This Autumn, the Nourishment programme returns, with a focus on harvest, glut, waste, preservation and fermentation. Events include, pressing apples with Cider Club, fermentation classes for community cooks with Sean Roy Parker @fermentalhealth, mushroom foraging walk and talk with Suzy @Queer as Fungi and food histories and storytelling with Janhavi Sharma.
Read More1 February-13 May 2023 at Bethlem Gallery
Being Present is a group exhibition and event presenting work by artists from Bethlem Gallery, London and Primary, Nottingham. During the Covid-19 pandemic and spanning various lockdowns exhibiting artists participated in Artist Meets, an artist-to-artist support programme which saw artists from paired based on their shared interests or approaches to art production.
This four-session practical workshop with Sean-Roy Parker is a chance for those already working in kitchens within the Radford area and wider Nottingham to explore the art of fermentation. We will work with surplus bulk ingredients such as fruit and vegetables to make large batches of fermented, pickled and preserved food that will be distributed back out to local food projects.
Read MoreLandedness is a commissioning, co-creation, and engagement programme running throughout 2022, that explores topics such as land access, custodianship, and intimacy. Through the programme Zethu Maseko has developed a large-scale quilted banner created from natural dyes.
Read MoreBuild Create Play is a project working with local families and young people around Ronald Street Playground in Radford. The playground is currently a neglected space with old play equipment and this project aims to bring local people’s voices and ideas in to shape how this space is developed.
Read MoreTo and Fro is a pilot project that brings together Primary’s Public and Artist Development Programmes. The project pairs four Primary residents / members with four non-resident artists who connect with our Public Programme. Following a call for expressions of interest from Primary residents and members pairs were suggested by our programme team based on a shared area of research or mutual approach and the potential for an exciting collaborative exchange!
Read More16 September-26 November 2022
Attention, Absorption is British Guyanese artist Maybelle Peters' most comprehensive exhibition of work in the UK to date. The show leads on from the When We Worked at Raleigh (WWWAR) project and oral archive between 2020 and 2021 which was delivered in partnership with Nottingham Black Archive.
16 September-26 November 2022
The exhibition Open Code by Nottingham-born artist Mac Collins takes over Primary’s Reading Room. The installation features furniture, objects, and sculpture.
Career, Plan, Development is a long-term project with coach Stella Sideli supporting ambitious sustainable career growth for Primary’s residents and members, helping them to work towards achievable goals and develop 1, 3 or 5 year career plans.
Read MoreMummy 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.
Read MoreLand 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.
Read MoreArtist Meets is an artist-to-artist support programme which sees residents from Bethlem Gallery and Primary being paired based of their shared interests or approaches to art production.
Read MoreThe Kaleidoscope Network is a collaboration between Eastside Projects (Birmingham), Primary (Nottingham), Spike Island (Bristol) and The NewBridge Project (Newcastle). Formed in response to a need for mutual support, the network has come together as a way to share resources
Read MoreNew Midland Group (NMG) is a consortium of three artist-led organisations located in Nottingham. Backlit, One Thoresby Street, and Primary support the creative development of artists in the City and the wider region
Read MoreTHE EXCHANGE 2 is the second iteration of a project connecting artists and creative practitioners across the UK. Bridging the gap created by limited movement and opportunity to network The Exchange aims to create new exchanges and friendships between artists that wouldn’t otherwise be able to connect.
Read More‘Picturing Food Justice’ is a participatory photography project let by artist Kelly O’Brien, that addresses issues around food justice, particularly in Nottingham’s NG7 postcode area. The project is supported through a collaboration between Off Centre Photography Festival, Himmah and Primary.
Read MoreInside the Studio Visits documents a fragment of the exchange that occurs between an artist and a curator. The series offers an insight into this less than public process and highlights Primary’s role as an artist-led space in Nottingham, providing studios and development for creatives.
Read MoreThis short film offers a tour of the Making Place Exhibition that took place at Primary in 2021 and an overview of collaborative community projects from the previous three years.
Read MoreGroups in South Africa and the UK will get the opportunity to explore the idea of “landedness” in both cultural contexts.
Read MoreAngela YT Chan is an independent researcher, curator and artist. Her work reconfigures power in relation to the inequity of climate change, through self-archiving, rethinking geographies and speculative fiction.
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