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Fundada Artists' Film Festival 2010 Launch Event Announced
Inaugural Fundada Artists' Film Festival Launch Event:
Eagle & Feather present KIPPLE: VHS Art for the Digital Age
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You Pigs present NTSC VHS VJ Barry Valentino playing live with Splitty McCheeks
Saturday 14th August, 2-4pm
Square Chapel, Halifax, UK
FREE ENTRY
FAFF 2010 continues 16th - 20th August 2010
Part of Halifax Festival 2010 http://www.halifaxfestival.co.uk/
Full press release: http://bit.ly/FAFF070610
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Fundada
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Studios available at Westgate Studios, Wakefield
Westgate Studios has two artist spaces available, 2.5m x 2.5m and 5m x 5m.
There is very good access to local transport (2 minute walk to Wakefield Westgate Station) with at least 4 trains running to Leeds every hour. The studios are housed in a Grade II listed building and all studio holders have free use/access to our Project Space. There is disabled access/facilities and the studios are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
If you are interested and want to come along and have a look at either space then please get in touch to arrange a viewing.
Phone Sophie on 01924 383453 or email info@westgatestudios.net
More information about the studios can be found at www.westgatestudios.net
studio space to hire
We're currently renovating several rooms in Saltaire to use as artist's studios/workshops. If you are looking for space to work or exhibit please contact Angela on 01274 581806 or email angela@thebutterflyrooms.co.uk. As we are still in the process of renovating you may have some input into the kind of facilities you would require for your studio.
Art Summer School weekends in the Pennines
June 25th - 27th Walk : Sketch : Paint ! Combine walking, sketching and studio based painting
July 16th-18th 'Life Work' An exciting mix of direct approaches to studying the human form - draw, sculpt, print, paint
July 30th - Aug 1st Approaches to Landscape- Outdoor sketching and printmaking
All courses include evening Friday eve session, light lunches and cost £150
All abilities welcome
Tel 01422 843519 for details
Impressions Gallery Flatland: A Landscape of Punjab
Max Kandhola
25th Apr - 20th Jun 2010
British Indian photographer Max Kandhola explores themes of memory, migration and Sikh diaspora through large-scale colour photographs of Punjab's many rivers and uncharted villages.
Flatland is the second installment in Kandhola's photographic trilogy mapping his family's heritage, continuing from Illustration of Life, a poignant document of his father's struggle with cancer first shown in the UK at Impressions in 2003. In Flatland, Kandhola takes as his starting point the Sikh tradition of scattering ashes in running water to symbolize a physical reintroduction of the body back into the land. Returning to his ancestral homeland, he found himself in unfamiliar territory, yet informed by memories passed down to him through his family.
The word Punjab means 'land of the five rivers'. Kandhola says, 'these rivers are significant to the history of Punjab; the history and politics of any country is embedded within the memory of land and landscape'. Following the formation of Pakistan in 1947, Punjab now straddles the borders of India and Pakistan.
Kandhola's photographs are devoid of people, landmarks and typography, and avoid the usual visual references to ethnicity associated with representations of India. His images have been influenced by both the European landscape tradition, and by British suburban gardens, an expression of British identity and a reminder of the importance placed by diasporic Punjabis on the cultivation of land. In this way, Kandhola explores issues of representation and heritage, and how to portray aspects of family history, migration to England, and the post-independence diaspora.
The exhibition also includes Field Notes and Explorations, a collection of drawings, paintings and annotated Polaroids revealing Kandhola's working process, which have never been exhibited in the UK before.
Max Kandhola (born Birmingham, UK) is a fine art photographer and Head of Photography at Nottingham Trent University. His work has been exhibited internationally, including PhotoInk, Delhi, India (Sept 2009); Central European House of Photography, Slovakia, Bratislava, (2009); the Pingyao Festival, China (2008); Les Rencontres d'Arles, France (2006); the Victoria and Albert Museum (2004); and Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt (2001). His work is held in the collections of the National Media Museum, Bradford; Government Art Collection; Light Work, Syracuse; and Deutsche Bank Collection, Germany. Publications include Illustration of Life, published by Impressions Gallery and Light Work in association with Dewi Lewis (2003), and the monograph Peter Max Kandhola, published by Autograph and Arts Council England (1996).
