New Midland Group Development Programme, Primary (2021). Photo by Freddy Griffiths.
Thursday Tour & Tea is every fortnight from 22 September, 11am-12pm.
This event is free and everyone is welcome! You can drop in, but booking is essential for groups of 6 or over.
Join us for Thursday Tour & Tea—a gallery tour where either Primary staff, residents, artists, or researchers, give short talks about the exhibition’s themes and then sit down with you for a cup of tea, biscuits, and a chat.
This series of exhibition tours explore the solo exhibitions Attention, Absorption and Open Code, featuring works by Maybelle Peters and Mac Collins respectively.
Tours will be led by:
22 September | Claire Davies
Claire Davies is a practising Artist who makes moving image, objects, sound, installation and performance. Graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 2009, Davies went on to co-found and co-direct Rhubaba Gallery in Studios in Edinburgh. Now living in the Midlands, Davies is a Senior Technician in moving image practice in Fine Art and is studying an MA in Artists’ Film and Moving Image at Goldsmiths, University of London. During 2022-2023 Davies is the Leonardo Fellow in the Digital Transformations Hub at the University of Nottingham. Davies has shown work internationally across art exhibitions and film festivals including; Channel 4’s Random Acts; Sheffield International Documentary Festival; Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick, Scotland; TCBTV, Somerset House, London; The Valley of Lost Things (solo exhibition), Two Queens, Leicester and Radiophrenia Project, CCA, Glasgow.
6 October | Panya Banjoko
Panya Banjoko is a UK based writer, poet and PhD candidate at Nottingham Trent University. Her debut collection, ‘Some Things’, was published by Burning Eye Books (2018). Her poem One of a Kind was commended in the Writing East Midlands Aurora Poetry Competition (2017) and her poem They and Them featured in an exhibition by artist, academic and critic Keith Piper at the Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, London, the British Film Festival (2018) and the International Film Festival, Rotterdam (2019).
Panya is Learning, Engagement and Collections Manager at Nottingham Black Archive. When We Worked at Raleigh is a project led by Nottingham Black Archive and Primary that informed the development of Attention, Absorption. WWWAR documented the experiences of members of the Windrush generation, and their descendants, who worked for Raleigh Industries from the 1950s to the 1980s.
20 October | Tom Harris
With collaborator Jim Bouwer, Tom Harris created the soundscape that accompanies Attention, Absorption. Tom writes, records, and releases music independently, creating sound design for film and soundscapes for exhibitions. Tom often fuses genres - Experimental, Ambient, Hip-Hop, and Jazz - and has realised that he is most comfortable working between boundaries, expressing multiplicity through variety and diversity of creative output and practice.
His creativity is a productive space to express tensions and conflicts, synthesising new possibilities, reframing and outgrowing ideas in music, expressing what language cannot. Tom primarily uses piano, samplers, synths, and tape machines to write music. His background as a sound engineer has put a lot of emphasis on the technical qualities of his work.
3 November: TBC
17 November: TBC
Please email admin@weareprimary.org for bookings, questions, or access needs.