Future Shorts Screening 2011
On December 13th 2011, Backlit hosted their very first Future Short Screening. Future Shorts is the largest short film network in the world. Since 2003 they have built a new audience for film across the globe, developed a platform for filmmakers that allows millions of people worldwide to engage with their work. Working across exhibition, distribution and experiential events, Future Shorts is the product of 9 years of audience development, experimentation and of reacting to the demand for another way of experiencing film. Operating online, in...
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Private view 21st October 7-9pm Exhibition Open 22nd – 6th November Opening Times Thursday – Sunday 12pm – 5pm Backlit Gallery are thrilled to present Dutch Artist Iris Bouwmeester in her first British Exhibition named ‘Heavenly Accidents’. This temporary installation explores the nature of order and chaos. We are also proud to present our very own studio member, Martin Lewis and his exhibition ‘Standing up, lying down’. We are exited to open the doors of our new studios and gallery in Alfred House, Ashley Street, to...
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Private view Friday 25th March 2011: 7pm – 9pm Open Saturday 26th March – Sunday 10th April Thurs – Sun 12pm – 5pm Backlit is proud to announce the opening of the new exhibition Hypnosis of the Spectacle. Featuring works by Terry Buchanan, Claire Beale and Aethan Wills Hypnosis of the Spectacle highlights those reflective moments where a distraction, a fleeting thought or a flash of cognizance can stop you dead in your tracks. In Hypnosis of the Spectacle we look at capturing these moments, remembering or...
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Private View Thursday 27th January 2011: 7pm – 10pm ‘Sisyphus Happy’ is open Friday 28th Jan – Sunday 13th Feb 2011 Thurs – Sun 12pm – 5pm Robert Luzar: UNTITLED. Willow charcoal on wall, performance, and installation, 2010. Photo: Ollie Harrop. Backlit presents ‘Sisyphus Happy’ a new exhibition featuring works by Robert Luzar and Rachel Maclean. In reference to these two diverse artists we have been exploring the Greek Myth of Sisyphus and Albert Camus’ collection of related essays which...
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Backlit presents / BACKLIT OPEN SHOW / You are welcome to attend the first ‘open submission’ exhibition at Backlit Gallery 5th August 2010 from 7pm till late. Featuring artworks by; Georgina Park Lisa Snook Mark Houghton Ellie Geary Anton Goldenstein The exhibition will continue from the 6th – 22nd of August 2010. Opening times are Thursday to Sunday from 12-5pm. Everyone welcome! [Show as slideshow] ...
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A playful exhibition picking apart the ideas of authorship, ownership and the role of the artist. Private View Thursday 6th May 2010 7pm till late ‘Double Falsehood’ is open 7th May – 22nd May 12-5pm Thursday – Sunday Main Gallery Hayley Lock To Taste Molten Diamonds Hayley Lock is a Suffolk based artist whose practice is based on reproduction, reconfiguration and souvenirs. Adaptations come to light through the mediums of paint, drawing and collage and translating the work into the modern day, depicting current iconography and...
read moreEmpiricle. Edge. Play
Empiricle. Edge. Play Curator: Empirical. Edge. Play.’ Is an experimental exhibition at Backlit art space, curated by director Matthew Chesney, questioning areas of role-play and authorship in contemporary artwork. Mark Davey, will be exhibiting in his first solo show ‘Edging’ at Backlit gallery, Nottingham. Viewer: Mark Davey? Let me think, the name rings a bell. What does he do? Curator: Davey was the finalist of Saatchi and Channel 4’s ‘New Sensations’ he makes ordinary elements of everyday life...
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MARK TITCHNER Mark Titchner, Disclosure Digital Broadway, Nottingham - Watch more Videos at Vodpod. “My name is Mark. I am thirty-six years old. I’m asking myself, is it possible to start again?” Mark Titchner along with Backlit present a multi site project along with Broadway Cinema and Speakers from Nottingham Contemporary and The Nottingham Trent University. Exhibition at Backlit Studios including a new video work made for Broadway entitled “Disclosure”. The work appears to present an open admission from...
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13th of March 2009 private view 7pm we are proud to hand over the gallery program to the capable hands of Thomas Livesey in our first guest curation, FIVE BROTHERS IN SEVEN SISTERS Main Gallery THOMAS LIVESEY STEWART CLIFF ALEX SCARF GABRIEL HARTLY ANGUS FINLAY SANDERS-DUNNACHIE Thu-Sun 12-6pm 13th-29th March When we first encountered Livesey’s work it was its solitude and seemingly hermetic qualities which endeared us. So we are excited to present this show which plays of these works with four of Livesey Peers in Backlit’s...
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Backlit are proud to announce our grand opening, and present: Main Gallery Dan Tombs Studio Gallery Simon Raven Project Space Defunct (curated by Tom Duggan and Alia Pathan) We are very pleased to host ANNEXINEMA with artist film and video from around the globe. Dan Tombs presents a cinematic panning shot of a seemingly alien landscape, both hazily unfamiliar but recognizable through our collective visual memory. This landscape is actually the artist’s adoptive home of Norfolk where he has studied and worked since 2003....
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