[size=30]PHOENIX SQUARE - FILM & DIGITAL MEDIA CENTRE[/size]

LEICESTER

[size=20]Rana Begum
Sowing Seeds - International Artist in Residence[/size]
Screen Lounge

Fri 10 Sep - Thu 30 Sep

The City Gallery in association with Phoenix Square is hosting a ‘digital-residency’ working with Bangladeshi-British artist Rana Begum. Working with an experienced digital practitioner,Rana will be translating her practice of painting, and the viewers’ experience of it, into an interactive digital artwork. Begum, who trained as a painter, is known for her bold geometric patterns taken from architecture and the urban environment that relate to Minimalism, British Colourist Sculpture of the sixties and Islamic arts. This residency is an opportunity for new audiences to engage with her work and for the artist to explore digital media and translate her cross-cultural graphic language into an animated digital form. Sowing Seeds is a region-wide programme of International Artist Residencies, and is aimed at engaging with local people of all ages, to get fresh and unique ideas.

[size=20]Closing Party and Artist’s Talk[/size]

Screen Lounge and ETC Suites

Thu 30 Sep, 6.30pm
Please join us in the Screen Lounge for a drinks reception to mark the closing of Rana’s exhibition,
followed by an Artist’s Talk in which Rana will discuss her practice and the Sowing Seeds -
International Artist in Residence project.

For more information on the Sowing Seeds project

visit:

www.sowing-seeds.com

Further details of this project and associated

events will be available from The City Gallery

www.leicester.gov.uk/citygallery