SURFACE GALLERY

Today me and my flatmate took a trip to the Surface Gallery located near Lace Market. Surprisingly, us students tend to get bored, but thats probably down to having very little money to spend. So today we both had the day off and decided to make it a productive one. After looking up things to do and places to go in Nottingham city centre, we came across Surface Gallery and funnily enough they had an exhibition on where they collaborated with Nottingham Trent University.

Stories in the Dark, is an four week long exhibition by NTU which is split into four series. The first two parts of the exhibition took place from the 19th to the 24th of February, and the last two from the 5th to the 10th of March. The displays were titled 'The World is Round' and 'Khepri'. The World is Round presents how the state of being in the dark signifies uncertainty and unknowing.

I like the simplicity of this piece, it speaks a lot

The second part to the exhibition was Khepri and was produced by artists Verity Heald and Anthony Fletcher. This display was a performance celebrated the Egyptian god Khepri, and was about how the dung beetle busies themselves preparing for the emergence of its fully formed offspring. We were both slightly shocked when we entered this room, it also looked like a murder scene, but after realising they were costumes on the floor, and the exhibition was based around a recorded performance, we were slightly less worried. It was unusual to watch but I think after they started dancing around to Lion King's Circle of Life, we got quite into it.

I'd definitely recommend a trip to this restored gallery, but make sure you do your research and know whats exhibiting.