Contemporary
Visual Arts Network
East Midlands
Celebrating and Supporting Visual Arts in the East Midlands
Contemporary
Visual Arts Network
East Midlands
Celebrating and Supporting Visual Arts in the East Midlands
Our new programme will highlight the region’s strengths and identify its weaknesses, and explore what is needed to accelerate the growth of a vibrant, flourishing visual arts sector and support practitioners to meet their artistic, cultural and economic potential.
Ivan Smith is a sculptor based in Derbyshire. Born in Mexico City in 1965, he spent seven years developing site-specific nocturnal one-night-only exhibitions in the West Midlands with the artist-led Fine Rats International. Alongside this, he developed his own projects, residencies and exhibitions in the UK and abroad, eventually moving to Derby in 2001 to… Read more
Lesley Beale is Craft Coordinator and Neil Walker is Head of Visual Arts Programming at the University of Nottingham’s Lakeside Arts. Their programme spans the Djanogly Gallery – where they present a year-round programme of largely twentieth-century and contemporary art exhibitions by British and international artists, a number of which are related directly to research… Read more
