Exhibition

Jasmir Creed: Utopolis

3 Mar 2023 – 30 Jul 2023

Regular hours

Friday
10:00 – 16:30
Saturday
10:00 – 16:00
Sunday
11:00 – 15:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 16:30
Thursday
10:00 – 16:30

Free admission

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Warrington Museum & Art Gallery

Warrington, United Kingdom

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  • Warrington Bank Quay and Warrington Central railway stations both within walking distance of the Museum
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Jasmir Creed paints images of urban alienation and the contemporary transcultural based on her journeys in urban environments.

About

Creed depicts people in crowds, iconic buildings and sculptures alongside self-portraits and room interiors. The people depicted are from diverse communities and reflect her own identity as a British artist with South Asian roots. Her paintings express how she experiences diverse cultural customs and multiple perspectives leading to fractured identities and cultural hybridity – for example, they show South Asian women’s dress and textile designs. The materiality of oil paint is used to construct space using areas of colour on the picture plane which can then be occupied by forms such as figures. Creed uses vivid colours in her expressionistic figurative paintings with montage influencing the painterly compositions.

The paintings usually contrast the psychological presence of anonymous people from different cultural backgrounds as well as self-portraits, in a relationship with environments that often include iconic references to British history such as Trafalgar Square, London. Some paintings show commuters on trains, others show monochromatic crowds and the portraits show mostly female figures.

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Roger Jeffery

Roger Jeffery

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Jasmir Creed

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