NVA 5: The Craft Issue OUT NOW!

Featuring: GameCity,The Davenport Shop of Originality, Spinster’s Emporium, Curiosity.Haus, Beth Bramich, Jack Vickers, Debbie Bryan, Michael Pinchbeck, Wayne Burrows, Tessa Farmer, Jean Genet, Mat Trivett & Gob Squad, Harley Gallery, Michael Petry, Maggy Milner& Tracey Emin, Laura Baxter, Creative Twinning, Lustre and much, much more....

Nottingham Visual Arts presents its first themed issue this month. We’ve decided to focus on the high quality contemporary craft that one can see in our fair city. This autumn sees the fabulous Lustre come to Lakeside Arts Centre once again – in perfect time for seasonal gifts. NVA highlights the very best of the up and coming talent in the sector by focusing on Lustre’s ‘Young Meteors.’ We also cast a spotlight on the growing independent businesses that make a living from supporting designers and makers bespoke practice and championing the vintage on the vanguard.

Our craft theme extends to reviews and write-ups which also take a look from a nostalgic angle: Wayne Burrows visits Maggy Milner’s haunting installation at Southwell Workhouse and makes some astute comparisons to the recent Tracey Emin show at the Hayward Gallery; Michael Pinchbeck unravels the first Genet Symposium at Nottingham Contemporary with a closer look at the meaning of Dramaturgy. Artist Mat Trivett continues the Six Degrees of Separation interviews and has a chat with Nottingham performance veterans, Gobsquad.

We’d also like to introduce you to our new NVA interns, Jack Vickers and Beth Bramich who have been working hard to present a series of reviews and interviews for this issue. Features include write ups of The Harley Gallery’s recent touring show – Reclaiming Art & Craft; an interview with Tessa Farmer; a review of Game City and a book review of The Art of Not Making: The new artist/artisan relationship by Michael Petry.
We’re really happy to report Lakeside Arts Centre has become a regular supporter to the magazine alongside Nottingham Contemporary, providing us with more valuable links from the municipal to the independent sector. To find out more about how your Nottingham based arts organisation can do this and the exclusive offers on advertising and marketing NVA can provide, please contact jennie@nottinghamvisualarts.net.

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