Clive Nevet's Glenton Square Collection
In September 2021 Trapezium Arts hosted an exhibition of Clive Nevet's Glenton Square Collection.
The Glenton Square Collection is a unique collection of original art works created by people who use or have used mental health services, often over many years. The works were collected by Clive Nevet whilst living in a small bungalow in Glenton Square, next to Bradford's iconic Lister's Mill.
The Things That Make Us
An exhibition by The Beck Art Group, four artists who forged artistic links during lockdown.
The theme of The Things That Make Us was that everything we come into contact with has an influence on us and art makes this connection visible. The exhibition brought together four artists’ creative work, shaped by their life experience and the environment around them.
The First Teen Age
in "The First Teen Age" Trapezium Gallery revisited post-war youth culture with an exciting archive collated by Brian A Rushgrove. Consisting of a display of press cuttings and memorabilia from this revolutionary time in youth culture, "The First Teen Age" journeyed back to the 50s and 60s, documenting the press and public reaction to the phenomenon of the ‘Teddy Boys’, and their offshoots the ‘Mods’ and ‘Rockers’
Deborah Mullins - Solidarity Stitching for Palestine
Deborah Mullins was a qualified embroiderer with a particular interest in the long tradition of embroidery in Palestine. She travelled to Israel Palestine and on her return home, designed and produced intricate and beautiful embroideries using a variety of colours and techniques to create images and reflections of the land and situation of the Palestinian people.
Read more: Deborah Mullins - Solidarity Stitching for Palestine
Back to the Wall
Trapezium Arts first exhibition in over a year, 'Back to the Wall' showcased all the wonderful artwork that has been submitted to our Online Gallery, while the real gallery on Kirkgate in Bradford had been closed.
Simon Sugden - The Beauty In Decay
In our first show of 2020, Trapezium Gallery was thrilled to present a photographic exhibition by Simon Sugden, from Keighley. His work focuses on old and abandoned architectural sites around Bradford. The photographs feature old mills and attractions way past their prime and devoid of human activity, but with an eerie sense of a forgotten time. Although these places stand forlorn, no longer maintained, the photographs capture another side to the process of dereliction, which is the beauty wrought by nature and the elements as they reclaim these sites. They appear galvanised, redeemed. This may be an illusion but is testament to the skill of the photographer who depicts scenes bathed in warm light and vivid colour.
Being Young In Bradford
BEING Young in BRADFORD is a collection of photographic memories from several Bradfordians showing the fashion, music and other stuff that occupied our young minds and time during the 1970s and 1980s (over 40 years ago!).
Most of BEING BRADFORD© are now in our 60s and have luckily managed to assemble a great collection of pictures that remind us of the way we remember being young in Bradford. The six contibutors to this exhibition were once an eclectic group of enthusiastic teenagers (+) who embraced Punk, Mod, Scooters, Soundsystems, Reggae and all points in between as they appeared in Bradford in the 70s onwards.
The Triump of Paint
Paint, produced by the grinding and mixing of minerals and natural substances from the planet we inhabit is the noblest of media. It does seem apt that the medium of paint is recognised and acknowledged, for it has been with us from the beginning and will continue well into the future to place on record our moment of being.
This exhibition, where large bold works mingled with the small and quaint, abstract splashes of colour sit alongside moody landscapes and intimate portraits, showed painting can represent not just physical reality but the moods of the mind as well.
Barbara Sheldrake, Jo Newbury & Mark Lunn - Enviro-Mental
In Trapezium’s 9th exhibition, three local photographers took the word Enviro-Mental as a starting point, and looked at how the environment is being encroached upon by people, how they pollute it through irresponsible tipping and how some of this trash can be used as art, to illustrate the damage we do. This is a worldwide problem; it affects all of us in our everyday lives.
Read more: Barbara Sheldrake, Jo Newbury & Mark Lunn - Enviro-Mental
Sue Wilde - Colour Zone
Colour Zone featured the paintings of local artist Sue Wilde, who creates colourful and expressive abstract works as an emotional response to the natural world, her own personal feelings, significant special places and family events.
Colour Zone was put together to create a visual impact of colour on both mind and mood, and to create a free sensory experience that is accessible to anyone!
Sue is a self-taught artist living and working in Bradford. She has enjoyed a life-long love of creativity and has developed her work through various community art groups as well as her own art practice.