Imagine Zine Space
A day of community, creativity and space to play with zine and art making organised by Loosely Bound to coincide with International Zine Month. What better way to have celebrated the joy of Zines than coming together with the people of Bradford and getting creative!
Whether an experienced zinester or had never heard of a zine before. Everyone was welcom, finding friendly faces and lots of encouragement on the day!.
Fabrication
Fabrication was a group exhibition featuring thirty Bradford-based artists / groups, all working within the medium of textiles.
This exhibition drew on the capacity for textiles to not only set an everyday scene but also to narrate a story, often combining imagery with words. The artists involved shared personal tales of joy and achievement, but also of suffering, hardship and migration. It also references the role played by textiles in the history of activism and protest. Here, the work adorns the walls and the furniture, but it can also be carried and worn, as a chronicle of atrocities or as a proclamation of allegiance to a cause.
Lauren Kelly / Jess Swift - In Full Colour
In Full Colour was a joint exhibition by Bradford multi-disciplinary artists Lauren Kelly and Jess Swift.
Lauren's work explores themes of nostalgia, youth culture and the aesthetics of hedonism, through working with found imagery, personal archives, digital layering and hand-rendered elements, while Jess's work explores neurodiversity and alternative learning methods through colours, textures and processes. She primarily works in abstract painting and contemporary sculpture.
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Latterhand - Beck
Latterhand 's residence in Trapezium Gallery made a creative, interactive arts space for developing ideas from their performance piece BECK which traces the route of Bradford Beck from source to the River Aire.
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.
Read more: Nudrat Afza and Martin Hearne - Sabah Al-Nur / Morning of Light
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.”