Creative Stroke Recovery Group - 10 Years of Creativity
Trapezium Gallery were delighted to host Creative Stroke Recovery Groups exhibition - "10 Years of Creativity".
Bradford’s Creative Stroke Recovery Group meets weekly at Delius Arts and Cultural Centre. They started ten years ago as a six week trial to see if getting creative helped in their recovery from stroke. The group is still going strong and have much to celebrate and share.
This exhibition offered a glimpse at the range of techniques and styles used by the group to express themselves and extend their capabilities.
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Winter Wonder Wall
Bradford’s Trapezium Gallery were delighted to present Winter Wonder Wall, an Open Exhibition, selected from all the creative work submitted over the previous year to the Online Gallery on Trapezium’s website. The exhibition brings together work by artists from across the district with many art forms, including drawing, painting, photography, textiles, crafts, 3D and video animation.
Armchair Artist's Collective - Collective Perspective
Trapezium Gallery were pleased to present Collective Perspective by Armchair Artists Collective, a group of local artists who came together during lockdown in order to support and inspire each other, have stayed together and now want to show their work to the public.
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Stuart Wilde - stuArt@60
Trapezium Gallery were pleased to present stuArt@60, an retrospective exhibition by Stuart Wilde in his hometown of Bradford, to celebrate his 60 years in art,.
Stuart’s aim was to challenge what a gallery should look like and what is considered art and originality. He said of the exhibition; “ I want the space to be inviting and thought provoking, and to generate conversations about art and meaning.” His work is in many media and many styles and contains a whole range of ideas and themes. But he believes pinning these down too much would be contradictory to the creative process. “I believe things should be left ambiguous and for people to discover meanings in their own responses to the works on show.”
United Art Project - Pop Up
Whilst the world was experiencing a lock down, the Bradford Council opened up a RESPONSE fund to get creative, and so the United Art Project did!”.
This exhibition (Trapeziums shortest ever at only 2hrs) showcased the results of "Project One - 24-hour Picasso Paint' in which One hundred and twenty 'Picasso Painting' members, in 47 different households across the city, joined forces on May 26th 2020 for a 24-hour Picasso Paintathon.
Cath Muldowney - Paradise Street: Under One Sky
Paradise Street: Under One Sky by Cath Muldowney, an exhibition of photographs intended to be an antidote to some of the media portrayals of Bradford, a retaliation against the ‘worst place’ polls compiled by people who’ve probably never set foot in the city..
Cath explained, “This exhibition is to celebrate the people from the Paradise Street area of the city, and all the good things they do, big and small, that make this place what it is..”
Martin Hearne - A Bigger Bradford
Trapezium Gallery were pleased to present A Bigger Bradford by Martin Hearne, an exhibition of paintings that explores his experience of living in the city of Bradford.
OUR STORIES: A Project
Trapezium Gallery were pleased to host 'OUR STORIES: A Project' as part of Brdford Refugee Week 2022.
The aim of Our Stories was to collaborate with refugees and asylum seekers in Bradford, UK, to develop a body of work that captures their experiences and tells their stories in order to influence social change, promote conversation and encourage the wider public to confront the lived experiences of those that have been forcibly displaced. Essentially, the project aims to humanise the experience of displacement and reframe the narratives that result in hostility towards these vulnerable populations.
Ben Snowden - The Shape of Erosion
Trapezium Gallery were pleased to present The Shape of Erosion a collection of paintings and sculpture by Ben Snowden, a contemporary artist, born in Keighley and based in Bradford. His work has been featured in many contemporary exhibitions and competitions.
Dawn Hemming - Spiralling Out
Trapezium Gallery were pleased to present Spiralling Out, a collection of knitted mandalas, by Dawn Hemming. Originally from Holmfirth and now based in Bradford, Dawn's work addresses issues of mental health in her work and uses creativity as a way to provide healing.