Adalet R. Garmiany
Email: adaletg@artrole.org arg@adaletg.net www.adaletg.net
Place of Birth: Iraqi Kurdistan & British artist based in the United Kingdo

Education

2000 – 04:
University of Lincoln, Hull School of Art & Design, UK
BA Honours in Fine Art

1990 – 95:
Institutes of Fine Art, Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan and Mosul, Iraq Higher Diploma in Fine Art

Other qualifications:

2005 – 06         
Hull College, Hull, UK
BTEC National Award in Media (Video)

2009                 
Nominate for the Freedom to Create Prize (1.015 entries from 110 countries)
ArtAction , http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6921814.ece

Art-related work

April/June 2010 
Curator of Contemporary Art Iraq in collaboration with Cornerhouse in Manchester, UK, origin recent artwork in the fields of film and video, sound art, digital art, photography, graphic art, sculpture and live performance, will be showing in the UK for the first time & presentations, workshop by UK&Iraqi based artists such as Richard Wilson, Anne Bean, Xavier Pick, tour to FACT in Liverpool.

111 Nov –2009                
Curator of  Post-War Festival, 3 days celebration of Art and Culture. The Festival took place in The Red Jail, Saddam Hussein’s security building in the city of Sulaymaniyah and included seminars, talks and a symposium. The festival exhibited artwork by Iraqi, British and US artists and hosted presentations by British arts organizations, i.e. 20:50 Installation-Richard Wilson “Saatchi collection”

July 2005           
Committee member and responsible for the Kurdish selection at Hull International Short Film Festival, Hull, UK

July 2004           
Founder and Chief Executive of ArtRole, UK based contemporary art organisation developing International Culture Exchange, with the Middle East. www.artrole.org                         

2002 – 2003           
Manager, tutor and dancer of Hataw Kurdish dance group, UK

2001 – 2002               
Def Player for the Yorkshire Kurd  music group, UK

2000 – 2002           
Founder & Cultural director of AHRK (Asylum seeker & Refugees of Kingston upn Hull),Volunteer organisation helping asylum seekers, UK
http://static.hullcc.gov.uk/hullinprint/archive/febmar2001/show_of_culture.html
1998 - 1999                 
Centre Manager at the TDC,dia (Triangle dia Consortium) French international NGO orgnisation www.dia-europe.org/hist/kurd_index.htm - 10k’, Kurdistan

1997 – 1998           
Art Lecturer in Modern Art, Theory and Painting Practice at the Institute of Fine Art, Erbil, Kurdistan

Solo Exhibitions

Nov. 2001           
Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture, Slide show, Poetry & Live Music at the Eich Gallery, Hull, UK
Sept. 1999           
Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture, Media Gallery by TDC, Erbil, Kurdistan
April 1997           
Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture, Media Gallery by KRG Ministry of Culture, Erbil, Kurdistan

Group Exhibitions

July - 2009         
Reel Iraq, Creativity vs Destruction: Stories of Iraqi Art. Artists included Waafa Bilal,      Sama al-Shaibi, Hana Malallah, Maysaloun Faraj and Said Farhan
Oct. – Dec.2004 ‘The search for Identity – new visions, immigrant exhibition’, (12 artists from 11 countries, including Mona Hatoum and Paula Rego), Museum & Art Gallery, Doncaster, UK
June 2004
Installation ‘The existence of possibilities’, Hull School of Art & Design, University of Lincoln, UK, 4th June
Sept. 2003
‘Before, After, Now’, Iraq's Contemporary Art exhibition, video show & performance, Deluxe Gallery, London, UK
Dec. 2003
‘Expression of Hope’, Iraq’s Contemporary Art, painting & sculpture, Aya Gallery, London, UK. www.ayagallery.co.uk
Feb. 2002 
‘Winter Exhibition’, Ferens Gallery, Hull, UK
March 1998 
‘Halabja’, Art Festival and ‘Anfal’ Art Festival, Kurdistan

Performances/ Actions

7th Nov 2009  
Performance ”Game Memory” ArtRole: Post War Festival Iraq Kurdistan– Red Jail Sulaymaniyah city, include Richard Wilson, Ann Bean, Miyaka Marita, Chris  Gladwin, Anna Bowman UK and Liaka Rafik (Adalet's mum) and about 50 Kurdish artists,  musicians, students, Saddam Hussian
X-prisoners.                                       
2nd July 2009            
Performance & Installation “Placeless” Reel Iraq, Roxy Art house, Edinburgh, UK, http://www.reelfestivals.org/2009/06/09/creativity-vs-destruction-stories-of-iraqi-art-2/
15/16th April 2008
Performance & lecture at CalArt University, California, US
18/19th April 2008
Performance “Death Marketing” & presentation about my experience,
Outpost for contemporary art, California, US
6-10 Feb 2008         
Performance, in NRLA, National Review of Live Art 2008, Glasgow, UK,
6-10 Feb 2008           
NRLA, 2008, Glasgow, Performance with Guillermo Gómez-Peña (Mexico/USA) artist, UK, http://www.newmoves.co.uk/nrla-2008/37-archive-2008-nrla/145-the-performance-panel
3rd Nov 2007                
ArtRole, UK & USA artists visited Kurdistan/Iraq, Performance in collaboration with Clare Charnley, in Erbil capital city of KRG/Iraq
http://www.eaa.ee/hobusepea/english/clare.HTM
26th May 2007
Participated as Sufi Drum player in performance ‘Spirit & Flesh’ by Fakir Musafar & Cleo Dubois, curated by Switch Theatre, London, UK www.fakirtour.com
25th March 2006               
01112.* Performance & Installation ‘Silence’ Hull Art Lab, Hull City, UK
16th June 2004               
Performance ‘Space’, Refugee Week, Hull city centre, Hull, UK
5th Sept. 2003           
Performance SIREN for ‘Before, After, Now’, Iraq's Contemporary Art exhibition, Deluxe Gallery, London, UK
29th March 2003           
Performance ‘Terrorism’, Festival of Art {54°N}, Hull, UK
http://www.fifty-four.org/artists/garmiany.htm
6th Nov.  2002           
Performance ‘Unknown Game’, Queens Garden, Hull, UK
13th Oct. 2002           
Performance ‘Colour Game’, Flamborough Beach, E-Yorkshire, UK
8th April 2002             
Performance ‘Smell Game’, Salthouse, Hull, UK
7th Nov. 2000                  
Performance ‘Body Game’ Countryside, Settle, North- Yorkshire, UK

Music and Sound performances

Talks and seminars

15/18th January 2010   
Presentation, about the value of culture, plying Daf, at “Kurdish Culture Festival” Georgina, Atlanta USA
5 March 2009                
Presentation, about my art & life experience achievement for changing   leaders, leading change class run by “Common Purpose” north of England, UK
17th April 2008                 
Presentation, with Nancy Buchanan, Art and war in relation to Iraq current situation, & ArtRole UK, US artists trip to Kurdistan/Iraq, Levantine Culture center, Los Angeles, US.
3-4th Nov 2007              
ArtRole presentation, discussion and dialog by artists from UK &     USA, in Kurdistan/Iraq such as “Susan Meiselas, Richard Wilson, Anne Bean and Nancy Buchanan …etc
24th May 2007
Conference Another Art World Is Possible., organized by inIVA and Arts Council England, London, UK.
28th Feb. 2007
ArtRole presentation and discussion, Serpentine Gallery, UK
23rd Feb. 2007           
‘Artists in Europe, a different perspective’, presentation about the experience of Kurdish-Iraqi artists based in Europe, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK,
http://www.intute.ac.uk/blog/2007/02/15/kurdish-artists-from-iraq-to-visit-london-yorkshire/
21st Feb. 2007
Seminar & dialog about ‘Art, Culture and War’ in Kurdistan and Iraq for invited UK artists & guests, Live Art Development Agency, UK,
March 2003
‘Kurdish conference’ with 26 Kurdish artists, writers, musicians, film makers, politicians and poets, Krakow, Poland
March 2003                
Cultural seminar, Kurdish Cultural Centre, Berlin, Germany

Interviews and media cover

Nov 2009: 
The BBC world servier, Interview from Iraqi Kurdistan, Post-War Art&Culture Festival  
Nov 2009: 
Iraqi Media, Al Hora  Al Somarea, Al Iraqia, Kurdsat TV, Kurdistan TV, Zagroze TV.etc
Nov 2009: 
Iranian Media, Sahar international TV, 
Feb 2007: 
Al Hora Iraqi TV Europe; Kurdish international satellites Roj TV Europe; Kurdistan TV &         Kurdsat TV Middle East
Nov 2007  
Sufi spirituality, A performance, sound and visual artist based in Hull, Adalet Rosa    Garmiany draws his inspiration from Zoroastrian and Sufi ideologies.
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/content/articles/2006/12/20/divineart_adalet.shtml
Dec. 2006: 
BBC Radio Humberside, Divine Art project, www.bbc.co.uk/humber
Nov 17/06  
Radio:  Experimental show by Mary Anne Hobbs, broadcasting experimental music         piece 'Untitled Improvisation' (White) in collaboration with Chris Gladwin,
Sept. 2004: 
Roj TV Kurdish international satellite, Hull, UK,
Nov 2004:   
BBC Look North, Performance ‘Space’
Sept.  2003:
German Public Radio, London, UK; Daily Express, London, UK
June 2003: 
BBC Look North, Kurdish Night, Middleton Hall
Nov 2001:  
BBC Look North, Art and Race in Hull, UK.
Sep 1999   
KRGTV Harym:  Erbil - two weeks discussion about contemporary art,

Publications

2010                
Iraq: Post-Conflict or El Dorado? - Francesca Recchia
http://otherasias.webnode.com/products/iraq-post-conflict-or-el-dorado-francesca-recchia-/
Nov 2009        
Sunday Times, Nominate for the Freedom to Create Prize (1.015 entries from 110 countries ArtAction  http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6921814.ece
Nov 2009      
SOMA Digest is a subsidiary of KHAK Press and Media Center ... performance called the Memory Game by Adalet R. Garmiany, chief executive of ArtRole,
http://issuu.com/soma-digest/docs/soma-digest-64
Feb 2009       
LGBT asylum news: Top artists battle UK visa clampdown
http://madikazemi.blogspot.com/2009/02/top-artists-battle-uk-visa-clampdown.html
Sep 2007
In dependent Asylum Commission to conduct hearing on appeals process
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5690
Sep 2003,      
Daily Express, Culture interview
2001         
mentioned artist in ‘Strokes of Genius’, book on Contemporary Iraqi Art edited by   Maysaloun Faraj,
Jan 3/2001    
Hull Daily Mail, Culture event, interview & 2007 art interview
April 2000  
Publication of poem ‘Reshm gowantra’ (my beautiful beard), Magazine Rygae Kurdistan, Iraq
May 1999  
Publication of poem ‘Samay ba’ (the wind's dance), Magazine Rygae Kurdistan, Iraq

• philosophical dialogue about visual art & poetry with the Kurdish poet Hashm Saraj, May – June, Raman Magazine, Kurdistan, Iraq