Private Reveries, Public Spaces

Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey

pursued independent interests in the fields of theatre and performance, fine art and film until they met in 1989. This precipitated an enduring relationship and has led to exhibitions and site-specific installations across the world, including two recent temporary works for the Chicago Public Art Programme and a commission for the National Eisteddfod in Wales. Their artworks frequently reflect both scientific and architectural concerns. Although they embrace diverse materials, it is the medium of grass and their unique sensibility with it that has won them international acclaim.

Graeme Miller

is a theatre maker, composer and artist. Many of his sound works, including the current Linked project (2003), reflect psychic and social geography. He has an established working history with Ackroyd and Harvey and shares with them a direct response to place and a process where inhabiting a place is integral to making work.

Zarina Bhimji

studied at both the Slade School of Fine Art and Goldsmiths' College, both in London. Her work has been shown extensively both in the UK and abroad and her solo shows include Matrix (Wadsworth Athenium Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, 2003); Art Now (Tate Britain, London, 2003); Talwar Gallery, New York (2001); and I Will Always Be Here (Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1992). Her work has also been shown at Documenta XI (Kassel, Germany, 2002); Fault Lines, Venice Biennale 2003) Poetic justice (Istanbul Biennale 2003.) The Short Century (Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2001), which toured to Berlin, Chicago and New York; and No Place (Like Home) (Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, 1997). Bhimji was DAAD's artist-in-residence in Berlin in 2002 and received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award in 1999. Her work has been reviewed in a number of international publications, among them, The Times, Artforum, The Guardian, The New York Times and Flash Art.

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