Light, Passion & Darkness

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Gallery Oldham
11 December 2010 to 5 March 2011

Touchstones Rochdale
2 April to 26 June 2011

Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
9 July to 17 September 2011

Light, Passion & Darkness presents paintings, craft, photography and digital media and features international artists such as Dhruva Mistry, Imran Qureshi and Abdus Shakoor alongside established UK-based artists including Sutapa Biswas, Shezad Dawood, Neeta Madahar, Shanti, Panchal and Saleem Arif Quadri. Work by a new generation of artists, notably Halima Cassell and Tanvi Kant also features.

The exhibition incorporates three new commissions by artists working in or originating from the North West, providing support for emerging artists while strengthening and diversifying the region's permanent collections.

Light, Passion & Darkness is being shown in response to a recent survey of work by South Asian artists and makers in regional collections and is a Shisha partnership project between Touchstones Rochdale, Gallery Oldham and Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery.

While the region has hosted numerous important and groundbreaking temporary exhibitions and commissions, the legacy of those projects is very small. Only a few galleries, notably the Harris Museum and Art Gallery and Gallery Oldham, have been able to acquire a significant number of works by regionally and internationally recognised South Asian artists. The principal reasons are the shortage of funds and the absence of specialist knowledge.

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