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piercing brightness
A solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Shezad dawood
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Launch event Friday 29th June
at Newlyn art gallery and The exchange
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Please join us on Friday 29th June for a special launch event to mark the opening of Piercing Brightness and the galleries’ 5th anniversary. The evening will start with a members-only drinks reception with Shezad Dawood in the Studio Café, Newlyn at 6pm.There will be hot food, including Blas Burgerworks at Newlyn from 6pm, or you can join us at either venue for a celebratory drink throughout the evening. From 7.15pm, a mini bus will be available to take guests from Newlyn to The Exchange.
We would love to celebrate our 5th anniversary with you, and hope to see you at this event or over the summer.
James Green
Director
British artist Shezad Dawood (b1974) works across media in film, painting and light sculpture. His Indian and Pakistani roots have inspired a broad mapping within his practice, remixing various artistic traditions, and recalling influences as diverse as cosmology, science fiction and Sufism.
Main image: Menhirs II (2010, Acrylic on vintage, Courtesy of the Artist and Paradise Row, London)
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AT newlyn
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23rd june - 29th september 2012
Launch Event: Friday 29th June, 6 - 7.30pm
At Newlyn Art Gallery we present a series of the artist’s textile-based paintings, incorporating circles, elipses and pyramids, referencing the sacred and sculptural. Also presented is a Super 16mm film, New Dream Machine Project, which features a kinetic light sculpture (displaying at The Exchange) as part of a concert by the Master Musicians of Jajouka and Duke Garwood, filmed in Tangiers in 2011.
EVENTS
▲ Artist’s Talk Saturday 30th June, 11am - 12noon
Join Shezad Dawood for a walk and talk exploration of the work exhibited at Newlyn. Free
▲ Fabricated Memories with Felicity Moore Wednesdays,
6 - 8pm, 4th July - 1st August. British vintage fabrics from the 1950s - 1970s form the base for an exploration of contemporary techniques including appliqué, embroidery and print.
£12 per session, please book in advance. (Members receive a 10% discount)
Image: Cosmic Egg II, acrylic on vintage textile, 145 x 145cm, courtesy of Paradise Row
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at the exchange
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30th june - 15th september 2012
Launch Event: Friday 29th June, 7.30 - 9pm
At The Exchange we present New Dream Machine Project, a large-scale kinetic light sculpture, referencing the original Dream Machine, created by Brion Gysin (who was at the centre of the Tangiers counter culture in the 1960s), and conceived to have an effect on the viewer similar to deep sleep or meditation. Alongside one of the artist’s neon sculptures will be Trailer, a 15-minute gallery edit of Dawood’s feature-length film Piercing Brightness, that subverts sci-fi genres and addresses issues of race and migration.
EVENTS
▲ Film-makers’ Evening The Exchange Cafe, Thursday 28th June, 7 - 9pm Local film-makers are invited to spend an informal evening with Shezad Dawood as he shares his adventures in the making of Piercing Brightness.
25 places available, booking essential.
▲ Tangiers Book Club The Exchange Cafe, first Tuesday of the month, 6 - 8pm
Read and discuss, or contribute via the blog www.tangiersbookclub.wordpress.com Free
Tuesday 3rd July Mohamed Mrabet Look & Move On
Tuesday 7th August William Burroughs Interzone
Tuesday 4th September Isabelle Eberhardt The Oblivion Seekers
▲ Musical Dreamings The Exchange, Musical responses to New Dream Machine Project
Friday 20th July, 7-10pm, Experimental guitarist Duke Garwood, £5
Thursday 9th August, 1pm, The Kneehigh Band, Free
Friday 24th August, 7-10pm, Electronic music from Mawgan Lewis & Anthony Neale, £3
Image: Rendezvous with Rama (2010, Wall-mounted neon, Courtesy of the Artist and Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai)
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Piercing Brightness is the first exhibition the gallery has presented at both venues and is a collaboration between Modern Art Oxford, Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, and KINOKINO Centre for Art & Film, Norway
Piercing Brightness is part of the London 2012 Festival, the spectacular 12-week nationwide celebration running from 21 June until 9 September 2012 bringing together leading artists from across the world with the very best from the UK.
 
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the picture room at newlyn Art Gallery
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IRENE LEES
23rd June - 11th August
Irene Lees currently lives and works on the Lizard Peninsula. In her series of drawings The Turner Prize 1984-2010, she charts the history of Britain’s most prestigious art prize. Densely drawn lines of text are used to recreate the works of nominated artists, decorating an iconic Grayson Perry vase. Lees’ work has been exhibited internationally and has been included in the Jerwood Drawing Prize.
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JESSICA COOPER
13th August - 29th September
Jessica Cooper will be exhibiting a new series of dry point prints made especially for Newlyn Art Gallery, detailing its architecture and interiors. Cooper’s clarity of mark-making reflects her process of reducing forms to their essence. This use of elegantly pared down line and colour has made Cooper one of Cornwall’s most recognisable artists. She is a member of the RWA and has exhibited both nationally and internationally.
The Picture Room is a dedicated selling space at Newlyn Art Gallery, showing works for sale by highly regarded artists working in Cornwall. This season has an exciting programme of shows reflecting the diversity and creativity of Cornwall’s artistic community.
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