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Art gallery visit: Grayson Perry – Man Hours and Paula Rego – Visions of English Literature walkthrough

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Join NTU Arts for this free visit to Lakeside Arts to explore their latest exhibitions from English contemporary artist, writer and broadcaster Sir Grayson Perry and Portuguese-British visual artist Dame Paula Rego. Open to NTU students with advanced booking required, you'll be guided around the gallery by Lakeside's Head of Visual Arts programming Neil Walker.

  • When: Thursday 7 November 2024, 1.30 pm
  • Location: Newton Reception, Newton Building, NTU City Campus, Nottingham, NG1 4BU
  • Cost: Free (students pay their own tram fare)
  • Booking deadline: Thursday 7 November 2024, 1.30 pm
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This event is only open to NTU and Confetti HE students.

Join us for a guided walkthrough of Grayson Perry's Man Hours and Paula Rego's Visions of English Literature at Nottingham's Lakeside Arts.

Grayson Perry: Man Hours
The printed image as a vehicle for social commentary and satire has a long history that dates to William Hogarth in the 18th Century and beyond. Grayson Perry’s work sits in that tradition. He is a witty chronicler of contemporary life with all its follies, excesses, and delusions, but his wry observations are tempered by humour and compassion.

Complementing Paula Rego’s subversion of fairy tale illustrations, Perry plunders the visual culture of the past to explore a psychological map of the present day. The prints in this exhibition span twenty years of the artist’s work in the medium.

Paula Rego: Visions of English Literature
Paula Rego was of the great artists of our time, whose work tells stories that combine fantasy, imagination, innocence, and cruelty, in order to explore life in all its complexity and mystery.

This new exhibition casts a spotlight on her remarkable practice as a graphic artist, and particularly the British literary influences that inspired her most ambitious bodies of works in printmaking: Nursery Rhymes, Peter Pan and Jane Eyre. Showcasing each series of prints combined with unseen preparatory sketches, etching plates and other ephemera, this rare exhibition offers an insight into how Rego transforms this material into startlingly original and unexpected pictures.

Timings

  • 1.30 pm  meet at Newton reception, NTU City Campus
  • 1.45 pm leave promptly, and catch the tram to Lakeside Arts together (students pay their own tram fare)
  • 2.30 pm enjoy the exhibition walkthrough at Lakeside Arts

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If you can no longer make it, please let us know so we can open up this opportunity to other students.

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Location details

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Newton Reception
Newton Building
NTU City Campus
 Nottingham
 NG1 4BU
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