Images from ShrineShare: Bethany Balan, David Blandy, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Amze Emmons, Hardeep Pandhal, Jesse Joy, Ruangtup Kaeokamechun, Daniel Locke, Nadhir Nor, Jamie Oon, Poodien, John Powell-Jones, Arif Rafhan, Betti Stong, Rupa Subramaniam & Petra Szemán (2024)
22 May to 8 June, 2024
Venue: Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University
Mon- Friday 10am - 5pm; Sat 12 - 5pm
Talk event by David Blandy at States of Independence, a one day festival celebrating indie publishing: Time - 11:15am-12pm, 8th June, Clephan Building, De Montfort University
Curated by David Blandy, Sharon Chin & Zedeck Siew
Supported by British Council
Leicester Gallery are proud to present two overlapping exhibitions inhabiting the same space. On the walls of the gallery is ShrineShare, a group exhibition curated by UK based artist, David Blandy, Malaysian based artist Sharon Chin and writer Zedeck Siew looking at the notion of the shrine in the 21st century.
In RangKnit, on the floors are the rugs of Poojah Shah, crafted objects that draw on her Southern Asian heritage to present pools of hospitality and warmth in the hard space of the gallery.
The two small exhibitions layered on top of each other draw talk to each other about spaces of the domestic and the divine and where they intersect.
ShrineShare is a British Council-funded collection of drawn works by six UK and ten Malaysian artists to share their visions of sacred shrines—be they ancient, personal, or imagined. From an arcade cabinet to a lonely rock cairn to a collection of talismanic artefacts from the artist’s studio. What do we hold sacred in times of crisis?
The artists: Amze Emmons, Arif Rafhan, Bethany Balan, Betti Stong, David Blandy, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Daniel Locke, Hardeep Pandhal, Jamie Oon Muxian, Jesse Joy, John Powell-Jones, Nadhir Nor, Petra Szemán, Ruangtup Kaeokamechun, Rupa Subramaniam & Shaifuddin Mamat @ Poodien
This project is supported through British Council’s Connections Through Culture grants programme. Creating new arts & cultural partnerships between East Asia & the UK.
Images from ShrineShare: Bethany Balan, David Blandy, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Amze Emmons, Hardeep Pandhal, Jesse Joy, Ruangtup Kaeokamechun, Daniel Locke, Nadhir Nor, Jamie Oon, Poodien, John Powell-Jones, Arif Rafhan, Betti Stong, Rupa Subramaniam & Petra Szemán (2024)
Leicester Gallery is a part of De Montfort University
For further information and images please contact: hugo.worthy@dmu.ac.uk
Installation view at Leicester Gallery