Art & Design

November 2012

Week One

Exhibition: Water, love runs down
Monday 29 October – Friday 2 November 2012
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, City site

Curator: Jenny Chamarette, Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
Water is both a life-giving and life-taking force; it is sensual and threatening, inscrutable and beautiful, cruel and yielding, vast and microscopic. Water has the capacity to distort and magnify light and sound. This exhibition combines the work of moving image artists, filmmakers and public information broadcasts. 

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Week Two

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Week Three

Journeys in Lace - Part Two
Monday 12 November – Friday 14 December 2012
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University

Students from the Textiles, Fashion and Decorative Arts courses at Nottingham Trent University have been inspired by its lace archive to produce drawings, textiles, products and investigations. Using the rich heritage of the archive to form the starting point they explore the concept of lace, exploration with materials the use of heritage to inform design thinking for a new generation of designers.

Private view: Journeys in Lace - Part Two
Tuesday 13 November 2012, 6 pm - 8 pm
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University

This is the special private viewing of the Journey's in Lace - Part Two exhibition

Lace: heritage and contemporary textile practice
Friday 16 November 2012
Newton building, Nottingham Trent University, City site

The purpose of the symposium is to consider how lace, as a manufactured product, part of national heritage and with strong connotations is currently being viewed, re-interpreted, and celebrated within culture. Key note speakers will develop themes and discussion points for the audience to consider and engage with workshop participation.

Visit the Nottingham Trent University lace archive
Saturday 17 November 2012, 11 am - 3 pm
Bonington building, Nottingham Trent University

Nottingham Trent University is inviting the public to view a variety of samples from the lace archive. An archive that holds 75,000 items of lace, as single pieces, as items in manufacturers sample books, as portfolios of machine-made and hand-made lace.

1700 to 2012: Cluny lace and the Nottingham Lace Trade delivered by Sheila Mason
Saturday 17 November 2012, 11 am - 12 pm
Bonington building, Nottingham Trent University

Cluny Lace is owned and managed by the eighth and ninth generations of the Mason family. A  firm that prides itself on the quality of their beautiful traditional Leavers lace. Nottingham Trent University is inviting the public to attend this talk delivery by Sheila Mason, providing a detailed history of Nottingham's lace industry and the story of Cluny Lace.


The Lace Makers: the forgotten story of English Lace
Saturday 17 November 2012, 11 pm
Bonington building, Nottingham Trent University

Delivered as part of the Lace:here:now big weekend the public are invited to view the latest film by Edward Jarvis - The Lace Makers: the forgotten story of English Lace.

Future Factory Project Showcase
Wednesday 14 November 2012, 4 pm - 7 pm
Nottingham Trent University, City site

Find out first-hand what benefits and innovations the University's range of academics and technical experts have brought local organisations through the Future Factory project. 

UCAS Design your future - London
Wednesday 14 - Thursday 15 November 2012
ExCel, London

Come and visit us on stand number 84 at the UCAS Design your future art and design exhibition and talk to our students about what it's like to be a undergraduate student at Nottingham Trent University. 

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Week Four

Journeys in Lace - Part Two
Monday 12 November – Friday 14 December 2012
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University
Students from the Textiles, Fashion and Decorative Arts courses at Nottingham Trent University have been inspired by its lace archive to produce drawings, textiles, products and investigations. Using the rich heritage of the archive to form the starting point they explore the concept of lace, exploration with materials the use of heritage to inform design thinking for a new generation of designers.

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Week Five

Journey's in Lace - Part Two
Monday 12 November – Friday 14 December 2012
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University

Students from the Textiles, Fashion and Decorative Arts courses at Nottingham Trent University have been inspired by its lace archive to produce drawings, textiles, products and investigations. Using the rich heritage of the archive to form the starting point they explore the concept of lace, exploration with materials the use of heritage to inform design thinking for a new generation of designers.

UCAS Design your future - Manchester
Monday 26 - Tuesday 27 November 2012
Manchester Central Convention Complex, Manchester

Come and visit us on stand number 63 at the UCAS Design your future art and design exhibition and talk to our students about what it's like to be a undergraduate student at Nottingham Trent University. 

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