Bradford 1 Gallery
Bradford Museums and Galleries have a new gallery in the centre of Bradford! The gallery is within the new development that has rejuvenated Centenary Square as a place to meet, eat, drink or just hang out. Now you can also go and see great new exhibitions.
Bradford 1 Gallery is the new city centre space for exhibitions of contemporary and historic art and craft. It will host shows from national and regional touring venues as well as drawing upon the major collections of the museums and galleries service.
It is a partnership with Impressions Gallery. This innovative contemporary photography gallery has re-located from York to Bradford and will also have its own new gallery. Both institutions will share public areas and an education space.
Current and upcoming exhibitions
3 September - 28 November 2010
The White Show
In Europe at least, classicism is one place where the modern relationship to the colour white begins. Through important artworks dating from the early 1960s to the present day, The White Show explores the symbolism and meaning of the colour white. The exhibition tracks ideas from high modernism to contemporary conceptualism addressing a wide range of questions around purity, space and spirituality, race and class, absence, invisibility and light and shadow. If someone says 'whiteness' what do you think of? Nothingness? Classicism? Light? Winter? Virginity? Racism? In The White Show these notions are ticked off, one by one: Andy Goldworthy's photograph of Icicles and Keith Coventry's White Supremacist painting, which imports into Malevich's radically sparse livery the strips of football teams accused of race discrimination. Maude Sulter's Terpsichore, a photograph depicting a prominent black woman as a muse, has performance artist Della Street wearing a white aristocratic wig and gown, in a pose typical of 17th- and 18th-century portraits of wealthy women. The collection of ceramics, T-shirts, books and other ephemera from Tania Kovats's Museum of the White Horse, for instance, rides the theme at a random trot, while Janice Kerbel's plans for indoor gardens - in a launderette- bring the authority of white paper to faintly absurd projections. On loan courtesy of the Arts Council Collection.
A viewing of the exhibition: Thursday 9 September 6 – 8pm, refreshments provided. All welcome. Free admission. A representative from the Arts Council Collection will be present.
10 December 2010 - 20 February 2011
David Hockney: Grimm’s Fairy Tales
An exhibition of etchings created by David Hockney in response to six of the fairy tales by the famous brothers Grimm. Designed to appeal to children as well as adults this exhibition will include a children’s creative play and story corner. Associated events to be confirmed.
