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open studios 2008 Nottingham

NCAN c/o 8 Hedley Villas, Nottingham NG7 7BN Events confirmed so far · Saturday 4th October, 11.00 am -5.00 pm, Open Studios at Oldknows Building (CAN, Oldknows, Egerton, and OPUS Studio groups plus Gold Factory and other spaces within the building) St Ann’s Hill Rd, Nottingham NG3 4DB.… Continue

Added by Goldfactory Admin on September 5, 2008 at 1:18pm — 1 Comment

Open Art Surgery - 4th September Shoosmiths

http://www.openartsurgery.blogspot.com/ Medsin Nottingham and Open Art Surgery What is Medsin Nottingham? Medsin (registered charity number 1111824) is a network of students who aim to promote health and act upon and educate peop… Continue

Added by Goldfactory Admin on August 22, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

Press Release: ‘15 x 15’ Artists/Designers raise money for World Vision Children!

"Press Release: ‘15 x 15’ Artists/Designers raise money for World Vision Children! "Artist/ Designer, Yvonne Watson has organised a Sale of Art. The exhibition ‘15 x 15’ sees over 100 original artworks donated for sale by Yvonne and her friends and colleagues across the region and beyond! Each piece is 15cm by 15cm and goes on sale at £15 unframed or £25 framed "The Sale kicks off with an auction of some pieces from more prominent artists, including Sokari Douglas Camp, Michael Forbe… Continue

Added by Mik Godley on July 16, 2008 at 12:45am — No Comments

OPEN show at Yard Gallery

This year the 'Open' Exhibition will be held at the Yard Gallery at Wollaton and has been organised and will be run by the ST-art organisation. This has been set up by Sarah Edom and Tom Rogers. Due to the lack of feed back from NCAN we needed to secure the space or loose the opportunity to exhibit in this very prestigious gallery. If you are interested in finding out more details you can send a STAMPED Self addressed envelope to 'Open Exhibition The Yard Gallery Wollaton NG8 2AE or they can be… Continue

Added by Goldfactory Admin on July 3, 2008 at 7:29am — No Comments

Culturgen for Trent Alumni

New Trent School of Art and Design Alumni network Based on ning so you can use same ID as on GF...for Trent Graduates only ...so no outsider dogs... http://culturgen.ning.com

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Added by Goldfactory Admin on July 2, 2008 at 7:42am — No Comments

Uploading photos problem? Use SIMPLE loader

For anybody encountering problems.. The drag and drop uploader uses newer version of JAVA and probably the machine you are using not upgraded...or browser older e.g. IE6 or Firefox 2 To avoid problems the best thing is to go to bottom of drag and drop page where there is this statement Having problems with the bulk photo uploader? Return to our simple uploader. The simple loader takes a few moments to appear but far easier to use hope this helps Continue

Added by Goldfactory Admin on July 1, 2008 at 11:05am — No Comments

NEW GOLDFACTORY FORUM

a new phpbb driven forum now in operation! come and chat to the great and the good and the not so good of the East Midlands art scene direct at.... http://www.goldfactory.org.uk/forum/ Continue

Added by Goldfactory Admin on June 5, 2008 at 4:09pm — No Comments

Goldfactory Network is growing...

GLOBAL - LOCAL GF after one month we have 35 members this includes an Argentinian Art Philosopher an art teacher from American Academy of Art in Chicago an M.A. fine art student in Dublin a Georgian outsider artist a German sculptor living in Oslo a Viennese artist living in Germany exhibiting in China a Berlin mixed media artist a Australian artist living in Northumberland and a few from Nottingham and one from Milton Keynes :-) CHECK OUT YOUR NEW NEIGHBOURS.... GF Continue

Added by Goldfactory Admin on May 19, 2008 at 9:54am — No Comments

Furtherfield Newsletter 19

FURTHERFIELD NEWSLETTER 19. =============================== A warm welcome to all regular and new subscribers to the 19th Furtherfield Newsletter. A lot has been going on through our connected neighbourhoods, platforms and projects, whether they be on-line or in physical space. In reading this document you will view many of the more recent and up and coming projects that happened in April as well as during May. It's a busy and exciting period for us and we hope that some of you will be able to… Continue

Added by Goldfactory Admin on May 19, 2008 at 9:52am — No Comments

New Life Berlin Festival, 30th May - 15th June 2008.

Closing Date: 01/05/2008 OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLIN is a critical writing initiative exploring online and offline communities during the NEW LIFE BERLIN Festival, 30th May - 15th June 2008. We are looking for local and international writers to participate. Togther, we will develop a model for critical responses to the Festival's three themes: Transnational Communities Artistic Social Responsibility Participation and Intervention Writers will attend workshops and peer critiques, see t… Continue

Added by Goldfactory Admin on May 19, 2008 at 9:51am — No Comments

Server issues - uploads

I have set photo and video upload to 'moderated' NOT because content editing but because this free service has a space limit. Most photos will be OK ( for now we limiting to 30 until we know how much space is being used up) but if people submit 100MB (the limit) videos three at a time we will soon have passed that limit. Please respect other users and try wherever possible to upload to Google or Youtube servers (unlimited) and link to the videos there. ALSO N.B. GF is also not a advertising s… Continue

Added by Goldfactory Admin on May 19, 2008 at 9:49am — No Comments

Intervention 28

Einladung/ Invitation Intervention XXVIII: Paul Matosic @ KioskShop berlin (KSb) Installation 10.5. – 14.6.2008 / May 10 – June 14, 2008 Eröffnung: Freitag, den 9.5., 19 – 21.30 Uhr/ Opening: Friday May 9, 7 – 9.30 pm Please scroll down for Englisg version Paul Matosic, Post-trade, Installation in Arbeit (work in progress), May 2008 Post-trade Paul Matosic aus Nottingham/England wird in seiner Interventionsausstellung die Installation Post-trade und von dieser Werkgruppe abgeleit… Continue

Added by Paul Matosic on May 14, 2008 at 8:36am — No Comments

Robert Hillis and Contemporaries, Cambridge.

Cambridge, UK - An absorbing vision of nineteenth-century rural life is revealed in a new exhibition opening at The Fitzwilliam Museum this month. ‘The field calls me to labour’: watercolours of nineteenth-century rural Britain by Robert Hills and his contemporaries presents a fascinatin… Continue

Added by Goldfactory Admin on May 13, 2008 at 5:27pm — No Comments

courage...

"... You think something is beautiful because many people consider it beautiful. You're influenced by the collective consciousness. Like fashion: you desire a certain style of clothing based on what others decide is fashionable. If the majority considers it beautiful, you agree that it is beautiful. You may go to an art exhibit and see a number of paintings that you don't find beautiful at all. But all the people who come to the exhibit praise and appreciate these paintings, so you pretend they… Continue

Added by Alaleh Alamir on May 9, 2008 at 9:40am — No Comments

Springtime for Heanor

“Heanor was declared the second-most English town in the country, after nearby Ripley, with almost 90% of the population being English in origin.”

The region around Heanor has a comparable social, industrial and topographic landscape to my ‘native’ West Yorkshire… Continue

Added by Mik Godley on April 8, 2008 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments