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British Art Show 7

Hayward Touring Exhibitions have announced that Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton will curate British Art Show 7, which will open in October 2010 in Nottingham and tour to the Hayward Gallery, London, Glasgow and Plymouth.

In Nottingham the show will open over three venues: Nottingham Contemporary, New Art Exchange, and Nottingham Castle Museum. Following its appearance at the Hayward Gallery in London, it will then travel to Glasgow (the CCA and Tramway Gallery) and then to Plymouth, where it will be spread over Plymouth Arts Centre, The Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery and Peninsula Arts.

Lisa Le Feuvre is a curator and writer based in London, where she teaches on the postgraduate curatorial program in the department of art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Between 2005 and 2009 she directed the contemporary art program at the National Maritime Museum. Exhibitions have included “Dan Holdsworth: At the Edge of Space, Parts 1- 3”; “Lawrence Weiner: Inherent in the Rhumb Line” and “Simon Patterson: the Undersea World and Other Stories.” She has staged exhibitions at the CCA, Glasgow; Photographer’s Gallery, London; MOT, London and Arts Council England.

Tom Morton is also based in London, where he is a curator at the Hayward Gallery. His most recent exhibitions have included Cyprien Gaillard, Guido van der Werve, and Tim Lee. He was curator of Cubitt Gallery, London, and curated the exhibition “How to Endure” for the 2007 Athens Biennale, and was co-curator of the 2008 Busan Biennale, South Korea. Morton has also been contributing editor of Frieze magazine since 2003.

The pair said, “We are delighted to have been selected by Hayward Touring and the participating venues to curate The British Art Show 7. Building on the excellent work of British Art Show 6 curators Alex Farquharson and Andrea Schlieker, we hope to explore and expand the possibilities of what a large scale ‘time and place’ exhibition might be, at a moment when urgent new voices in British art are making themselves heard.”

The last edition by Alex Farquharson and Andrea Schlieker in 2006 attracted over 357,000 visitors. Significantly, the appearance of British Art Show 7 at the Hayward Gallery will mark the first time the exhibition has been shown in London for 20 years.
 

British Art Show 6

The British Art Show is the largest exhibition of contemporary British Art in the UK and it came to galleries across Nottingham in April 2006. The show's a great opportunity to spot the rising stars of the art world, with many of the artists from previous exhibitions going on to be nominated for, or to win the Turner Prize, and others, such as Antony Gormley, Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst, becoming famous across the world.

Taking place every five years the show is seen in just four cities across the UK. This was the first time it had come to the East Midlands and is a sign of Nottingham’s increasing cultural profile that the city was chosen to host the show.

The British Art Show featured work by 49 artists living and working in Britain today, and included a huge mixture of work - painting, sculpture, films, video, installation, photography and live art. Some artists created work that responded to current political issues, whilst other pieces were humorous and personal. A number of the artists in the exhibition worked beyond the confines of art galleries, and created projects especially for Nottingham that responded directly to the people and the city.

The partners who presented the exhibition in Nottingham were Angel Row Gallery, the Castle, Bonington Gallery, Djanogly Art Gallery, the Yard Gallery at Wollaton Hall, and the New Art Exchange. The British Art Show definitely took over all of the major galleries in the city!

Sideshow festival

Running alongside the British Art Show was a festival organised by Nottingham artists entitled Sideshow. Taking place in a variety of spaces and places across Nottingham, the event highlighted the best work being created by emerging independent local artists, alongside national and international activity to deliver a diverse, innovative and inspiring programme of contemporary art.

Additionally, Nottingham Trent University and the University of Nottingham hosted a major academic conference during the opening weekend of the exhibition, taking the British Art Show as its inspiration.

The artists featured in British Art Show 6, April – June 2006, were:

Tomma Abts, Chris Evan, Daria Martin, Haluk Akakçe, Doug Fishbone, Ivan & Heather Morison, Phil Allen, Siobhan Hapaska, Rosalind Nashashibi, Tonico Lemos Auad, Roger Hiorns, Nils Norman, Claire Barclay, Matthew Houlding, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Anna Barriball, Richard Hughes, Silke Otto-Knapp, Breda Beban, Marine Hugonnier, Toby Paterson, Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska, Gareth Jones, Paul Rooney
Juneau/projects, Eva Rothschild, Public Works, Kerstin Kartscher, Zineb Sedira, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Janice Kerbel, Lucy Skaer, Gordon Cheung, Mark Leckey, Alia Syed, Adam Chodzko, Hew Locke, David Thorpe,  Marcus Coates, Andrew MacDonald, Mark Titchner, Nathan Coley, Christina Mackie, Rebecca Warren, Enrico David, Goshka Macuga, Gary Webb, Carey Young.

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Haluk Akakçe, The Birth of Art, 2003
DVD still. Duration: 4 minutes 10 seconds 
Courtesy The Approach, London
© the artist

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