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This Saturday!Sound Sculptures 3:Playground of SoundWorkshops, sound sculptures, live performances, DJ’s 1pm-11pm (bar f...
12/09/2024

This Saturday!Sound Sculptures 3:
Playground of Sound

Workshops, sound sculptures, live performances, DJ’s 1pm-11pm (bar from 6pm), Free Entry

We’re excited to share this great event happening throughout our building this Saturday:

- Three open-air live sound/music performances

- Two large-scale sound installations

- Participatory workshop & session

- DJs

Card-only bar (from 6 pm)

Exhibition:

Sonic Sculptures 3 allows people to share their audio work—new or old. Join us to hear music, soundscapes, sonic artworks, work-in-progress, site recordings, readings, performances, and curiosities played back-to-back through an experimental sonic sculpture. There will also be live performances in Primary’s new garden and DJs in Beam from 2pm-11pm

Free entry, no booking required

Sharing and Workshop:

1-3 pm Bring Your Own Sound: Share & Feedback Session

3:30-5:30 pm Participatory Sound Workshop: Sounds of the Garden

*Booking is required for these events (see eventbrite)

Live Performances:

6:30-7:30 pm Live Performance by Ingrid Mclaren 8-9 pm Live Performance by Daphnellc

Free entry, no booking required

Performances and DJs in Beam

2-4pm Ex-Friendly
4-6pm Ady
6.30-8pm Tom Hill
8-9.30pm Joff
9.30-10:30pm Live Performance by Guohan

Free entry, no booking required

Sonic Sculptures is a project led by visual artist/curator Ryan Boultbee, architectural design studio FROMTHEGROUNDUP (FTGU) and musician Tom Harris. Sonic Sculptures is a recurring series of events hosting a programme of soundscapes and sonic experiences.

Sonic Sculptures 3: Playground of Sound is supported by Primary, Broadway’s Near Now, and Arts Council England.

We’ve got some great books in our in store book sale this month, here’s a little selection:John Newling, Ecology Works -...
06/09/2024

We’ve got some great books in our in store book sale this month, here’s a little selection:

John Newling, Ecology Works - the definitive book on the last 15 years of plant and soil sculptures, installations and paintings.
£28 - 20% off

Anthony Whishaw - Works on Paper
Drawing inspiration from the British master. A journey from sketchbook to mixed media works, figurative and abstract, from 50s to the present day.
£22.40 - 20% off

Leonard McComb - one of the greats of his generation, this Irish Mancunian working class hero sought to capture the universal energy of nature in every brush stroke.
£28 - 20% off

Panya Routes - A brilliant Survey of alternative art spaces in Africa, great inspiration for how things could be done differently.
£16 - 20% off

Dear Nature - The John Newling classic! A philosophical exploration of our co- relationship within nature through 81 letters.
£14.40 - 20% off

Urban Kitsch, Praneet Soi - explores the vernacular visual culture that emerged following the liberalisation of the Indian Economy. A brilliant look insight into the a visual culture bought on by globalisation.
£18 - 20% off

The Book of Notebooks, Dan Perjovschi - two hundred drawings from his note books, a fascinating insite into the artist’s mind!
£22.40 - 20% off

Enough is Definitely Enough! - A great book that provides insight into the connections between historic and contemporary art. A great book for learning more about contemporary art and research.
£14.40 - 20% off

Materials Lab, Fernanda Fragateiro - explore the artist’s practice through her research materials and personal archive. An inspiring look at what lies behind one of the most compelling Portuguese artists.
£20 - 20% off

Exhibition continues today 9-5pmBeam Exchanges - Grey Crawford / Daniel RapleyTwo bodies of experimental photographic wo...
31/08/2024

Exhibition continues today 9-5pm
Beam Exchanges - Grey Crawford / Daniel Rapley
Two bodies of experimental photographic work. Grey Crawford’s work was produced in the 1970s using experimental darkroom techniques and Daniel Rapley’s was produced in recent years working with slides dating as far back as the 1940s found in house clearances. Both bodies of work explore the possibilities of photography as a medium and humanity’s dominance of nature in an increasingly globalised world.

Open 9-5pm

This week only! August book sale!We’re going to be doing a little refurbishment of our space which includes redesigning ...
29/08/2024

This week only! August book sale!
We’re going to be doing a little refurbishment of our space which includes redesigning our bookshop area so we’ve decided to clear some stock and give a generous discount on existing stock. With big books and monographs we’re offering 30% discount and smaller books 20%. There will be a bargain bucket of odds and edda and damaged books where everything will be £5. Get yourself some autumn inspiration or some early Christmas gifts!

Stock includes books on:
Contemporary art
Photography
20th century art
Music and performance
Drawing
Architecture and urbanism
Artist books

Open 9-5pm

16/08/2024
New exhibition! Beam Exchanges No 1:Grey Crawford / Daniel RapleyThur-Sat. 9-5pm, free entryThe inaugural Beam Exchanges...
07/08/2024

New exhibition! Beam Exchanges No 1:
Grey Crawford / Daniel Rapley
Thur-Sat. 9-5pm, free entry

The inaugural Beam Exchanges exhibition brings together two artists experimenting within the medium of photography. 

From 1978–85 Grey Crawford made a series of over 200 hand-printed colour photographs documenting industrial buildings, construction sites and commercial locations around Los Angeles. The images include graphic forms introduced by the artist through a unique process of masking and filtering light during the printing process, a hugely demanding technique that required working in total darkness. 

Daniel Rapley’s Drift series is created through sourcing photographic slides from house clearances. Each image combines two overlaid slides, which are then rephotographed and printed. The artist works through thousands of combinations to find two slides that resonate to create a powerful hybrid image.
While Crawford’s images describe the fringes of 1970s LA as the city expanded into the desert, Rapley’s images frequently draw upon themes of travel from the 1940s onwards and are evidence of our ability to travel increasingly freely throughout the 20th century. In these ways both Crawford and Rapley reference humanity’s dominance of nature in an increasingly globalised world. 

Both sets of images present a dystopian mixed reality that could easily be mistaken as being digitally generated, despite being the result of a craft based process utilising outmoded technology. 
Early Victorian photography was significantly manipulated, artists such as László Moholy-Nagy experimented with photography at the Bauhaus and both Crawford and Rapley continue to explore the possibilities of the medium today. The merging of images, otherworldly colours and floating abstract forms are synonymous with digital aesthetics, but existed long before they became part of everyday life, in our pockets, on our smartphones.  

It’s the final weekend of Daniel Rapley - Drift Part 2 exhibition this weekend. This captivating body of work is created...
25/07/2024

It’s the final weekend of Daniel Rapley - Drift Part 2 exhibition this weekend. This captivating body of work is created from work with old slides found in house clearance, some dating back to the early 1940s. The work is created through combining two carefully selected 35mm slides, which are then combined and rephotographed. The artist’s process has resulted in a series almost painterly and dreamy images which while utilising an old technology, resonates with the aesthetics of the modern age.

When you look carefully, you see more. When a photographer looks into the lens of their camera they are faced with makin...
12/07/2024

When you look carefully, you see more.

When a photographer looks into the lens of their camera they are faced with making a choice that occupies less than a second of time, a decision that is made entirely in the moment, where judgement is everything. The button is pressed, the shutter opens and the image is captured. A photograph in its essence, is a window of opportunity that the photographer chooses to jump through. While photography offers endless possibilities in terms of subject matter, composition and craft, the mechanical nature of photography, and in particular the traditional form that is captured on film is by nature, a highly restrictive creative process.

In the Drift series, Daniel Rapley has created a series of artwork through a highly restrictive selection process. Each artwork is made from placing one found 35mm slide on top of another to create a compound image, which is then printed to create what could be described as the final hybrid image. The result is a fusion of recognisable but strangely distant images that often defy gravity and disrupt how we understand photography.

At first glance these images appear as simple double exposures, but Rapley’s careful composition becomes so much more than the sum of the parts.

Open tomorrow 9-5pm

Election Selection!Radical thoughts and inspirational reading in the bookshop:Oswatatomie A brilliant anthology of the r...
05/07/2024

Election Selection!
Radical thoughts and inspirational reading in the bookshop:

Oswatatomie
A brilliant anthology of the radical civil rights magazine from 1970s USA. This is authentic material that is just as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. A bargain at £30 and will soon be a rare book.

‘You Name It’
Artist Sasha Huber uses activist based art practices to challenge colonialism and environmental devastation in the North. The artist’s captivating use of photography, installation, collage and video is brought together in this richly illustrated hardback. It’s £40 but if you ask us nicely we’ll give a discount.

Eastern Bloc Songs - Party, Pop and Politics Explores the popular music of former Communist states, gathering translated song lyrics mostly from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Author Wayne Burrows’ brilliant writing shows us how Pop and Politics are in extricably link. A book about a past time that helps us to see the present! £12

Where do you draw the line between art and politics?
A series of interviews with individuals who have been active at the meeting point of art and politics. A great read straight from the horses mouth £15

Post Capital: A Reader
The book the accompanied the exhibition of the same name includes texts by some of today’s most influential thinkers on the subject of our digital age and its consequences concerning human freedoms.
£35 ask us nicely we’ll give you a discount.

Manifesto for The New Ceramics!
The future should start with a manifesto and this one is all about how we make things with the most ancient of materials, clay.
£25

Anarchist from the White Mountains
Danish poet and sound artist Morten Søndergaard tells the story of how the anarchist movement arose among the stonecutters of Carrara.
£12



The Photographers’ Gallery and Beam Editions invite you to the launch of our exciting new monograph on photographer Doro...
18/06/2024

The Photographers’ Gallery and Beam Editions invite you to the launch of our exciting new monograph on photographer Dorothy Bohm.

Dorothy Bohm at 100
A Life in Photography

Thursday 20 June, 2024
6 – 8pm
Free event

Bookshop and Print Sales
The Photographers’ Gallery
16–18 Ramillies Street
London 1F 7LW

PRE-ORDER the book online (link in bio)

Exploring the work of one of the most prolific, versatile and admired female photographers of the 20th century, Dorothy Bohm at 100 takes a fresh look at the photographer’s 75-year-long career, showing a selection of her most iconic images alongside many previously unpublished works.

This new volume, published to mark the centenary of Bohm’s birth, showcases the diversity of her work and her profound empathy for the human condition.

With contributions from:
Maria Balshaw
Martin Barnes
Katy Barron
Monica Bohm-Duchen
Colin Ford CBE
Anna Fox
Lydia Goldblatt
Mark Haworth-Booth
Amanda Hopkinson
Ian Jeffrey
Esther Leslie
Markéta Luskačová
Don McCullin
Pelumi Odubanjo
Martin Parr
Nissan N. Perez
Marissa Roth
Paul Smith
George Szirtes
Rachel Wallace
Marina Warner
Val Williams

This week in the bookshop we‘ve been thinking about the future, on the eve of an election its a good time to consider th...
14/06/2024

This week in the bookshop we‘ve been thinking about the future, on the eve of an election its a good time to consider the future. When we first thought about creating our venue in this small corner of the world, it was inspired by things we’d seen on our travels and thought we should bring a bit of that inspiration back to our own city. Without fresh ideas, we end up with the same problems.

So here’s a bit of inspirational reading from the bookshop to inspire new thoughts about where we go next, empower us to take action:

Faktur 04 a brilliant little journal on design and the urban environment that connect both local and global perspectives through an economic lens. Its packed with great examples of projects from around the world and equally as good writing that helps you to consider, the places we live in and what the future might be?

Log is also a brilliant journal the brings together observations on architecture and the city. Log goes beyond any conventional ideas of architecture. Subjects include reflections on historic architecture like JFK Airport, reimagining protests in New York, photographer Filip Dujardin’s study of Guimarães, Portugal and stealth buildings and Guerilla dwellings!

Get yourself a bit inspirational reading. Open tomorrow 9-5pm

We’re excited to announce a collaborative exhibition with Lakeside Arts opening today:John Newling - 50 Year Line25 May-...
25/05/2024

We’re excited to announce a collaborative exhibition with Lakeside Arts opening today:

John Newling - 50 Year Line
25 May-21 July

John Newling’s 50 years of artistic output are centred around a socially engaged practice that includes sculpture, drawing, painting, performance and over the last 15 years a series of ‘ecology works’ made from plants and soil. 

This exhibition is centred around a ‘timeline’ along the long wall of the gallery, this display of small sculptures, maquettes, objects, drawings and paintings represent key moments in the artist’s 50 years of practice.  The ‘50 Year Line’ provides an insight into the materials and forms the artist has explored since the late 1970s to the present day. The line is by no means definitive, but does represent the many themes the artist has tackled throughout his career, such as currency, belief, religion, nature and ecology. 

Common throughout the artist’s work is the transformation of materials from one state to another; Crushed paracetamol are reformed to create a map of Nottingham, soil is used to make books, cabbages stalks become walking sticks, sticks become wands, rubber stamps that ask questions, cobnut leaves that become a gr***de, and many more.

This exhibition was in part informed by the artist exploring his own archive, which is due to join the Henry Moore Institute in 2024 to be preserved for study by future generations. In this sense the exhibition is perhaps the artist performing an anthropological study of his own work. Every object in the room is the catalyst for many stories; about the artist, the people Newling has collaborated with and the many audiences who have informed and engaged with his work over 50 years. Curated by Jonathan Casciani, Beam Editions.

Daniel Rapley - Drift Part 2 - Exhibition continues today at Beam and the final weekend of Drift Part 1 at Lakeside Arts...
18/05/2024

Daniel Rapley - Drift Part 2 - Exhibition continues today at Beam and the final weekend of Drift Part 1 at Lakeside Arts.

Daniel Rapley’s Drift series has been made from a collection of over 20,000 35mm slide transparencies, sourced from house clearances.

The work has been made over a 5 year period, against the backdrop of his late 104 year old grandmother’s slow decline with dementia. The work became a vehicle for him to consider the malleable nature of memory, as well as how photography colludes with memory construction and recall.

These found images comprise people’s memories that are compressed together to create hybrid images that are both familiar, pictorial but ultimately distant. The result is a series of unpredictable outcomes, where the artist employs the smallest of control mechanisms and allows choice, chance but ultimately judgement to determine the final works.

New exhibition: Daniel Rapley ‘Drift Part 2’Now open - Launch party, Thurs, 18 April, 6-10pm, Free, all welcome. Daniel ...
12/04/2024

New exhibition: Daniel Rapley ‘Drift Part 2’
Now open - Launch party, Thurs, 18 April, 6-10pm, Free, all welcome.

Daniel Rapley’s Drift series has been made from a collection of over 20,000 35mm slide transparencies, sourced from house clearances. Each artwork is made by the artist selecting two slides that are stacked on top of each other, which is then photographed on a light box and a new print is made. The energy that is captured by one image being layered on top of another has become a visual language that Rapley has developed through many hours of search, selection and judgement. There is no manipulation. This is an exhaustive process where identifying two slides that resonate, is everything.

The work has been made over a 5 year period, against the backdrop of his late 104 year old grandmother’s slow decline with dementia.

In collaboration with Lakeside Arts
‘Drift Part 1’ - Until 19 May

Daniel Rapley Drift is a collaboration with Lakeside Arts and ‘Drift Part 1’ which features a range of similar work and sculptures, can be found at The Angora Visitor Centre, Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham NG7 2RD

Tonight at Lakeside Arts 6-7.30pm!‘Drift’ Daniel RapleyWe’re excited to be collaborating with the artist and  on a joint...
20/03/2024

Tonight at Lakeside Arts 6-7.30pm!
‘Drift’ Daniel Rapley

We’re excited to be collaborating with the artist and on a joint exhibition at Beam and Lakeside of the photographic work of Daniel Rapley. Part 1 of the exhibition will be launched this evening at Lakeside Arts and Drift Part 2 will be showing at Beam and announced shortly alongside a new book. Comprising both wall mounted and sculptural photographic works, Drift is a project made entirely from found 35mm slides. Rapley creates disorientating imagery suspended between representation and abstraction.

This Saturday! ‘Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity’Live performance and book launchFree, booking essential (Link in bio)Jo...
20/03/2024

This Saturday! ‘Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity’
Live performance and book launch
Free, booking essential (Link in bio)

Join us for a very special performance to celebrate the launch of our forthcoming publication and limited edition box set. ‘Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity’ takes a single historical lace draft from the Nottingham Lace Archive as the starting point for new live and installation-based visual-musical works. A lace draft is essentially a set of instructions used to set up a mechanical lace machine to create a specific piece of lace. For this project, the draft has been repurposed to create instructions – in graphic and traditional notation – for a group of musicians. Artist Danica Maier in collaboration with composer Martin Scheuregger will be joined two musicians from Dark Inventions who will perform versions of ‘Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity’ with violin and clarinet alongside alongside two record players.

This event will sell out, so booking is essential.

Schedule:

18:30 – event opens

19:00 – performance and short talk

20:00 – drinks and chat

21:00 – event ends

After the performance Danica Maier’s exhibition ‘Re / Draw’ will be open until 9pm alongside the bookshop.



International Women’s Day!Our current exhibition Re / Draw by Danica Maier is the perfect exhibition to explore this wee...
08/03/2024

International Women’s Day!
Our current exhibition Re / Draw by Danica Maier is the perfect exhibition to explore this weekend for international Women’s Day. Danica’s work references and celebrates the arts and crafts produced by women in the domestic environment. The artist translates methods found in textiles and weaving into her drawing practice that results in dazzling wall drawings and beautifully intricate pieces that reflect on domesticity, the decorative arts and memory. Open tomorrow 9-5pm.

In the cafe we’ll be celebrating women producers with coffee from tea from and

In the bookshop we’ve also also put a large selection of books by women artists, writers and thinkers.

Launch party tomorrow 6-10pmDanica maier - ‘Re / Draw’Free entry, no booking required! Born in 1973 in Delaware, USA, Ma...
21/02/2024

Launch party tomorrow 6-10pm
Danica maier - ‘Re / Draw’
Free entry, no booking required!

Born in 1973 in Delaware, USA, Maier’s work references and celebrates the decorative arts traditions synonymous with art and crafts produced by women in the domestic environment. Maier’s work translate methods found in textile weaving, ceramics and embroidery into her drawings which results in images that are constructed from highly intricate networks of lines.

Maier’s delicate and ethereal drawings of flowers float on their aluminium surface. These are contrasted by a series of geometric drawings that almost vibrate, which reference the memory of a native american woven rug from Maier’s grandparents home.

At the centre of this exhibition is an extraordinary 5 metre wall drawing that has been made especially for the exhibition.

Join us tomorrow night to see this stunning body work that spans a decade of the artist’s practice, snacks from , natural wine and extraordinary beers from

to find out more click on the link in our bio.

Danica Maier ‘Re-Draw’ launch Party!Thursday 22 February, 6-10pmFree, no booking required.Re-Draw is the first exhibitio...
18/02/2024

Danica Maier ‘Re-Draw’ launch Party!
Thursday 22 February, 6-10pm
Free, no booking required.

Re-Draw is the first exhibition at Beam by long standing collaborator Danica Maier. The centre piece for the exhibition is a 5 x 3 m artwork drawn directly onto the wall by the artist over four days.

These epic drawings are synonymous with the artist’s practice having produced similar work in museums and galleries throughout the UK. The exhibition also includes a number of smaller pencil drawings on aluminium panels that draw upon the last 10 years of the artist’s practice.

Birds, foliage and flowers appear throughout the work referencing familiar themes associated with the decorative arts. The work reflects upon the often disregarded history of women in the arts, the blurry lines between art, design, craft and decorative arts and the hidden histories of arts of the domestic realm.

Maiers translate methods found in textiles weaving, ceramics and embroidery into drawings which results in images that are constructed from highly intricate networks of lines.

Three great exhibitions now on at Primary this weekend:Sonya Dyer | The Ready RoomHard Science meets Science Fiction: Ar...
02/02/2024

Three great exhibitions now on at Primary this weekend:

Sonya Dyer | The Ready Room

Hard Science meets Science Fiction: Artist Sonya Dyer transforms Primary’s gallery to create a video installation reimagining the dubious history of HeLa cells. 

HeLa cells were originally taken from the body of Henrietta Lacks, a young Black mother in the USA, and were the first human materials sent into space in 1960.

HeLa cells are the gold standard for biomedical research; they are ‘immortal’ cells able to reproduce under any circumstances, hence their utility for research into treatment for AIDS, cancer, and other diseases.

Will Harvey - Material Romance

Material Romance confronts the consequences of debris from the building industry and challenge our cultural perspectives of ‘waste’. By slowing down the rate of material use and consumption, possibilities open up at the end-of-life stage of a material’s original intended use. Using romance as a methodology Harvey sees beauty in the unwanted and discarded.

Eleanor Bartlett - Opening

The penultimate weekend of our winter exhibition of paintings in Tar, Wax and Metal paint. These densely textured works have an almost sculptural quality

Alison Lloyd artist, collaborator and fellow member of Primary passed away last week. I first met Alison when I returned...
01/02/2024

Alison Lloyd artist, collaborator and fellow member of Primary passed away last week. I first met Alison when I returned to Nottingham after studying fine art. Alison was working at Arts Council England offering advice to clueless graduates like myself on what to do next in the real world. She was incredibly direct, no nonsense and told me what I needed to know, it was a kind of tough love introduction to the real world. I suspect that many aspects of that job for Alison was thankless, but its the work of people like Alison that helped shape Nottingham to become the a strong artistic community that it is today.

It was many years later before our paths crossed again. She asked us to work on an artist book for her and then later another two. In her role as an artist she was kind, warm and a thoughtful collaborator and always deeply engaged in her work. She had a generosity of spirit, which made the projects a pleasure.

As a studio member at Primary she made a significant contribution to the development of Primary as an organisation and perhaps Beam would not be where it today without the likes of Alison working to build the arts infrastructure we have around us. Alison was hardcore!

In recent years Alison would often be in Beam having a coffee on a break from her studio time. We’ll miss her friendly face and we’ll miss the conversations too. She was fun, thoughtful, intellectual and a powerful force for all that is good in the arts. Thank you Alison.

(I love this photograph of Alison in her studio in her early 20s. She’s holding a plastic bag up like a dress mimicking the ‘Infana’ in Diego Velázquez ‘Las Meninas’ painting. A kind of punk remix! The photograph is featured in the Beam publication ‘Enough is Definitely Enough’)

Tonight we welcome back Rammel for a night of experimental and improvised music at Beam. The line for this evening:Rory ...
20/01/2024

Tonight we welcome back Rammel for a night of experimental and improvised music at Beam. The line for this evening:

Rory Salter & Ecka Mordecai
Li song, Regan Bowering and Conal Blake 
Sean Roy Parker

From 8pm

£10 on the door. Nobody turned away for lack of funds

This Thursday! Eleanor Bartlett in Conversation. Free or £12 with food.Booking essential, link in bio.Join artist Eleano...
15/01/2024

This Thursday! Eleanor Bartlett in Conversation.
Free or £12 with food.
Booking essential, link in bio.

Join artist Eleanor Bartlett in conversation with Beam Director Jonathan Casciani to discuss the artists’ current exhibition 'Opening' at Beam. Bartlett’s work includes painting, sculptures and installations working with unconventional materials such as tar, metal paint and wax. We will be discussing the artist's work in the curent exhibition and how the the work resonates with modernist architecture by the likes of Le Cobousier, Louis Kahn, Kazuo Shinohara and her recent installation at the modernist Clifton Cathedral.

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Event Format
- Food and wine from 6.30pm (if you want to eat early)
- Talk at 7.30-8.15pm
- Food and wine continues until 10pm (if you want to eat afte the talk and socialise!)
- Exhibition open all evening
- Attendees get 20% discount in the book shop

Eleanor Bartlett ‘Openings’ continues this Saturday at Beam.  When you look at anything in detail, its an opportunity to...
13/01/2024

Eleanor Bartlett ‘Openings’ continues this Saturday at Beam. When you look at anything in detail, its an opportunity to free yourself from the humdrum and noise of everyday life and give yourself some space to connect with the world around you. Looking at Bartlett’s painting, is like looking under a microscope, seeing a new landscape and realising that everything is connected.

Opening times as normal:Beam:Thursday 9-5pmFriday 9-5pmSaturday 9-5pm Small Food:Thursday 10-2.30pmFriday 10-2.30pmSatur...
18/12/2023

Opening times as normal:

Beam:
Thursday 9-5pm
Friday 9-5pm
Saturday 9-5pm

Small Food:

Thursday 10-2.30pm
Friday 10-2.30pm
Saturday 10-2.30pm

Books are about 2600 years old. They are still one of the best Christmas presents you can buy someone. They were also in...
29/11/2023

Books are about 2600 years old. They are still one of the best Christmas presents you can buy someone. They were also invented before Christ and they don’t require recharging, a subscription, a contract or batteries - even better. Bookshop open 9-5pm Thur-Sat.
Talk to us if you need a recommendation for a gift.

Independent Books on Art, Design, Food, Ecology, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Architecture, Poetry, Radical Books, The Future.

‘Opening’ the new exhibition by Eleanor Bartlett continues today 9-5pm at Beam. ‘We are all a collection of shivering el...
11/11/2023

‘Opening’ the new exhibition by Eleanor Bartlett continues today 9-5pm at Beam.

‘We are all a collection of shivering electrons, as is everything, held together by an unknowable force. We could dissolve at any moment. We all exist within the void.’
– Eleanor Bartlett

Also in the building…Primary presents Roo Dhissou | Courses for Dis-Course(s) and Ruth Angel Edwards & Chloée Maugile | THE WALL & Hyperopia in Gallery 1 and 2, and in Fourth (the gallery accessed via the playground) Lena Mai Merle.

10am-5pm - free entry

A story about inspiration. In the summer of 2018 we published our first book ‘Equilibrio’ and we have since gone on to p...
03/11/2023

A story about inspiration.
In the summer of 2018 we published our first book ‘Equilibrio’ and we have since gone on to publish 33 titles and at some point next year we’ll hit 40. It’s remarkable given our small team and a two year pandemic in the middle of it. What’s kept us moving forward is the extraordinary artists and writers that allow us to capture their work in the form of a book and the observations our readers then share with us. Books are carriers of authentic ideas, inspiration and knowledge. Given a little attention, they bring joy, solve problems, feed the soul and ultimately inspire us to transcend the mundanity of everyday life. To be inspired, is to progress your thoughts, from what is ‘current reality’, to what is possible. Books help us to connect the past, with the present to open up the future in a way that the digital world cannot. Our job is to create books that inspire people, that then pass that inspiration onto others. Like an un mappable chain of positive energy rippling across the world from our small corner of Radford, Nottiingham. Books make the world a better place.

A few great new books in the book shop:I am not done yetKameelah Janan RasheedKameelah Janan Rasheed, grapples with the ...
27/10/2023

A few great new books in the book shop:

I am not done yet
Kameelah Janan Rasheed

Kameelah Janan Rasheed, grapples with the poetics-pleasures-politics of Black knowledge production,
information technologies and belief formation. Her work looks at knowledge and how it is created, embodied, stored, cataloged, hidden, learned, and also unlearned.

Rasheed works primarily with paper and vinyl that she attaches to walls and public spaces.
Based on a 1974 poem of the same name by American writer Lucille Clifton, her exhibition “i am not done yet” deals with questions of incomplete knowledge and continuous learning through “Black storytelling” and “Islamic mysticism.”

Ali Cherri - Earth, Fire Water

Born in Beirut, Ali Cherri lives and works between Beirut and Paris. He belongs to this generation of Lebanese artists born during the civil war whose work has been strongly affected by this context of instability.
Through an introduction by the artist, 4 essays and an interview, this first monograph reveals the political, aesthetic and dreamlike dimensions of a work that the artist has been developing for over fifteen years.

Pope. L. My Kingdom for a Title

My Kingdom for a Title is a collection of writing by Chicago–based artist Pope.L documenting his use of language as a mode of visual, narrative, and performative story telling.
These works take various forms: scripts, short stories, scribbled notes, large scale installation, and painting—many never before released. Assembled here for the first time, My Kingdom for a Title allows the breadth of the artist’s engagement with language to be fully assessed.

Open 9-5pm Thursday- Saturday
Artist and student discount available

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