UNIT1

'Unit1' is The Great Central's hire programme. If you would like to hire our gallery space for exhibitions, photography, filming or anything else please, get in touch: unit1@thegreatcentral.org We welcome all enquiries.

Unit1 @ The Great Central hosts:

Dreamland MEMENTO

Elisa Panerai & Leila Houston

Winners of The Great Central Unit1 Prize

Private View: Monday 7th June 6 – 9pm

Open: 10th – 13th June 2 – 6pm

Unit1 @ The Great Central is very pleased to present Dreamland Memento, an exhibition by two of the outstanding artists exhibiting at The City Gallery OPEN 21 exhibition.

Previous Unit1 Exhibitions:

SEQUENCE
Daniel Kelly, Emily Warren and Daniel Goodwin

Private View: Mon 29th March 6-9pm
Open: Tue 30th March - Sat 3rd April 1-5pm

Parrot Image

This exhibition brings together the work of three artists currently studying BA Fine Art at DMU; Daniel Kelly, Emily Warren and Daniel Goodwin. Working primarily with Sculpture and Video, these artists use repetition, pattern and code to create work which drifts in and out of sequence, existing somewhere between the two. The exhibition will include multi-channel video works, sound sculpture and super 8 loops.

Previous Unit1 Exhibitions

IDLE – Hall & Sweeney

Open: Wednesday 6th May - Saturday 9th May, 12noon-6pm
Preview: Wednesday 6th May 6-8pm

Hall & Sweeney present a body of work that looks at the effortless ways in which technology has allowed people to class themselves as ‘a creative’. Constantly we have access, via the Internet, to art and media that purports itself to be of value. The content on offer to us is mostly, nothing more than self-indulgence.

Never before have such powerful tools been available to the mass of society to realise ideas. But with these tools, the individuals creative output is becoming a pre-determined homogeny of instantly gratifying results leaving the ‘creative type’ marveling in their own glory, whilst the viewer left with feelings of déjà vu.

IDLE humorously reacts to this form of lazy creativity and questions the quality, originality and ownership of output from these ‘art-at-a-click-of-a-mouse’ packages and devices. Idle pushes the viewer to be fully complicit as spectator, subject and performer.

Parts of the exhibition contain explicit references that are not suitable for those under the age of 18 or for those who are easily offended.

Thomas Hall & Thomas Sweeney are both artists who use technology as tools for creating art works. Both Hall and Sweeney are East Midlands based. This is the first time they have artistically collaborated together.