NADIM CHAUDRY
Nadim joined us as Lakeside's artist-in-residence in November 2010.
Kashif Nadim Chaudry defines himself as a textile artist. His current practice is concerned with an ongoing investigation into his own British Pakistani Muslim culture and is driven by his need to re-assemble and understand this minority culture through the lens of a further marginalised identity as a gay man.
Nadim Chaudry
'Even the Animals' Complete Installation 'Back' (New Art Exchange 2010)
Born and raised in Nottingham, a family heritage in tailoring has fed Nadim’s passion for textiles. This interest was further pursued at Goldsmiths College, London, where he gained a BA Hons in Textiles and where, upon graduating, he was awarded the Elke Lacey award for excellence.
'Even the Animals' Cow Detail and Pig Smock Detail
Upon returning to Nottingham, Nadim was awarded the New Art Exchange Award at the 2008 Nottingham Castle Open and subsequently had his first solo exhibition and Nottingham debut at the New Art Exchange in 2010, entitled ‘Even the Animals’.
'Even the Animals' Horse Detail
Nadim proposes to create a new body of work at Lakeside Arts Centre based around the idea of ‘The Family’. In order to express the intricacies of such an interconnected and political body, he intends to work with an aesthetic language which incorporates movement to create sculptures with many moving inter-related parts. As with all his work, colour and materiality are paramount and will nourish his belief in art as a visual feast and spectacle.
The new body of work will be exhibited in the Djanogly Art Gallery in the Autumn of 2011.
'Even the Animals' Cow Sideview
All photographs taken by Michael Forbes
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