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November 2010- Bearwood work exhibited at The Public Art Gallery with Martin Parr's work on Sandwell. More details coming soon...
October 2010
- My photographs of Neeta and Niraj Chag from the British Asian Musicians body of work, are published in a V&A publication: British Asian Style: Fashion and Textile, Past and Present , you can pre-order the book from Amazon or buy it from shops from the 18 October.
September 2010
- Fierce interrobang in the Black Country where I will show my work in progress on Birmingham Is...
- Contact exhibition from 3 - 18 Sept at the Rhubarb East Galery, Digbeth. It's a collaboration between Birmingham Photospace and The Photography Collective, which Jaskirt is a part of. Come to the Cakes and Creativity event on Thursday 9th Sept from 6.30pm where we celebrate the Midlands art scene and you can find out more on the exhibition.
July 2010
- Mosiac lead artist in mentoring young people for the first Mosaic West Midlands' annual celebration dinner at the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and Birmingham Council House. HRH Princess Badiya bint El Hassan was the guest of honour.
Watch both videos in the Videos section.
- Exhibition of Women's Football still showing until 12th July.
June 2010
- Wah Do Dem, a film which Jaskirt features in, has it's theatrical release this month in USA. Dates below:
- New York City: June 18th - June 25th at Cinema Village.
- Los Angeles: June 18th - June 20th at American Cinemateque's Egyptian theatre.
- Boston: June 25th - July 2nd at the Sommerville theatre.
- From the 24-27th June, Jaskirt will be showcasing new work at the Warwick Arts Centre as part of the Fierce Interrobang. Jaskirt will be showcasing her Birmingham Is... work.
- Exhibition of British Asian Musicians body of work at the New Arts Exchange in Nottingham from 4 June - 3 July 2010.
- Jaskirt is exhibiting her work on Women's Football as part of a larger football exhibition called 'State of Play' at the Public Art Gallery, West Bromwich. Photographs from the Private View can be seen here
May 2010
- Protesting in London against the BBC proposed changes to Asian Network. All photographs by myself, music by Tigerstyle and Shizzio.
April 2010
- Jaskirt has been selected to work with Fierce on the Platinum 2010 project, and will be working on and developing her practice. This includes an Interrobang at Warwick Arts Centre.
- Jaskirt has been selected to do an artist residency at the new mac (Midlands Art Centre) in Birmingham during April. She will be producing new work about Birmingham, developing and challenging her practice.
- This is a video she made whilst on the residency, it is still a work in progress. To see more go to the mac labs gallery in the portfolio section.
March 2010
- Interview with the Sikh Channel TV, watch it live on Thursday 4th March at 8pm, Sky channel 840.
February 2010
- Two of Jaskirt's images, Neeta and Niraj Chag (from British Asian Musicians body of work), will be published in a book 'British Asian Style' by the V&A due out in November 2010.
January 2010
- Check out Jaskirt's snowy photograph of Bearwood on the BBC News website: Snow photograph (image 19)
- Filming and documenting Bangladeshi Women's resource centre 'East meets West' project.
December 2009
- Images from And'Art festival in Tangier, Morocco now live, go to: And'Art (Views) gallery
- New video section added to website. Watch videos from Jaskirt's British Asian musicians exhibition, including her talk and live performances, her documentary for Craftspace and a stop motion video.
Watch Videos
- BBC interview on British Asian Musicians exhibition, video made by Jaskirt Dhaliwal, Audio package made by BBC reporter Suki Padda.
November 2009
- British Asian Musicians body of work exhibited at Sandwell College until May 2010. Address: High Street, West Bromwich, West Midlands, B70 8DW.
October 2009
- Photography Artist residency with Terres Sans Frontier as part of And’Art in Tangier, Morocco. For more details go to: Terre Sans Frontiere website
September 2009
- featured in the Autumn issue of Asiana Magazine, out now. However the magazine does say I have a new book out - just to be clear - I don't! I hope in the near future though.
- I am featured in the BirminStrong exhibition. To celebrate Black History month The Drum Arts centre have commissioned Damian Brown to photograph 60 Birmingham artists, the show ends 4th December (address below).
8 July - 28 August 2009
- 'British Asian musicians' body of work exhibited at The Drum Arts Centre, 144 Potters Lane, Aston, Birmingham, B6 4UU.
Funded by the Arts Council England.
July 2009
- Photographing Manchester Mela with BBC Asian Network
- Wed 8 July: Private view at The Drum Arts Centre, for the exhibition of British Asian musicians. Including 6 live performances.
May 2009
- Working with Craftspace, documenting Birmingham's Bangladeshi community learning how to use Pfaff sewing machines, developing their self confidence, English language skills and engaging with people of different cultures and backgrounds to their own.
April 2009
- Received funding from the Arts Council England for her work on British Asian musicians, to be exhibited at The Drum in Birmingham, throughout July & August 2009.
- Group exhibition with Bedroom Genius at Keylight Studios in London. The theme is 'Life in motion' and two of Jaskirt's portraits from her 'Bearwood' body of work were on display.
- Taking photographs of Sikh Vaisakhi event 'Nishan Sahib' for BBC Asian Network's website.