Projects

We believe that artistic research and production is a public process. We open up the stages of making art so that they become visible and accessible, rather than simply inviting people to encounter a finished product. We work with a broad range of artists, support them to explore different aspects of their work, and value all types of artistic practice equally. You can view a current and featured projects below, or click here to browse all projects.

 
 
Current
Luiza Prado – The Kitchen Network
Nourishment, Luiza Prado
Luiza Prado – The Kitchen Network
Nourishment, Luiza Prado

April - May 2024

The Kitchen Network delves into the politics of food as entertainment, exploring how it's become detached from the realities of its production and its role in climate collapse. Unfolding as the final reality TV food competition on Earth, this performance piece uses humour to examine the divide between online food cultures and their disconnection to wider issues of class, gender, and geography.

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Nourishment, Luiza Prado
Nourishment | Spring 2024
Nourishment, Luiza Prado
Nourishment | Spring 2024
Nourishment, Luiza Prado

April - May 2024

Join us this Spring as Nourishment: a cyclical programme takes over Gallery One for a month – creating space for workshops, meals, events and film screenings. From broken global systems and climate breakdown to localised community responses and projects, this long-term cyclical programme delves into food justice, nourishment, growing and regenerative practices. Nourishment invites artists, activists, cooks, community organisers, gardeners, and local people to come together through a seasonal programme – creating space for imagining and implementing different food systems.

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Nourishment, Luiza Prado
Roy Claire Potter | Land Lay Moldbrest
Roy Claire Potter, Current, Digital Commission
Roy Claire Potter | Land Lay Moldbrest
Roy Claire Potter, Current, Digital Commission

Land Lay Moldbrest is a three-part audiobook written by following packhorse trails in Lancashire, Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire. Roy Claire Potter works between performance and experimental art writing with recent works facilitated by Counterflows music festival in Glasgow, Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 3, and Tate Britain with Tate Publishing.

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Roy Claire Potter, Current, Digital Commission
Work in Common | Summer Residencies 2019
Summer Residency, Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Richard John Jones, Roy Claire Potter, Voices That Shake!, Kieron Piercy, Work in Common 2019, Work in Common
Work in Common | Summer Residencies 2019
Summer Residency, Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Richard John Jones, Roy Claire Potter, Voices That Shake!, Kieron Piercy, Work in Common 2019, Work in Common

A series of short residencies that encourage artists to experiment with different ways of working – either testing out a speculative idea, or developing new collaborations. This year, we're working with Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Richard John Jones, Roy Claire Potter, and Voices That Shake!

July 2019

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Summer Residency, Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Richard John Jones, Roy Claire Potter, Voices That Shake!, Kieron Piercy, Work in Common 2019, Work in Common
Upcoming
Imagining Otherwise
Imagining Otherwise, Ashley Holmes, Jala Wahid, Jasleen Kaur
Imagining Otherwise
Imagining Otherwise, Ashley Holmes, Jala Wahid, Jasleen Kaur

8 June - 17 August 2024

The exhibition will initially comprise three existing works by artists Ashley Holmes, Jasleen Kaur, and Jala Wahid, before it is transformed. Framed by a series of live events (e.g., readings, performance, screenings or discussions) the artists will return to the artworks presented in the exhibition and withdraw, change or replace them, allowing us to better witness the connections made between the works inhabiting Primary.

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Imagining Otherwise, Ashley Holmes, Jala Wahid, Jasleen Kaur
Madi Acharya-Baskerville | Work in Common
Madi Acharya-Baskerville, Work in Common, Work in Common 2024
Madi Acharya-Baskerville | Work in Common
Madi Acharya-Baskerville, Work in Common, Work in Common 2024

22 July - 23 August 2024

Work in Common is an annual short residency series that encourages artists to experiment with different ways of working – either testing out a speculative idea or developing new collaborations. New Art Exchange Open 2023 prize winner Madi Acharya-Baskerville will undertake a 4-week residency this Summer. Madi works predominantly with pre-existing materials which have been discarded. She has become increasing concerned by the effect of obsolete matter in our environment.

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Madi Acharya-Baskerville, Work in Common, Work in Common 2024
Chiemi Shimada & Susie Cunningham | Oneiric Kitchen
Chiemi Shimada, Susie Cunningham, Oneiric Kitchen
Chiemi Shimada & Susie Cunningham | Oneiric Kitchen
Chiemi Shimada, Susie Cunningham, Oneiric Kitchen

March – August 2024

Oneiric Kitchen is a collaborative project by Japanese artist-filmmaker Chiemi Shimada and London-based wellbeing practitioner Susie Cunningham. The project explores our relationship with sleep and addresses issues surrounding it. Developed through therapeutic cooking workshops in the UK and Japan and facilitated by project partners Primary (Nottingham) and Documentary Dream Center (Tokyo) the project aims to create a safe space for participants to reflect on their sleep experiences. 

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Chiemi Shimada, Susie Cunningham, Oneiric Kitchen
Featured
Landedness Podcasts: with Nare Mokgotho and Zethu Maseko
Landedness Podcasts: with Nare Mokgotho and Zethu Maseko

Nare Mokgotho of MADEYOULOOK collective and artist Zethu Maseko came together at Primary in the Edjardini structure to have a conversation about their overlapping practices. The artists discuss how they understand the place of nature and land in their work.

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David Steans | Mummy Hood Nesting Forest
David Steans | Mummy Hood Nesting Forest

Mummy Hood Nesting Forest is a site to get lost: a forest, a URL, and a new work of fiction by artist David Steans. The commission takes the form of a multipart story hosted online in its entirety via a bespoke website. A macabre story about storytelling, preparedness, and packable techwear, Mummy Hood Nesting Forest uses the provisional scenario of a hiker getting lost in the woods to conjure, recur, rewrite, and exhume.

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MADEYOULOOK | Ejaradini
MADEYOULOOK | Ejaradini

Ejaradini is an art installation and garden created by South African artist collaborative MADEYOULOOK (Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho). The exhibition features archival images, plants, and text on the façade of Primary. Ejaradini reflects on Black urban gardening, land, and plant life in South Africa and Britain through visual and nature-based storytelling.

April - September 2022

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