“Impressions of Dhaka” opens today
An open studio titled “Impressions of Dhaka” will be opened today at the Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq Bidyapeeth in Dhanmondi. A part of Bengal Foundation's Artist Residency Programme with British sculptor Richard Crooks, the show will also feature creative processes along with the outcomes of Crooks' four-week research based residency in Dhaka.
The studio will feature the outcome of a recently-held two-day workshop titled “Creative Interventions”, where Crooks collaborated closely with renowned Bangladeshi artist Ashim Halder Sagor. Using ceramic and sculptural processes, students explored their own locations to select a suitable site that requires a sculptural 'intervention'. Adding glazes and other ceramic materials, their sculptures will be fired using a Raku technique live, during the opening of the show.
Richard Crooks' work adopts observations of the global architectural styles that are absorbed and reinvented within vernacular architecture. Using ceramic casting techniques reminiscent of the concrete casting constantly seen in Dhaka, Crooks has made his recent sculpture out of a variety of materials such as clay, cement and plaster. Some of these will be fired in the kiln yet some will be painted using thin layers of acrylic with pencil additions. The process can be witnessed at the studio along with some of his photographs, drawings and collages. The show will continue till March 24.
Research conducted during this residency will inform a new body of work that will be exhibited at his solo show 'Transformations' at Pound Arts Centre in Corsham, UK.
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