Impressions Gallery

Impressions Gallery will open the doors to its new specially built space on Saturday 18 August at 12 noon, launching a weekend of celebratory events.

Impressions Gallery and Bradford 1 Gallery have commissioned photographer Gavin Parry to document their new building in Centenary Square, Bradford, as it undergoes the dramatic transformation from shell to state-of-the-art galleries.  The resulting photographs will be presented on the Bradford Big Screen and launched as a publication with a foreword by influential designer Wayne Hemingway.

Exhibition in the Studio: 2 February to 2 March 2008

This exhibition was created by six pupils from Bradford Academy working alongside Colombian photographer and video artist Juan Pablo Echeverri. The pupils are Leonnie, Dominic, Hayley, Alison, Ky-Leigh and Curt, and all are pupils at the newly opened Bradford Academy.

This new Photoworks publication, published in association with Impressions Gallery, offers the first comprehensive survey of the work to date of British photographer Anna Fox. This publication accompanies Anna Fox's upcoming solo exhibition at Impressions Gallery in Summer 2008.

Once more, with feeling begins its UK tour at the University Gallery, The University of Essex from 21 February to 22 March 2008

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 The Photographers' Gallery from 18 April to 15 June 2008

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.

Bradford Music Week will take place in and around central Bradford between Monday 26 May to Sunday 1 June 2008. The event will feature seminars, exhibitions, workshops, special events and activities and of course gigs - lots of em, big and small!

Click more to read about the events happening in the Studio at Impressions Gallery.

Hang: Redeye exhibition workshop

Get serious about exhibiting with this incredible opportunity to take part in Redeye’s acclaimed workshop and have your work shown at Impressions.

For the month of September, Leeds and Bradford will be the undoubted destinations for photography and new media, with the first edition of Ways of Looking. Exhibitions, talks, films and events will be happening in museums, historic houses, contemporary galleries, cinemas, stately homes, and even a railway station.

Secret Diaries
7 August to 28 September 2008

This exhibition was created by a group of young people from the Bradford Youth Development Partnership in collaboration with Impressions Gallery. Using the work of artist Anna Fox as inspiration, they worked with photographer AJ Wilkinson to create a range of photographs that reflects their everyday lives and interests.

The exhibition is on display in the Studio
Opening times vary, please call ahead

Still, Motion, Capture is a series of short films created by a group of Year 9 students from Bradford Academy. Working with professional film-maker Sarabjit Kohli, the group took the Composure exhibition in the Gallery as their starting point. Challenged to use only a single, locked-off shot, the students took inspiration from everyday situations and objects in their school to create seven original short films.

Join the Jerwood Award Winners 2008 at this symposium designed especially for MA students and recent graduates.

Wednesday 11 February 11.30am to 4pm

£10 per place.
Booking essential.

Once more, with feeling continues its UK tour at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum from 13 January to 8 March 2009.

Six contemporary artists from Colombia explore interlinking themes of repetition, memory and performance. This exhibition was first shown at Impressions Gallery from 14 December 2007 to 3 February 2008.

This major international exhibition of photography and video work is organised by Impressions in joint collaboration with The Photographers’ Gallery (London) and is co-curated by Camilla Brown and Pippa Oldfield. It brings together both emerging and established artists rarely seen in the UK. Whilst their approaches are diverse, all suggest the notion ‘once more, with feeling’: an action repeated, remembered or re-visited.

Knockout was created by a group young people from Bradford, in collaboration with Impressions Gallery, Kala Sangam, Bradford Youth Offending Team and Nacro. The group worked with photographer Shanaz Gulzar to create a series of photographs that explore the movement created by local Thai boxers from Bradford.

Me, Myself and MRI is a new interactive digital portrait exhibition that explores identity using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology, photography, audio and video.

Lost in Transit brings together thirteen of the most promising emerging photographers in the UK to explore themes of journeys, memory, and identity. The exhibition is the outcome of a nine-month long project, run by Redeye in association with Impressions Gallery, to help new talent develop their work and gain professional experience at one of the country’s leading photography venues.

Can you create a photographic self-portrait that tells us something about who you are?

Winners of our flickr competition have now been announced.

Cockroach Diary & other stories continues it's tour to Ffotogallery, Cardiff from 28 August to 10 October 2009

"Pick of the Week"
The Independent

Cockroach Diary & 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.

Do you have a brilliant self-published or independently-published photography book, and want it to be seen by a wider audience?

Impressions Gallery is launching a new initiative to support self-published photographic artists, starting with our Photography Book Fair Weekend on Saturday 24 to Sunday 25 October 2009.

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

Hand to Mouth, commissioned by Impressions, explores the lives of villagers and nomadic shepherds in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains.

Exhibition on tour
Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth 14 November to 19 December 2009

Underground, the Autumn/Winter season at Impressions Gallery,  explores subterranean experiences in the cultural imagination through a series of exhibitions and talks.

All exhibitions and events are FREE.

The Vintage & Craft Festive Fair will take place on Sunday 6 December 2009 from 12.00pm to 4.00pm.

The fair will host a wide selection of stalls selling gorgeous crafts and accessories created by regional makers. The House of Rose & Brown vintage boutique also be in residence selling a selection of beautiful things from every era. After a good browse shoppers will be able to chill out to some fine vintage tunes, revive themselves with warming mulled wine and pick up some crafty skills creating their own stocking fillers at our drop-in workshop.

Click more to find out how to apply for a stall, all applications must be received by 4pm on Monday 23 November 2009.

Source photographic magazine will be scheduling a series of meetings with photographers on Sunday 28 March 2010 at Impressions Gallery, to view new work for consideration for publication.

If you are interested please click 'more' to find out how to apply directly to Source. The closing date is Thursday 11 March 2010.

Impressions Gallery is delighted to announce that artist Anna Fox has been shortlisted for the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010.

The four shortlisted artists (Anna Fox, Zoe Leonard, Sophie Ristelhueber and Donovan Wylie) will have their work shown at The Photographers’ Gallery, London from 12 February to 2 May 2010.

The Studio, Friday 19 March 2010
6.00pm to 8.00pm

Arts of Place is a creative programme of temporary commissions, events and learning designed to raise the cultural profile of Bradford’s key regeneration project, City Park.

All welcome.
Booking essential.

Impressions Gallery is delighted to announce that photographer Dana Popa has been awarded first prize in the world renowned Center Project Competition 2010.

Cockroach Diary & other stories by Anna Fox is being exhibited as part of Krakow Photomonth, which this year celebrates the best of British photography.

Recently nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010, Cockroach Diary & other stories, initiated by Impressions Gallery and curated by Anne McNeill, will be shown throughout May 2010 at the Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki.

Stephen Vaughan’s stunning large-scale landscape photographs explore the connections between geology, archaeology and history.

Exhibition on tour
Dick Institute Art Gallery, Kilmarnock 8 May to 28 August 2010

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 body of work, Dracup has chosen to explore her intimate knowledge of a woodland space on the outskirts of a city.

Exhibition on tour
The Atrium Gallery, Bexley Wing, St James's University Hospital, Leeds 14 April to 14 July 2010

The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010 tours to Frankfurter Kunstverein, from 13 May 2010 to 25 July 2010 and features the work of Anna Fox who was nominated for her exhibition Cockroach Diary & other stories, initiated by Impressions Gallery.

Fox was one of four artists to be shortlisted for the annual award, which rewards a living photographer of any nationality who has made an outstanding contribution to photography in Europe.

The Studio, Thursday 15 July 2010, 4.30pm to 8.00pm

Beam invites you the third in the series of Arts of Place events to explore the nuts and bolts of regeneration and consider how artists can be successfully integrated into the process. 

Please come along you are living or working in Bradford and are interested in or involved in regeneration, creativity or education.

Free to attend.
Booking essential.

This competition is now closed. Click through to see the winners.

Thanks to everyone who entered the competition, following the announcement at our 3rd Birthday Party (good to see some of you there) we are happy to showcase the winners on flickr and our website, congratulations!