Gallery II
gallery II | Autumn & Winter Programme
Journeys, Encounters and Observations
In March this year, I was appointed as the new Fellow in Visual Arts at the University. It marks the first Fellow in Visual Arts for over nine years and, as such, demonstrates a significant investment in and commitment to the arts from the University. It is with great pleasure that I introduce the new Gallery II autumn and winter 09 programme. The programme has been developed to be outward facing and to provide innovative and flexible ways of inspiring, within a culturally diverse and academic context.
We will be exhibiting the results of our first artist residency; photographic portraits of students at the University by artist Giuseppe Lambertino. We continue the success of Gallery II's The Influence of Heritage exhibition, which brought contemporary artists from Pakistan to the UK, with an exhibition of contemporary print from China, curated by Dr Zhou Tongyu, from MIRIAD's China Project. Later in the season, we will be showing new work by Yan Preston, also from China but now resident in the UK, as part of the Creative Labs research project.
The new programming allows for collaborations to develop between academic institutions. We are working on a selling show of fine and applied arts in partnership with the Yorkshire Craft Centre and we have an ambitious arts and science collaboration between the University of Bradford, University of Salford and Bradford School of Arts and Media. We also celebrate the success of Bradford becoming the first UNESCO City of Film, with an Experimental Film event, curated by William Rose. Look out for latest news and views on our new website, where you can follow our online gallery project A Room with a View, an exotic journal of the everyday.
Special thanks and appreciation go to Alison Darnbrough for all her support and encouragement and Rachel Kaye for her patience and good humour.
Caroline Hick
Journeys & Encounters
