Rana Begum / Sowing Seeds
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 - Thu, 30 Sep 2010
Venue: Phoenix Screen Lounge
Screen Lounge
The City Gallery in association with Phoenix Square is hosting a 'digital-residency' working with Bangladeshi-British artist Rana Begum. Working with Artist & Digital Practitioner Rob Smith, Rana will be translating her practice of painting, and the viewers' experience of it, into an interactive digital artwork.
Rana Begum, who trained as a painter, is known for her bold geometric patterns taken from architecture and the urban environment that relate to Minimalism, British Colourist Sculpture of the sixties and Islamic arts. Through the use of sculptural materials, her patterns create a rippling shift as the viewer navigates their way around them. This residency is an opportunity for new audiences to engage with her work and for the artist to explore digital media and translate her cross-cultural graphic language into an animated digital form.
Sowing Seeds is a region-wide programme of International Artist Residencies supported through grants from the Cultural Olympiad and the Arts Council of England.
Closing Party and Artist's Talk
Screen Lounge and ETC Suites
Thu 30 Sep 6.30pm
Please join us in the Screen Lounge for a drinks reception to mark the closing of Rana's exhibition, followed by an Artist's Talk in which Rana will discuss her practice and the Sowing Seeds – International Artist in Residence project.
For more information on the Sowing Seeds project regionally visit: www.sowing-seeds.com
Further details of this project and associated events will be available from The City Gallery www.leicester.gov.uk/citygallery
Image copyright Rana Begum
