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What does Bradford mean to you?
Bradford is… showcases one outcome from a three-month long community project that responded to Impressions Gallery’s recent 40th Anniversary exhibition Roads to Wigan Pier. First shown in 1984, the exhibition depicted life in the North of England.
A partnership project between Impressions Gallery and Artworks Creative Communities
Israel and its surrounding territories have been an area of dispute since the country’s establishment in 1948. In this timely and relevant exhibition, Yaakov Israel takes us on a photographic journey across a complex land, offering a personal viewpoint of the nation that shares his name.
Russell Boyce, Huw Davies, Julian Germain, Graham Hall, John Kemp, Tim Smith
In November 1972 Impressions Gallery opened in a room above a shop in York with the first ever exhibition by the then unknown Martin Parr. As one of the first specialist photography galleries in Europe it has gone on to play a vital role in championing photography and has had a huge impact on the development of the photographic culture in Britain. To mark this occasion Anne McNeill, Director of Impressions, has selected from the gallery’s archive an exhibition first shown in October 1984.
The Way We Were is a selection of over 75 original posters from the first twenty years of Impressions Gallery and demonstrates the impact the gallery has had on photographic culture in Britain since 1972.
Made over a period of five years, Personal Best explores the stories of sixteen young athletes in the build up to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The exhibition documents a unique time in British history, and captures the development of a generation of sportspeople as they grow from childhood to adulthood within the intense world of elite sport. This is the UK premiere and first major solo show of award-winning photographer Paul Floyd Blake.
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In its British premiere, Making Space explores the expansion and development of Islam in contemporary Ireland. Made over the course of three years, the exhibition examines the reuse of spaces for the purpose of prayer by Muslim communities throughout Ireland. This is Noel Bowler’s first major solo show in Britain.
Made over a period of five years, The Sound of Two Songs offers an extensive and personal photographic survey of Poland. This is the UK premiere of a major new exhibition by renowned Magnum photographer Mark Power.
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Red Saunders’ epic photographic tableaux vivants (‘living pictures’) recreate momentous but overlooked events from Britain’s struggle for democracy and equality, from the Peasants Revolt of 1381 to the Chartist movement of the mid nineteenth century. Shown as part of
Ways of Looking, a new photography festival in Bradford.
Exhibition on tour
People's History Museum, Manchester, 9 March to 29 September 2013.
Showing at Bradford Hungarian and Social Centre
Makeshift Monuments was created over two years in the Bradford Hungarian Cultural and Social Centre, during the run up to its closure in the summer of 2010. This site specific installation of photographs are pasted directly onto the walls of the disused social club where viewers are invited to move through to see the exhibition. Showing as part of Ways of Looking, a new photography festival in Bradford.
The result of five year’s unprecedented access and international investigation, Murray Ballard offers an amazing photographic insight into the practice of cryonics: the process of freezing a human body after death in the hope that scientific advances may one day bring it back to life.
Exhibition on tour
Moral Holiday (group show) Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art 26 October 2012 to 12 January 2013
Award-winning photographer Zed Nelson reflects on the cultural and commercial forces that drive a global obsession with youth and beauty.
Exhibition on tour
Durham Art Gallery, 5 May to 24 June 2012
Perspektivet Museum, Norway, 11 October to 27 January 2013
Light House and Wolverhampton Art Gallery 16 February to 8 June 2013
Lost Languages and other voices is the first major retrospective of work by Joy Gregory, one of the most significant artists to emerge from the Black British photography movement of the 1980s.
Challenging the conventions of traditional war photography, this international exhibition draws together powerful photographic responses that connect both directly and indirectly with conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Three ramshackle wooden cabins, assembled by the artist from discarded wood and salvaged building materials, invite the visitor to explore. Inside, flickering 16mm films reveal the lives of modern-day hermits who live in isolated spots in Northern Europe.
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.
Impressions Gallery, in partnership with Autograph ABP, presents
not Natasha by award-winning photographer Dana Popa.
This hard-hitting and harrowing project, made over the last four years, documents the experiences of sex-trafficked women from Moldova through photography and collected stories. Popa says, ‘Natasha is the nickname given to prostitutes with Eastern European looks. Sex trafficked girls hate it’.
Subterrania, a solo exhibition of large scale photographic works by British artist Fiona Crisp, invites the viewer to explore underground worlds. Two new works made in Yorkshire, specially commissioned by Impressions Gallery, will be unveiled for the first time in Bradford.
The Last Things provides an exclusive glimpse of the Ministry of Defence’s secret crisis management centre beneath the streets of central London. Over an eight-month period in 2006 and 2007, David Moore was allowed unprecedented access to one of the inner sanctums of government. This secret space, only to be used in a major national emergency, hides a strictly controlled working environment continuously on stand-by.
Front brings together three new artworks exploring the beach, family photography and motherhood. This solo show by Trish Morrissey, comprising photographs, video and a sound installation, receives its international premiere at Impressions Gallery.
Clothes for Living and Dying brings together photographs and video works exploring the role that clothing plays in two rites of passage, graduations and funerals, in Kern’s ancestral homeland of Croatia/Bosnia-Herzegovina.
A Touring Exhibition from the University of Hertfordshire Galleries
The five latest winners of the prestigious national awards for recent UK graduates: Martina Lindqvist, Alice Myers, James Pogson, Kurt Tong, and Nicky Walsh.
Immerse yourself in the world of HD – high definition video. Thirteen artists take on the challenge of creating a short film based on a single shot. Projected at a large scale in the gallery, their diverse responses exploit the superb detail of HD, explore the tension between the still photograph and the moving image and depict scenes from Manchester to Whitby.
This major exhibition is the first survey show by Anna Fox, one of the most significant photographers to emerge from the new wave of British colour documentary of the 1980s.
Shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010.
Exhibition on tour
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham 22 February to 1 April 2011
Photomonth in Krakow, Poland 4 May to 31 May 2010
The Photographers' Gallery, London (2010 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize) 12 February to 2 May 2010
Ffotogallery, Cardiff 28 August to 10 October 2009
Winchester Gallery 19 November to 19 December 2008
Marjolaine Ryley explores family relationships across generations and countries in Résidence Astral, an exhibition of photographs spanning twelve years.
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Stephen Vaughan’s stunning large-scale landscape photographs explore the connections between geology, archaeology and history.
Exhibition on tour
Photofusion, London 8 April to 27 May 2011
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle 4 December 2010 to 6 February 2011
Dick Institute Art Gallery, Kilmarnock 8 May to 28 August 2010
The Gallery, Arts University College Bournemouth 19 October to 27 November 2009
Six contemporary artists from Colombia explore interlinking themes of repetition, memory and performance.
This major international exhibition of photography and video work is organised by Impressions in joint collaboration with The Photographers’ Gallery (London).
Exhibition on tour
Rugby Art Gallery and Museum 13 June to 8 March 2009
The University of Hertfordshire 29 October to 29 November 2008
The Photographers' Gallery 18 April to 15 June 2008
The University of Essex 21 February to 22 March 2008
Hand to Mouth, commissioned by Impressions, explores the lives of villagers and nomadic shepherds in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains.
Exhibition on tour
Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes 31 May to 13 July 2011
Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth 14 November to 19 December 2009
Ever since she can remember, Bradford born photographer Liza Dracup has been fascinated by the mystery of the woods and what she describes as the “fear and curiosity of both night and woodland…and childhood experiences associated with myth and memory”. In this new body of work, Dracup has chosen to explore her intimate knowledge of a woodland space on the outskirts of a city.
Exhibition on tour
PM Gallery, London 13 November 2010 to 8 January 2011
St James's University Hospital, Leeds 14 April to 14 July 2010
Liza Dracup brings the night-time glow of urban woodland fringes into the heart of the city in this special outdoor presentation of her photographic work Sharpe’s Wood.
Presented by Impressions Gallery and showing as part of Illuminate’s Light Night Festival, this series of five large scale light boxes will be placed outside our future venue in Centenary Square, Bradford.
Impressions Gallery presents Simon Warner's epic three-part video installation A Guide to Yorkshire Rivers, taking viewers on a wild ride down the Aire, the Wharfe and the Ouse. Showing as part of the Bradford Inspired festival, this is the first time the triptych has been shown publically in its intended format.
In an ambitious new commission, international artist Mariele Neudecker has created a five-part moving image installation in response to Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children). Premiering at Impressions Gallery, York, this is a unique project that fuses contemporary visual art with classical music and literature.
In an international premiere, Mexican American photographer Stefan Ruiz captures the stars, sets and melodrama of
In a UK premiere for US artist Laurie Long, Impressions presents two bodies of work that fuse elements of humour, feminism and popular culture.
Recent landscape photography by 16 artists from Nordic and Baltic States.
A Text+Work Touring Exhibition, The Art Institute, Bournemouth, curated by Liz Wells.