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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.
Showing as part of Underground, a season exploring subterranean experiences in the cultural imagination through exhibitions, talks and events.
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.
Showing as part of Underground, a season exploring subterranean experiences in the cultural imagination through exhibitions, talks and events.
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.
Cockroach Diary and other stories brings together works spanning twenty-five years that convey a compelling sense of both the ordinary and the bizarre in British life. 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.
"Pick of the Week"
The Independent
Exhibition on Tour
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.
"Pick of the Week"
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Stephen Vaughan’s stunning large-scale landscape photographs explore the connections between geology, archaeology and history.
Exhibition on tour
The Gallery, Arts University College Bournemouth 19 October to 27 November 2009
Dick Institute Art Gallery, Kilmarnock 8 May to 28 August 2010
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). This exhibition was first shown at Impressions Gallery from 14 December 2007 to 3 February 2008.
Once more, with feeling continues its UK tour at Margaret Harvey Gallery, University of Hertfordshire, from 29 October to 29 November 2008 and at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum from 13 January to 8 March 2009.
Hand to Mouth, commissioned by Impressions, explores the lives of villagers and nomadic shepherds in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains.
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
St James's University Hospital, Leeds 14 April to 14 July 2010
Impressions actively commissions, curates and produces a touring programme of up to three exhibitions a year. These exhibitions are available to tour to galleries throughout Britain, Europe and worldwide.
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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.