Rasheed Araeen: Conscious Forms

Rasheed Araeen: Conscious Forms

25 May - 11 August 2024

Venue

RWA, Queen's Road, Bristol

Date

25 May - 11 August 2024

THIS EXHIBITION HAS NOW CLOSED. PLEASE VIEW OUR CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS.

Entry into this exhibition also grants you entry into Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation and Valda Jackson: Miss Polly.

As part of a triple bill of exhibitions honouring global majority artists, the RWA brings the pioneering work of Rasheed Araeen to Bristol for the first time. 

An impressive array of Araeen’s bright, abstract sculptures will fill the RWA daylit galleries. Visitors are invited to sit on and reconfigure colourful cubes around a central ‘Reading Room’ installation. Alongside these works, informed by Araeen’s engineering training and immersion in Islamic geometry and architecture, will be figurative paintings and collages dating from the 1950s to today. Araeen’s take on ideas of British identity, belonging and migration, is fearless and original. Full of joy and at the same time provocative and challenging, this is work that demands to be seen, heard, and experienced.

Curated by University of Bristol art historians Dr Zehra Jumabhoy and Dr Elizabeth Robles (Director of the Centre for Black Humanities, UoB)

Supported by The Elephant Trust.

Read the Press Release to find out more.

 

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Rasheed Araeen: Conscious Forms

An exhibition celebrating the ground breaking work of influential Pakistani artist, curator, and activist Rasheed Araeen. His work addresses ideas of nation, belonging and migration probing and exploring ideas of 'Black' British-ness.