Shezad Dawood, Castlefield – Freedom & Respect, 2024
£720.00
| Dimensions | 170mm x 92mm x 92mm |
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| Material | Engraved stainless steel with gunmetal finish |
| Edition of | 9 + 1 Artist Proof |
£600 + VAT
This edition will only be available until Friday 13 December, 5pm
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The cocktail shaker’s engraving is adapted by Shezad Dawood from his design, Freedom & Respect (A Banner for Castlefield), 2023, gifted to Castlefield Gallery to mark its 40 year anniversary. The banner is a marker for the gallery and wider neighbourhood. Both a celebration of its ongoing history and a symbol of pride in its future.
The design is influenced by collections at The People’s History Museum and the local area’s cultural scenes, past and present. Key to the design is the artist’s engagement with Castlefield’s extensive and ancient canal networks and their complex histories – entanglements with fights for freedom and ongoing battles to protect our waterways.
References in the design include wildness and history that inspired the gallery’s branding and logo of the 1990s into the early 2000s (Roman Manchester beasts roaming the Castlefield Neighbourhood), which also spoke to the hedonism of the local music scene of the period, including The Haçienda, and the ritualistic raving that carved out a path for a new way of living. The work speaks to the political energy of revolution synonymous with the City of Manchester, it is an ode to the city’s history of radicalism and suffrage and Castlefield Gallery’s ongoing support for emerging artists and new art.
The artist suggests mixing a mocktail the Botivo Spritz for Castlefield – Freedom & Respect.
Shezad Dawood (b.1974, London, UK) is a multidisciplinary artist who interweaves stories, realities and symbolism to create richly layered artworks, spanning painting, textiles, sculpture, film and digital media. Fascinated by ecologies and architecture, his work takes a philosophical approach, asking questions and exploring alternative futures through what Dawood describes as ‘world-building’. His practice is animated by research, working with multiple audiences and communities to delve into narrative, history and embodiment.
Selected solo exhibitions and commissions include: Leviathan, Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury (2023); Night in the Garden of Love, Inspired by & featuring Yusef Lateef, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto (2023); Leviathan: We go elsewhere, The Void, Derry (2023); Leviathan: From the Forest to the Sea, Touchstones, Rochdale (2023). Selected collections include Guggenheim; Arts Council Collection; Tate; UBS; LACMA, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Canada; Government Art Collection, UK; US Government Art Collection; The British Museum, London; Sharjah Art Foundation; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi; Rubin Museum of Art, New York; and Mathaf, Doha. His film works have been screened internationally, including at the ICA, London; MoMA, New York, Guggenheim, New York, and at various film festivals including CPH:DOX, Sharjah Biennial 14 (awarded Special Mention Jury Prize 2019); Oberhausen, Aesthetica (awarded Artist’s Film Prize 2015); his 2013 Feature Film, Piercing Brightness, was released theatrically and on Blu-Ray/DVD by Soda Pictures.
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40 Years of the Future: Editions
In collaboration with Ryan Gander OBE RA (Castlefield Gallery Artist Patron), to mark Castlefield Gallery’s 40 year anniversary, we are delighted to present a new collection of limited-edition artworks.
40 Years of the Future: Editions are a limited series of beautifully engraved cocktail shakers, created with a group of celebrated, award-winning artists, who at the invitation of Ryan Gander have donated their designs in support of Castlefield Gallery.
40 Years of the Future: Editions artists are:
Ryan Gander OBE RA, Joy Division and Peter Saville CBE, Bob and Roberta Smith OBE RA, Shezad Dawood, Lindsey Mendick, Simeon Barclay and Hannah Perry.
The new editions were first revealed at Soho House x Castlefield Gallery, 40 Years of the Future: Lates, an event that brought together, in conversation, artists Ryan Gander, Peter Saville, Shezad Dawood, Hannah Perry and Simeon Barclay. At the event Gander shared his love of cocktails and his reasons for proposing a series of cocktail shakers. This included thoughts on cocktails – from how the invention of and mixing of them is akin to a creative act, to how they are often used to mark a moment. We are pleased to share with you an exciting opportunity, to be some of the first to collect new art from this exclusive and extraordinary limited-edition series.
