Artist talk with Q&A: Shezad Dawood
Thursday 4th March, 5:30-6:30pm
via Zoom
To attend the event please email: charlie@createlondon.org for a zoom link and password
Artist Shezad Dawood is creating a new public artwork to celebrate the centenary of the Becontree estate in 2021. The permanent artwork titled Visions of Paradise will be located in The White House front garden acting as a beacon for the house.
Join us to hear from Shezad Dawood on Thursday 4th March via zoom. Shezad will share past projects and present plans for the new artwork at The White House, followed by a chance to ask questions.
Visions of Paradise will be a sculptural display with an embedded video work connecting Becontree’s pre-industrial past with its present-day sense of place. The work takes its title from the ‘working-class paradise’ description of Becontree estate at the time of its construction (1921-35), and will reference its visionary architecture and its history before and since the Ford Factory era (1931). Archival and filmed footage will be overlaid with a digital animation made up of historical and contemporary icons of Becontree selected in dialogue with local communities.
About Shezad Dawood
Shezad Dawood works across the disciplines of painting, film, neon, sculpture, performance, virtual reality and other digital media to ask key questions of narrative, history and embodiment. Using the editing process as a method to explore both meanings and forms, his practice often involves collaboration and knowledge exchange, mapping across multiple audiences and communities. Through a fascination with the esoteric, otherness, the environment and architectures both material and virtual, Dawood interweaves stories, realities and symbolism to create richly layered artworks.
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Image: Shezad Dawood, Video Avebury, 2014. Acrylic on vintage textile, 197 x 332 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Visions of Paradise is commissioned by Create London, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.