on Lucy Nelson
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EM24: Spotlight on Harriet Pritchard
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EM24: Spotlight on Attiya Javed
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EM24: Spotlight on Toby Curtis
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EM24: Spotlight on Gray Monroe
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The Street Art Exhibition, Surface’s most popular event of the year, was finally launched on Friday 11th August, celebrating local and independent artists from across Nottingham.
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‘Platform’ has been my first residency, and I’ve been lucky to work alongside Ryan and Miklos in the Project Space at Surface. I began with an idea of making a series of paintings, though I found that I wasn’t happy with the result. After an enlightening one-to-one critique with Yelena Popova, I stopped working on the paintings and explored something new.
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I am delighted to have been awarded a Platform residency at the Surface Gallery. I will use this opportunity to create something new that develops my previous thinking and uses elements from my previous technical and visual work.
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Creative residencies help you to step outside of what you know; they’re uncomfortable – often you’re working with new places, materials, and people. I like thinking of the residency as disturbing the monotony of my practice.
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Artist Elsa Truman- Rickett started experimenting in art from an early age ‘messing about with paint-points’ following in the footsteps of her artist mother. Studying at Newark College after school she worked her way up to receiving a Fine Art and History of Art degree at Oxford Brookes University. Her work follows an illustrative style, focusing on the depiction of dogs in unique costumes.
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Ezster describes herself as ‘a very motivated, ambitious self-taught artist’, after not fully exploring her artistic passion until her early twenties she was inspired to get back into drawing by the support from her equally artistic family.
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An abstract artist from the north-east, Pybus' work presents science fiction elements in a dark way. Shifting the perception of the reality around him to create a new world inside his art.
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The annual Street Art festival returns! This years opening night saw a huge amount of support, displaying amazing artwork from some of Nottingham's emerging artists.
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Paul's work was in the recent studio artists' exhibition, focusing on construction. When asked about the defining message of his work, he suggests its ‘something vaguely philosophical’ and that what others think about his work is just as important than his own definition.
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Peter Lumley's work focuses on the idea of alienation from the traditional art canon. This blog post explores Peter's work, looking at how it has developed leading to the nostalgic artwork that he creates today.
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Olivia Wileman is a Nottingham- based artist with a studio at Surface Gallery. This blog post talks through her practice, exploring how her style has changed and developed into the abstract painting she creates today.
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The countdown is on until we reopen our doors and invite you all back into Surface for our upcoming exhibitions, and we couldn’t be more excited! So now seems the perfect time to tell you about the all-new Surface...
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