A new heritage strategy to pull together efforts to capitalise on Nottingham’s richly historic past and make its heritage contribute even more to its future development was launched this week (26th March). The strategy sets out aims and ambitions for the city over the next 10 to 15 years, to show how Nottingham’s unique history […]
An exhibition first shown in the city in 1894 will be revisited at Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery this spring. Cornish Light, which opens on Friday 3rd April until 7th June, brings together the very best of Cornish art with over 40 paintings, many of them from the original 1894 show. In September 1894, […]
Three young artists will present their personal responses to Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery’s Fine Art Painting collection in a special exhibition entitled ‘Search The Collection’. The exhibition will be open to the public from 28 – 29 March in the Castle’s Long Gallery. The artists, all with links to Nottingham, have been commissioned […]
Illuminate, Nottingham Museum’s young arts collective, presents ‘Invent and Build’, a range of family friendly activities inspired by the Richard Slee and John Plowman exhibitions on Sunday 22 March in the Long Gallery at Nottingham Castle from 11am-3pm. The activities draw inspiration from Plowman’s repetitive design drawings and Slee’s playful object abstraction. Visitors can take […]
Two collections of drawings by British artists open in the Temporary Exhibition Galleries at Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery on 31 January. Richard Slee: Work & Play | John Plowman: A Life Drawing will be on display until March 22. Inspired by a love for the ‘great indoors’ and a preoccupation with DIY and […]
The selection panel and sponsors of the Nottingham Open Exhibition 2014, an annual celebration of the best artistic talent in the East and West Midlands, has announced the winning artists of this year’s competition. The Awards were made this weekend at the exhibition’s packed and exciting Closing Ceremony. The selection panel of three independent judges […]