Neeta Madahar: Bradford Fellowship in Photography 2008 - 09
16 Oct 2009 - 21 Feb 2010
Gallery One
Neeta Madahar's beautiful, seductive works conflate nature and artifice, immersing the viewer in dreamlike imagery that teases out the innate strangeness in commonplace situations.
Past Exhibition
Drawings That Move: The Art of Joanna Quinn
16 Oct 2009 - 21 Feb 2010
Gallery Two
Joanna Quinn is a British animator with a witty take on life. This exhibition brings together drawings from the last twenty-five years and also includes some of her commercial animations such as 'Charmin' and 'Whiskas'. Using her original artwork, notebooks and films, the exhibition explores her methods and approaches and the reality of working in today's animation industry.
Past Exhibition
Animalism
8 May 2009 - 27 Sep 2009
Gallery One
Looking at both pets and wildlife, animalism explores the presence of animals in modern media and investigates our curious, contradictory and sometimes unsettling relationship with the animal world.
Past Exhibition
Emeka, motorcyclist and Abdullahi Ahmadu, Asaba, Nigeria 2007, Peter Hugo
Don McCullin: In England
8 May 2009 - 27 Sep 2009
Gallery Two
Don McCullin is one of our greatest photographers. This exhibition presents his personal vision of England in photographs taken over a fifty-year career. Raw, powerful, compassionate images of an England where the line between the wealthy and the deprived is as defined as ever.
Past Exhibition
Bradford, early 1970s, Don McCullin
Baby, Picturing the Ideal Human 1840s – Now
13 Feb 2009 - 19 Apr 2009
Gallery One
Each era has its own idea of beauty and we are continuously confronted with images of what the ideal human should look like. In particular, parents, advertisers, consumers and society in general have always preferred to see idealised images of babies. Baby: Picturing the Ideal Human follows this theme, from the birth of photography until present day; depicting the western baby through the work of famous photographers, amateurs, studio photographers and parents. In contrast, a selection of images presents a wider view that serves as an antithesis to this ideal perspective. Packed with family albums, postcards, advertising, documentary and creative photography, BABY offers a unique portrayal of babies throughout the history of photography.
Past Exhibition
Baby with a Brownie camera, c1900, George Alfred Wyatt (1870-1922), National Media Museum Collection
Bradford Babies
13 Feb 2009 - 19 Apr 2009
Gallery Two
Around 5,500 babies are born in Bradford each year. This exhibition will celebrate the babies of our diverse community. Photographs of new immigrant families taken in the 1950s and 60s at the Belle Vue studios in Manningham will be shown alongside baby photos contributed by Bradford residents. Newly commissioned work by Bradford photographer Tim Smith will document first birthday parties across the city, and the groundbreaking NHS study Born in Bradford will be represented through the work of its photographer in residence, Ian Beesley.
Past Exhibition
First birthday party in Bradford, Tim Smith 2008