Let there be Light! Nour Festival offers hope in creativity
London’s annual Nour Festival returns to the multicultural metropolis 20 October-6 November 2016, promising to highlight “the best of contemporary arts and culture from the Middle East and North Africa.” Sadly the festival’s overarching mission is challenged and overshadowed by unprecedented turmoil and fragmentation in the region it celebrates and showcases. As the five-year-old festival’s audiences...
Winners announced for 2016 Aga Khan Architecture Award
The winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced 3 October 2016 in a ceremony in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The venue for the winners’ ceremony, the Al Jahili fort in Al-Ain, was also announced by Awaidha Murshed Al Marar, Chairman of Department of Municipal Affairs and Transport and a member of the Executive Council of Abu Dhabi. The winners are: BANGLADESH: 1 Bait Ur Rouf Mosque, Dhaka (Architect: Marina...
Ping Zheng: Artist with a Liberating Palette
Ping Zheng—aka Zheng Ping—can lay claim to a remarkable trajectory in pursuit of what rightfully expects to be perfection in her art, a completeness or wholeness that goes beyond colour and content. It’s an inner thing, you see, which is neither necessary for you, the viewer, fully to understand or indeed immediately to have available to you, or at all, any time soon, or ever. Sure, it’d be great if you attained it, but...
Art Gemini 2016 celebrates fine new painting, photography, sculpture
New talent in painting, photography and sculpture is celebrated as winners of the 2016 Art Gemini Prize were announced at London’s Asia House Gallery. Following final selection by Art Gemini Prize 2016 judges Sajid Rizvi (chair), Pamela Kember, Estelle Lovatt,Thorsten Overgaard and Isabel H Langtry, Art Gemini Prize unveiled this year’s recipients as follows: Painting & Sculpture First prize (GBP 1500) to Paul Regan, for...
Artist-led London gallery unveils strategy for eclectic displays, diversity of disciplines
Yinjie Sun aka Sunny, artist, art instructor and gallerist, has been on a trajectory that is best noted for encapsulation of time, packing decades into years, months into days, or so it seems. Arriving in London in the later part of the last decade as a foundation student at Camberwell College of Arts, on the lower rungs of the University of the Arts London system, Yinjie Sun promptly set to work on raising his painterly profile with...
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