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Celebrating 21 Years of Mela in the UK
Photography and mixed media
New Art Exchange is proud to launch this special exhibition that documents 21 years of Mela in the UK since its launch in Nottingham and Bradford. For this project Bradford and Nottingham Mela Networks have joined forces to deliver this exhibition of photographs, film paraphernalia, and text exploring the historical and social context of Mela's over the past two decades. Featuring photography by Tim Smith, Nadeem Haider (APNA Arts), Ashok Mistry, Alan Lodge, Bartosz Kali and more.
To submit your own story on the Mela, visit: http://www.mela21.co.uk/yourstory.html
29 May - 24 July 2010
Preview: 28 May, 6pm |
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Harminder Singh Judge
Curated by: Michael Forbes
Mixed Media
Harminder Singh Judge describes himself as an artist trapped in a perpetual love triangle with religion, art and pop culture. He has a deep interest in the visual and conceptual mixing of religious mythologies with personal experience, pop culture and folklore.
For New Art Exchange Judge has created an installation involving animals derived from mythical and religious histories merged with marketing techniques employed by corporate and commercial enterprise.
24 Apr - 3 Jul 2010
Preview: 23 April, 6pm |
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Nadim Chaudry
Mixed Media
Nadim Chaudry won the Nottingham Castle Annual Open - New Art Exchange Prize in 2008. He launches his first ever solo exhibition at New Art Exchange, which explores religious belief, secular identity, historical cultures and sexuality.
24 Apr - 22 May 2010
Preview: 23 April, 6pm
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Mixed Media
Artists include: Vanley Burke, Clement Cooper, Michael Forbes, Gerard Hanson and Barbara Walker
Curated by New Art Exchange (David Schischka Thomas)
New Art Exchange presents an exhibition exploring the presence of young African Caribbean men in Britain over the last 40 years. Young African Caribbean men have often been portrayed as low achievers and perpetrators of crime in British society. But now, with Barack Obama winning the presidency of the biggest superpower in the world, will we see these same young men portrayed in a different light; a source of huge potential for the future? Will the achievement of black youth in Britain over the last 40 years be recognised and honoured?
16 Jan - 10 Apr 2010
Preview: 15 January, 6pm |
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Tahera Aziz
Sound Installation
‘[re]locate revisits an ordinarily public ‘place’ that retains the traces of a deeply significant
event; it is concerned with the processes involved in struggling to preserve the memory of that event whilst offering new insights. The idea for the artwork flows from the tragic
events surrounding the racially motivated murder of 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence near a bus stop in south London in 1993, and the deep impact this has had both privately, for the
Lawrence family, and publicly.
16 Jan - 10 Apr 2010
Preview: 15 January, 6pm |
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In partnership with New Art Exchange
Celebrating Art & Craft in the East Midlands
This January sees the launch of an extra special Nottingham Castle Open to celebrate the creativity of the East Midland’s artists and makers. For many years, the Open has thrown a spotlight on some of the talented artists that live and work in our community. However, with more space and more prizes than ever, 2010’s Open promises to be an even bigger visual feast.
This years judging panel includes: Gordon Cheung (Artist), Shelley Goldsmith (Textile Artist) and Sheila McGregor (Chief Executive, Axis)
Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery
23 Jan - 7 Mar 2010 |
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Sculpture and Paintings
Pork Knockers are intrepid individual gold prospectors, searching the jungles of the mythical El Dorado. Living in Guyana, UK and USA, Locke's influence has been acknowledged in seminal British exhibitions such as 'Back to Black' and 'The Other Story'. With this, his first solo show in the UK since the 1970's, we loudly reassert his place in British Art.
Curated by Indra Khanna and produced in partnership with The New Art Exchange
26 Sep - 30 Dec 2009
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Paintings
Venkat Raman Singh Shyam
and Rajendra Kumar Shyam
This wonderful style of paintings are the living expressions of the people of the Pardhan Gond tribal communities of India, producing artwork that is deeply linked to their daily lives. The colours and textures show the natural beauty concepts of Pardhans, traditional shapes and symbols.
Like other Gonds, the Pardhans' traditional visual arts included decorating their homes with auspicious designs and basic imagery created in low-relief clay sculpture or natural pigments such as charcoal and limestone.
Please see this link here for news of the Pardhan Gond project to a large elephant scupture for the Elephant Parade: http://www.talleststory.com/adivasiartstrust/mediapage.html
6 Nov - 30 Dec 2009
Preview: 5 November, 6pm |
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Video Installation
An exploration of visual, spoken, and movement languages in Hetain Patel’s work is key to his investigations into Identity. In this new video installation he plays with the idea of cultural assimilation through imitation. Being British born he looks at the possibility of trying to understand an Indian mindset, or at least the mindset of the Indian immigrants that make up his immediate legacy.
This work sees the artist stepping into his father’s shoes, imitating his words, gestures and mannerisms. Patel takes the movements from his father’s work place into his own working environment - a studio. Developed in parallel with his new live work TEN, this piece requires a very specific choreography - a duet between performer and cameraman.
26 Sep - 31 Oct 2009
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Photography
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. The underlying thread of the exhibition highlights how the unfortunate emergence of a new kind of slavery is inextricably linked to the 'ascent' of a global economy. The compendium explores a range of examples, including child labour in Bangladesh, sex slavery from Ukraine to Western Europe and the sexual enslavement of South Korean women by Japanese troops during the Second World War.
A Hayward Touring exhibition in collaboration with Autograph ABP and Magnum Photos.
Sat 1 August - Sat 13 September 2009 |
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Mixed media
An(other) Story is the first collective exhibition of its kind in the UK, combining multiple art forms from all over India. The exhibition brought together a show of Indian arts and crafts from British collections and new commissions from India. The exhibition explores the diversity of artistic styles and techniques, which have been embraced for centuries throughout India, including styles - Madhubani, Warli and Gond.
Sat 2 May - Sun 19 July 2009
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Multi-media Exhibition
A solo exhibition by international, award-winning artist Zineb Sedira. Born to Algerian immigrants, Zineb’s video installations and photography explore notions of displacement and exile. This exhibition takes the sea as a space of movement and a metaphor for cultural exchange.
This critically-acclaimed exhibition is currently touring Europe:
Iniva London, May - Jul 09
Pori Art Museum Finland, Oct 09 - Jan 10
Sat 7 February to Sun 19 April 2009 |
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Mixed media
Historical and cultural explorations of identity defined New Art Exchange’s debut exhibition, with a spotlight on artists from Nottingham. The exhibition reflected on issues faced by ‘Black’ artists in the UK, inviting exchange around notions of Culture, Identity, Time, Space and Home. Artists: Said Adrus, Elshaday Berhane, Harjeet Kaur, Samson Kambalu, Michael Forbes, Hetain Patel, Keith Piper, Gary Stewart, Nazir Tambouli, Andrew Wright.
Sat 6 September - Sun 26 October 2008
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