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What s On SEPTEMBER 2018 FEBRUARY 2019 Exhibitions THE ACCUMULATION OF THINGS Curated by Adam Murray THE SERVING LIBRARY v DAVID OSBALDESTON DICK JEWELL: NOW & THEN UKYA CITY TAKEOVER: NOTTINGHAM 2019 Thursday 7 Wednesday 13 February 2019 bonington vitrines #8: HOUSE OF WISDOM Curated by Collective Çukurcuma #9: THE SERVING LIBRARY #10: DICK JEWELL Boningtons art shop Located next to the gallery, Boningtons Art Shop stocks a wide range of art and design supplies. As one of the few remaining arts suppliers in Nottingham, our friendly staff are on hand to offer advice and guidance on the products we sell. CAFÉ bonington Located at the entrance to the Bonington building, our café offers a wide variety of drinks including barista coffee, freshly prepared sandwiches and baguettes, sweet and savoury pastries, and homemade soups (served at lunch times) all perfect for when you re next visiting the gallery. OPENING TIMES: During exhibition periods: Monday Friday, 10 am 5 pm Saturday, 11 am 3 pm Boningtons Art Shop Monday Thursday, 9 am 4 pm; Friday, 9.30 am 3.30 pm (Nottingham Trent University term time only, see website for details). Café Bonington Monday Friday, 8.30 am 5 pm Bonington Building Dryden Street Nottingham NG1 4GG Gallery tel: +44 (0)115 848 8268 Art Shop tel: +44 (0)115 848 8498 Email: boningtongallery@ntu.ac.uk www.boningtongallery.co.uk @NTUBonGallery @BoningtonGallery @BoningtonGallery 8184/07/18 Cover DICK JEWELL, War & Peace (detail), 2009
THE ACCUMULATION OF THINGS CURATED BY ADAM MURRAY This exhibition brings together seven artists whose works portray personal histories both real and imagined. Aditya Babbar captures the complexities of interpersonal relationships through meticulously directed portraits. His photographs are littered with evidence that hints at a possible narrative beyond the picture. Stories are also told through paintings and drawings by Joe Bloom. He invites the viewer to draw on their own experiences to interpret the meaning of his compositions. Photographer Julie Greve s work takes the form of portraits and staged scenarios made in collaboration with groups of girls. Alicia Jalloul s sculptures address the paradoxes that exist when crossing between cultures, whilst Joy Labinjo draws on her British-Nigerian heritage. Her paintings are saturated with colours, patterns and people. Heavily influenced by her textile background, Evie O Connor explores class and identity in her works. Finally, Max Prus produces figurative drawings and paintings, telling stories with complex narratives representing culture and society. Curator Adam Murray is a lecturer and photographer based in Manchester. He recently co-curated North: Fashioning Identity with Lou Stoppard at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, and Somerset House, London. www.boningtongallery.co.uk/adammurray Image JOY LABINJO, Untitled (detail), 2018
THE SERVING LIBRARY v DAVID OSBALDESTON Founded in New York in 2011 and based in Liverpool since 2016, The Serving Library (TSL) is a non-profit organisation that serves as a publishing platform, a seminar room, a collection of framed objects, and an event space. The enterprise is rooted in a journal published biannually as Dot Dot Dot from 2000 10, Bulletins of The Serving Library from 2011 17, and now annually as The Serving Library Annual, released simultaneously online (for free) and in print (for a fee) every autumn. This autumn, showcases TSL s collection of framed objects; each one the source of an illustration that has appeared in one of the journals. The 100+ collection includes items as diverse as record sleeves, watercolours, woodcuts, polaroids, drawings, screen-prints, airbrush paintings, a car number plate, and a Ouija board. Together, these varied objects decorate the walls of the library to serve as a toolbox for teaching. The space will be further populated by a new work by occasional Serving Library contributor David Osbaldeston, who in response to a theme of translation has produced a new series of images exploring how visual essentials such as black, white and repeating shapes progress through a sequence of depicted forms. As a system of signs that become open to subjective interpretation, each image is assisted by a single word, which could be seen either as an associative descriptor or erratic linguistic type. www.boningtongallery.co.uk/tsl Image DAVID OSBALDESTON, Janus, 2018
DICK JEWELL: NOW & THEN Now & Then will be Dick Jewell s most significant solo exhibition in recent years, bringing together a wide range of works produced over a 30-year period. Working across film, photography and photo-collage, Jewell has inhabited both gallery and commercial contexts, exhibiting his work internationally at institutions including the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) and Serpentine Gallery (London), as well as producing music videos and promos for musicians including Neneh Cherry and Massive Attack. As the title suggests, Now & Then chronicles progression: both from a technological perspective through the shifting media across Jewell s work, and also in regards to people, as demonstrated by Jewell re-visiting his seminal 1989 film Headcases (shot on Super 8) whereby he has repeated the same set of questions to the same subjects 30 years on. Other key works that will be on display include The Box, a huge bank of 200 framed photographs that Jewell took from four TVs over seven days in 1980; Four Thousand Threads, which presents a Chinese Whispers version of a Google image search; and an audience participatory work entitled War & Peace, in which visitors are encouraged to take selfies against a backdrop and disseminate them online. In a world bombarding us with millions of images, Now & Then is just presenting a few thousand. www.boningtongallery.co.uk/dickjewell Image DICK JEWELL, War & Peace (detail), 2009