Copyright and courtesy Ava Seymour.

Join us Friday 27 October for Primary Lates! New exhibitions will open at independent spaces located in Primary including TG, Forth and Beam. The event is also an opportunity to visit current Primary exhibitions Ruth Angel Edwards & Chloée Maugile | THE WALL & Hyperopia and Roo Dhissou | Courses for Dis-Course(s).

Forth will launch Lena Mai Merle’s Forth Coming, a solo presentation spanning painting, installation and sculpture. The evening will also feature a new performance conceived by Lena.

TG will present Ava Seymour’s As right where it is accepted woman and proper that a beautiful must suffer to be.

At Beam, Eleanor Bartlett’s solo show Opening, will include a number of works, created by manipulating tar on canvas.

Our new Materials Store will be open for a sneaky preview, please come and say hello to Will and Jake in the lower playground to find out more.  

Current shows at Primary open to view on the evening include Roo Dhissou’s Courses for Dis-Courses. Roo conjures up a space, for dining, eating, cooking and gathering that manifest in a sort of kitchen, dining room, café, restaurant, chill space.  The project includes a series of exhibitions and dining events for British South Asian artists. Roo wants to explore who gets a seat at the table, the politics of orthodoxies, the art space, the home, the kitchen and the gallery by presenting a new body of sculptural, functional and architectural works that employ a variety of British Asian visual languages, culinary traditions and materiality.  

Artists Ruth Angel Edwards and Chloée Maugile present a new multi-media installation featuring two experimental films. THE WALL is a surreal and absurdist take on housing inequality and its psychological effects. It explores how the same problems - overcrowding, ‘revenge evictions’, mould and vermin - have played out from the medieval era to the present day. Written and produced in Nottingham during August this year, it is shown here as a work in progress. 

Hyperopia is a psychedelic two channel video installation that uses script, disorientating editing techniques, and immersive sound. A series of vignettes come together to create a contemporary fable encompassing claustrophobic relationships, the transmission of ego, delusion, escapism, healing and the search for connection. 

Access:

Courses for Dis-Course(s) is located in our ground floor gallery space which has full level access from our new main entrance on Seely Road. THE WALL & Hyperopia is in the first-floor gallery space which is only accessible via stairs. An additional display of work by the artists is located in our Reading Room, which has step free access. Aia our new main entrance on Seely Road there is level access to our playground, ground floor gallery space, Reading Room, kitchen and public toilets as well as independent businesses Small Food Bakery and Beam.

Primary has an accessible toilet. The accessible toilet does not have a hoist.

There is no step-free access to our first floor gallery space or independent galleries Forth and TG.

Primary has disabled parking onsite accessible via Douglas Road, please call 0115 924 4493 to arrange access as this entrance is gated.