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Abu Jafar is an acclaimed leading artist and philosopher of the arts. This year Jafar been selected to exhibit his sculpture at the Twelfth Annual Peace Arch Park International Sculpture Exhibition. Also Franco British cultural exchange exhibition at the Art Mazia, Massy, France (www.artmazia.com) |
| About the Artist | |
Abu Jafar is a very energetic and gifted artist who has worked in a wide range of media, including installation/ performance as well as sculpture and painting.� |
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The Wonder Garden
2006 |
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| Wonder Garden, a collaboration sculpture with Ewa Wawrzyniak
It has 7 wooden structures each structure is 180cm tall 80cm wide and 30 deep. It is nearly 15 meters long.
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Under the Blue (Oie Hetha)
2000 |
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| Abu Jafar creates large canvases that are riots of colour, yet conjure simple images and impressions – rain dripping slowly down a windowpane or the colours of an optimistic summer’s day.
Under the Blue (213cm x 274cm). Oil and acrylic on canvas
Some paintings, such as Under the Blue in Asia House’s foyer, took many years to complete. The painstaking process of layering colour on top of colour – blue dripped, brushed and applied on to blue – results in a luminescence and sense of a moment halted. The very size of the canvas heightens the desire to walk into the image and lose oneself in the soft layers, as if they were a memory. |
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Brit My Sweet Lady
2001 |
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| Jafar started this work while he was at Brockhall Village, Lancashire in 1995 then gradually he worked on it for almost six years and finished the work at the end of 2001 at his Dockland studio. It was the idea of English language and its world wide expansion through history like a mother and child, never ending human continuity. It is a map of Great Britain and that map slowly turns as a relaxing lady behind the net. |
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Untitled - Blue songs
2001 |
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A Misty Summer
2006 |
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| Wall Hanging architectural artwork
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Spring
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| Architectural wall hanging art work with 4 sections |
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Songs of the wind
1995 |
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| Jafar started this work while he was at Goldsmiths College, University of London, then gradually he worked on the painting and built this idea over almost four years. He finished the work for an exhibition at the Changing Room Gallery, Waltham Forest, London in 1995. |
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Snow Flower
1996 |
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| Winter day, all night heavy snow fall. Bright morning very very cold. Jafar had a sleep less night. He was over so surprised to see so much snow which he never have had experienced before. So he decide to make something with this nature wonder. He looked around and start his Installation with Snow,Glass, Grass and nature. Nearly six hours of rolling and creating work that is far from the traditional art making ending with the finishing touch of glass in every roll of snow to have a glimpse of reflection from sky.The entire work was covered more than a six acre of open field at Brockhall Village Lanc.UK. 1996.
Collect this work as a photographic image in a B2 poster |
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Nature Wonder
2006 |
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Made with 2 wooden structure, line drawing and fused glass. |
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Wonder Burghley
2007 |
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| Sculpture with 12 wooden structures, line Drawing, blown glass, stone and Nature. The sculpture is about 30 meters long. |
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life after life
2006 |
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| Blown Glass fused with glass powder it is a wall hanging art work. |
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Three Wonder
2007 |
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This sculpture has three wooden structures with 4 fused glass panels, line drawing and paint. (Each structure is 180cm tall 65cm wide and 25cm deep) |
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On my way
2008 |
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| Oil and Acrylic on canvas |
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Mid Night Dream
2008 |
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| Oil and Acrylic on canvas |
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New forest
2008 |
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| Oil and Acrylic on canvas |
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Mist of Twilight
2008 |
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| Oil and Acrylic on canvas |
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Falling Leaves
2009 |
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| Sculpture ‘Falling Leaves’ created by Abu Jafar in collaboration with Ewa Wawrzyniak. This sculpture comprises 5 structures made with plywood, ornamented with fused glass, and black lines. It has been placed in the ground like an abstract flying bird wing that allows the public to go through and wonder around each structure in every direction to enjoy the link with the thinking process that excites us. Particularly this sculpture has a sense of finished and unfinished mood that creates a question mark like a jigsaw puzzle.
This sculpture resembles the wing of the sculpture ‘HOPE’ which will be exhibited in 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, UK in 2011 has been highlighted in Channel 4’s Big Art Mob web (http://bigartmob.com/latest/).
Every structure signifies metaphorically the letter H for hope, and the window on the structure signifies a window of opportunity driving endlessly forward. This sculpture is about celebrating our ever-changing curiosity of mind and symbolises the beauty that keeps us wonder in every step we make and every angle we look. It is the endless journey to find a betterment of our unknown needs. The journey to in which we are going through our hopes and visions, each day creating a new chapter and looking forward to seeing something more that is undisclosed. |
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| Education:He studied fine arts, painting and drawing at the Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh 1984/89, Master Drawing of the human figure at the Guildhall University, London 1989/90, Art and Art History at the Goldsmith�s College, University of London 1991/92 and Philosophy of Arts at the Open University, 1997 UK One person Exhibitions 2002 White Letter 2002, Installation at Trafalgar Sq, London UK 2001 McDowell Modern Art, London, UK. 2000 Abu Jafar Open, London, UK 1996 Snow flower- Installation with snow & glass at the Brockhall Village, Lancashire, UK 1994 So much to tell about, at the Spitalfields Market, London, UK 1995 COMMUNICATION Installation at the Changing Room Gallery, London, UK 1993/4 New End Theatre Gallery, London, UK 1993 �Unknown love� Installation at the Bonnington Square, London, UK A letter to Eleanor Installation at the York Hall , London, UK SWEET LOVE Installation, the York Hall, London UK 1992 RELATION IN- BETWEEN NATURE , PAINTING AND LIFE Installation at the Raymont Hall, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London UK 1990 THE DEWS OF THE MORNING- The British Council, Dhaka Bangladesh 1989 The High Hall, University of Birmingham, UK Two person Exhibitions 2006 Grand Design Lives, Excel London, UK 2005 Barn-B Open Studio 05, St. Albans, UK 1994 Spitalfields Market, London UK 1991 USSR, Cultural Centre, Dhaka Bangladesh Group Exhibitions 2006 The Brownston Gallery, Modbury, Devon, UK The Gallery, Harlow, UK Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Romsey, UK 2005 The National Glass Fair 2005, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, UK The Studio Glass Gallery, London. UK The Gallery, Harlow, UK New London Glass, London UK Artshed Gallery, Ware, UK 2001 McDowell Modern Art, London UK McDowell Modern Art, London UK 2000 GANG-Blackheath Hall, London UK Aartvark Gallery, Leed, UK Atlantis Gallery, London UK Open Studio Trinity Buoy Wharf, London UK 1999 LETEC Exhibition, London UK. OPEN STUDIO -Trinity Buoy Wharf, London UK Alternative Arts Exhibition, London UK Trinity Buoy Wharf Group, London UK 1998 THE WHITECHAPEL OPEN 98, London UK Hidden Art Spitz Gallery, London UK 1997 LETEC Exhibition, London UK 1996 SCORCHED Brockhall Village, Lancashire UK 1995 Platform Art Gallery, Clitheroe, Lancashire UK FIRST OPEN STUDIO Brockhall Village, Lancashire UK 1994 LVS Resource Centre, London UK Devenant Centre, London UK 1993/4 CONTRIBUTIONS of Panchayat, Spitalfields Market, London The York Hall, London TEXACO BUILDING Westerry Circus, Canary Wharf, London The Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, London 1992 SYMPTOM Brixton Art Gallery , London INTERNATIONAL ARTS EVENT Hull, England LATOF Spitalfields Market, London 1st exhibition of 4th World Arts, London 2nd exhibition of 4th World Arts, London �A Church with a View� at the St. Peters Heritage Centre, London 1989 NEW YEARS DAY, Zia Hall University of Dhaka, Bangladesh 1984/9 All annual/major exhibitions at The Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka. Project in process �On my way� Explosion Dotcom. Shine a Life Ullash Joybangla Working with Students 2002 Lord Mayor Show London Commissioned by Udichi UK, 2001 Commissioned by Chol Theater Yorkshire-Decorating a traditional boat to explore idea from children and artists own experience, work process were involved 32 local Infant School student, from Huddersfield, Yorkshire UK. 1999 Commissioned by the Millennium Commission to develop Banglatown Explosion Installation, work process were involved 121 students from Mulbury Girls High School and Jagonari Center, London UK. 1997 LIFT (London International Festival Theater) Utshob project in collaboration with Ateam Arts of Tower Hamlets Council�s to produce work with Wapping Youth centre and Central Foundation Girls High School more than 60 students were involved. 1997 Brentwood Special needs School students, Cheshire UK 1996 Elien Child Care- as a part time Art teacher with children age between 2-4, Brockhall Village, Lancashire, UK 1993 -94 Buxton Infant School, London. This involved more than 120 students in creating permanent art work for the school. I had been appointed by the Free From Arts Trust to create an art work for Buxton Primary School at London. Where I have involved pupils from age between four to seven years old. It was combined creation process of innocent child and adult thoughts. The work has mount within still and fly-wood painted by the image of children drawing for the play ground and the front gate of the schools. 1994 Visiting Artist-Summer School, Stepney Green High School, London programmes working with pupils between ages of nine to twenty four years old. Lecture and talk 1997 Talk on Philosophy of the Arts and his work (The Open University) at the London School of Economics, London UK 2000 Aartvark Gallery, Leeds, UK Commission 2001 Chol Theatre �Lady Rani boat painting involved 30 student from local primary school in Huddersfield, UK. 2000 Investment Bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserestein, London UK 1997 LIFT utshob project collaboration work with A team Arts of Tower Hamlets, London UK Artist in residency at Central Foundation Girls School, Tower Hamlets, London UK Brentwood School Arts Week 97, Cheshire UK 1995 Temporary Museum work Devenan Center, London UK 1994 Visiting Artist- Summer School, Stepney Green High School, London Buxton School, London UK |
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