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What Nottingham Heads are Nominated for the 2016 South Bank Sky Arts Awards?

"This in't the first time figures of our humble city have been seen poking their nose around with the big boys"

Hockley Arts Club

Art Works: Laura-jay Doohan

"I have one particular image of Jesus Christ, engaging in what a woman at the Contemporary called an 'unsavoury' activity"

NTU Art and Design Degree Show

The university is opening it's doors for an art show like no other

Stone Sculptor Andrew Smith Talks Figurative Art and Working on Tomb Raider

"I got a piece of marble, knocked some lumps off it, and it just worked"

Artist as Mother as Artist: The Exhibition Championing Mams

"Although there are issues around being a mother and in the art world, we're trying to celebrate mother artists and how they make work. We're breaking down boundaries"

Sound of the Lion #46,Sound of The Lion

With Field Studies, David J Newton, Benedict Trenches, Gary Perkins, Mannequin, Lowrie, Jamie Moon, Nick Aslam and Rob Green

Art Works: Murray Royston-Ward

"The binman walked through the space next to the gate, looked a little confused and was very apologetic for disturbing us. I continued while he emptied the bins with metal clattering sounds in the background. Whether he knew it or not, he'd somehow joined in the improvisation"

Write Lion Podcast 12,Write Lion

Get your ears stuck in to this month's literary show for a right good selection of authors, poets and musical musings

Turner Award-Winning Artist Simon Starling Exhibits at Nottingham Contemporary and Backlit

"My work can be quite demanding on a technical and financial level to stage, they've done a fantastic job in realising a very precise exhibition there"

Art Works: Joff and Ollie's Beam Table Lamp

The Lane By Post chaps reveal all about their lamp and how much they love it

Game On: The YouTube Show About Videogame Culture

The opinion-based TV show about video game culture has been going since last year. We spoke to co-creator David Wayman about its progress

Art Works: Joana Quintas Faria

"I covered the plates with layers of white thread to simultaneously create the feeling of a web and fog. A cobweb suggests things that were abandoned or left behind, holding the object tight but rendering it inaccessible at the same time"

Art Review: Carole Hawthorne at Nottingham Lakeside Arts

"There is an overall sense of structure, repetition and use of shape within each piece, yet Hawthorne's line-making has a playful, free-flowing aspect to it that radiates personality"

Art Works: Tony Fisher Photography

"Birds – particularly deceased ones – feature a lot in my work. A Little Death At McDonald's, for example, is of a bird who smashed into a window at a burger place I was eating at in Almeria, Spain, and fell at my feet"

Sound of the Lion #45,Sound of The Lion

With Sam & Joe, Bru-C, Heck, Daniel Shipley, Felix M-B, Friend of a Friend, Some Skeletons, The Five Hundred and Be

Learning Mixed Martial Arts? There's an App for That - Robin Hamilton Talks Fighter Training

"More and more people are starting martial arts from a younger age. Parents are becoming more aware of the huge benefits it has in fitness and self-discipline"

Write Lion Podcast 11,Write Lion

Roll up, roll up! Come and listen to the finest literature podcast the land has ever heard

Be - One: The Nottingham Arts Theatre Gig in Pictures

We caught all the action of the live, multisensory performance of Be's soundtrack, One at the Nottingham Arts Theatre

Art Review: Larissa Sansour - In The Future They Ate From The Finest Porcelain

New Art Exchange's latest offering is summat to experience

Art Works: Makeup Artist Emma Berry

A local artist lets us in on her techniques

Live Music Review: Be Perform One Soundtrack at Nottingham Arts Theatre

40,000 bees and 12 musicians play the album ONE as a live multisensory experience at the Nottingham Arts Theatre

Sound of the Lion #44,Sound of The Lion

With Ropewalk, Wigflex, DH Lawrence & The Vaudeville Skiffle Show, Cici Lara, Prime, Albosel, Fonzse, Ryan Farmer, and I Believe In Miracles OST

Art Review: Mass at Backlit Gallery

"The gallery intertwines a combination of video performance, sculpture, ceramics and drawing. Matt explained how he wanted each artist involved to come up with an entirely new work that had a theme of mass"

Art Review: Trace Programme

"The Rave Dinner Party reclaims the idea through crossing class and cultures, in a weird rave environment, but keeping high standards of food"