Golden tigers carrying neon letters rotate slowly next to an aluminium disco hut, which sits in a shallow pool of milk. Walking into ‘The Inconsistency of Everything’ at the New Art Exchange, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d walked into a Dali dreamscape.
As trippy as Harminder Singh Judge’s work first appears, together the collection [...]

I went to Auschwitz two years ago because the holocaust was as distant to me as fiction. I wanted to remember those who died not merely as numbers but as real people. Nicholas Hedges similarly visited ‘dark tourist’ sites in order to connect with those individuals and achieve self discovery of his own past.
‘Mine the [...]

If you’re still in Nottingham over the Easter holiday, and find yourself in town wanting a distraction from looming deadlines and exams, Laura Taylor’s Speedboat matchsticks exhibition will certainly do just that. This exhibition asks the questions what is art? and how should art be displayed?
The entrance of the surface Gallery itself becomes part of [...]

Chris Ofili’s spectacle at the Tate Britain is a vibrant, colourful and imaginative exploration of his own Afro-Catholic ancestry. The 1998 winner of the Turner Prize for his painting No Woman, No Cry, has produced seven rooms of art which guide you through his painting time-line.
After being greeted by a piece of elephant dung with [...]

This exhibition is made up of a collection of unusual, diverse and thought-provoking photographs. Taken by eight students from the University of Nottingham the photographers come from a variety of cultural and educational backgrounds, with different experiences and photographic styles. Their joint passion for photography, however, is evident. Through this compilation, the exhibition sets out [...]

Annie Hui Chen Lin, a Taiwanese contemporary artist was the lakeside artist in residence from 2008 to 2009. Having little knowledge of the artist or the work surrounding her, I sought inspiration prior to looking around by flicking through the artist’s guestbook at the entrance. Amongst appreciative dreamy grown up responses and endearing comments from [...]

Perhaps art is not usually associated with common sense, yet Pictures by the American E. J. Bellocq, Diane Arbus or Joel-Peter Witkin are astonishing in their disavowal of hypocrisy and beauty. A transgression from comon sense in art only defies basic human and moral attitudes. What these artists do is to break free from the [...]