Notes on a Confinement Mary o’Neill
19th – 30th April 2021, Invited Artists: Will Buckingham, Raimi Gbadamosi, Guilherme Gerais, Johanna Hällsten, Netta Laufer, Arjen Mulder.
The Geometry of Language
10/04/21, Philip Corner, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Timothy Hardman, Laura Holmes, Emily Anne Grimstead, Jasper Johns, Alison Knowles, Pasha Kincaid, Edwin Morgan, Bruce Nauman and Paul Neagu.
Resilience
01/10/20 to 14/11/20, Ade Coker, Tolu Coker, Stephen Anthony Davids (SAD), Shangomola Edunjobi, Ana Paz & Patricia Vester. Produced by and curated by Serendipity.
Universes
Online, Speakers include: Ben Judd, Angela Washko, Sarah Jury, Ayesha Hameed, Kate Pickering, Lucy A. Sames and Bridget Crone, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, GodXXX Noirphiles and Tom K Kemp.
Misshapes: The Making of Tatty Devine
November 15th 2019 to February 2nd 2020, Misshapes: The Making of Tatty Devine will feature over 100 pieces from the past 20 years, from the early leather cuffs and piano belts to giant two metre versions of their ‘greatest hits’
Stop Look Listen, Chris Coekin
13 September to 2 November 2019, The exhibition Stop Look Listen gives an overview of an idiosyncratic photographer observing British identity over the past through thirty years through a lens that is subtly self-reflexive.
I Can Only Tell You What My Eyes See
16 August – 30 August, Inspiring photographer Giles Duley is set to bring his emotive exhibition, ‘I Can Only Tell You What My Eyes See’, to The Gallery as part of the annual arts festival, Journeys Festival International Leicester
One Second Feature
9 March – 27 April 2019, This exhibition brings together a selection of Anna Lucas’s early and new work in film and video. Much of the artist’s work involves collaboration and participatory practice. Her work within gallery education has provided opportunities for experimentation beyond the studio.
BARODA
25 February – 2 March 2019, This is the first of two group exhibitions by Fine Art students and staff from DMU and Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, India, resulting from artist residency exchanges that took place between 2013 and 2015.
Surface Tensions
14 December 2018- 9 February 2019, This exhibition is a survey of fifty years of the paintings of Brendan Neiland, one of the leading artists of his generation. It consists of more than sixty paintings including works loaned from both private and public collections. This exhibition gives an opportunity for visitors to experience the breadth of Neiland’s oeuvre and its development over the years.
fig-futures, WEEK 12/16
20 November – 24 November 2018, Kathryn Elkin, For the fourth and final fig-futures exhibition at The Gallery, De Montfort University in Leicester, Kathryn Elkin’s new project ‘On first impression’ will host a live video shoot of a series of staged tutorials with students of De Montfort Fine Art department, during the show’s opening event.
fig-futures, WEEK 11/16
20 November – 24 November 2018, For the third iteration of fig-futures at The Gallery, De Montfort University, Annika Ström presents her show ‘Six Errands’, where she will playfully explore the idea of the performance retrospective. She created her first performance work in Berlin in 1995, where she exhibited her mother in a gallery space for three days.
fig-futures, WEEK 10/16
13 November – 17 November 2018, Ben Judd, ‘Nothing human is strange to me’. For his fig-futures commission at The Gallery De Montfort University, Ben Judd presents a performance, objects and a video. Drawing on Leicester’s rich history, including the 20th century immigration of dispossessed groups.
fig-futures, WEEK 9/16
6 November – 10 November 2018, Anna Barham, For our first fig-futures show in Leicester at De Montfort University’s The Gallery, Anna Barham will present ‘Yet as yet’, a text she has developed from Vilem Flusser’s ‘Vampyrotethis Infernalis’ (Vampire Squid) through live readings and computer transcriptions in repeated cycles of performance, documentation and recombination.
Leicestershire
14 September – 27 October 2018, Mitra Tabrizian is an internationally renowned photographer whose work first came to public attention in the early nineties. Her work has a long standing interest in the intermingling of personal stories and historical narratives.
Pursuits of Happiness
17 July – 1 September 2018, Antonio de La Fe / Andrew Gannon / Rebecca Hobbs / Edwin Li / Anna Lucas / Bruce Nauman / Matthias Sperling / Hiraki Sawa. Pursuits of Happiness brings to life creativity and imagination, opening up a playground where everyone becomes a player.
Transformational Encounters: Touch Traction Transform
27 April – 12 May 2018, (TETTT) is large scale interactive artwork which houses nine performative installations made by Alice Tuppen-Corps in response to a year-long transformational dialogue with her participants. 20 people, 21 days, 22 multimedia prompts, 440 interactive responses, 12 films, 9 exhibits – what touches, troubles and transforms us?
Migration and Refugees
18 April – 21 April 2018, This exhibition and series of talks is inspired by the United Nations (UN) Together campaign, and brings research in migration and refugees across De Montfort University (DMU) into focus.
Walker & Bromwich: An Act of Participation
15th December – 17th March 2018, This exhibition is the first showing in a gallery setting of two major projects by the artists Walker and Bromwich. The two works, The Art Lending Library and The Dragon of Profit and Private Ownership, dating from 2012 and 2017 respectively explore themes of public and private ownership and suggest utopian social models.
Subs, Jamie Shovlin
15th September – 25th November 2017, Subs follows a season in the life of youth Sunday League football club, Anstey Swifts. Titled in relation to the subscription fee paid by each child to play, Subs fuses elements of the essay film, social history and self-portrait to create a multi-dimensional account of the Swifts’ expanded landscape.
Julie Cope’s Grand Tour: The Story of a Life by Grayson Perry
29 July – 2 September 2017, Grayson Perry’s iconic Essex House tapestries are being shown in Leicester this summer as part of The Gallery at De Montfort University’s program. Julie Cope is a fictional character created by Grayson Perry – an Essex everywoman whose story he has told through the two tapestries and extended ballad presented in the exhibition.
Inside Out
29 July – 2 September 2017, Inside Out features 24 pieces from the Crafts Council’s Collection representing significant makers from four decades of the Collection.
Experiments in Time and Space
Sumiko Eadon, Andrew Gannon, Daniel Sean Kelly, Anna Lucas, Theo Miller. This exhibition brings together a selection of paintings, prints, films, sculptures and performances from the past five years, including several new works on public display for the first time.
Pandemonium
27 May – 29 May 2017, An exhibition and activities for children and families as part of the Spark Festival, 3 days of playful mayhem. Break the rules. Make the rules. Make friends. Play, rest up. Play again. New rules. New game. Drop in for 3 minutes or return for all three days.
Constructs, Colour, Code
25 March – 6 May 2017, Ernest Edmonds is a pivotal figure in the development of digital arts practices and his inspiration can be seen globally both through his teaching and his artwork. He is a Professor at De Montfort University where he leads the Institute of Creative Technologies as Director.
The Sound of Laughter Isn’t Necessarily Funny
27 January – 11 March 2017, In this exhibition, three sculptures inhabit the space – a grand piano, a pair of grandfather clocks and a dismembered doll that has passed through the artist’s family. Each of these is mechanically animated and their actions mark the passing of time in seemingly arbitrary ways.
Urban Studies
12 September – 27 November 2016, Simon and Tom Bloor, The Bloor twins have worked collaboratively since graduating from university. They are at the forefront of a group of artists reinvigorating our ideas about public art in the UK. Their work often subverts the original intent of design so it can be used for play.