Exhibitions
We curate four free-to-access gallery spaces hosting a wide range of art pieces from artists all around the world from across the spectrum of artistic disciplines.
Gallery Lates: Pose
All Night – Chez Sebastien Artisan Pizza Truck
Cafe
All Night – DJ Rich Bee
Main Hall
7pm – 7:15pm – Drinks for all
7:15pm – 8:15pm –-‘The Decorative Potential of Blazing Factories’ by Bruce Mclean and Gary Chitty film screening
8:45pm – 9:05pm – Jack Britton presents: Stomping Grounds
9:30pm – 9:50pm – Jamal Sterrett presents: BRUK UP – The components that make me whole
Salmon Gallery
7pm – 10:30pm – Plant Pot Painting, Drop-In All Night
Gallery
7pm – 11pm – ‘Strike a Pose’ interactive photo booth
8:30pm – 9pm – Life drawing Session 1
9:30pm – 10pm – Life drawing Session 2
10:15pm – 10:35pm – Lindsey Warnes presents: Why I Swim Part One – Push, don’t pull
An emotional and sincere performance that portrays the Parkour community in an authentic way. Two performers explore their relationship with the sport through mixed media, live looping and storytelling, that is often seamlessly synchronised with projected video of their own Parkour practice. While Parkour and its related movement practices are often used as tools in performances that tell other stories, this show puts Parkour itself under the spotlight. Its rich history, emotional value and vibrant community will be explored.
A showcase performance displaying the components within Jamal’s interpretation of the dance style bruk up. To bring an awareness and understanding to where his movements stem from and his interpretation of this art form, Jamal lays out the bare bone foundations of his personal take on the bruk up style, before blending it all together. Jamal Sterrett is a self-taught dancer and performance artist whose works primarily deals with accessing and responding to the environment using the body. Stemming from bruk up, flexn and ballet, Jamal uses the heightened senses of his Asperger’s alongside these styles to transmute and embody site specific locations through dance.
A small group of synchronised swimmers rehearse indoors; lido-less but not love-less as they glide through the gallery, sharing thoughts, feelings and paper. Lindsey Warnes is a writer, performer, comedian, and theatre maker who loves to swim. Her comedy characters and improv skills have delighted Midlands and further afield audiences for many years. She loves to create site-specific work and delves deeply into a treasure trove of home-made props and original sound scapes to create her unique performances.
Bruce McLean: Black Garden Paintings
Bruce McLean’s garden paintings are inspired by the beautiful, vibrant garden his wife Rosy has created at the couple’s home on the Spanish island of Menorca. The works showcase McLean’s virtuoso technique and dazzling use of colour – hot pinks, cobalt blues, and deep oranges vivid against a dark background. Monumental in scale the paintings hover somewhere between reality and abstraction with hints of pathways, ponds, flowers, and shrubs.
For McLean the Black Garden paintings are a response to the garden as a physical space, exploring aspects of light and shadow; they are paintings made by a sculptor.
Letty McHugh: Anchorage
Letty McHugh is an artist who is interested in the lives, stories and experiences of people. McHugh’s work aims to connect and bring solace to people experiencing isolation and chronic illness. The centrepiece of this exhibition, ‘Anchorage,’ is a 4.5 x 3 meter textile installation referring to anchorages: spaces created for people during the medieval period who chose to isolate from secular society while providing opportunity for connection with others with similar values.
Mohammad Barrangi: Playing in Wonderland
Visual Artist Support Commissions: Attenborough Arts Centre & Disability Arts Online
Trans Post Project
