Part of Alserkal Art Week
Join them for an inspiring evening of photography, featuring presentations by visiting GRAIN Artists Jaskirt Dhaliwal Boora and Nilupa Yasmin, with Stephen Burke representing GRAIN.
Each artist will give a 10-minute presentation, sharing insights into their artistic practice and highlighting a specific project they’ve been working on. Stephen Burke will also discuss the vital role GRAIN plays in providing spaces for artists across the UK.
Following the presentations, there will be a Q&A session, offering attendees the chance to engage with the artists directly.
Learn more about the artists below:
Jaskirt Dhaliwall Boora
Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora is a Panjabi, Brummie, artist, mother and educator and is an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist whose work focuses on a socially engaged practice, working with local communities. She is interested in celebrating untold stories while exploring visual representations of gender, ethnicity and place.
https://www.jaskirtdhaliwalboo...
Nilupa Yasmin
Nilupa Yasmin is an award-winning artist and educator with a primarily lens-based practice. She explores the principles of art and craft and the expanded materiality within photography. Yasmin is interested in the notion of culture, self-identity, and anthropology. Whilst investigating ideals and traditions that are close to home, she repeatedly draws upon her own identity through gender, religion and her British Bangladeshi culture and heritage. An element of her practice focuses on socially engaged photography, she works collaboratively with various communities to produce and curate works of Art.
Stephen Burke
Stephen Burke (b.1989) is a photographer, artist and creative producer living and working in Birmingham, UK. He makes projects with people about things that are important to them.
Within his practice he explores the relationship between people and place, and how our social and physical environments can have a determining effect on who we are and how we live our lives. Conversation, chance and collaboration are key themes in his approach to creating projects.
GRAIN Projects
https://grainphotographyhub.co...
GRAIN Projects visit is supported by a Future Growth Grant from West Midlands Combined Authority and British Council.