Creative Midlands East

Creative Midlands East

Wish you were here!

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 02:00 AM PST

This week The Surface Gallery on Southwell Road launched its first exhibition of 2012 with its annual  nostalgic look at the good old fashioned postcard.

A total of 265 postcards produced by 122 established practitioners, students, new comers and international artists  are exhibiting their original artwork in the 4″ by 6″ format. Each artist will be given the opportunity to receive an original artwork in exchange for their own.

These original artworks are also for sale throughout the exhibition, priced at just £15. This is an ideal opportunity to discover up and coming artists and to buy some original work for an affordable price.

This family friendly event also allows visitors to create your own personalised postcard, inspired by the exhibition. Providing a (pleasant?) escape from today's instant communication society participants can send their own personalised, hand crafted postcard for just 70p to whom they wish. All postcards made as part of the interactive aspect of the show will be on display at the gallery for the duration of the show before posting out.
Sounds like a fun way to spend the afternoon or entertain the kids? For details of how to find the Gallery and opening hours please click here.
Photography credit to Matthew Hoyland. Thanks Matthew!

Michael Clark dance company at Curve

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 12:00 AM PST

27th Jan 2012 ⁄ East Midlands ⁄ Michael Clark Company returns to Curve with the latest instalment of his critically acclaimed dance production made primarily to the music of David Bowie - come, been and gone. The piece also embraces...

NTU student wins top prize with squirrel antics animation!

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 11:34 AM PST

Congratulations go to Ben Hennessey, a 3rd year graphic design student at Nottingham Trent University who won 1st prize in the "stop-motion" category in a national competition for Channel 4 and Red Bull. He will be joining Aardman, of Wallace and Gromit fame, for a month long placement for his prize.

His winning animation has already been screened on Channel 4 and can be found here.

Ben commented: "I wanted to use a character that relates to Red Bull as a brand and after reading that squirrels get a big adrenaline rush from dogs chasing them up trees I thought they were ideal to base my film on.

"I entered the competition as I thought it would be an amazing opportunity to work with one of the world's best animation companiesand I cannot wait to be working with Aardman. I know it's going to be life changing and an amazing experience."

"The rest of my idea came about by taking the can apart. Looking at each section of the can I thought about what I could turn it into. When I saw the curved sheet of metal I instantly thought about skateboarding and knew that Red Bull works with skateboarders so thought it would fit in perfectly with the brand."

The inaugural Red Bull Canimation competition was a nationwide search for new creative talent, offering student and non-professional animators the chance to win internships at top animation studios Aardman, The Mill and 12foot6 among other prizes. The only rule was that the iconic blue and silver Red Bull can took centre stage.

Well done Ben – clearly a talent to watch out for!
Posted by Creative Midlands at 1/27/2012 11:12:00 am
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