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Art Works: Eva Brudenell

Fri 15 Feb 2013

"Over the last year the iconic buildings I’ve drawn have included Home Ales in Daybrook, Shipstones Brewery in Basford, and Victoria Baths in Sneinton"

After three years of pulling in art from all over the world, Nottingham Contemporary have finally handed their main space to a locally-based artist. John Newling has produced works in hotels, swimming pools, burnt-out cars and on the streets of Los Angeles and New York. So what does he have lined up for his adopted home town?

Newstead Abbey in Photos

Thu 24 Jan 2013

A nose around the former home of Lord Byron, a poet who was "Mad, bad and dangerous to know"

Interview: Reactor

Thu 13 Dec 2012

Fancy some audience participation, but hate panto? How about being coerced into submitting to a make-believe totalitarian regime, or having aliens decide if you’re worth being enslaved or just got rid of? That’s the kind of thing that Niki Russell, Dan Williamson and their Reactor collective get up to...

A Canadian In New Basford Says Goodbye

Mon 01 Oct 2012

Rob Cutforth says goodbye in his final column for LeftLion. Now, for God’s sake, someone stop him before he lets the cat out of the bag...

Art Works: James Michie

Thu 20 Sep 2012

"An object that is familiar but altered is satisfying to me, like a good puzzle"

Interview: World Event Young Artists Director Silke Pillinger

Thu 06 Sep 2012

1,000 of the world's most talented new artists from over 100 countries, in town for ten days...

WEYA 12: Preview

Thu 06 Sep 2012

What to look at, listen to, and experience this month at World Event Young Artists 2012...

Art Works: Louisa Jane Irvine

Sat 18 Aug 2012

" As a child I loved going to fabric shops to look at the spools of ribbons and threads, feeling and collecting different colours and textures"

Art Works: Michael Cowell

Fri 06 Jul 2012

"There is nothing more satisfying than lifting the screen off that final print to discover that you actually got most of them right"

Art Works: The Shopping List Project by Rosie MacLennan

Tue 03 Jul 2012

"There is something so precious about this casually discarded piece of life detailing so much about a household’s existence, it’s an incredible celebration of the routines of life"

Interview: Hetain Patel

Sun 01 Jul 2012

Since graduating from Nottingham Trent at the turn of the century, Hetain Patel – currently exhibiting at the New Art Exchange - has become one of the strongest voices in British art by drawing upon his Indian heritage, not to mention his own skin...

Art Works: Forms of Control by Beth Shapeero

Sun 27 May 2012

"I am trying to form an ambiguous sense of understanding and locate the viewer in literal, nonrepresentational forms and structures"

Art Works: Grand Central Station by Anna Griffin

Wed 23 May 2012

"The escalators were jerky and I began to lose my balance as I waited to be right underneath the chandelier before snapping"

The Music Exchange

Sat 21 Apr 2012

Our music editor has a word with Andrew Thompson, manager of The Music Exchange in West End Arcade...

Homeless Film Festival 2012

Mon 02 Apr 2012

This April sees the inaugural Homeless Film Festival, a nationwide turning of the spotlight back on to a problem that’s getting bigger and runs deeper, than ever before - and it’s all down to Notts and Manchester collective, Donkey Stone. We spoke to Jamie Rhodes about its aims and ambitions...

LeftLion Music Exchange Takeover in photos

Sun 01 Apr 2012

LeftLion took over a record shop in town for a day and put on some of the best bands and acts from our local scene

Art Works: Twenty Fifteen by Allan Binns

Sat 17 Mar 2012

"The studio floor is covered with snippets from fantastical comic books, holiday brochures and 1960s ‘gentleman’s special interest’ magazines"

Art Works: Minding Pennies by Kristy Guest

Sat 10 Mar 2012

"I want to document people’s disregard for small denominations of currency and to see how things change over the next decade"

Interview: Candice Jacobs

Mon 13 Feb 2012

Candice Jacobs has been one of the prime movers of the local art scene over the past decade - as a co-director of the massively influential Moot collective, helping to found the One Thoresby Street gallery and studios, and as an artist in her own right...