Adalet R. Garmiany

Email: adaletg@adaletg.karoo.net, www.adaletg.net

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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)

 

 

Art-related work

 

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

 

July 2004                    Founder and director 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

 

1998 - 1999            Centre Manager at the TDC,dia (Triangle dia Consortium) 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

 

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, 4^th 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

 

 

15/16^th April 2008 Performance & lecture at CalArt University, California, US

18/19^th 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

 

3rd Nov 2007 ArtRole, UK & USA artists visited Kurdistan/Iraq, Performance in collaboration with Clare Charnley, in Erbil capital city of KRG/Iraq

 

26^th 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

 

25^th March 2006      Performance & Installation ‘Silence’ Hull Art Lab, Hull City, UK

 

16^th June 2004           Performance ‘Space’, Refugee Week, Hull city centre, Hull, UK

       

5^th Sept. 2003              Performance SIREN for ‘Before, After, Now’, Iraq's Contemporary Art exhibition, Deluxe Gallery, London, UK

 

29^th March 2003          Performance ‘Terrorism’, Festival of Art {54°N}, Hull, UK

 

6^th Nov. 2002             Performance ‘Unknown Game’, Queens Garden, Hull, UK

 

13^th Oct. 2002             Performance ‘Colour Game’, Flamborough Beach, E-Yorkshire, UK

 

8^th April 2002               Performance ‘Smell Game’, Salthouse, Hull, UK

 

7^th Nov. 2000           Performance ‘Body Game’ Countryside, Settle, North- Yorkshire, UK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music and Sound performances

 

17^th May 2008 Sound & Music performance collaboration with Richard Wilson, Anne Bean and Chris Gladwin, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK.

24-25^th Feb. 2007       ‘Drums & Reeds’, traditional Kurdish Music meets English Experimental in Yorkshire in collaboration with English and Kurdish artists & musicians, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK, www.artrole.org/archive/kurd_contemp_art/index.html

 

July 2006                    Sound performance with Chris Gladwin, Adelphi Club, Hull including British & German artists

 

August 2005                Sound performance with David Ellis, Lee Merrill, Joe Gilmore, George Rodgers, Chris Gladwin, Black Boy, Hull

 

9^th Oct. 2004             ‘Live’, Sound Performance with Paul Burwell, event at Kingston Rowing Club with guest artist Sylvia Hallett , Hull, UK

 

 

 

Talks and seminars

 

17^th 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.

 

3-4^th 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.

 

24^th May 2007            Conference Another Art World Is Possible., organized by inIVA and Arts Council England, London, UK.

 

28^th Feb. 2007            ArtRole presentation and discussion, Serpentine Gallery, UK

 

23^rd Feb. 2007             ‘Artists in Europe, a different perspective’, presentation about the experience of Kurdish-Iraqi artists based in Europe, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK,

 

21^st 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

 

Feb 2007: Al Hora Iraqi TV Europe; Kurdish international satellites Roj TV Europe; Kurdistan TV & Kurdsat TV Middle East

Dec. 2006: BBC Radio Humberside, Divine Art project, www.bbc.co.uk/humber

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.

BBC Radio: Experimental show by Mary Anne Hobbs, broadcasting experimental music piece 'Untitled Improvisation' (White) in collaboration with Chris Gladwin, Nov 17/06

KRGTV Harym: Erbil - two weeks discussion about contemporary art, Sep 1999

Press UK: Sep 2003, Daily Express, Culture interview & Jan 3/2001 Hull Daily Mail, Culture event, interview & 2007 art interview

 

 

Publications

 

2001             mentioned artist in ‘Strokes of Genius’, book on Contemporary Iraqi Art edited by Maysaloun Faraj,

               1997             philosophical dialogue about visual art & poetry with the Kurdish poet Hashm Saraj, May – June, Raman Magazine, Kurdistan, Iraq

May 1999     Publication of poem ‘Samay ba’ (the wind's dance), Magazine Rygae Kurdistan, Iraq

               April 2000     Publication of poem ‘Reshm gowantra’ (my beautiful beard), Magazine Rygae Kurdistan, Iraq