Double Scoop!
Wavy Gravy: His Blues Period and Beyond
&
The Art of Jerry Garcia
14th November - 26th January, 2002

Flashing on the Sixties' American 'counterculture.' Collages and Prints from the 'Blues Period' of one of America's most original minds together with screenprints by another 'legend,' the former leader of the Grateful Dead. Artworks by the artists are complemented by photographs of the pair by Lisa Law.

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Transvangarde 2002:
An Artistic World-Wide Web
EXCITING NEW WORKS BY ARTISTS FROM THE TRANS-CULTURAL AVANT-GARDE
31st January - 23rd February, 2002
This exhibition provided another platform for a truly international dialogue by juxtaposing outstanding cutting-edge artworks by artists from Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East.

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Balanced on the Edge of Chaos:
A Retrospective of Gerald Wilde's Work

27th February - 13th April, 2002

Another chance to examine the haunting work of Gerald Wilde, an artist whom David Sylvester called 'the foremost painter of his generation,' one of the unacknowleged masters of the post-war period. Wilde maintains a unique position amongst the British post-war painters, in having spent his all in exploring an individual vision that set him apart from his post-war peers and left him fitting into very few of the accepted artistic movements and trends of the time. Both puzzling and fascinating by turns, Wilde opened a trail which precious few understood and fewer still dared follow.

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Jimoh Buraimoh and Chief Z. O. Oloruntoba
Visions of the Yoruba
18th April - 18th May, 2002

An exhibition bringing together the work of two highly influential artists from Nigeria, the first, Jimoh Buraimoh, whose work developed out of the so-called 'Oshogbo School' and who is important as the first artist to begin to use beads to compose the vibrant colour blocks of his work. The second is the polymath Chief Z. O. Oloruntoba, whose highly-coloured thread-on-canvas pieces provide the perfect complement to Buraimoh's work, showing fascinating similarities and differences by turns.

Master Strokes
Contemporary Arabic Calligraphy
23rd May - 22nd June, 2002

Master Strokes brings together, from seven different countries of the Near and Middle East, a sampling of the work of nine of the most distinguished artists practising in the field of Arabic calligraphy today. Besides offering a snapshot of the superabundant wealth of contemporary Islamic calligraphy, the exhibition provides a privileged insight into the rich tapestry of history, culture and thought that has most often - and always to the detriment of better understanding - remained invisible to western eyes. Work will be shown by the following artists: Wijdan (Jordan), Rasheed Butt (Pakistan), Laila Shawa (Palestine), Maysaloun Faraj (Iraq), Ali Omar Ermes (Libya), Hassan Massoudy (Iraq), Samir Al-Sayegh (Lebanon), Syed Tajammul Hussain (UK/Pakistan) and Nja Mahdaoui (Tunisia).

A Thousand Ways of Being -
Memory and Presence in the arts of Diasporas
26th June - 31st July, 2002

An exhibition that examines the way in which twelve individual artists, of African, South Asian, Chinese, South American and Middle eastern descent, reflect their experiences of having moved - whether by choice or coercion, whether historically or more recently, to live and work in different environments such as London, Paris, Haiti and Cuba. The exhibition looks at the different ways in which these artists have chosen to balance a 'there' with a different 'here,' a 'then' with a more immediate 'now' and the strategies employed to integrate an awarness of an earlier heritage with subsequently acquired artistic frames  of reference.

The exhibition takes place in conjunction with the Diaspora Music Village.