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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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 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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A series of projects, designed by third year BA (Hons) Architecture students from the Kingston School of Art, which present ideas for the modification and expansion of Primary.
June 2019
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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 project led by Nottingham Black Archive and Primary to document the experiences of members of the Windrush generation, and their descendants, who worked for Raleigh Industries.
May 2019 - present
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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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Primary are delighted to host Emma Smith’s 5Hz in the first stage of touring project with HOME and Wysing Arts Centre. 5Hz is a sound installation centred around the invention of a new singing language which can be learnt in 15 minutes.
November 2018 - February 2019
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Photographer Ben Harriott presents an exhibition of photographs and audio recordings from Radford’s Mill Allotments, capturing gardeners’ memories and experiences, some of whom have been working this patch of land for over 50 years.
November 2018
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Primary is pleased to present PII, a solo exhibition by Parker Ito.
September - November 2018
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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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Alia Pathan brings their solo exhibition Fire Rooster to Nottingham. Artworks in the exhibition comprise opera, video and 4D Sculpture inspired by the artist’s actual and imagined journeys ‘home’.
May - 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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