Art at The Castle

The best in regional, national and international art can be seen in the Exhibition Galleries on the first floor of the museum. A lively programme of up to eight exhibitions annually, vary from old masters like Turner, modern greats like Andy Warhol to home-grown talents. Paintings, photography, textiles, installations and sculpture often feature in single artist or group exhibitions.

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Currently on display:

Something That I’ll Never Really See:
Contemporary Photography from the V&A
3 May - 15 June 2008

Artists include: Corinne Day, Nan Goldin, David Hockney, Garry Fabian Miller, Vik Muniz, Cindy Sherman and Huang Yan.

The early 1990s saw photography take centre stage in the world of contemporary art. This exhibition includes work collected by the V&A during this pivotal moment in photographic history. Well established artists sit alongside emerging talents, in photographs which cover a wide range of subjects and technical processes.

Photography “touches our emotions with its ability to freeze time and place… it makes us aware of our inability to witness everything we might wish to during our own comparatively fleeting lives.” (Martin Barnes, V&A Senior Curator, Photographs)

Exhibition organised by the V&A, London

Visitors to this exhibition will also be able to see recently-acquired photographs from Nottingham City Museums’ collection, by artists such as Candida Hofer, Shirin Neshat and Seamus Nicholson. Formed over the past ten years, thanks to the support of the Contemporary Art Society’s Special Collections Scheme, this collection echoes many of the interests and concerns of artists included in Something That I’ll Never Really See.

Supporting events:

What’s your idea of something you’d never really see?

Take your own digital image of your idea of ‘something that you’ll never really see’ and the most interesting and unusual examples will be displayed on a monitor in the gallery.

Please send your image, on disc, to: Catherine Daunt, Nottingham Castle, Off Friar Lane, Nottingham, NG1 6EL.

Unfortunately, entries can not be accepted via email. All images shown in the gallery will be credited.

House; photographs by Maggy Milner
3 May – 29 June 2008

An evocative series of images of the emptied rooms of a house, captured between occupancies. The sense of past lives still seems to hover in the air,  suggested not only by scuffs and stains but by ordinary domestic objects which might have been left behind by a previous inhabitant – but look too carefully placed, like a stage set waiting for the actors to return.

Images from top:

Corinne Day, Untitled from the fashion story ‘Under Exposure’, 1993 © Courtesy of the artist & Gimpel Fils/ Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Huang Yan, Plum from the series Face, 2004 © Courtesy of the artist / Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Maggy Milner, From House series, 2005

Coming soon...

Paint, Draw, Stitch, Knit
28 June - 6 July

Test your art-making skills during this week-long exhibition and related events. A rich assortment of painting, drawing and textile works from the Nottingham City Museums’ collection act as a starting point for your creativity. Add to the display and think about the different methods used by artists across the centuries to express their ideas.

Renaissance drawings of angels rub shoulders with Shizuko Kimura’s stitched life study from 2000; George Sheringham’s delicate designs for fabric meet the riotous pattern and colour of Edward Burra’s Storm in the Jungle. Be inspired by these unexpected neighbours and drop in to the gallery to leave your mark or get involved in one of the artist-lead workshops:

Paint, Draw, Stitch, Knit workshops:
28 June, 5 July (daytime), 1 and 2 July (6pm - 8pm)
Activities include WOW! at the Castle, art sessions for children with Rosny Hayward and Sian Watson; for adults: drawing from life and painting the landscape with Mik Godley and a textile day with Laura McCafferty; plus an informal Knitting Caf? for knitters of all ages and experience, with Becky Bowley.

Image: Becky Bowler, Still Changing. live performance, 2005 © courtesy of the artist.