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NTU Festival 2025: The Push and the Pull
Surface Gallery
16 Southwell Road Nottinghamshire NG1 1DL
Today, Tue 25 Feb to Sat 1 Mar
Week One:Exhibition dates: 19th- 22nd February, Main Gallery
Opening Night: Tuesday 18th February, 6-8pm
Tension Precious Time
Indigo Gow / Zofia Skindzier / Holly White
Knotts of Tension
Amber Clarke / Tilly Wattam
Week 2:
Exhibition dates: 26th- 1st March, Main Gallery
Opening Nights: Tuesday 25th February, 6-8pm
Tethered Transitions
Rose Dias / Charlotte Gee / Nikola Liwora
Tension
Samuel Basham / Zin Chen / He Jiang
Artist Talk: Saturday 1st March, 2pm
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NTU Festival 2025: The Push and the Pull
This February sees the return of the annual Surface collaboration with Nottingham Trent University with the 14th NTU Festival: The Push and the Pull.
Following the success of last year's festival, The Island, this year's selected Fine Art students will use a critical and reflective approach to curate group exhibitions in response to the festival's theme The Push and the Pull by exploring ideas such as closeness and distance, belonging and not belonging, the pull of childhood nostalgia and push of adult expectations.
The NTU Festival offers selected Fine Art students the opportunity to curate a group exhibition that establishes their practice outside of the university. Surface provides a supportive and professional environment for the students to plan and show their work. Two exhibitions will run concurrently in each week of the festival.
The NTU Festival: The Push and the Pull opens in the Main Gallery and Project Space. As always, there will be a donations bar with ales from local brewery, Pheasantry.
Following the success of last year's festival, The Island, this year's selected Fine Art students will use a critical and reflective approach to curate group exhibitions in response to the festival's theme The Push and the Pull by exploring ideas such as closeness and distance, belonging and not belonging, the pull of childhood nostalgia and push of adult expectations.
The NTU Festival offers selected Fine Art students the opportunity to curate a group exhibition that establishes their practice outside of the university. Surface provides a supportive and professional environment for the students to plan and show their work. Two exhibitions will run concurrently in each week of the festival.
The NTU Festival: The Push and the Pull opens in the Main Gallery and Project Space. As always, there will be a donations bar with ales from local brewery, Pheasantry.