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Surface Gallery
16 Southwell Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 1DL
Surface Gallery is an independent, volunteer run, contemporary art gallery based in Nottingham that exists to support the professional development of early and mid-career artists, curators and people wishing to work in the arts.
The Gallery is keen to facilitate experimental and innovative work, encouraging artists to explore new avenues in their practice.
The Gallery is constituted as a cooperative and managed by a management committee. Volunteers working at the Gallery are split into sub-committees to manage different areas of the gallery including Exhibitions, Press/Marketing, Finance, Fundraising, Education and Management.
Reviews
Pile [19 January 2011]
Nottingham has been positively stuffed with contemporary art across the last few months, thanks to the British Art Show 7 and its attendant fringe programme, Sideshow 2010. There’s been a good deal of interesting work in a variety of Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
20 November - 11 December 2010
Reviewed by: Joanne Lee »
Terra Incognita [13 November 2010]
Joseph CerskiCritical Review: ‘Terra Incognita’ Specifically Kashif Nadim Chaudry’s work Titled ‘Harem’Location: Surface Gallery, NottinghamTerra IncognitaNewly installed exhibition ‘Terra Incognita’ Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
22 October - 12 November 2010
Reviewed by: Joseph Cerski »
Measure and Purpose [18 February 2010]
The idea of pseudo-scientific artwork is one that intrigues me greatly, as it embraces the oddly linked worlds of art and science in their lust for knowledge, explanation and understanding. At the same time however, there is a certain gauche Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
9 - 13 February 2010
Reviewed by: Susie Cochrane »
Measure and Purpose [17 February 2010]
Measure and Purpose is an intriguing exhibition that combines a series of different materials such as ceramics, painting and technical displays. It engages with the concepts of pseudo-scientific study and the human drive to integrate with Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
9 - 13 February 2010
Reviewed by: Sarah Finch »
Part 1 [6 December 2009]
I’ve started this review many times in my head. Turning it over and over. Unsure how to approach the prospect of reviewing my peers, possibly even my friends. The first show of a collective of Nottingham Trent’s Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
10 - 14 November 2009
Reviewed by: Thomas Darby »
10 Years of Surface [15 October 2009]
With 10 years of exhibitions, curation & steady development under their belt, Surface Gallery have a lot to celebrate. From humble beginnings, this graduate initiated artist collective has survived through venue, funding & member changes, Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
10 - 25 October 2009
Reviewed by: Susie Cochrane »
east midlands finest [24 August 2009]
before doing a degree, if i were to review an exhibition with the word finest in the title, i would have been very easily tempted to refer to a large corporation supermarket. having completed a degree i'm a little more widely knowledged to Read on…
the surface gallery, nottingham
21 - 29 August 2009
Reviewed by: andrew martyn sugars »
Tom Lovelace 'The Cut' [8 July 2009]
A solo exhibition currently taking place at Surface Gallery is a photography installment by Tom Lovelace, ‘The Cut’. The exhibition produces the prize-winner from last years annual Open Show that included twenty-three other competing Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
3 - 16 July 2009
Reviewed by: Gemma Smith »
5degrees [11 June 2009]
Every year around about this time Nottingham’s art galleries, venues, abandoned buildings, and cafes are taken over by 3rd year photography students, creating an explosion of photography across the city. This year is Photoradar, Nottingham Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2 - 12 June 2009
Reviewed by: Rachel Murray »
Banalarama [19 May 2009]
At first I was unsure exactly what to expect with Surface Gallery’s new exhibition Banalarama. Described as ‘a collection of boring artworks’ I did wonder exactly how boring these art works would be, how much of this boredom would Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
5 - 10 May 2009
Reviewed by: Rachel Murray »
Kate Walters - What they'll never see: Drawings for my parents [30 April 2009]
Inside the surface gallery there is an explosion of red. Red is raw, red is intense, red associates with blood, red associates with fear, anger, passion, love. Red is reminiscent of Rothko’s series of red paintings assuming a meditative glow. Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
21 April - 1 May 2009
Reviewed by: Rachel Murray »
Identifying Time and Place [10 June 2008]
What are you? Where do you come from? What happens if where you come from changes, do you change too? What happens if they close where you come from? Does it matter?A modest but thoughtful exhibition at the Surface Gallery, Nottingham pushes at Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
20 - 28 May 2008
Reviewed by: Bryan Eccleshall »
I like the end again [2 March 2008]
Completion deems its host ready for exterior consumption, yet what happens when an exploration is forced into the spotlight unresolved? Nicola Pomery and Mark Selby showcase a series of provocations that have not reached finality. Instead, Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
31 January - 21 February 2008
Reviewed by: Rhiannon Worgan »
At Play - with the real and imagined [1 March 2008]
Nottingham Trent University's Fine Art department presents it's emerging students in five back-to-back shows at the Surface Gallery. Each exhibition is themed by the phrase It couldn't be made up and commences with the debut show At Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
25-28 February 2008
Reviewed by: Amanda Young »
PLAYFUL CERAMICS - ELSHADAY BERHANE [24 November 2007]
Stories and dreams from Ethiopian origins form the basis of these intriguing ceramics, which Elshaday Berhane insists be judged on an emotional level rather than equate it with the exhibition title ‘Golly’, shown at the Surface Gallery, Read on…
Surface Gallery , Nottingham
15 October - 9 November 2007
Reviewed by: Beverley Sterling »
Burning Holes [9 May 2007]
Burning Holes (part of Rules of the Game) Surface Gallery, NottinghamIn the darkened basement of the Surface Gallery, islands of detailed miniature artwork awaited inspection. The pieces were beautifully displayed on piles of old books, rejecting Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
4 April 2007 to 4 April 2007
Reviewed by: Charlotte Pratley »
Something for your CV [1 March 2007]
On discovery we are besieged by a dizzying barrage of arbitrariness in which individual works wrestle for rights to an accommodating space. Pervaded with fragmentation and heterogeneity, this general feeling of perceptual flux is perhaps facilitated Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2 February – 3 March
Reviewed by: Aaron Juneau »
Hortus [1 August 2006]
‘Hortus’, showing work by Danica Maier and Jane Thurley, is a show of contradictory proportions: four pieces of work in a gallery the size of Surface Gallery at first seem barren, but become detail-rich as one looks closer. Thurley Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
20 June – 22 July
Reviewed by: Bianca Winter »
Outspeak [14 November 2005]
Outspeak, an exhibition of work by recent graduate Ian Nesbitt, has a strong community-work ideal, and is thus a challenging undertaking for a contemporary gallery. The exhibition space is dominated by ten television sets, each featuring a single Read on…
Surface Gallery
10 October 2005 to 10 October 2005
Reviewed by: Bianca Winter »
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