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Art Works: Mary Preston
Fri 07 Jul 2017The Nottingham Trent University graduate on her Laminar Flow bench...
Art Works: Saffron Bramley-Astle
Fri 30 Jun 2017The Nottingham Trent University graduate on her Ziggy Stardust Tribute Costume...
Theatre Review: Nonsuch presents The Party's Over at Nottingham Lakeside Arts
Wed 28 Jun 2017We got down to Lakeside's Djanogly Theatre to check out the latest offering from local heads Nonsuch...
Golesedi at Lady Bay Arts Festival
Wed 28 Jun 2017Right then, we're right in the middle of festival season and our vlogger Golesedi and her mate Mark ditched the wellies, booze and music for tea, cakes and art at Lady Bay Arts Festival...
Art Review: #NTUDEGREESHOW
Wed 21 Jun 2017Our Rachel popped down to the #NTUDegreeShow to get inspired for her future career...
The Guerilla Art Lab
Wed 21 Jun 2017The Guerilla Art Lab, also known as GAL, is an artist collective and studio space based on Broad Street. We had a word with founder Rachel Parry, and collective member Sarah Todino, to dig a little deeper into the group’s philosophies...
Art Review: Lido to Lakeside Transforms Djanogly Gallery into Twenties Swimming Pool
Mon 19 Jun 2017For those of you who don't know, the Djanogly Gallery was once Highfields Park Lido, which was basically a huge swimming pool in the twenties that Sir Jesse Boot kindly gave to Notts as a gift...
Art Review: Performing Gender at Backlit Gallery
Mon 19 Jun 2017We got down to the latest exhibition at Samuel Morley's old gaff...
NCN End of Year Fashion Show at St. Mary's Church in Photos
Fri 16 Jun 2017We got down to take a few snaps of the upcoming talent in our city...
Dark Folk Artist Stacey McMullen on His New EP and Not Trusting Tories
Wed 07 Jun 2017One of Nottingham's hardest working musicians answered our questions ahead of his EP launch at Nottingham Contemporary this Saturday...
Art Review: Lara Favaretto's Absolutely Nothing at Nottingham Contemporary
Mon 05 Jun 2017We got down to the latest art exhibition from Nottingham Contemporary...
Festival Fashion with Independent Nottingham Designers
Wed 31 May 2017As the sun starts to stir from its mighty slumber, folk in Nottingham rejoice. The days are getting longer, the trees are in bloom, beach breaks are being booked and there’s another very important thing on a lot of our minds... festival season. Whether you’re planning on trudging through mud at Glasto, dancing with your dad at Splendour, getting down and dirty at Boomtown or jetting off to hotter climbs in Croatia, we know you’re going to do it in true Notts style.
We’ve been doing a little digging around the city to find the best garms and accessories for you, and have created a festival fashion-inspired lookbook to feast your eager eyes upon. Everything made, designed and sourced in Nottingham...
NTU Final Degree Fashion Show 2017 in Photos
Tue 30 May 2017We got down to take a few snaps of Nottingham Trent University's final-year talent...
Exploring Sci-Art at Pint of Science Festival
Thu 25 May 2017We had a grand old time at Pint of Science Festival this year. One of the events explored sci-art, so our Adrian Shaw got down to enjoy a subject close to his heart...
Artist Keith Piper on the Importance of Forest Rec
Mon 15 May 2017Keith Piper studied art at Trent Polytechnic in the early eighties, and went on to a major academic and artistic career, showing his paintings, digital pieces and video works internationally. Piper was a key figure in the BLK Art Group, heavily featured in The Place is Here, at Nottingham Contemporary, and he continues to address social and political questions in his work. We caught up with him to talk science-fiction, history painting, Ancient Egyptian burials and the importance of the Forest Rec...
The Attenborough, Beeston, and Chilwell Arts Trail and The Importance of Artist Space
Sun 14 May 2017At the beginning of June, there's gonna be an art trail in Nottingham South, and our Rita is here to tell us all about it, and provide a little context to the idea...
Art Review: Women of a Nervous Disposition
Thu 04 May 2017Around the corner from LeftLion HQ is the Lace Market Gallery, based in the NCN arts building. We had a wander down to check out Denise Weston’s Women of a Nervous Disposition...
The Man Who Makes Artificial Eyes
Fri 28 Apr 2017Ever wondered how artificial eyes are made? Nope? We didn't either until we met John Pacey-Lowrie and he showed us all this cool stuff...
Ocularist John Pacey-Lowrie Talks Making Artificial Eyes in Nottingham
Tue 25 Apr 2017John Pacey-Lowrie is the only ocularist in the whole of the Midlands. He’s spent forty years perfecting his craft, and people travel from all over the world to be fitted with one of his handmade, acrylic prosthetic eyes. He is constantly striving to make his prosthetics as realistic as possible and is currently at the forefront of the development of an artificial dilating pupil which reacts to light...
Art Review: Draw the Line
Fri 21 Apr 2017Get yourself down to The Surface Gallery in Hockley this week, before the Draw the Line exhibition ends.
Art Works: Anthony Freeman's Grungy Lion Illustration
Sun 16 Apr 2017A local artist lets us in on his artistic process..
Art Works: Artgoon
Fri 07 Apr 2017A local artist reveals the story behind his album art for Giggs' Landlord...
Golesedi does Nottingham in Fashion
Fri 07 Apr 2017We reckon we're a pretty well dressed lot here in Nottingham, and what better way to show it off than a right big fashion show at the Council House. Our wonderfully well dressed vlogger Golesedi went along to assess the sass...
Art Works: Camille Lea Pearson's Digital Illustrations
Mon 27 Mar 2017A local artist lets us in on her creative process...
Nottingham Independent Fashion Parade in Photos
Mon 27 Mar 2017On Saturday 25 March, Nottingham city was transformed into a catwalk to celebrate all the independent shops and fashion brands that exist among us. We got down to check out all of the strutters of the stuff on Saturday...