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Exhibition- Weird Hope Engines

Bonington Gallery, Bonington Building, Dryden Street, Nottingham, East Midlands, NG1 4GG
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22nd March | 2025 | 11am
Bonington Gallery
Free

The first exhibition of its kind, Weird Hope Engines highlights the practices of innovative designers, artists, and writers in the field of independent game design, and brings their work into dialogue with those in the field of critical art practice.

Curated by David Blandy, Rebecca Edwards, and Jamie Sutcliffe, this experimental exhibition reimagines Bonington Gallery as a hybrid lab — a testing site for the development of new worlding experiences, an active gaming hub, and an archive of maps, concept artworks, rulebooks, and gaming curiosities.

Explore a series of newly-commissioned play experience which utilise a range of mechanics, from dice rolls and diary keeping to tumble towers and the recording of personal anecdotes, to encourage new approaches to immersive play.


Original displays showcase the unique function of visual art within gaming imaginaries, in which image making moves beyond functional illustration into complex relationships with collaborative storytelling. Archival vitrines illustrate Nottingham's essential role in the development of gaming history.

An original essay film by the curators, produced in collaboration with Adam Sinclair and Lotti Closs, explores the shared experience of game space as a site of hallucinatory possibility.

Find out more about the curators, artists, and film makers.

[Image: Andrew Walter, courtesy of the artist]

Book a free ticket for the exhibition launch event on Friday 21 March.

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Opening Times

Exhibition- Weird Hope Engines 22 Mar 2025 - 10 May 2025
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Monday - Sunday11:00 - 03:00

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