ShrineShare Exhibition
What do we hold sacred in times of crisis?
ShrineShare is a collaborative new project working with artists from the UK & Malaysia to share their visions of sacred shrines—be they ancient, personal, or imagined.
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
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.
Curated by David Blandy, Sharon Chin & Zedeck Siew
Supported by British Council
Showing alongside Poojah Shah’s exhibition RangKnit.
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.
Leicester Gallery is a part of De Montfort University
For further information and images please contact: hugo.worthy@dmu.ac.uk