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Nottingham Contemporary on the corner of High Pavement and Middle Hill in the Lace Market a historic quarter-mile square area in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.
Nottingham Contemporary opened as the Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham on 14 November 2009 with an exhibition of early works by David Hockney and recent works by Los Angeles based artist Frances Stark, including some from the Tate collection. Nottingham Contemporary is one of the largest contemporary art spaces in the UK, with four galleries, an auditorium, an education space, a study centre, a café-bar and a shop.
It organizes four to five major exhibitions a year, bringing the work of the world’s contemporary artists to Nottingham. The ideas raised by the exhibitions are explored in educational programmes for all ages.
Nottingham Contemporary is on the oldest site in Nottingham, Garners Hill, it once housed cave dwellings, a Saxon fort and a medieval town hall – before the Victorians swept all aside for a railway line. It is in the historic Lace Market, a showcase for a world famous fabric when technical innovation gave lace a mass market. A revolutionary concrete casting technique, carried out in Nottingham, has embossed a lace design into the building’s panels, some up to 11 metres high.
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Nottingham Contemporary on the corner of High Pavement and Middle Hill in the Lace Market a historic quarter-mile square area in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.
Nottingham Contemporary opened as the Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham on 14 November 2009 with an exhibition of early works by David Hockney and recent works by Los Angeles based artist Frances Stark, including some from the Tate collection. Nottingham Contemporary is one of the largest contemporary art spaces in the UK, with four galleries, an auditorium, an education space, a study centre, a café-bar and a shop.
It organizes four to five major exhibitions a year, bringing the work of the world’s contemporary artists to Nottingham. The ideas raised by the exhibitions are explored in educational programmes for all ages.
Nottingham Contemporary is on the oldest site in Nottingham, Garners Hill, it once housed cave dwellings, a Saxon fort and a medieval town hall – before the Victorians swept all aside for a railway line. It is in the historic Lace Market, a showcase for a world famous fabric when technical innovation gave lace a mass market. A revolutionary concrete casting technique, carried out in Nottingham, has embossed a lace design into the building’s panels, some up to 11 metres high.