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2/10/2003

Three exhibitions

The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall

Solo exhibition by Dan Holdsworth

The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to present a major new solo exhibition by photographer Dan Holdsworth. The exhibition will run from the 3rd October - 16th November 2003.

Dan Holdsworth has gained a reputation for photographs that focus on marginal spaces and urban eyesores such as shopping centres, car parks and motorway flyovers - areas where the constructed and the natural worlds collide. Often shot at night using long exposures, his compelling images evoke a strange sense of strangeness and beauty.

Holdsworth has said of his work; 'In the past, the sublime was linked to an archaic terror and excitement of the senses aroused by the awesome and unquantifiable power of nature, but in my photographs of a technologised landscape, that same experience and the projection of these feelings comes from our own human nature, it is caused by a certain terror and excitement of what we have created.'

Alongside works from his Autopia, Bluewater and Iceland series', Holdsworth will be showing brand new digital works from the Anechoic series.

Dan Holdsworth is represented by Entwistle Gallery, London. A new
Installation from the Anechoic series can be seen at Tate Britain from the 11-17 August as part of their Artists' film and video programme.

In the Image: 'Untitled 2001', 92.5 cm x 114.5 cm .
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Capturing Identity exhibition

The Capturing Identity exhibition at The New Art Gallery Walsall, 3 October to
16 November 2003, aims to explore the many properties which make a portrait.

Capturing Identity features traditional nineteenth century portraits of Walsall buckle manufacturers to contemporary artworks, which reveal individual identity in many different ways, and this selection from The New Art Gallery's collections shows some of the many ways that artists create a portrait of a person.

The artists featured in the exhibition, Chila Kumari Burman, Alexander Keith, Andrew Tift, Eugene Palmer, Darryl Georigou, Peter Max Kandhola and Patty Carroll were motivated by many different ideas and issues which they could express with a freedom unavailable to artists of the nineteenth century.

As part of the exhibition Jo Digger, Collections Curator at the Gallery will be giving a free talk, about the work featured in the exhibition, on Saturday 9 November at 2pm.
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Who built the Gallery?
Photography by Ming De Nasty

During the construction of The New Art Gallery Walsall, which opened its doors to the public in February 2000, Birmingham-based photographer
Ming de Nasty was commissioned to create a photographic documentation of more than seventy three portraits of the diverse personnel who worked on the design and construction of the Gallery, including electricians, steel fixers, carpenters, crane driver, gallery team, quantity surveyors, engineers and executives to architects. Photographer, Ming De Nasty's commission gave prominence to the people 'usually unrecognised or forgotten' who contributed to the construction of The New Art Gallery Walsall.

Now three years after the Gallery opened these warm and compelling images are to be shown as part of the Who built the Gallery? Photographs by Ming de Nasty exhibition. The photographs were archived into Walsall Borough's permanent Art Colllection and this exhibition is the first time they have been exhibited.

Ming de Nasty says ' I didn't realise how much went into a building, how many people get involved. It's not just the builders it's all the people who do the paperwork and the organising of those people, its just mad, mind blowing'.

As part of the exhibition Ming de Nasty, photographer will be giving a free talk, about her work, on Saturday 1 November at 2pm.

The New Art Gallery Walsall
Gallery Square
Walsall

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