Build Create Play is a project working with local families and young people around Ronald Street Playground in Radford. The playground is currently a neglected space with old play equipment and this project aims to bring local people’s voices and ideas in to shape how this space is developed.
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Primary provides Artist Development provision that actively and strategically supports artistic and professional development through activity, platforms and paid opportunities.
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An expansive and celebratory exhibition marking three years of Making Place, our long-term community programme looking at how we learn from the city and how we use public space. Join us as we reflect on past projects and generate ideas for the future.
May - July 2021
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Our long-term programme focusing on learning from the city and use of public space, comprising of a number of commissions and ongoing projects, including regular event series’ Social Practice Social, Skillshares, and Tell Me Something I Don’t Know.
2017 - present
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A new video installation developed through collaboration and discussion with UK-based immigrants, exploring the entanglement of love, power, and administration.
October 2019 - January 2020
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Three new commissions by Kobby Adi, Celia-Yunior, and Suzanne van der Lingen, curated by Emily Gray, responding to the history of New Contemporaries and exploring the transition of the artist from education to professional.
November 2019
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Commissioned by New Art Exchange and supported by Primary, Does Anybody Leave Heaven? by Ibrahim Ahmed is a commentary on the mythology of the US as a place of desire and opportunity, particularly amongst young men living in Cairo who are unable to travel outside of Egypt.
September - October 2019
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A public artwork, created by Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad in collaboration with local residents, responding to the question 'What is Lentonness?' at a time when the neighbourhood has undergone significant changes.
April - September 2019
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A project led by maker duo Effy Harle and Finbar Prior to design and build bespoke furniture for the Reading Room at Primary.
August 2019
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A series of short residencies that encourage artists to experiment with different ways of working – either testing out a speculative idea, or developing new collaborations. This year, we're working with Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Richard John Jones, Roy Claire Potter, and Voices That Shake!
July 2019
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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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Primary presents Dividednation, a solo exhibition by Larry Achiampong which layers video, installation, performance, sculpture, and text-works - the most comprehensive exhibition of Achiampong’s work in the UK to date.
April - June 2019
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A new solo exhibition by Hardeep Pandhal which confronts post-colonial traumas with testing humour, taking place across both Primary and New Art Exchange.
January - March 2019
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A series of short residencies that encourage artists to experiment with different ways of working – either testing out a speculative idea, or developing new collaborations. This year, we're working with Libita Clayton, Amir George, Jasleen Kaur, Hardeep Pandhal, Nathalie Wuerth.
August - September 2018
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Based on Beth Collar’s archive of collected footage from around Europe, Cloaked Output Vol 2: Spirals of Focus strings together a thread of white patriarchal power, represented in public sculptures.
June - August 2018
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An exhibition, meal, and walk led by artist Jagdish Patel, bringing together stories of people from the South Asian disapora who settled in Nottingham and challenged everyday racism through activism.
September 2017 - June 2018
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An expansive new body of work by Melanie Jackson, exploring milk’s predilection to be polymorphic - issuing as liquid, solid, powdered, vaporous, semisolid, and crystalline.
April - July 2018
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A collaboration between Primary and Maraa exploring artistic practice in public space, taking place across two intensive labs and follow-up public events, in both Nottingham and Bangalore.
June - September 2017
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