Sowing Seeds - IAiR (International Artist in Residence)

Sowing Seeds - IAiR (International Artist in Residence): Rana Begum
10th September - 30th September 2010
The City Gallery & Phoenix Square - Screen Lounge

- This exhibition is now closed -

The City Gallery in association with Phoenix Square is hosting a digital residency working with Bangladeshi-British artist Rana Begum. Working with Artist & Digital Practitioner Rob Smith, Rana will be translating her practice of painting, and the viewers’ experience of it, into an interactive digital artwork.

Rana Begum, who trained as a painter, is known for her bold geometric patterns taken from architecture and the urban environment that relate to Minimalism, British Colourist Sculpture of the sixties and Islamic arts. Through the use of sculptural materials, her patterns create a rippling shift as the viewer navigates their way around them.

This residency is an opportunity for new audiences to engage with her work and for the artist to explore digital media and translate her cross-cultural graphic language into an animated digital form.

Sowing Seeds is a region-wide programme of International Artist Residencies supported through grants from the Cultural Olympiad and the Arts Council of England.

Phoenix Square, 4 Midland Street, Leicester LE1 1TG
T: 0116 2422803
W: http://phoenix.org.uk/

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Closing Party & Artist’s Talk
Thursday 30th September 2010
6.30pm
Phoenix Square - Screen Lounge
Join us in the Screen Lounge at Phoenix Square for a drinks reception to mark the closing of Rana’s exhibition, followed by an Artist’s Talk in which artist Rana Begum will discuss her practice and the Sowing Seeds – International Artist in Residence project.

For more information on the Sowing Seeds project regionally visit:
www.sowing-seeds.com