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
Read MoreThe first instalment of a new and evolving work of performance, audio-visual installation, and experimental text, dealing poetically with urgent themes around finance, housing, the body, the voice, and the porous nature of selfhood.
May - July 2021
Read MoreAn expansive and celebratory exhibition marking three years of Making Place, our long-term community programme looking at how we learn from the city and how we use public space. Join us as we reflect on past projects and generate ideas for the future.
May - July 2021
Read MoreA new video installation developed through collaboration and discussion with UK-based immigrants, exploring the entanglement of love, power, and administration.
October 2019 - January 2020
Read MoreThree new commissions by Kobby Adi, Celia-Yunior, and Suzanne van der Lingen, curated by Emily Gray, responding to the history of New Contemporaries and exploring the transition of the artist from education to professional.
November 2019
Read MoreCommissioned by New Art Exchange and supported by Primary, Does Anybody Leave Heaven? by Ibrahim Ahmed is a commentary on the mythology of the US as a place of desire and opportunity, particularly amongst young men living in Cairo who are unable to travel outside of Egypt.
September - October 2019
Read MoreA series of projects, designed by third year BA (Hons) Architecture students from the Kingston School of Art, which present ideas for the modification and expansion of Primary.
June 2019
Read MorePrimary presents Dividednation, a solo exhibition by Larry Achiampong which layers video, installation, performance, sculpture, and text-works - the most comprehensive exhibition of Achiampong’s work in the UK to date.
April - June 2019
Read MoreA new solo exhibition by Hardeep Pandhal which confronts post-colonial traumas with testing humour, taking place across both Primary and New Art Exchange.
January - March 2019
Read MorePrimary are delighted to host Emma Smith’s 5Hz in the first stage of touring project with HOME and Wysing Arts Centre. 5Hz is a sound installation centred around the invention of a new singing language which can be learnt in 15 minutes.
November 2018 - February 2019
Read MorePhotographer Ben Harriott presents an exhibition of photographs and audio recordings from Radford’s Mill Allotments, capturing gardeners’ memories and experiences, some of whom have been working this patch of land for over 50 years.
November 2018
Read MorePrimary is pleased to present PII, a solo exhibition by Parker Ito.
September - November 2018
Read MoreBased on Beth Collar’s archive of collected footage from around Europe, Cloaked Output Vol 2: Spirals of Focus strings together a thread of white patriarchal power, represented in public sculptures.
June - August 2018
Read MoreAn exhibition, meal, and walk led by artist Jagdish Patel, bringing together stories of people from the South Asian disapora who settled in Nottingham and challenged everyday racism through activism.
September 2017 - June 2018
Read MoreAlia Pathan brings their solo exhibition Fire Rooster to Nottingham. Artworks in the exhibition comprise opera, video and 4D Sculpture inspired by the artist’s actual and imagined journeys ‘home’.
May - June 2018
Read MoreAn expansive new body of work by Melanie Jackson, exploring milk’s predilection to be polymorphic - issuing as liquid, solid, powdered, vaporous, semisolid, and crystalline.
April - July 2018
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