This February sees the return of the annual Surface collaboration with Nottingham Trent University with the 15th NTU Festival: Thought Forms.
Following the success of last year's festival, The Push and the Pull, this year's selected Fine Art students will use a critical and reflective approach to curate group exhibitions in response to the festival's theme Thought Forms. They will reflect on ideas such as the relationship between the real and the imaginary.
The NTU Festival offers selected Fine Art students the opportunity to curate a group exhibition that establishes their practice outside the university. Surface provides a supportive and professional environment for the students to plan and show their work. Two exhibitions will run concurrently in each week of the festival.
Week One
The Awful Depths of Endless Space
Velvet Acronyms a.k.a. Anna Li / Simon Raven
Exhibition dates: 18th- 21st February, Main Gallery
Opening Night: Tuesday 17th February, 6-8pm
Laid Bare
Imarni Boyer-Nugent / Abigail Hutchinson-Dodd / Jenna Pink / Hannah Taylor
Exhibition dates: 18th- 21st February, Project Space
Opening Night: Tuesday 17th February, 6-8pm
Week Two
Radical Optimism
Catherine D’Arcy-Saunders / John William Hancock / Mansi Sudhir Khamkar / Peyton Koole / Sophie Motley / Faith Okorodudu / Ella van der Straaten
Exhibition dates: 25th- 28th February, Main Gallery
Opening Nights: Tuesday 24th February, 6-8pm
For Space
Yang Jiang / Sarah Jouni / Roe Quinn / Showthamini
Exhibition dates: 25th- 28th February, Project Space
Opening Night: Tuesday 24th February, 6-8pm
Artist Talks: Saturday 28th February, 2pm