Exhibitions
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Arts in the Atrium
Arts in the Atrium
The Atrium in the Richmond Building opened in October 2006 as a social space for staff, students and visitors to the University. It has become a popular meeting place on campus and also a space to listen to music, watch theatre performances and view art from the University’s permanent collection and temporary exhibitions which complement those shown in Gallery II, the University’s Art Gallery.
Matt Lamb: ‘Peace, Tolerance, Understanding, Hope and Love’
Lakhbir Sangha
These paintings have been gifted to the University by American artist and Peace activist, Matt Lamb. The University of Bradford and Matt Lamb are currently in discussions regarding a Peace Education Project.
Outsider Advertising - Painting India Atrium, Great Horton Rd A series of photographs taken between 2002 and 2005 by the artist during her visits back to India. The subject matter is the hand-painted billboards and signs around the country advertising everything from coca cola and henna hair dye to high heeled flip flops and kitchen sinks.
Joolz Denby: Bradford – True North: Ground Floor (Level C) Joolz Denby is a writer, poet, performance artist, illustrator and photographer. In 2006 Gallery II commissioned Joolz to create a photographic installation. The photographs are now part of the University’s Permanent Art Collection and are on show in the Atrium with recently added photographs.
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Bradford is a beautiful city. The Victorian architecture is outrageously flamboyant and the deep-cut stone carving some of the finest in Europe. The vast, wild skies unroll overhead in passionate cloudscapes that often provide an almost unearthly lightshow to illuminate the astonishing diversity of the citizens and the vitally intense character of the city itself. Shadows chase across the great sweep of the moors that rise up and enfold the town making it a safe haven, and winds dusty with the scent of heather and fern sweep through the labyrinthine canyons of mill buildings, many now dedicated to creativity and authentic social cultures of all kinds. These photographs reflect what I see as I walk around the city in all seasons, all weathers and at all times of the day and night. Joolz Denby
Levels D & E
Painter, sculptor, philosopher, and unstoppable globe-trotting dynamo Matt Lamb is one of the most intriguing, confounding, pigeonhole-defying phenomena in contemporary art. The intensity of his colors, the topographic sensuality of his surfaces, and the freedom of his gesture have been hailed in publications such as ARTnews, The Times of London, and The Miami Herald, and celebrated in exhibitions at the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), Centre-Picasso (Horta, Spain), Centre Joan Miró (Mont-roig, Spain), Westminster Cathedral (London), Espace Pierre Cardin (Paris), Museo di Sant’Apollonia (Venice), and The Vatican Museums of Modern Art. Born in Chicago in 1932, Lamb had a successful career as an entrepreneur before a brush with death at the age of 51 led him to reevaluate his priorities, sell his businesses, and dedicate the remainder of his years to art. A tireless activist for world peace, Lamb augments his art career with various projects that advance his personal mantra of “peace, tolerance, understanding, hope, and love.” Through his Umbrellas for Peace program, he has instilled these values in tens of thousands of schoolchildren around the globe, using art as a metaphor for acceptance. For more information about Matt: www.MattLamb.org
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