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BACKLIT Gallery is excited to announce its Annual Members Show. The exhibition will feature an eclectic mix of 52 contemporary artworks, showcasing the creativity and talent of our diverse artist community. The exhibition reflects various creative processes, regularly taking place at BACKLIT studios, including collaboration, play, experimentation and innovation.

BACKLIT presents Punk — the well-known subculture, through stories and ephemera from the East Midlands and beyond.

BACKLIT is delighted to present ​‘Co-‘, an exhibition that intends to explore the idea of the value of collaboration, community and conversation.

BACKLIT is delighted to present The Joy of Destruction, an exhibition exploring disruptions of oppressive power systems in gaming, world-building and simulation.

Seeking Roots is a group exhibition showcasing the culminative works of the 2023 OUTCOME cohort in collaboration with Green Hustle Festival.

Silk to Silicon, the debut solo show of contemporary artist and designer, Sebastian Koseda, brings together moving images, woven textiles, and graphic design to spotlight the tensions between automation, craftspeople and workers over the last two centuries and into tomorrow.

In the UK we produce 98.66kg of plastic waste per capita annually. The unbelievable truth is we are throwing away significantly more plastic than our own weight as an entire population, every single year. 

Exodus Crooks, Arit Emmanuela Etukudo, Rene Matić, Zethu Maseko, Kim Thompson, Curated by Jazz Swali and Saziso Phiri.

Share Bears is a group show which celebrates 14 new collaborations between 28 members of the BACKLIT creative community, developed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Lizz Brady, Hana Madness and the vacuum cleaner, Dan Hett, Niall Farrelly, Benedict Drew, Eunjung Suh, Suzanne Golden, Luke Fowler, Nicola Dale and Benjamin Rostance.

Guerrilla Girls, Dominique Golden, ORLAN, Hannah Parikh, Sondra Perry, Kembra Pfahler, Millie Quick, Magali Reus, Global Sistaz and Martha Wilson.

Matthew Chesney, Chloe Langlois, Demi Overton, Craig Parr, Martin Rayment, Jenna Round, Lois Gardner Sabet and K Webborn / fourbeatwalk.

Mountain of Tongues celebrated the complexity of distinct languages and cultures in the Caucasus region between Europe and Asia.

Ana Čvorović, Anna Fasshauer, Jack Killick, Brian Griffiths, Siobhán Hapaska and Alice Hartley.

Jade Annaw, Ellen Brady, Connor Brazier, Matthew Chesney, Joey Holder, Daniel Rapley, Martin Rayment, Mo Scott, and Suzanne van der Lingen.

Jade Annaw, Ellen Brady, Connor Brazier, Matthew Chesney, Joey Holder, Daniel Rapley, Martin Rayment, Mo Scott, Suzanne van der Lingen.

Matthew Barney, Ana Mendieta, David Wojnarowicz, Ryan Trecartin, Marianna Simnett, Jacolby Satterwhite, Mandy Niewöhner, and Jake Moore.

Milk + Blood: A performance by artist Franko B toured the UK and Internationally in the of Summer 2016.

Alistair Frost’s exhibition offered two kinds of artistic creativity: that were produced by the artist in isolation and that made in cooperation with BACKLIT Gallery’s studio artists and the visitors who came to see the show.

BACKLIT presented Turner prize-winning artist Simon Starling in an exhibition that explored connections and migrations across time and space with two works Black Drop and Nine Feet Later.

Connor Brazier, Matthew Chesney, Matthew Collins, Daniel Evans-Pughe, Anthony Fletcher, Ashley David Gallant, Lois Gardner Sabet, Sara Gaynor, Nick Gear, Tracey Kershaw, Gemma Land, Rosemary MacLennan, Jake Moore, Sophia Ogonda, Demi Overton, Jon Pask, Daniel Rapley, Martin Rayment, Antonietta Sacco, Mo Scott, Alison Whitmore, Hannah Whitlow, Jade Williams, Tom Woodcock.

Gillian Wearing and Backlit hosted an afternoon of ​‘one off’ creative sessions exploring confidence, writing, music and language.

Sïan Astley, Kevin Boyd, Lydia Brockless, U. Kanad Chakrabarti, James William Collins, Andrei Costache, Julia Curtin, Abri de Swardt, Melanie Eckersley, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Justin Fitzpatrick, Hannah Ford, Sophie Giller, Richard Hards, Juntae T.J.Hwang, Jasmine Johnson, Tomomi Koseki, Hilde Krohn Huse, Pandora Lavender, Jin Han Lee, Hugo López Ayuso, Beatrice-Lily Lorigan, Scott Lyman, Hanqing Ma & Mona Yoo, Scott Mason, Oliver McConnie, Mandy Niewöhner, Hamish Pearch, Neal Rock, Conor Rogers, Katie Schwab, Tim Simmons, David Cyrus Smith, Francisco Sousa Lobo, Aaron Wells, Morgan Wills and Andrea Zucchini.

Billy Craigan-Toon, John Fuller, Sara Gaynor, Sam Hewland, Craig Proud, Benjamin Kay, Jake Kent, Tracey Kershaw, Sue Lea, Rosemary MacLennan, Ali Morgan-Tansley, Valerie Turton, Antonietta Sacco, Maureen Scott, Celine Siani Djiakoua.

Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, Lucinda Childs, Christopher Knowles, Andy De Groat.

Darren Banks, Mark Davey, Tracey McMaster, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Julian Wild

Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporated commonplace industrial objects.

As part of his international curatorial residency at Backlit, Carsten Recksik presented four emerging German artists in the project space.

A solo exhibition by Frank Kent. Kent’s exhibition presented large scale colourful paintings placed on translucent latex and framed on structured pine wood.

Andrew Brown, Christian Camacho – Reynoso, Martin Lewis, Dean Mooney, Krystina Naylor, Anna Salamon, Oliver Tirre, Jonathan Trayte.