Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Tigers & Dragons - India and Wales in Britain | Teigrod a Dreigiau - India a Chymru ym Mhrydain
Tigers & Dragons - India and Wales in Britain | Teigrod a Dreigiau - India a Chymru ym Mhrydain
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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
An unique volume includes contributions by Glynn Vivian's Curator and Exhibitions Officer Karen MacKinnon and Katy Freer respectively; a substantial Curatorial Essay and Exhibition Overview by Dr Zehra Jumabhoy, Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Bristol, as well as Image-led Essays by seminal Pakistani art historian, Professor Salima Hashmi and pioneering Welsh artist Iwan Bala.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781068505362
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781068505362
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Tigers & Dragons - India and Wales in Britain | Teigrod a Dreigiau - India a Chymru ym Mhrydain
- Awdur / Author
- Jumabhoy, Zehra; Hashmi, Salima; Bala, Iwan; Finnemore, Peter
- Current Price ex VAT
- £20.00
- Current Price inc VAT
- £20.00
- Availability Status (EN)
- Publication Abandoned
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ni Chyhoeddir Bellach
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2025-09-05
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- H'mm Foundation
- Media Type (EN)
- Hardback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr caled
- Pages
- 156 pages
- Size
- 245 × 220 mm; depth 15 mm
- Language Code
- Welsh; English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Ysgrifau a Sgyrsiau (yn Saesneg) | EN: Essays and Talks (in English)
- FSC Status
- No FSC or PEFC logo/certification declared
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Zehra Jumabhoy: Dr Zehra Jumabhoy is a Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Bristol. She is an art historian, curator and writer specialising in modern and contemporary South Asian art and its diasporas. In 2018, she co-curated the landmark exhibition, The Progressive Revolution: A Modern Art for a New India, at New York’s Asia Society Museum. She was Guest Curator for the US travelling show, Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East and West, which travelled to four major institutions between 2023-2025, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in LA. She is currently the Curatorial Research Fellow at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, a position funded by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, to facilitate programming related to the museum’s decolonizing agenda. The exhibition Tigers & Dragons at the Glynn Vivian, is part of this project. Salima Hashmi: Salima Hashmi is an artist, curator, and contemporary art historian. She was the founding Dean in 2003 of the Mariam Dawood School of Visual Arts and Design at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, and she is now Professor Emerita. She taught at the National College of Arts, Lahore, for thirty years and served as its Principal for four years. Her books include Unveiling the Visible: Lives and Works of Women Artists of Pakistan (2002) and Memories, Myths, Mutations: Contemporary Art of India and Pakistan (co-authored with Yashodhara Dalmia, 2006). She has edited The Eye Still Seeks: Contemporary Art of Pakistan (2014). Curatorial projects include Hanging Fire (Asia Society Museum, New York, 2009) and This Night-Bitten Dawn (Gujral Foundation and the Devi Art Foundation in Delhi, 2016), both accompanied by extensive catalogues. Hashmi co-founded the Rohtas Gallery in Islamabad in 1981, and Rohtas-2 in Lahore in 2001. She is a council member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and the chairperson of the Faiz Foundation Trust. Iwan Bala: Iwan Bala was born in 1956 in the village of Sarnau near Y Bala in north Wales. He has been an artist based in Cardiff since the 1980’s and after a brief sojourn in a village near Oxford now lives in Cefneithin, west Wales where he has a studio. He has published several books on contemporary art in Wales and has lectured often and presented documentaries on S4C. He was senior lecturer at the University of Wales, Trinity St David and before that was a special projects manager with Cywaith Cymru. Artwork Wales, a public art organisation. In the early 90’s he spent time as artist in residence at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, an experience that influenced his views on colonialism and post colonialism. His work has dealt with these issues, in particular their relevance to his homeland. Many images have been used on book-covers of academic work, poetry and novels. He has work in several public collections and he has exhibited in Zimbabwe, China, Germany, England, USA, Mexico, Ireland, Poland, Croatia, Brittany and Galicia in Spain. He shares his house with his cat. Peter Finnemore: Born in Llanelli, Wales. Peter Finnemore is a freelance artist and educator, who works within the broad practice of photographic art, including artists’ books, multi-media installation, performance and video. He has since exhibited in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including, representing Wales at the 51st Venice Biennale (2005). His photographic artworks and films are included in a number of private and public collections. Coinciding with a career as an Independent Artist, Finnemore's experience includes a range of overlapping roles within artistic education throughout the UK. He is currently a Visiting Fellow within the Creative Industries Department at the University of South Wales and Board Member for the National Contemporary Art Gallery of Wales.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
If India was the Jewel in the Imperial Crown, could we argue that Wales was England’s first colony? As Wales struggles for its identity within ‘British-ness’, how should it acknowledge the way it contributed to, benefited from and, even, suffered for Britain’s Imperial ambitions? What do the Indian Tiger and the Welsh Dragon share in common vis-à-vis the Lion of Britannia? A major exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, Tigers and Dragons: India and Wales in Britain, co-curated by South Asian art historian Zehra Jumabhoy and Glynn Vivian’s Exhibitions Officer, Katy Freer, poses and answer some of these questions. This supporting publication probes the connections between the Indian subcontinent and Wales, investigating how they have imagined themselves (or been imagined) over the years. Including a wide array of historic and contemporary artworks Tigers and Dragons – the exhibition and the book – scrutinise Empire’s continuing legacy, its relevance for Welsh identity as well as for India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. In the light of current ‘de-colonizing’ debates and calls for Welsh independence, what better time to re-examine the Imperial encounter and its contemporary resonances?
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