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Tether is an artist group based in Nottingham, founded by graduates of Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University in 2007. Hugh Dichmont is a founding member, and until December 2010, was co-Director of the group. Since forming, the group has engaged in a number of collaborative projects around the UK, and from November 2008 ran their own contemporary art gallery, The Wasp Room.

For their closing season of projects in their Nottingham base, September-December 2010, Tether transformed their studios into a multi-faceted events space, consisting of two galleries, The Wasp Room and Max Warburg Space, a social space with a screen for curated video works, The Black Swan, a disco-themed water closet, and an event/lecture space, Tethervision Studio.

Upon Hugh leaving the group, the group will continue to operate as a collective, producing collaborative installations and video works, as well as curating an online archive for video art and videos about art, Tethervision. Tether consists of artists Liam Aitken, Samuel Mercer, Lauren O’Grady, Apexa Patel and Hannah Phillips.

Clockwise from top left: The Black Swan at Tether (Oct 2010), the opening of Wasp Room exhibition Stuart Croft: Drive-In (Sept 2010), a secret passage in Murder in The Kremlin (May 2009), filming at Phoenix Brighton as part of Hiter & Thither (Sept 2009), a performance by Jenna Finch at Tether Festival (Nov 2007), All Smoke and No Fire at The Old Truman Brewery London (May 2008).

To access Tethervision, and for full information on the group's activities, sign up to their mailing list via www.tether.org.uk