PREVIEW: Friday 6 October, 6-9PM
EXHIBITION: 7 October – 9 December 2023
OPENING TIMES: Thursday – Saturday, 10AM-6PM, or by appointment.

A new multi-media installation featuring two experimental films.

THE WALL is a surreal and absurdist take on housing inequality and its psychological effects. It explores how the same problems – overcrowding, ‘revenge evictions’, mould and vermin – have played out from the medieval era to the present day. Written and produced in Nottingham during August this year, it is shown here as a work in progress.

Hyperopia is a psychedelic two channel video installation on the transmission of ego which uses script, disorientating film and editing techniques, and immersive sound. A series of vignettes come together to create a contemporary fable encompassing claustrophobic relationships, delusion, escapism, healing and the search for connection.

Hyperopia was funded by Arts Council England, Wysing Arts Centre & The Elephant Trust.

THE WALL is a Primary commission, with special thanks to Actors Workshop Nottingham, National Justice Museum, Alexandra Maharry at Nottingham Playhouse, Leomi Sadler, Waj Hussain, Chris Matthews, Andy Taylor Smith, Joseph Campbell, Adam Gallagher, Joseph Campbell, Conor Smith, Billy Hughes, Jim Brouwer, Adam Gallagher, Wild Clothing, Helen & Jeff Bowering, Debbie and Stefan, Anna Pye, Helen & The Rocket men.
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication made in collaboration with Leomi Sadler.

The Actors Workshop Nottingham & The Actors Workshop Online is as a Spotlight verified vocational training provider.

Artist Bios:

Ruth Angel Edwards is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Nottingham, based in London. She works across a wide variety of media, primarily with painting, installation and heavily edited video and sound, showing works in a range of contexts both inside and outside of traditional art settings.

Exhibitions in the UK and internationally include Arcadia Missa, Auto Italia South East, Almanac, Peak, Le Bourgeois, ICA London; Bonington Gallery, Flo Skate Park Nottingham; As It Stands, Los Angeles; Stadtgallerie Bern, Switzerland; 3hd and The Wig, Berlin; Lottringer Halle 13 Munich and Denfrei Copenhagen. She has produced radio for NTS, Resonance, Sunflower and Comet Radios in London, Montez Press Radio in New York, Berlin and London, Cashmere Radio in Berlin, KChung Radio in Los Angeles and WCBN Ann Arbor in Michigan, US.

Chloée Maugile is a multidisciplinary artist working broadly in writing & directing actors for live performance and film. The work is rooted in surreal narratives that follow voices ranging in age, class & creed depicting the boisterousness of the rise of fall of the everyday.

Graduating from Slade School of Art in 2019, Maugile has written performances and video for the V&A, Young Vic, The Block, South London Gallery, Peak Gallery, Wysing Arts Centre & an upcoming show at Primary Gallery 2023. In 2020 Maugile was awarded a grant for a written commission by New York based art publisher Montez Press. In 2021; At Dawn Good Manners To Look Good was shown at the London short film festival. More recently have directed artist films for musicians such as Lolina (relaxing records), 2022.

Hyperopia:

Actors: Kierston Wareing, Anthony Gopaul, Vanessa Walker, Gerhard Sanft, Alice Fraser,  Hannah Taverner, LC & Matio Austin – Dean.

Crew:  Nina Porter, Oscar Oldershaw, Joseph Campbell, Adam Gallagher & John Edwards.
Hair & Makeup:  Emillia Conroy & Bron Ready.

Music:  Stanislav Pain, Blightcaster & Ruth Angel Edwards.

Set / Costume:  Waj Hussain & Contemporary Wardrobe.

Tech Team:  Lottie Lou, Harman Bains, Jack Wilson, Adam Gallagher & Brian Elliot

Production:  John Bloomfield, Ruth Dorber & Chloe Page

THE WALL:

Actors: Tammy Heath, Sarah Cannon, Liam Dexter, Louyindoula Balenga, Vanessa Holmes, Jamie Goodliffe, Jack Dillon, Aoife O’Neill, Reiss Jones, Connor Thomas & Jonathan Cleaver.

Crew: Andy Taylor Smith & Joeseph Campbell

Hair & Make-up: Emillia Conroy, Carly Roberts & Alice Flesher

Costume: Alexandra Maharry & Wild Clothing

Set Design: Ruth Angel Edwards, Adam Gallagher & Chloée Maugile

Production Assistant: Anna Pye

Access:

The exhibition is in the first-floor gallery space which is only accessible via stairs. An additional display of work by the artists is located in our Reading Room, which has step free access.

If you would like to make a group booking or visit our exhibitions at a quiet time please contact us on admin@weareprimary.org or 0115 924 4493 to arrange.

Large print and braille versions of the exhibition text will be available, please ask our Front of House Assistant for details.

Please email admin@weareprimary.org or call 0115 924 4493 with any access inquiries.