Nudrat Afza and Martin Hearne - Sabah Al-Nur / Morning of Light
An artistic exploration of Bradford and its vibrant community. This exhibition showcased two distinct visions from Nudrat Afza and Martin Hearne.
Nudrat Afza's black-and-white photography was selected from her past projects. Her work captures the people, places, and evolving social landscape of the city. Highlights included portrayals of Bradford City’s female supporters and the community surrounding Bradford’s last synagogue.
Martin Hearne brings Bradford to life in colour with paintings that celebrate the city’s rich diversity and cultural heritage. Collaging scenes of everyday life, his art reflects the dynamic interplay of Bradford’s architecture with its modern-day cultural complexity.
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Walk to Zero (a 'T0 Walk' project)
Created by the TO WALK project for the Shipley Active Travel Hub, the Walking to Zero’s ‘Drawing the Walk’ programme aimed to encourage local communities to walk as their first choice of mobility.
This exhibition was a curation of the visual and written narrative reflections that capture each participants’ individual experience of their walk, for some the first time they had walked regularly and for some the first time they had sketched.
Inkers - Responses
Responses, a retrospective exhibition by the Inkers Printmakers group, brought together work from four collaborative projects undertaken between 2014 and 2023.
Responding to the collections at Bradford Industrial Museum, Cliffe Castle, the Ropewalk Gallery and moTrapezium st recently, the Bradford Textile Archive, these original prints pushed the boundaries of printmaking and include woven prints, stitched prints, 3D constructions, artist’s books and more.
Winter Wonder Wall '24
Trapeziums third Open Exhibition for Bradford artists brought together over 130 artworks by 52 artists and photographers from across the Bradford district with a whole variety of art forms, including drawing, painting, photography, textiles, crafts, collage and 3D.
Down to Earth
"Down to Earth," was a thought-provoking exhibition featuring works by 12 diverse artists exploring critical environmental themes.
Produced by Caro Blount-Shah, "Down to Earth" celebrated the exceptional talent of Bradford's local artists, many of whom show their art internationally. Their art offered impassioned reflections on the urgent challenges posed by our climate crisis.
Ato Ame - In the Shadow of a Good Dream
In The Shadow Of A Good Dream, a multi-media exhibition by Ato Ame. Ato described his concept for the exhibition: “In The Shadow Of A Good Dream reality becomes unpalatable, a surrealist meditation on the grinding horror of mental illness, and the dendritic tendrils of conscious and unconscious reality explored through multimedia, audiovisual art and introduced with a night of extreme music.”
Sue Vickerman - Translating the Body
Translating the Body subverted the tradition of art nude and the female body. Feminists in the 1970s coined the term ‘the male gaze’ for the way images of women are created by male eyes and for men’s appreciation. In this exhibition, the model herself was in control of how she is seen.
Photographic artists Ann Evans, Ashwin Vyas, Michael Kilyon, Lois Brothwell and Phil Moody, and sculptor Judith Glynn, allowed life model Sue Vickerman, whom each has employed or worked with in recent years, to select, curate and in some cases produce (from their original photographs) these exhibits.
Beck Art Group - Tributaries
Tributaries was an exhibition by the Beck Art Group. With deep roots in the Bradford district, the group members' art were inspired by the varied aspects of nature.
Lynne Dobson - Simply Art
Simply Art by Lynne Dobson, was an exhibition of artwork on a range of topics, from animal portraits to seascapes and landscapes. Lynne's work ranges from textile collages to pen and ink drawings and is inspired by anything from a beautiful sky to an expression on an interesting face.
Some Day My Prints Will Come
Ruth Fettis, Annie Fforde and Patrick Whitehead are printmakers working in diverse ways with different approaches, styles, and processes, but they all share a passion and enthusiasm for printmaking and a strong desire to share this with the wider community in the Bradford District
‘Some Day My Prints Will Come’ was an exhibition of unique original prints including works in linocut, etching, drypoint, aquatint, monotype and woodcut..