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Exhibitions

Simorgh
El Anatsui:
Aubrey Williams
A Thousand Ways of Being
Master Strokes:
Jimoh Buraimoh and Chief Z. O. Oloruntoba
Balanced on the Edge of Chaos:
Transvangarde 2002:

2002

14th November 2002 to 7th December 2002
Simorgh - Work by Graham Day Inspired by Farid Al-Din ‘Attar’s Conference of the Birds

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9th October 2002 to 9th November 2002
El Anatsui: - Recent Works

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4th September 2002 to 5th October 2002
Aubrey Williams

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26th June 2002 to 31st July 2002
A Thousand Ways of Being - Memory and Presence in the arts of Diasporas
An exhibition that examines the way in which twelve individual artists, of African, South Asian, Chinese, South American and Middle eastern descent, reflect their experiences of having moved - whether by choice or coercion, whether historically or more recently, to live and work in different environments such as London, Paris, Haiti and Cuba. The exhibition looks at the different ways in which these artists have chosen to balance a 'there' with a different 'here,' a 'then' with a more immediate 'now' and the strategies employed to integrate an awarness of an earlier heritage with subsequently acquired artistic frames of reference.

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22nd May 2002 to 22nd June 2002
Master Strokes: - Contemporary Arabic Calligraphy
Master Strokes brings together, from seven different countries of the Near and Middle East, a sampling of the work of nine of the most distinguished artists practising in the field of Arabic calligraphy today. Besides offering a snapshot of the superabundant wealth of contemporary Islamic calligraphy, the exhibition provides a privileged insight into the rich tapestry of history, culture and thought that has most often - and always to the detriment of better understanding - remained invisible to western eyes. Work will be shown by the following artists: Wijdan (Jordan), Rasheed Butt (Pakistan)' Laila Shawa (Palestine), Maysaloun Faraj (Iraq), Ali Omar Ermes (Libya), Hassan Massoudy (Iraq) Samir Al-Sayegh (Lebanon), Tajammul (UK/Pakistan)' and Nja Mahdaoui (Tunisia).

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17th April 2002 to 18th May 2002
Jimoh Buraimoh and Chief Z. O. Oloruntoba - Visions of the Yoruba
An exhibition bringing together the work of two highly influential artists from Nigeria, the first, Jimoh Buraimoh, whose work developed out of the so-called 'Oshogbo School' and who is important as the first artist to begin to use beads to compose the vibrant colour blocks of his work. The second is the polymath Chief Z. O. Oloruntoba, whose highly-coloured thread-on-canvas pieces provide the perfect complement to Buraimoh's work, showing fascinating similarities and differences by turns.

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27th February 2002 to 13th April 2002
Balanced on the Edge of Chaos: - A Retrospective of Gerald Wilde's Work
Another chance to examine the haunting work of Gerald Wilde, an artist whom David Sylvester called 'the foremost painter of his generation,' one of the unacknowleged masters of the post-war period. Wilde maintains a unique position amongst the British post-war painters, in having spent his all in exploring an individual vision that set him apart from his post-war peers and left him fitting into very few of the accepted artistic movements and trends of the time. Both puzzling and fascinating by turns, Wilde opened a trail which precious few understood and fewer still dared follow.

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30th January 2002 to 23rd February 2002
Transvangarde 2002: - An Artistic World Wide Web
This exhibition provided another platform for a truly international dialogue by juxtaposing outstanding cutting-edge artworks by artists from Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East.

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