ON APR — AUG 15 2 DJANOGLY ART GALLERY ART JUSTIN MORTIMER Saturday 7 March Djanogly Art Gallery Admission free – Sunday 31 May (Galleries 1&1A) www.lakesidearts.org.uk DJANOGLY ART GALLERY 3 LECTURE Djanogly Art Gallery (Lecture Theatre) Admission Free Friday 6 March 6.30 - 7.30pm Followed by preview Writer Martin Herbert introduces the themes and preoccupations in the work of Justin Mortimer. GALLERY TOURS Djanogly Art Gallery Admission Free Thursday 26 March 6 - 7pm: Justin Mortimer Thursday 21 May 1 - 2pm: Matt Price, independent curator and writer Please book in advance by calling the box office on 0115 846 7777. Justin Mortimer’s canvases have been Academically trained, and for the described as history painting for the early part of his career a successful See pages 11-12 for screen printing, present age, fragmented scenes hinting portraitist, Mortimer is one of a growing drypoint printing, iPad and creative at social and political upheaval, and number of international contemporary writing workshops linked to this detailing unspecified acts of human artists – especially from eastern Europe exhibition and those on pages 4-11. cruelty and suffering. In his recent work, – who have reinvigorated the tradition these scenes are typically enacted in of figurative painting. an indeterminate space, often in scrub woodland at night illuminated by the His imagery is gleaned from the flash of a camera or the sulphurous internet and digitally collaged to glow of a flare. create the starting point for his compositions. In this respect, the work His subjects are never literal or has an affinity with that of Richard explicit but operate on a viscerally Hamilton (running concurrently in emotional and psychological level, Gallery 2, p.4) who in his later years creating a general aura of malaise readily embraced digital media as a and foreboding. Frequently this darkly vital element of popular culture. sinister mood is given a sharper edge through the introduction of an This is the first solo exhibition of Justin Mortimer’s work to be held in a public gallery, and has been incongruous detail such as a cluster of organised in collaboration with Ben Tufnell (Parafin, party balloons. London www.parafin.co.uk) Images: Left: Lilith Above: Joker (detail) © Justin Mortimer Box office 0115 846 7777 Follow us: 4 DJANOGLY ART GALLERY ART Saturday 7 March Djanogly Art Gallery Admission free RICHARD – Sunday 31 May 2015 (Gallery 2) HAMILTON This exhibition focuses on Richard GALLERY TOURS Hamilton’s career as a printmaker. Djanogly Art Gallery Dubbed the forefather of Pop art, Admission Free WORD AND the themes and concerns of Hamilton’s IMAGE: PRINTS paintings and drawings were also Thursdays 1 - 2pm pursued in his graphic works on which 19 March: Ruth Lewis-Jones, he collaborated with some of the Learning Officer (Galleries) 1963-2007 greatest master printers of the twentieth 23 April: Neil Walker, century. The selection of 43 works Head of Visual Arts Programming represents the full range of his technical 14 May: Ruth Lewis-Jones accomplishments from traditional 28 May: Neil Walker engraving, etching and aquatint, to screen print in the 1960s, and ending LECTURE with the newly emergent digital media Djanogly Art Gallery (Lecture Theatre) embraced by the artist in his later years. Admission Free His appropriation of imagery from From Pop Art to the Digital Age: Richard popular culture is reflected in such Hamilton in the Print Studio early prints as Adonis in Y fronts 1963. Wednesday 29 April 6 - 7pm Wider contemporary and political issues provide the subjects of the Fanny Singer traces the development Swingeing London suite and a number of Hamilton’s printmaking practice of works concerning the troubles from the early etchings to pioneering in Ireland. Image right: Adonis in Y fronts 1963 experiments with photo-mechanical Screenprint from 12 stencils on cartridge paper © Estate of Richard Hamilton, 2014 An exhibition organised and toured by Barbican processes such as screenprinting, Courtesy Alan Cristea Gallery International Enterprises. and his adoption of the computer in the 1980s. Image above: The Citizen 1985 Dye-transfer, mounted on Archivart board © Estate of Richard Hamilton, 2014 Please book in advance by calling the Courtesy Alan Cristea Gallery box office on 0115 846 7777. www.lakesidearts.org.uk DJANOGLY ART GALLERY 5 Thursday 11 Djanogly Art Gallery Admission free FINE ART – Sunday 21 June DEGREE The University of Nottingham’s School of Education presents the 2015 BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree Show. SHOW Throughout this dedicated part-time degree programme, students develop their own art practice through a contemporary response to a wide variety of fine art media including painting, sculpture, print, photography, video and installation. Image above: Maud Lannen UNIVERSITY SUMMER EXHIBITION The annual showcase for the talents of students, staff and alumni of The University of Nottingham and an ideal opportunity to buy modestly priced works of art. Saturday 27 June – Djanogly Art Gallery Admission free Saturday 11 July Box office 0115 846 7777 Follow us: 6 DJANOGLY ART GALLERY ART EMILY ALLCHURCH IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF A MASTER Saturday 18 July – Djanogly Art Gallery Admission free Monday 31 August Emily Allchurch uses photography to recreate old master LECTURES paintings and prints, creating contemporary narratives. Djanogly Art Gallery (Lecture Theatre) She has reworked compositions by Peter Bruegel the Admission Free Elder, Utagawa Hiroshige, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Adolphe Valette and James Abott McNeill Whistler. Her Emily Allchurch in conversation works are seamless digital collages, using hundreds of with gallerist Laura Noble photographs, taken in urban environments today. The Friday 17 July 6 - 7pm complex photographic images have a resonance with place, Followed by preview history and culture and deal with the passage of time and the changes to a landscape, fusing contemporary life with a GALLERY TOUR sense of history. Djanogly Art Gallery Admission Free The exhibition will showcase Allchurch’s celebrated Tokyo Story and Tokaido Road series, which pay homage to the Thursday 23 July 1 - 2pm 19th-century Japanese printmaker Hiroshige. Produced as Ruth Lewis-Jones, Learning Officer lightboxes, they reveal not only the changing nature of the (Galleries) topography but also the changes to Japanese society and customs. They will be shown alongside rarely seen original Please book in advance by calling Hiroshige woodblock prints. the box office on 0115 846 7777 Also on show is a selection of works with an urban European theme. This includes a recreation of Whistler’s Nocturne: Blue and Silver Cremorne Lights and works inspired by See page 12 for workshop linked Piranesi’s 18th-century etchings of urban fantasies. Allchurch to this exhibition will also show her newly commissioned work for Manchester Art Gallery based on Albert Square, Manchester by French Impressionist Valette, creating a dialogue between the Edwardian and contemporary city. A new artwork inspired by Breugel’s The Tower of Babel will feature at the Djanogly. Depicting the architecture and buildings of London, this work will inspire a series of workshops for families and young people throughout the exhibition exploring the role of urban areas and architecture in our lives. Based on an exhibition on tour from Manchester Art Gallery with additional works produced by the Djanogly Gallery. Image right: Tokyo Story 3: Night Harbour (after Hiroshige) 2011 www.lakesidearts.org.uk DJANOGLY ART GALLERY 7 Box office 0115 846 7777 Follow us: 8 ANGEAR VISITOR CENTRE ART GEOFF DIEGO LITHERLAND Litherland draws upon traditional genres of abstraction and science fiction surrealism to create parallel worlds that seek to question our perception of, and relationship to, nature. Saturday 21 February Angear Visitor Centre Admission free – Sunday 10 May GALLERY SHOP A selection of books, craft, jewellery, ceramics and gifts reflecting the gallery exhibitions and the museum collection are available in Lakeside's Gallery Shop. www.lakesidearts.org.uk ANGEAR VISITOR CENTRE 9 PETER CARTWRIGHT Peter Cartwright paints large-scale abstract canvases and works on paper characterised by their energetic composition and sumptuous colour. Saturday 16 May – Angear Visitor Centre Admission free Sunday 9 August ARTIST-IN- RESIDENCE JULIET GOODDEN Juliet Goodden was appointed artist-in-residence at Lakeside in November 2014. She is a Fine Art painting graduate of Central St Martin’s London and in 2013 completed an MA at Nottingham Trent University. Whilst at Lakeside Juliet will continue to explore ideas around cultural identity and the impact of changing demographics on city centres and suburbs. Her paintings focus particularly on the representation of different faith groups within the city. We welcome enquiries from schools/colleges and other groups interested in making a studio visit to meet the artist, and perhaps combining this with an arts-based activity at Lakeside. By appointment only, please book by contacting Ruth Lewis-Jones, Learning Officer (Galleries) on 0115 823 2218. See page 12 for painting workshop run by Juliet Goodden. Box office 0115 846 7777 Follow us: 10 WALLNER GALLERY ART JONATHAN STALLARD Jonathan Stallard responds to an imperative that particular subjects demand to be photographed. He is the winner of the Photography Bursary Award supported by Nottingham Trent University, Djanogly Gallery and Genesis Imaging. Saturday 11 April Wallner Gallery Admission free – Sunday 17 May