C/J: In Conversation
Reactor: Here, the Gold Ones meet Oct - Dec 2020
Sophie Cundale: The Near Room Feb - Mar 2020
Matt Woodham: Sensing Systems (streaming online) Jan - Jan 2020
Nick Chaffe: Motif Residency exhibition Nov - Feb 2020
Motif Sep - Nov 2019
Waking the witch: Old ways, new rites Apr - May 2019
The Big Head Man Sep - Nov 2019
Bonington Vitrines #13: Wayne Burrows – Works from the Hallucinated Archive Apr - May 2020
Bonington Vitrines #16: The Captive Conscious (POSTPONED) Feb - Mar 2020
Bonington Vitrines #15: Nomadic Vitrine with Mick Peter (CLOSED) Nov - Feb 2020
Bonington Vitrines #14: Journeys to Nottingham from the Windrush Generation Apr - May 2019
Bonington Vitrines #12: Complaint Jan - Feb 2019
Bonington Vitrines #10: Jewell Feb - Feb 2019
UKYA City Takeover Apr - May 2019
C/J
Chloé Maratta and Joanne Robertson Mar - Mar 2019
The Community Live in Nottingham Nov - Dec 2018
THE SERVING LIBRARY V DAVID OSBALDESTON Nov - Dec 2018
Bonington Vitrines #9: Towards The Serving Library Annual Nov - Dec 2018
Emily Andersen Portraits: Black & White Book launch and exhibition Sep - Oct 2018
BONINGTON VITRINES #8: HOUSE OF WISDOM Jan - Feb 2019
DICK JEWELL: NOW & THEN Sep - Oct 2018
THE ACCUMULATION OF THINGS Apr - Apr 2018
Video Days Preview Apr - May 2018
Video Days Apr - Apr 2018
Video Days: Week One Screenings Apr - Apr 2018
Video Days: Week Two Screenings Apr - May 2018
Video Days: Week Three Screenings May - May 2018
Video Days: Week Four Screenings May - May 2018
Video Days: Week Five Screenings Apr - May 2018
Bonington Vitrines #7: The Bonington building, est. 1969 Feb - Mar 2018
Bonington Vitrines #6: One Eye on the Road – festival and traveller culture since the 1980s Feb - Mar 2018
LACE UNARCHIVED Jan - Feb 2018
Bonington Vitrines #5: Communicating the Contemporary – The ICA Bulletin 1950s to 1990s Nov - Dec 2017
Bonington Vitrines #4: Sara MacKillop publications, 2008–2017 Sep - Oct 2017
Bonington Vitrines #3: London’s Calling Jan - Feb 2018
Ruth Angel Edwards: Wheel of the Year
! EFFLUENT PROFUNDAL ZONE ! Nov - Dec 2017
Sara MacKillop: One Room Living Sep - Oct 2017
It’s Our Playground: Artificial Sensibility Apr - May 2017
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT Sep - Oct 2016
MOULD MAP 6 — TERRAFORMERS Oct - Dec 2016
KRÍSIS Jan - Feb 2017
ALL MEN BY NATURE DESIRE TO KNOW Jan - Feb 2017
Bonington Vitrines #2: Marbled Reams Oct - Dec 2016
Bonington Vitrines #1: Selections from the Raw Print Archive Feb - Mar 2017
SHAPELESS IMPACT NOT TIME SLOW IS (FLITS BY) Feb - Mar 2016
Imprints of Culture: Block Printed Textiles of India Apr - May 2016
PUBLISHING ROOMS Nov - Dec 2015
In Place of Architecture Jan - Feb 2016
Performing Drawology Nov - Dec 2015
Photography Dialogues
9 May - 9 May 2019
C/J: In Conversation
On the occasion of our current exhibition C/J by Chloé Maratta and Joanne Robertson, please join us for an ‘in-conversation’ event exploring key themes raised by the exhibition. The discussion will be chaired by Tom Godfrey (Bonington Gallery Curator and Curator of C/J) and will feature Naomi Braithwaite (Senior Lecturer in the School of Art and Design at NTU and custodian of the FashionMap Archive), Ruby Hoette (Designer and researcher and Programme Leader of MA Design: Expanded Practice at Goldsmiths University) and Caroline Stevenson (Curator, writer and lecturer and Head of Cultural and Historical Studies at London College of Fashion) – full biographies below.
As a set of starting points we’ll be exploring themes and attitudes relating to the roles of artists and designers within archives; inter/post-disciplinary practice; cultural hierarchies and archives in academia. The intention will be to make the conversation as open as possible and we welcome contributions from the audience throughout the event. Light refreshments will be provided.
Naomi Braithwaite is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Art and Design at NTU where she is part of the Fashion Management Marketing and Communication team. Her research draws from Material Culture to explore the intersections between clothing, shoes and identity. Naomi’s ‘Shoe and Tell’ project examining teenage identity through the lens of footwear, was featured at the Being Human Festival in 2017 and on Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed programme in November 2018.
Led by Naomi, FashionMap is a unique archive of garments and accessories which have been sourced from British High Street retailers since 2000. Naomi’s current research uses FashionMap to explore how a collection of high street garments can become a valuable archive for the future.
Ruby Hoette is a designer/researcher exploring fashion in context through the intersection of theory and practice. Seeking to expand what constitutes ‘fashion practice’, her approach proposes critical and experimental modes of engaging with and producing fashion by framing the garment as a unique artefact that carries traces of social, cultural and economic interactions and transactions. Ruby is a Lecturer in Design at Goldsmiths, University of London where she currently convenes the post-disciplinary programme MA Design Expanded Practice.
Caroline Stevenson is a London-based curator, writer and lecturer. She works closely with emerging and established practitioners and institutions to research and develop new projects and create space for experimentation, dialogue and exchange. She has produced projects and programmed events for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, V&A Museum, ICA, Arcade East, Tenderbooks, Kunstverein München, Onomatopee, Dutch Design Week and a range of temporary spaces.
Caroline’s research and curatorial work focuses on interdisciplinary practice and artist-led culture. She is co-founder of Modus, a platform for expanded fashion practice, and she publishes scholarly writing on art and design practices.
Caroline is Head of Cultural and Historical Studies at London College of Fashion where she co-runs the Visual Arts at LCF Research Hub and is a member of the Centre for Fashion Curation.