Exhibitions On Tour
Journeys - paintings by J Chuhan
Chuhan's paintings portray her response to the appearance, personality and inner life of people who have posed for her as models, and explore ideas of intimacy and sexuality, strength and fragility. Alongside are paintings and drawings of anonymous passengers observed on urban journeys, juxtaposing transient and private moments within a public environment. Chuhan's work encompasses Asian and Western influences in a distinctly vigorous painterly language of colour and form.
The title 'Journeys' is a metaphor for experiences including migrations and relocations, colonisation and acculturation, identification and identities, art as a 'survival strategy' and as a record of experience.
'Journeys' also refers to J Chuhan's development as an artist. Her paintings explore ideas of intimacy and sexuality, strength and fragility in portraits of people who have posed for her. Other paintings are of anonymous people observed in transient locations (e.g. trains), juxtaposing private moments in public environments, with a strong emphasis on directly observed location drawings forming the basis of subsequent paintings. These works reflect the e in their private thoughts conservation supervision. whilst they are caught in un-self-conscious poses when they are not actively interacting with others.
J Chuhan is an artist, and Professor of International Art at Liverpool John Moores University, and was awarded the 2004 Windrush Arts Achievement Award. Her work has been exhibited in Italy, Sweden, Belgium, China, Singapore, Ireland and UK Fee: The exhibition hire fee is £2,000 for eight weeks and will venues including Tate Liverpool; Barbican Centre, London; Arnolfini, Bristol and in solo exhibitions including at Ikon, Birmingham and recently at The Lowry, Salford, 2002-03. She has edited and/or contributed to several publications including Responses - Intercultural Drawing Practicebook published by CAIR, 2001 and Beyond Frontiers published by Saffron Books, 2001. Her paintings are in collections including the Arts Council Collection, University of Liverpool Art Collection, Usher Gallery, Lincoln and Cartwright Hall, Bradford.
Exhibition Hire
Availability
Exhibition available for hire from end Feb 2005 onwards.
Insurance
Hirer responsible for insurance of exhibition from receipt. to return. Value of cover to be confirmed.
Running space
Gallery wall hanging run of approximately 50m (164 feet) however, the exhibition can be tailored to fit smaller spaces- please discuss with Nilesh Mistry.
Contact details
Nilesh Mistry, Museum Officer, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Lister Park, Bradford BD9 4NS. tel 01274 431214 fax 01274 481045 email nilesh.mistry@bradford.gov.uk
Exhibition contents
Approximately 15 larger canvases (with average size 150 x 120cm) and small canvas portraits (12 x 18cm), information/acknowledgements panel and labels, assistance with setting-up and takedown of the exhibition, exhibition catalogue to accompany the exhibition - price & condition TBC.
Venue to provide
- Insurance from arrival to the venue until delivery to the next venue or return to Cartwright Hall Art Gallery.
- Onward transport or return to Cartwright Hall Art Gallery.
- New packing materials such as bubble wrap, polythene and tissue.
- Unpacking and packing under curatorial / conservation supervision.
- Patrolling or fixed point warding.
- Security of building to Museums Standards.
- Details of attendance figures, education programme and press coverage at the end of the exhibition period.
Fee
The exhibition hire fee is £2,000 for eight weeks and will include 300 preview invites (for overprinting) TBC.
Transport
Delivery included however venue to provide onward/return transport. Bradford Museums, Galleries & Heritage is able to provide return transport to Bradford by our in-house art transporter at a competitive rate, subject to additional fee and availability. Cartwright Hall, Bradford.
