This Autumn, the Nourishment programme returns, with a focus on food cultures and stories, collective meals as spaces for conversation, and care for people and land as a foundation for healthy food.
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To and Fro is a pilot project that brings together Primary’s Public and Artist Development Programmes. The project pairs four Primary residents / members with four non-resident artists who connect with our Public Programme. Following a call for expressions of interest from Primary residents and members pairs were suggested by our programme team based on a shared area of research or mutual approach and the potential for an exciting collaborative exchange!
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Mummy Hood Nesting Forest is a site to get lost: a forest, a URL, and a new work of fiction by artist David Steans. The commission takes the form of a multipart story hosted online in its entirety via a bespoke website. A macabre story about storytelling, preparedness, and packable techwear, Mummy Hood Nesting Forest uses the provisional scenario of a hiker getting lost in the woods to conjure, recur, rewrite, and exhume.
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Land Lay Moldbrest is a three-part audiobook written by following packhorse trails in Lancashire, Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire. Roy Claire Potter works between performance and experimental art writing with recent works facilitated by Counterflows music festival in Glasgow, Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 3, and Tate Britain with Tate Publishing.
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Inside the Studio Visits documents a fragment of the exchange that occurs between an artist and a curator. The series offers an insight into this less than public process and highlights Primary’s role as an artist-led space in Nottingham, providing studios and development for creatives.
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Groups in South Africa and the UK will get the opportunity to explore the idea of “landedness” in both cultural contexts.
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Ejaradini is an art installation and garden created by South African artist collaborative MADEYOULOOK (Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho). The exhibition features archival images, plants, and text on the façade of Primary. Ejaradini reflects on Black urban gardening, land, and plant life in South Africa and Britain through visual and nature-based storytelling.
April - September 2022
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Our long-term programme to develop a dye and pigment garden, working with Primary resident artists and local communities to design, build, grow, and process plants, and to learn new skills together.
Summer 2018 - present
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A collaborative project between artist Chiara Dellerba and children at Edna G Olds Academy to design a public mural in a newly developed area of Lenton.
July 2019 - present
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