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Pick Six: Nathan Bainbridge AKA Kid30

Sun 07 Sep 2025

For this month’s Pick Six we turned to renowned Nottingham street artist Nathan Bainbridge, AKA Kid30.

Theatre review: Momentos de la Vida at Squire Performing Arts Centre

Fri 05 Sep 2025

The Robin Hood Improv Festival is in full swing in Notts. Our reviewer Sam Harvey went along to check out Momentos de la Vida, a deceptively simple concept inspired by black-and-white photography...

Greening the streets: street artist Anna Wheelhouse on community and big canvases

Fri 05 Sep 2025

Anna Wheelhouse is one of Nottingham’s most well-known street artists, with her signature, verdant nature-themed murals enlivening buildings and walls around the city, from pubs to parks to back gardens. We talked to her about her lifelong passion for the arts, and the benefits of working on a larger canvas.

New Art Exchange's Community Kitchen is Offering Cuisine, Culture and Connection

Thu 04 Sep 2025

Nottingham’s diverse communities are benefiting from an initiative that brings them together in an inclusive and welcoming space to enjoy healthy food, experience new cultures and forge new friendships in the city...

Whose streets are they anyway? How street art crossed the pond from New York to the East Midlands

Thu 04 Sep 2025

Graffiti, tags, murals, stenciling, paste-ups… street art is a diverse artform with many subcategories and styles. While some might deride the practice under the blanket term of vandalism, for proponents of the artform, taking art out of the gallery and into the streets is about civil disobedience, ownership of space, and creative expression outside of the mainstream. We dip into the origins of graffiti in NYC and speak to artist Richie ‘Pops’ Baker about how the medium came to Nottingham in the 1980s…

Art is the heart: what to expect from year two of Art Fest in Notts

Sat 30 Aug 2025

With its first year in 2024 bringing 34 new murals to Nottingham’s streets, Art Fest is back this month to splash more colour and creativity on walls throughout the city. Festival Director Benjamin Kay, who co-runs The Carousel in Hockley, tells us why he set up the festival and what to expect from this year…

Feeling supersonic: how Sonic Boom Festival is boosting the arts in Burton-on-Trent

Tue 26 Aug 2025

Sonic Boom Festival might only be in its second year, but it’s already made a mighty bang in the nearby Burton-on-Trent — and if founders and organisers Chris Baldwin and Andi Jepson have anything to do with it, the aftershocks are just getting started.

Our August cover artist Paul Turner-Groves talks about collage, creativity and his love of Notts

Fri 15 Aug 2025

Collage artist Paul Turner-Groves talks us through his art process and the inspiration behind this month’s LeftLion cover…

Exhibition review: the New Art Exchange Open Exhibition

Thu 14 Aug 2025

How do you capture and represent the vast talent of artists across the UK? How can an organisation elevate this work, highlight key themes, and further its own mission in the process? At its core, the New Art Exchange Open Exhibition provides answers to these questions.

Behind the curtain of Niche Artefact: the Notts collective combining cabaret, art, and storytelling

Fri 08 Aug 2025

Studio 54, surrealism, mythology, erotica, the Golden Age of Hollywood… These are just a few of the intriguing themes of Niche Artefact, an artist showcase combining drag, cabaret, circus, art, and storytelling. Ahead of their two-year anniversary showcase next month, we spoke to founder Robin Da Silva to find out how they are bringing flamboyance, inclusivity, and creativity to the city’s creative LGBTQI+ scene…

Art Works: Solomon Lewis Hunter, leader and costume maker at Inspire Urself carnival troupe

Wed 06 Aug 2025

For this month’s Artworks, ahead of Nottingham Carnival, we spoke to Solomon Lewis Hunter, who leads and designs costumes for the local carnival troupe Inspire Urself.

Street photographer Charlie Valentine talks Nottingham: Urban Decline, her series currently displayed at New Art Exchange

Tue 05 Aug 2025

When it comes to versatile photographers, Charlie Valentine certainly stands out in Notts, having made her name with grimy, analogue street photography, printmaking, and photography workshops. Currently, her series Nottingham: Urban Decline is featured at the ongoing Open exhibition at the New Art Exchange - she tells us all about this series, plus life as a photographer.

Art auctions, fundraisers and gigs: Here's what's on in Notts this week, 28 July- 3 Aug

Tue 29 Jul 2025

This week is packed full of summer fun for all ages. The creative scene is busy with auctions, gigs, yard parties and more to keep you on your toes and soaking up the summer sun. Here are our picks for this week...

Art Works: digital and canvas artist Abby Prior

Mon 28 Jul 2025

For this month’s Artworks we spoke to Abby Prior, whose digital-inspired works are part of the currently ongoing New Art Exchange Open exhibition.

Our July cover artist Beth Gillespie on her Major Oak inspired cover

Sat 26 Jul 2025

This month’s cover artist Beth Gillespie talks about art, folklore and finding fantasy in reality.

Not(t) Art: the arts and crafts pub night bringing people together

Tue 22 Jul 2025

Aiming to take the ‘art out of the gallery and into the community’, the Not(t) Art Collective is a new project that hopes to provoke interest from people who wouldn’t necessarily ‘do’ art. Taking place at The Barley Twist pub on Carrington Street, the collective looks to engage people in a range of social creative activities; from portrait drawing socials, to bring your own arts-and-crafts evenings, to the bare essentials - life drawing! We spoke to Matt Smith, founder of the Collective about his motivations for starting the group.

The Sneinton Dragon: delving into local myths and legends ahead of the Sneinton Festival

Thu 10 Jul 2025

Ahead of the Sneinton Festival this weekend, organiser Kathryn Cooper delves into local myth, the story of the Sneinton Dragon and our collective unconscious, with resident and local historian, Tom Huggon...

Nature's song: artist and academic Caroline Locke on her work with Sherwood Forest's Major Oak

Mon 07 Jul 2025

Artist and Derby Uni’s Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, Caroline Locke is known throughout the country for her imaginative work with sculpture, light, and sound. Six of her creations are currently featured in FOREST: an ongoing exhibition at Nottingham Castle - in light of that she told us more about how forests ( particularly Sherwood Forest and the Major Oak) have become a central part of her art practice in recent years.

Cherelle Fulton tells us about Behind Closed Doors: a program spotlighting creative women in Notts

Tue 01 Jul 2025

Over at New Art Exchange, Behind Closed Doors is creating a new space for women in the creative industries to connect, collaborate and reshape the scene in Nottingham. Co-ordinator Cherelle Fulton discusses what fuelled her projects, including live music night Can’t Stand The Rain, the importance of community and connectivity, and creating safe spaces for women.

Stage review: a beautiful night of drag, burlesque and art with Niche Artefact

Mon 30 Jun 2025

Thursday night saw a flamboyant jamboree of creativity and performance as Niche Artefact returned to Revolución de Cuba for a beautiful night of drag, burlesque and art...

Theatre Review: The Nottingham Drag Pageant at The Nottingham Arts Theatre

Sun 22 Jun 2025

It’s official- Nottingham cannot get enough of drag- and it knows how to do it better than most cities!...

Our June cover artist Lily Keogh talks festivals and perfectionism

Thu 19 Jun 2025

This month’s cover artist Lily Keogh talks about festivals, neurodivergence and perfectionism.

Exhibition Review: Country Lives at Lakeside Arts

Tue 17 Jun 2025

Over at Lakeside Arts, the current exhibition ‘Country Lives’ explores the use and depiction of the English countryside over the last 200 years. We went down to check it out…

Setting the stage: catching up with the Nottingham Playhouse's artistic director Adam Penford

Thu 12 Jun 2025

Over the last few years the Nottingham Playhouse has become one of the most buzzing regional theatres in the UK. Originally established in 1948, the venue has a long history of attracting quality actors like Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Judi Dench, Hugh Grant, Vicky McClure and Mark Gatiss to perform its stage. With a clutch of new awards and accolades over the last couple of years, we thought it high time to catch up with their artistic director Adam Penford…

Artworks: multi-medium artist and video creator Tom Hackett

Thu 05 Jun 2025

For this month's Artwork we turned multi-medium artist Tom Hackett who's work is being exhibited at the upcoming New Art Exchange Open Exhibition from Friday 30 May...

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