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NTU Festival: The Island 

13th – 23rd March 

Opening Nights: Tuesday 12th and Tuesday 19th March, 6-8pm 

This March sees the return of the annual Surface collaboration with Nottingham Trent University with the 13th NTU Festival: The Island. 

Following the success of last year’s festival, Inside, Outside, Together, Apart, this year’s selected Fine Art students will use a critical and reflective approach to curate group exhibitions in response to the festival’s title by exploring the idea of The Island as a potent site of the imagination onto which we can project fantasies, aspirations, and possible futures. The Island is a physical space and an imaginary one, a place of utopian isolation that is both destination and point of departure for this year’s selected artists.

The NTU Festival offers selected Fine Art students the opportunity to curate a group exhibition that establishes their practice outside of the university. Surface provides a supportive and professional environment for the students to plan and show their work. Two exhibitions will run concurrently in each week of the festival.

Week One 

Main Gallery and Project Space

Exhibition dates: 13th– 16th  March

Opening Night: Tuesday 12th March, 6-8pm 

Truth or Trash 

Amy Dipple / Gabriella Klitou / Hena Mistry / Chloe Preece / Ella Smart 

Foraged From the Fleeting 

Lucy Davies / Jessica Lewis / Rhianna Pierson / Kate Richardson 

Week Two

Main Gallery and Project Space

Exhibition dates: 20th– 23rd March

Opening Night: Tuesday 19th March, 6-8pm

Wherever You May Wander 

Vidhi Jangra / Nada Khartabil / Lucy Nelson 

Fear Can’t Hold You Anymore than a Dream 

Samuel Basham / Nate Rood 

For exhibition details: www.surfacegallery.org/exhibitions/ntu-festival-the-island

Artist Talks: Saturday 23rd March, 2-4pm

Free Entry: Everyone Welcome 

Opening Hours: 

Opening Nights: Tuesday 12th and Tuesday 19th March, 6-8pm
Tuesday to Friday: 12:00-18:00
Saturday: 11:00-17:00

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Nottingham 

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