gallery II | ATRIUM14 Sept – 18 Dec 2009

JOURNEYS & ENCOUNTERS | Giuseppe Lambert ino An exhibition of photographic portraits of University of Bradford students

Marking the first in a series of Gallery II artist residencies as part of a new programme of collaborative projects, Journeys & Encounters not only captures portraits of local, national and international students but also testifies to the many different journeys that they have taken to get to this point. Richmond Atrium, to many the hub of the University, marks a point where all these paths cross. In recognition and in celebration, we present a selection of photographic portraits by Gallery II’s first artist-in-residence, Giuseppe Lambertino.Together, with Caroline Hick, the new Fellow in Visual Arts at the University and curator of Gallery II’s visual arts programme, Giuseppe spent May and June on campus meeting students as they studied, prepared for their exams or celebrated finishing them. The portraits here are the results of our encounters.

With thanks to Marketing & Communications at the University for supporting this project.

Further photos from this residency can be found by visiting http://www.brad.ac.uk/gallery/

gallery II | CHESHAM BUILDING5 Oct – 13 Nov 2009

DIRECT OBSERvATION | Chen Qi , He Kin, Lu Zhip ing, Su Xinping, Tang Chenghua, Zhang Guanghui , Zhou J i rongWork by Seven Contemporary Chinese Printmakers curated by Dr Zhou Tongyu 5 – 7pm, Thurs 8 Oct 09 Official Opening4 – 5pm, Thurs 8 Oct 09 Artists talk – Changes in Chinese Urban Culture with exhibiting artist Zhou Jirong [Academy of Fine Art, Beijing] & curator Zhou Tongyu [MIRIAD, China Project]1 – 4pm, Sat 31 Oct 09 Traditional Chinese Bookmaking Workshop with John McDowall

Direct ObservationFollowing the success of Gallery II’s The Influence of Heritage exhibition in 2008, which brought contemporary artists from Pakistan to the UK, this exhibition offers an opportunity to discover a wide variety of contemporary print from China. The seven artists represented are linked through their membership of the China Printmaking Workshop Alliance and each use printmaking as the language through which to express their observations, thoughts and feelings.

When the idea of the western fine art print was introduced into China, the new creative print was able to express both traditional and revolutionary ideas and was used as a means of political propaganda. After the People’s Republic was founded in 1949, printmaking became a major fine art medium which, to this day, is practised by a significant number of artists and is taught as a major discipline in Chinese art academies. The different styles and varied subject matter of this work, as can be appreciated in Direct Observation, reflect cultural changes in Chinese society during the past thirty years and the economic and social reforms that have transformed every aspect of Chinese peoples’ lives.

5 Oct – 13 Nov 2009 | Gallery IIFolded Journeys | John McDowall To accompany Direct Observation, Gallery II has invited artist, printmaker and publisher John McDowall to curate a display of artists’ books. The selection presents book works which in diverse ways integrate narrative with the materiality of structure, paper and print process.

1 – 4pm, Sat 31 Oct 09 | Gallery II Traditional Chinese Bookmaking Workshop with John McDowall John will be demonstrating binding techniques for some of the basic formats of traditional Chinese books and their application in contemporary artists’ book works. This will be an opportunity to handle the books in the exhibition, to view further examples of the medium and to make your own books.

gallery II | ATRIUM mid Jan – Feb 2010

CREATIvE LABS | Research Project & Exhib i t ionAn exhibition and related series of seminars exploring creative knowledge transfer

Creative Labs is a partnership project between Sue Hayton, evaluator, Hayton Associates; Lou Comerford Boyes, Research Fellow, University of Bradford and Yan Preston, photographer/artist who have come together to explore and reveal creative knowledge transfer through a process of participative collaborative inquiry. Each partner is exploring and challenging their role as researcher/evaluator, this exhibition provides the artist’s view.

Yan Preston will explore, through 3-D installation and large format images, the theme ‘Territory’. This is her response to being an artist-observer and researcher on the Creative Labs research project. Based on self-reflection her work will also explore her journey within the project, looking closely at her role as creator and interpreter of meaning. Her mixed-media installation ’96 Lunch Boxes’, will be also shown. A programme of seminars and activities will accompany this exhibition.

Further information about the opening event and seminars will be posted at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/gallery/

Creative Labs is funded by Arts Council England and the BusinessLink Innovation Fund.

gallery IIONLINE GALLERY14 Sept – 18 Dec 2009

A ROOM WITH A vIEW | Inv i ted Guests A Daily Visual Journal. Guests are invited to photograph a scene from a place they regularly use and share their reflections, musings and thoughts.

When E M Forster wrote A Room With A View at the turn of the last century, he was reflecting on a certain class of English person who continued the practice of The Grand Tour, visiting a tick list of European countries in order to develop an appreciation of culture. A century later and we are able to tour the world and communicate globally from our living rooms and offices. The best of the internet celebrates a desire to share information and experiences and this project responds to a generosity that defines a lot of online creative work. We are inviting people to share a space that is part of their everyday lives and asking them to share their thoughts with us.This project is also about the idea of a view. When we look out of our window, what view do we see? Do we see people, buildings, a sunset, or are we actually gazing into that space in order to reflect on something else? What is familiar to one person, when shared, can become exotic. To spend some time capturing the everyday, allows that moment to become something special and unique.Following the tradition of the travel journal, this gallery of places and spaces will be updated daily, allowing the viewer a window into someone else’s world and a new experience shared.To follow our online gallery, go to: http://www.brad.ac.uk/gallery/

gallery II | CHESHAM BUILDING Thurs 28 January 2010, 7pm

ExpERIMENTAL F ILM EvENT | curated by Wi l l RoseCommissioned specially for Gallery II, watch out for further postings...

An evening of contemporary and historical expanded cinema including the re-staging of works that use multiple 16mm projectors and involve performative interventions.

gallery II & ATRIUM work in progress 2009 – 2010

SCALE | Col in L loyd & Simon Ford An ambitious collaborative arts and science research and exhibition project

SCALE is an exhibition by artists Colin Lloyd, University of Salford and Simon Ford, Bradford School of Arts and Media. The exhibition is curated by Caroline Hick, Fellow in Visual Arts, University of Bradford. As well as being a collaboration between institutions SCALE is being achieved through inter-departmental partnerships: Dr. Fin Caton-Rose, Senior Researcher, Polymer Engineering, and Dr. Jim Gilchrist, Head of Optometry, University of Bradford. The ensuing dialogue between disciplines will be central to the ambitions of the SCALE project.

SCALE will be an art installation at Gallery II, in Sept. 2010, investigating notions of scale, whether literally, figuratively or allegorically. The exhibition will break-out into the enormous public atrium space of the University in which will be installed large-scale transformed versions of the artifacts in the gallery to include: painting, printmaking, photography, 3D works and sound. SCALE will capitalise on the research reputations of the three educational institutions and will include a series of symposia on topics such as the artist and entrepreneurialism, the present status of art and public space and art as a performative activity, with contributions from academic staff from each of the institutions.

To visit the artists’ blog of this project, go to: http://scalechronicles.blogspot.com/

CONTACT US:Telephone enquiries : 01274 235495

Please note that for staffing reasons this line can only be manned at certain times of the day. At other times please leave us a message including your daytime and evening phone numbers and we will contact you.

Email enquiries: gallery@bradford.ac.ukWebsite: www.brad.ac.uk/galleryPostal address: Gallery II, Chesham Building, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP

Katherina Manolessou, A Bird

gallery II | CHESHAM BUILDING 27 Nov – 18 Dec 2009

Gallery II in association with the Yorkshire Craft Centre present A FEAST FOR THE EYES & BE DAzzLED A Xmas selling show of fine and applied arts at The Yorkshire Craft Centre and Gallery II

Preview 4 – 9pm, Thursday 26 Nov 2009 4 – 6pm A Feast For The Eyes, Gallery II 6pm – 9pm Be Dazzled, The Yorkshire Craft Centre

This year, Gallery II and The Yorkshire Craft Centre have worked in partnership, to provide two great venues for people to come and purchase fantastic and unique gifts from a range of high quality, hand-crafted items. Gallery II’s show, A Feast For The Eyes, will share the opening night with the Yorkshire Craft Centre’s show Be Dazzled. Guests are invited to Gallery II, from 4 – 6pm, for the “first course” in this banquet of collectables, the “second course” continuing at the Yorkshire Craft Centre until 9pm. In A Feast for the Eyes, visitors will be treated to a carefully constructed installation where makers work is presented and arranged in a style that typifies the richness of 17th Century Dutch Still Life paintings. Visitors are then encouraged to continue to the Bradford Gallery, Yorkshire Craft Centre, for Be Dazzled, a showcase exhibition which continues the Yorkshire Craft Centre’s association with established artists and craft makers.

gallery II OpENING HOURSMon – Fri, 11 – 5pm, Thurs ‘til 6pm.Other times by arrangement.ALL WELCOME. FREE

Simon Ford, Work in Progress

Giuseppe Lambertino, Syed and Greta

Caroline Hick, Menston Station Waiting Room

Zhou Jirong, City • Memory that is Drifting Away (II)

Yan Preston, 96 Lunch Boxes (Detail)

Kevin Best, Disposable Still Life with Fruit and Ham (Detail)

Chesham Building | University of Bradford

autumn | winter programme 2009

gallery II | AUTUMN & WINTER 09 PROGRAMME

Journeys, Encounters and Observat ionsIn 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 HickFellow in Visual Arts

Zhou Jirong, Beijing