ART-PRESENTATION: Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015

Since 1949 Bloomberg New Contemporaries’ exhibition has provided a significant critical platform, offering crucial opportunities for the development and recognition of emerging artists from UK Art schools. Some of the artists that have been selected in the past are: Tacita Dean, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Mike Nelson and Laure Prouvost.

By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: New Contemporaries Archive

For 2015, Bloomberg New Contemporaries launches in Nottingham across the artist-led spaces: Backlit, One Thoresby Street, and Primary before it tours to the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The exhibition brings together 37 artists working across a range of media, with a focus on materiality, form and the process of making being key themes for the exhibition. The legacy of conceptual art practices permeates the exhibition, revealing layers of narrative in both the finished work and through the process of making, in some works abject materials such as car parts, wax, expanding foam and plywood, as well as methods of production such as crochet and embroidery are used to question the value of labour and social hierarchies. Other works draw upon painting’s rich history of color and composition. Whilst still and moving image works shown this year explore and challenge the expectations and perceptions of gender and socio-economic circumstance. The selected artists for 2015 are: Sïan Astley, Kevin Boyd, Lydia Brockless, U. Kanad Chakrabarti, James William Collins, Andrei Costache, Julia Curtin, Abri de Swardt, Melanie Eckersley, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Justin Fitzpatrick, Hannah Ford, Sophie Giller, Richard Hards, Juntae TJ Hwang, Jasmine Johnson, Tomomi Koseki, Hilde Krohn Huse, Pandora Lavender, Jin Han Lee, Hugo López Ayuso, Beatrice-Lily Lorigan, Scott Lyman, Hanqing Ma & Mona Yoo, Scott Mason, Oliver McConnie, Mandy Niewöhner, Hamish Pearch, Neal Rock, Conor Rogers, Katie Schwab, Tim Simmons, David Cyrus Smith, Francisco Sousa Lobo, Aaron Wells, Morgan Wills & Andrea Zucchini.

Info: Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015, Spaces: Backlit, Alfred House, Ashley Str., http://backlit.org.uk, One Thoresby Street- 1 Thoresby Str., http://onethoresbystreet.org & Primary, 33 Seely Road, www.weareprimary.org, Nottingham, Duration: 18/9-31/10/15, Days & Hours: Contact the spaces, www.newcontemporaries.org.uk