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Four geometric works by the artist, Lubna Chowdhary. She uses a mixture of bright and pastel colours, contrasting against black patterns.

© Lubna Chowdhary. Courtesy the artist and Jhaveri Contemporary. Photo credit: Andrew Judd

© Lubna Chowdhary. Courtesy the artist and Jhaveri Contemporary. Photo credit: Andrew Judd

Lubna Chowdhary: PLURIVERSE

Thu 4 July - Sat 21 December 2024

Graves Gallery

Lubna Chowdhary’s bold, hybrid creations deftly explore the interconnectivity of objects in the material world, across wide-ranging cultural contexts.

 

PLURIVERSE, a major new exhibition making its debut at the Graves Gallery, presents Chowdhary’s most recent work, including new drawings and sculptures developed during residencies in India and Italy earlier this year.

Chowdhary examines relationships between diverse visual languages, materials and processes, to make works which encompass the disciplines of sculpture, architecture and craft.

A 2017 residency at the V&A researching global design histories has gone on to inform much of Chowdhary’s work. For this exhibition, she has drawn upon Sheffield’s collection to select prints by Eduardo Paolozzi and historic Indian miniature paintings which are presented in dialogue with her work.

PLURIVERSE includes a range of Chowdhary’s installations and new works alongside Certain Times LII, 2021, a striking glazed ceramic landscape of geometric, architectural, tile forms which recently joined the city’s visual art collection, thanks to support from Art Fund and the JG Graves Charitable Trust.

 

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Opening Times

Open Tue–Sat 11am–4pm

Closed Sun–Mon and Bank Holidays

***The gallery will close for the festive season on Sat 21 Dec and reopen on Thu 2 Jan***

The library lift to the Graves Gallery is currently out of order. Step free access is available through the Arundel Gate entrance

Graves Gallery

(Above the Central Library)

Surrey Street

Sheffield

S1 1XZ

A series of glazed ceramic geometric shapes in bold, bright colours arranged on a wooden shelving structure.

Lubna Chowdhary, Serial Structures 2 (detail).

Photo © Sheffield Museums

Exhibition Highlights

  • An photograph of the inside of the exhibition, with nine smaller works by the artist visible on the wall.

    Lubna Chowdhary, PLURIVERSE At Graves Gallery

    Photo © Sheffield Museums

  • A tiled work by artist Lubna Chowdhary. Circles and lines in both red and black contrast against a cream background.

    Lubna Chowdhary, Re Verse, 2024.

    Courtesy the artist and Jhaveri Contemporary. Photo credit: Andrew Judd

  • A painting showing a composition of geometric shapes in blue, yellow, pink black and reds. At the centre of the image area series of four circles, two in red/orange above two in black.

    Lubna Chowdhary, Code 69, 2024.

    Courtesy the artist and Jhaveri Contemporary. Photo credit Andrew Judd

  • A series of 27 small scale geometric sculptures in dark grey.

    Lubna Chowdhary, Disobedient Typologies II, 2022.

    Courtesy the artist and Jhaveri Contemporary.

  • A painting composition of a series of symmetrical geometric forms in greens, browns, yellow and blue. The images is dominated by four large circles, two in green above two in brown made up of a series of concentric circles.

    Lubna Chowdhary, Code 68, 2024.

    Courtesy the artist and Jhaveri Contemporary. Photo credit Andrew Judd

  • A painting of an abstract geometric composition browns, cream, orange and dark blue. At the centre of the composition is a series of concentric oval shapes.

    Lubna Chowdhary, Code 64, 2024.

    Courtesy the artist and Jhaveri Contemporary. Photo credit Andrew Judd

  • A painting of a composition of geometric shapes in pink, yellow, red, green, black, grey and brown.

    Lubna Chowdhary, Code 65, 2024.

    Courtesy the artist and Jhaveri Contemporary. Photo credit Andrew Judd

  • A series of paper bags painted in black and placed on top of each other, reducing in size. Each bag has an unpainted strip on the right hand side revealing the brown colour of the bag.

    Lubna Chowdhary, Shift 10, 2024.

    Courtesy the artist and Jhaveri Contemporary. Photo credit Andrew Judd

  • A cube made up of strips of interlaced grey paper.

    Lubna Chowdhary, Black Cube, 2024.

    Courtesy the artist and Jhaveri Contemporary. Photo credit Andrew Judd

Explore the exhibition with our Bloomberg Connects digital guide

Hear insights from artist Lubna Chowdhary with an audio discussion of her exhibition, PLURIVERSE.

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