Doodle Wall 3, works

Surface Gallery are working in conjuntion with the Castle and are currently hosting Salon des Refusés - housing a wide range of artwork submitted by artist within the city, and embracing the street art talents within the community.

Monday 27th July, was the third and final of the Surface Gallery ‘Doodle Wall’ events in the Long Gallery of Nottingham Castle, where Surface Gallery volunteers worked with children and parents to create a wall of creativity, expression, variety and free speech!

and all five walls:

Open Show reception

The evening reception for the 2011 Open Show was held on 15th July. I was only able to be there for the first 30-40 minutes but it was getting pretty lively even then. The Open Show contains a really diverse range of work and this was the first time I'd had a chance to look at it. I sat in on the first of the selection meetings so knew that it'd be high quality since much of what we had to turn down even at that stage was pretty good. I missed the rest of the selection meetings and don't envy those who had to narrow the shortlist down to what we could actually fit in the gallery. I can certainly recommend anyone get to the show: it demonstrates the range of contemporary art in the UK.

I managed to take a few pictures before I left. Unfortunately, I obviously messed up the settings getting the camera out of my bag and didn't think to check (something I remind myself to do each time I screw up) them so the early pictures are dark and fuzzy. I just hope Matt got going with his camera after I left. Anyway, here's a selection. The rest are in a special Flickr set. The Flickr pics are reduced in size to max 1024 px so if anyone wants the original photo (unlikely, given the quality), let me know.

Again, apologies about the quality.

Surface Open Show 2011

Open Show 2011 is Surface Gallery’s annual international open submissions exhibition. Heading into it’s 9th successful year the exhibition aims to investigate diverse contemporary art practice, providing a platform for today’s emerging and established artists. Open Show 2011 is selected and curated by the Surface Gallery curatorial team and one winning artist will be selected by a panel of established Nottingham based artists and curators.

The prize for the 2011 Open Show winner is a free solo exhibition at Surface Gallery in 2012 in collaboration with Surface Gallery.

12 – 30 July Exhibition
15 July Evening Reception
Winner announced
23 July Curatorial Tour and Talk

This year’s exhibiting artists are:
Alice Myers
Alicja Dobrucka
Andrew Carson
Anneliese Krueger
Daniel Peter Hughes
David Watkins
Dermot Punnett
Emma Sywyj
Irene Pérez Hernández
James Clarkson
Jonathan Kipps
Joseph Cutts
Joshua Uvieghara
Laura Green
Lee Sullivan
Leo Koivistoinen
Lyndsey Redford
Richard Devereux
Simone Koche
Tim Haynes
Ting-Tong Chang

Open Show 2011 is part of the Independent Arts Festival NOTLOST www.notlostfestival.co.uk