Arts Derbyshire

20.06.2023

FORMAT23 Exhibitions | There’s still time to visit!

Home / News / Artists / FORMAT23 Exhibitions | There’s still time to visit!

 

 

 

 

FORMAT23 Exhibitions

There’s still time to visit!

 

Our two main FORMAT23 Exhibitions are still on display so don’t miss your chance to visit.

 

Radical Souls, QUAD

Until Sunday 2 July

 

 

Exhibition Radical Souls, QUAD, Derby. Image by Emily Jones.

 

Gallery Opening Times
Monday – Closed
Tuesday – Sunday – 12pm – 6pm

Featuring artists Cecelia Bengolea (Argentina), Dele Adeyamo (UK), Luciana Demichelis (Argentina) and Volta Yang (China) Radical Souls explores how dance, in its limitless forms, is used as a revolutionary tool for expressing self-identity, reaching out for freedom and communicating experiences which transcend the abilities of spoken language.

 

Radical Souls Curatorial Tour

Saturday 1 July, 11am – 12pm

 

Join curator Niamh Treacy for an in-person tour and talk about the exhibition Radical Souls. This informative talk will see Niamh delve into the works on display and discuss her curatorial overview. Niamh Treacy is the FORMAT Curator and Coordinator.

 

Book Here

 

A Perfect Sentence by Oliver Frank Chanarin, Museum of Making

Until Sunday 3 September

 

 

Exhibition A Perfect Sentence, Museum of Making. Image by Emily Jones.

 

Gallery Opening Times
Monday – Closed
Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5pm
Sunday – 10am – 4pm

A Perfect Sentence explores the shifting terrain of documentary photography: our drive for attention, the complexity of being seen and our anxiety of being overlooked. Commissioned and produced by contemporary arts organisation Forma, with eight partners, A Perfect Sentence is Oliver Frank Chanarin’s first UK solo exhibition and will see multiple presentations across the country, public acquisitions, a digital platform and a publication.

 

Read more

 

 

News From Our Friends

 

Picturing High Streets: Celebrating Bus Stop Stories in an England-Wide Outdoor Exhibition

 

 

As part of the ongoing Picturing High Streets photography exhibition that celebrates and documents UK high streets, Clear Channel, one of the UK’s leading Out of Home media and infrastructure companies announce a new photography competition in partnership with Historic England and Photoworks: ‘Picturing High Streets – Bus Stop Stories’

Over the next two weeks, everyone is invited to submit their bus stop story by posting their own photographs on Instagram using #PicturingHighStreets.

Deadline 20 June

 

Read more

 

No Jobs In The Arts – Issue #7

 

 

For their seventh issue No Jobs In The Arts invited submissions from early-career creatives, exploring sustainability and the environment. The artwork featured in Issue #7 of No Jobs in the Arts’ zine is a culmination of cyclical choices, created to re-imagine the hydrological cycle, through the lens of a sensory journey between water, earth, and air.

 

Get a FREE Copy

 

WAR was never my CHOICE

 

 

Exhibition Installation Friday 7th July 2023, 5.30 – 7.30pm

Birmingham based arts organisations Centrala and GRAIN Projects, have been working with young people from Ukraine, who settled in Birmingham just after the outbreak of the war. Over a period of six months the young people have worked with internationally acclaimed artist Mark Neville, attended workshops and made images that are a reflection on their experience, having left their homes to seek safety.

 

Read More

 

PHOTOFUSION is seeking to appoint a Director

 

Deadline midnight 16th July 2023

Photofusion is seeking to appoint a Director to lead the organisation.  A strategic, creative and ambitious individual who can build on Photofusion’s important legacy and lead the team at this exciting time of development and opportunity is sought. The Director will encourage a deeper understanding and engagement with photography and its value to society through strong leadership and vision.

 

Read More

 

 

FORMAT is organised by QUAD and the University of Derby, and is supported by Arts Council England, Derby City Council and multiple partners from the UK and abroad.

 

 

 

If you like keeping up with news from FORMAT and think others may as well, please share this newsletter with your friends, family and interested parties.

Or, better still, encourage them to get this newsletter direct…

 

Read More

Submit your news to Arts Derbyshire

Submit your news items to editor@artsderbyshire.org.uk or fill out this news submission form.

You can also register as a member to list your arts business and events in our directory.

Register

Related news posts

Youth MHFA virtual/online course

Places are still available on the Youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Derbyshire County Council November virtual/online courses.

Read more

Media Release – Dinos, Eagles and Ultimate Rock, new shows are announced for 2025 at Derby Arena

Check out these four exciting shows coming to Derby Arena next year!

Read more

Blue Peter Book Badge Initiative Launched for October Half-Term with Shared Reading and Derby Libraries

Derby Book Festival’s Shared Reading Project and Derby City Libraries have announced a new initiative for October half-term. Children aged 5-7 can join a free reading session where Shared Reading volunteers will be on hand to help them apply for their very own Blue Peter Book Badge.

Read more

All Words, All Actions, All Weathers Conference and Exhibition

Please join us for the FREE, Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector conference and exhibition focussing on Wellbeing, Mental Health and Suicide Prevention. The event will be held in the beautiful Rosliston Forestry Centre’, the 10-acre home to kestrels, owls and kingfishers as well as bats and butterflies.

Read more

All Words, All Actions, All Weathers Conference and Exhibition – Invitation to Contribute

Derbyshire County Council’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention team in collaboration with Arts Derbyshire, are delighted to announce their second, Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector conference and exhibition focusing on mental health for employees and volunteers from the sector.

Read more

Primary Play Your Part

Primary Play Your Part is a project providing newly commissioned playscripts to primary schools to use as their festive show.

Read more

Sign up to our newsletter

Find out what’s on with the Arts Derbyshire newsletter.

Artists, creatives, cultural providers, arts and health specialists – Sign up for one of our professional mailing lists.