Work from ceramics workshop after school for Year 11 students.

Merry Christmas from the Art Club!!

All decorations made in Art club by Year 7 and 8 students.

Young Creative Awards 2015 - why not enter?

2015 Theme

Made in Nottingham

Nottingham is again holding the Young Creative Awards in 2015 and looking for young creative people to enter its yearly competition.

This year’s theme is “Made in Nottingham” which reflects some of the diverse and fantastic creative talents, who hail from here. Nottingham is rich in talent and is renowned for its innovation andfor being at the forefront of technology and science. Many things have been Made in Nottingham – just think of Raleigh, Lace, Boots, the invention of Ibuprofen. Writers and artists, past and present, have been born in and come from Nottingham. Exciting new musicians are emerging from the city, such as Jake Bugg, Ronika and London Grammar. Great literary figures such as Alan Silitoe and Lawrence hailed from here and depicted life in our county in both darkness and light. In film, Shane Meadows has been flying the flag for Nottingham.

It’s no coincidence that Nottingham has such a rich cultural heritage and there’s plenty of evidence that this will continue into the future.

We want you, the young people of Nottingham, whether born here and in the true sense of the words “Made in Nottingham”, studying here or having moved here to live and further your careers to tell us creatively about the things that you think were made in Nottingham, no matter how large or small, famous, personal 

Your entry may be a visual composition of some of icons of the city. It may be a moment in time that you have captured in the city on film, it could be an object that was built or designed in the city or a product that is linked with Nottingham that you want to celebrate. It may be a song that was recorded here, a photograph taken here, an item of clothing that was made here or a story or poem that was written about the city.

Why not write a piece of music about the Nottingham or create a design for a new building in the city, or photograph some of its famous landmarks and buildings, it’s is entirely up to you. Your entry could be about you, as you were made in this city, so tell us about yourself, send us visuals, a portrait, or a photograph, so be creative and enter the competition, The details of how to enter our provided below.

You are invited to be as creative, unique, experimental and expressive as you like within the categories. The past winners have been creative and they have met our brief while giving us a new way of seeing Nottingham.

The categories are Architecture and Design; Animation and Digital Media; Creative Writing; Dance; Fashion and Textiles; Film; Graphic Design; Music; Photography and Visual Arts.

The formal launch of the 2015 Young Creative Awards will take place in October, with entries open from January- March 2015. The closing date for the competition is 23 March 2015 . The official entry details will be available in time for the launch, but it would help you if you start preparing now.

The qualification criteria:

Age: You must be between the ages of 13 years and 24 years old at the closing date of the competition.

There are 3 age bands – each will be judged in its age range:
13 – 15 years old
16 – 18 years old
19 – 24 years old

You may enter as an individual, as a group, as a class/study group or club.

In each age group and category, the panels will look for a winner and runner up.

The overall winner across all the categories will be named as the Nottingham Young Creative of the Year 2014 and will win an additional cash prize, plus mentoring and other opportunities.

The competition is open to anyone who lives, studies or works in Nottingham.

To find out more visit www.youngcreativeawards.org.uk or email yca@onenottingham.org.uk

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Photography exhibition on at the TATE Modern, London (Until 15th March 2015)

Conflict, Time, Photography

Tate Modern: Exhibition

26 November 2014 – 15 March 2015

The Eyal Ofer Galleries
Adult £14.50 (without donation £13.10)
Concession £12.50 (without donation £11.30)
Help Tate by including the voluntary donation to enable Gift Aid
Additional booking fee of £1.75 (£2 via telephone) per transaction applies
Under 12s go free (up to four per parent or guardian)

From the seconds after a bomb is detonated to a former scene of battle years after a war has ended, this moving exhibition focuses on the passing of time, tracing a diverse and poignant journey through over 150 years of conflict around the world, since the invention of photography.

In an innovative move, the works are ordered according to how long after the event they were created from moments, days and weeks to decades later. Photographs taken seven months after the fire bombing of Dresden are shown alongside those taken seven months after the end of the First Gulf War. Images made in Vietnam 25 years after the fall of Saigon are shown alongside those made in Nakasaki 25 years after the atomic bomb. The result is the chance to make never-before-made connections while viewing the legacy of war as artists and photographers have captured it in retrospect.

Turner exhibition at Tate Britain, London. (Until 25th January 2015)

The EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free 

Tate Britain: Exhibition

10 September 2014 – 25 January 2015

Adult £16.50 (without donation £15.00)
Concession £14.50 (without donation £13.10)
Help Tate by including the voluntary donation to enable Gift Aid
Additional booking fee of £1.75 (£2 via telephone) per transaction applies
Under 12s go free (up to four per parent or guardian) 

The EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free is the first exhibition devoted to the extraordinary work J.M.W. Turner created between 1835 and his death in 1851. Bringing together spectacular works from the UK and abroad, this exhibition celebrates Turner’s astonishing creative flowering in these later years when he produced many of his finest pictures but was also controversial and unjustly misunderstood.

Guy Bourdin Photography Exhibition: 'Image Maker' at Somerset House, London. (Until 15th March 2015)

  

Guy Bourdin Exhibition at Somerset House. 

'IMAGE MAKER'.

27 November 2014 – 15 March 2015
Daily 10.00-18.00 (Last admission 17.15)
Until 21.00 Thursdays (Last admission 20.15)
24 & 31 December 10.00-16.00, 25 & 26 December-closed, 1 January 12.00-18.00
Embankment Galleries, South Wing
£9.00, £7.00 concessions.

The UK’s largest ever exhibition of the influential and enigmatic fashion photographer Guy Bourdin, featuring over 100 works and previously unseen material from the photographer’s estate, from 1955 to 1987.  This major show charts Bourdin’s distinguished 40-year career from Man Ray’s protégé to photography revolutionary in his own right and explore his pursuit of perfection. The exhibited works exemplify the craftsmanship behind his images, from production to publication, and their enduring quality as a consequence.

Lakeside Arts Centre Exhibition - Open until 22nd February 2015.

IN THE SHADOW OF WAR

Admission Free

Saturday 29 November - Sunday 22 February 11am - 5pm 

Djanogly Art Gallery

Djanogly Art Gallery Opening Hours
Monday - Saturday 11am - 5pm
Sundays 12noon - 4pm

In anticipation of the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this exhibition features the work of a generation of artists who rose to prominence in post-war Britain.