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28/04/2025

🧵🫟🥼✂️ This Wednesday & Thursday we are very excited to be hosting a free workshop with multi-disciplinary artist Arianna Tinulla Milesi, delivered in response to our current Bonington Vitrines exhibition ‘Nottingham Subcultural Fashion in the 1980s’.

Arianna is currently in residence at on the programme. Through her ongoing project ‘This room has no walls anymore, just endless trees’ Arianna creates shared spaces through the act of drawing – making opportunity for discussion and the sharing of knowledge, storytelling, materials and skills.

Responding to themes in our Vitrines exhibition, Arianna will explore relationships between fashion, devotional and ritual orientated contexts. You don’t need to have skills in sewing or making and we’ll provide all the materials – though you are invited to bring along an item of clothing to work with on day two if you’d like to.

Day 1: Wed 30 Apr 11am-1pm
Day 2: Thur 1 May 11am-3pm

Link in bio for more information and to book.

This activity is part of our student led Bonington Connects events series - currently programmed and organised by NTU MFA Student .jangra.

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16/04/2025

🥚Easter opening hours🥚

Friday 18 April (Closed)
Saturday 19 April (Open 11am-3pm)
Monday 21 April (Closed)
Tuesday 22 April (Closed)

All images from ‘Nottingham Subcultural Fashion in the 1980s’, the current exhibition in our Foyer. This, and ‘Weird Hope Engines’ are open until May 10th.

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09/04/2025

Join us on Wednesday 16th April, 7-8.30pm for a free online In-conversation event between multidisciplinary artist Aziza Kadyri, and Francesca Stocco, PhD researcher of textile art at Nottingham Trent University.

The talk will explore Aziza’s contemporary art practice, which blends the Central Asian tradition of suzani embroidery with AI technology. Combining physical stitching with digital tools, she reformulates suzani motifs and infuses them with personal and current socio-political narratives.

Together, the speakers will discuss the evolving meaning of textile craft in Aziza’s practice and in the context of Uzbekistan’s ongoing cultural transformation. Aziza has represented Uzbekistan at the 2024 Venice Art Biennial, along with the Qizlar collective and suzani master Madina Kasimbaeva. Set within a deconstructed theatre backstage, the exhibition explored migration, identity, and belonging through the lived experiences of Central Asian women. Through her collective and multi-media practice, Aziza challenges the Euro-centric division between craft and the fine arts, while also questioning the notion of single authorship in artistic production.

This event is part of Formations, Bonington Gallery’s ongoing events programme that is delivered in partnership with the Postcolonial and Global Studies Research Group.

Link in bio to book.

📷 1: Photo by Kamila Banks
📷 2: ‘9 Moons’ (2023), courtesy the artist
📷 3: ‘9 Moons’ (2023), courtesy the artist
📷 4: Photo by Ivan Erofeev

08/04/2025

Really pleased to share these pics from our fantastic launch a couple of weeks back. Thanks so much to everyone who came and gave ‘Weird Hope Engines’ and ‘Nottingham Subcultural Fashion in the 1980s’ such an energetic start, and to everyone who has visited since. It’s been a really busy couple of weeks!

Both exhibitions are open until May 10th, don’t miss!

📷 John Smalley

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31/03/2025

It’s been a busy start for Weird Hope Engines, with many visitors through the doors observing and interacting with the different works on show. It’s been fantastic seeing the gallery used and engaged with in this way.

The exhibition runs until May 10th, we’re open Mon-Fri 10-5pm, Sat 11-3pm.

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26/03/2025

‘The Forgotten Fashion Scene That Put Nottingham on the Map’ - great piece by about our new Vitrines/Foyer exhibition ‘Nottingham Subcultural Fashion in the 1980s’ - curated with and featuring commissioned essays by .

This exhibition, and ‘Weird Hope Engines’ in the gallery run until May 10th - don’t miss!

Slide 3: Clothes by ‘Psalms’
Slide 5: Page from Mar 1991 ‘Heavy Duty’ feature about
Slide 7: Model wearing clothes by ‘Psalms’
Slide 9: Contact sheet of models wearing clothes by

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24/03/2025

🤯 What an amazing weekend! Following the launch on Friday (pics coming soon) of Weird Hope Engines, we were delighted to host the Critical Hits Zine Fair on Saturday - also curated & organised by .edwards and ()

As well as hosting some incredible publishers - including students from and - there was a rich programme of talks, seminars, gaming sessions and screenings throughout the day.

Thanks to all the publishers, speakers and organisers, and to everyone who came for making it such an amazing day 🙏❤️

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16/03/2025

📚📽️🗣️ This Saturday 11-5pm, we are delighted to be extending the launch of ‘Weird Hope Engines’ with the ‘Critical Hits Zine Fair’, an event celebrating DIY publishing and tabletop gaming with vendors from Nottingham and beyond including , , , and students from & .

The Critical Hits Zine Fair brings together independent publishers, artists, and writers exploring themes of critical worlding, resistance, and alternative futures.

Alongside a diverse range of zines and collectables to purchase, the Fair also features a programme of talks and conversations with artists from the exhibition including and , and panel discussions on fantasy illustration, game design and miniature fabrication with , , Scrap World, and .j.r.huntley.

Critical Hits Zine Fair also features gaming sessions with , Angela Washko and Andrew Walter, as well as a film screening programme delving further into the narratives, aesthetics, and communities that shape these immersive worlds, including the documentaries World of Darkness (2017) and Eye of the Beholder: The Art of Dungeons & Dragons (2019).

Link in bio for more info and to book.

Images 1,3,4,5: ‘Areas Of Effect Sympsoium’, curated by David Blandy, Rebecca Edwards and Jamie Sutcliffe for , 2024.

Image 2: Tile uses a still from the film ‘World of Darkness’, 2017

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10/03/2025

We are VERY excited to be opening ‘Weird Hope Engines’ curated by David Blandy, Rebecca Edwards and Jamie Sutcliffe () next Friday 21 March, 6-8pm. All welcome!!!

“What to do when the present is a boghole of despair? There is an alternative; you just have to envision it, and sometimes (just sometimes) art and games can help.” for about WHE.

This will be accompanied by Nottingham Subcultural Fashion in the 1980s in our Vitrines (and across the foyer!), co-curated with and including 10 newly commissioned short essays by Ian Trowell that detail and contextualise the period, from the perspective of Ian growing up in the East Midlands.

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Image 2: Déspatch magazine

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07/03/2025

Final day tomorrow (Saturday 8th) to catch .o.akinola’s solo exhibition ‘Knees Kiss Ground’, as well as .aimless.archive ‘Suggested Starting Points’ in our Vitrines. There’s an Open Day so we’ll be open for longer hours: 9.30am-3.30pm.
o.akinola ‘Knees Kiss Ground’ was delivered in partnership with .

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Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	11am - 3pm

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