Chaos Magic

14/04/2026

👁️‍🗨️APPLY BY 27th APRIL

We are looking for a new Chaos Magic studio member!

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We are an artist-led project space based in Nottingham. The studio is a shared, open-plan space with an adjoining, purpose-built gallery. We also maintain a community garden and outdoor exhibition space The Curious Tower in nearby St Mary’s rest gardens.

We are looking for new blood . . . 💉🩸

As a Chaos Magic member you will be welcomed into a friendly, inclusive, and democratic creative environment. You will have access to mentorship and a peer-to-peer learning network to support the development of your creative practice, and will be given the opportunity to curate, plan, and deliver a public arts programme spanning a diverse range of events, exhibitions, and workshops in collaboration with us.

Our spacious, beautiful, and well lit studio is shared between six members, with storage and individual desk spaces available to every studio member. Studio rent is £65 per month, the move-in date is 1st May 2026.

We want to give this opportunity to an enthusiastic and dedicated early-career creative who has an interest in arts programming and running an art space, as well as the desire to support the Nottingham art scene whilst nurturing the community that surrounds it.

Send us an expression of interest to [email protected], including a brief introduction about yourself, your practice and why you would like to join the collective.

Applications are open until Midnight on April 27th 2026.

11/04/2026

✨Winter Síofra Beaumont:
Ritual & Remembrance Workshop

at Nottingham Contemporary


Wed 15 Apr, 1pm–2pm

🎟️ Tickets are FREE, but spaces are limited. Book now to secure your place - visit the link in our bio!

with Winter Síofra Beaumont - Book your free ticket now!

Expect an experience that is reflective, creative, and quietly powerful—where art, memory, and ritual meet. 🤝

Winter Síofra Beaumont is a multidisciplinary artist, occult practitioner, and Fine Art graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London. A long-standing member of the Nottingham artist-led collective Chaos Magic, Winter’s work blends ritual performance, contemporary art, and magical practice to explore the connections between spiritual worldviews and everyday reality.

🕯️ In this immersive workshop, will guide participants in reimagining rituals of remembrance—healing our relationship with the departed and creating space for a new culture of celebratory mourning for the fallen and forgotten.

Together, attendees will take part in a ceremony led by Winter, create grave rubbings on fabric, explore intuitive art-making and ritual gestures, and reflect on remembrance, care, and community.

This session grows from Winter’s ongoing practice of honouring untended graves across Nottingham, offering simple acts of respect and remembrance through creative ritual.

Why not have a browse in .contemporary after the session, they have a great selection of ritual and folklore products to encourage more engagement with ritual practice including books, candles, zines, cards and more...

Wed 15 Apr, 1pm–2pm
🎟️ Tickets are FREE, but spaces are limited. Book now to secure your place - visit the link in our bio!

Image Credit: Ash Martin

[ID: An person wearing skull face paint and elaborate white lace veils sits in a darkened field, reading a book by the light of a small fire.]

11/02/2026

👁️‍🗨️Choas Magic got an upgrade.
Check chaosmagic.space for the latest phase shifts

11/02/2026

👁️‍🗨️CM got an upgrade.
Check out chaosmagic.space for the latest phase shifts

11/12/2025

This Saturday 3pm - 7pm we open our doors to the public for an open studios and art market.
Come see what we get up to!

Part of 's open studios event.

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10/06/2025

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We are looking for a new Chaos Magic studio member!

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We are an artist-led project space based within Backlit gallery, Nottingham. The studio is a shared, open plan space with an adjoining, purpose built gallery. We also maintain a community garden and outdoor exhibition space The Curious Tower in nearby St Mary’s rest gardens. 

We are looking for new blood . . . 💉🩸

As a Chaos Magic member you will be welcomed into a friendly, inclusive, and democratic creative environment. You will have access to mentorship and a peer-to-peer learning network to support the development of your creative practice, and will be given the opportunity to curate, plan, and deliver a public arts programme spanning a diverse range of events, exhibitions, and workshops in collaboration with us.

Our spacious, beautiful, and well lit studio is shared between six members, with storage and individual desk spaces available to every studio member.

We want to give this opportunity to an enthusiastic and dedicated early career creative who has an interest in arts programming and running an art space, as well as the desire to support the Nottingham art scene whilst nurturing the community that surrounds it.

Message us for more information, we want to here from you!

Applications are open until Midnight on Thursday July 17th 2025.

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08/10/2024

Chaos Magic presents Wyrding

An exploration into the realm of the strange, the uncanny, and the q***r. It is a place where primal fears and instincts have given rise to myths and monsters, emerging from the wilds beyond society’s boundaries. We emerge from the wilderness of the weird, empowered by the shadows of the unknown, where monsters dwell.

The realm of the weird is a forbidden land, fenced off by societal norms and dictated by systems of power. It is inhabited by folk devils, beasts, ghosts, and phantoms—creatures that challenge the stability of the status quo. In discovering a glorious strangeness to wield against the oppression of the mundane, we reclaim the abject as a powerful form of resistance.

🕯This exhibition runs from 26th October to 8th December in partnership with BACKLIT's " The Last Horror Show "

🕯👻 OPENING NIGHT on 25th October not to be missed! 👻🕯

Featuring work by Masah Azar, Winter Beaumont, Tomas Cobbett, Carrie Grainger, Amie Higgins, Lily Hollywell, Tyler Mellins, Nellie O’, Craig David Parr, and T’kya Xavier.

🕯Workshops and performances to be announced.🕯

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24/07/2024

12/07/2024

OPENING TONIGHT 6-9pm
👁️‍🗨️FREERUNNINGSLEEP👁️‍🗨️
Chaos Magic, BACKLIT, Alfred House, Ashley Street, Nottingham, NG3 1JG

PV: 12 July 2024 6pm
Open 13 July - 13 August by appointment DM or email [email protected]

Freerunningsleep is a work-in-progress by Christopher Bond . A brief sketch of a new work acts as a semi-lucid meditation on folk remedies, time loops, and what it is to observe, intervene and play minor parts in the lives of others. Here the artist draws from obscured shift notes in harm reduction roles, legal observer training, and other forms of neutrality which conversely - heighten subjectivity.

Much of the footage of Freerunningsleep was gathered on the grounds of the now closed local artist space and residency project ‘The Field’ in Shipley, Derbyshire. This footage was taken weeks before the planned demolition of the site.

Christopher Bond is an artist and writer who lives and works in London. Their work through photography and text explores ambiguity as a mode of artistic thought as well as a term that applies to the ‘stretching’ of existing models of social systems to places unknowable and complex.

Christopher Bond has previously shown work and delivered talks with South London Gallery, Firstsite Colchester, Saatchi Gallery and Auto Italia. They were awarded funding by the Elephant Trust in 2022, and selected for the New Contemporaries in 2021. They graduated from BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths in 2020 and were a resident of the Conditions Studio Programme 2020-2021.

[Image Description: 3 screenshots of b+w nightcam footage showing trees and subtitle “a century of weekends” (1), black background with subtitle “no, no, yeah I’m fine” (2), and close up on windowsill of window frame and blinds.]

22/11/2023

Repost 🖤
Announcement: Joey Holder, 'Cryptid'
Exhibition 25th November 2023 - 17th February 2024
(Exhibition open by appointment only between Dec 18th - 31st)

Two Queens is proud to announce our forthcoming exhibition by Joey Holder, 'Cryptid'.

A Cryptid is a creature which may or may not exist, unrecognised by mainstream science. Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience, which primarily looks at anecdotal stories, and other claims rejected by the scientific community. An astonishing 86% of all plants and animals on land and 91% of those in the seas have yet to be named and catalogued. With the majority of life in the sea unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored there are millions of ‘Cryptids’ out there - this project is a speculation on these creatures alongside those that have been ‘captured’ and catalogued by mankind.

Centred around an immersive installation showing shifting, layered footage of plankton from laboratory cameras, imagined creatures from cryptozoology forums and conspiracy sites, and set to an electronic score by AJA, ‘Cryptid’ adopts a diagrammatic aesthetic, with Holder using the visual language of science, rhythmic data streams and electron microscope photography, informed by collaboration with marine biologists. Using 3D modelling, AI generative images of deep sea creatures and mystical symbology she reveals the interdimensional zone these creatures occupy across popular culture, and their importance to all life on earth.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a programme of talks and workshops, more details to be announced. This exhibition is made possible by public funding from The National Lottery through Arts Council England.

18/09/2023

THE FOUL AIR
opening saturday 30th september 4-7pm
until sunday 1st october 12-5pm
at NG1 1DA between st marys rest & victoria park
an exhibition by grime exploring transformation, folklore and working class history. featuring an audio installation by adrian jennings.

from the plaque at the entrance to the curious tower garden: 'It is believed that the tower was originally an access shaft to the beck culvert tunnel during its construction, though it later became a ventilation shaft for the culvert, foul air being carried up the shaft and out through the grille at the top'.

curated by and

all welcome 🌿🌸

(img description: exhibition info written in black on white in grime's wonky font)