• New faces of Of Angels and Chariots found
• Do you want to be the new face of Of Angels and Chariots?
• Works
• Press release

New faces of 'Of Angels and Chariots' found

The spanking new faces of 'Of Angels and Chariots' have been found. Here they are - the rightmost two faces - created on the opening evening of 22nd June 2006. Click on the images to see a larger version:

Do you want to be the new face of Of Angels and Chariots?

As you know, Of Angels and Chariots is an ongoing saga between Dhaka, Bangladesh and Sydney, Australia. And if you want, you can very well be part of it. How ? Just by volunteering to be photographed for works numbered 4 and 5 in the LCD/HCD series, you can help me create a profile of sorts of people who came to the opening of my exhibition at the Chrissie Cotter and that way be part of this intercontinental 'profiling' business. Fun you think? Then just turn up on the 22nd of June 2006 at the opening between 6 and 8pm.

Works

Here are some images of works from the exhibition Of Angels and Chariots to be displayed at the Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Pidcock Street, Camperdown, NSW between June 21 and July 1 2006.
Please click on a thumbnail to view a larger image of the work along with a description.

LCD/HCD 0	LCD/HCD 1	LCD/HCD 2
LCD/HCD 3	LCD/HCD 4	LCD/HCD 5
Ode to Pentagonia	Time's Up (Ish Kathata Thak Shoi)	All we need is Some TENSION
All we need is Some TENSION	All we need is Some TENSION	Mind like a bird (Pakhir moto mon)

Press Release

Of Angels and Chariots - Fida Haq's solo exhibition at the Chrissie Cotter Gallery opening on 21st of June 2006 reverberates between Dhaka, Bangladesh - the utterly impoverished, over-crowded, disaster-prone (and also the most-corrupt!) country he originally hails from and Sydney where he now lives and practices - the squeaky clean, shiny-happy antipodean city which is better than even err, Melbourne. Works in this exhibition - which are all based on the narrative and decorative traditions of Rickshaw Art of Bangladesh - are a reflection on the life and time of a migrant who his perhaps grappling a bit to catch up with - well - his life and time. The exhibition ends on 1st July.

People find Haq's works weirdly beautiful, eccentric and sometimes downright verging on insanity. Haq, who is just back from Dhaka after participating in the 12th Asian Biennale and holding the Bangladesh leg of 'Of Angels and Chariots' there - likes to believe it's all of that and more. His love for low-brow folk art and common people - which in this particular instance means Rickshaw Art and Rickshaw artists and pullers - is what motivates him most and is also expressed in his artistic mission statement:

• to never forget, for some people, the urge for artistic creation is as natural as breathing though they may not be fortunate enough to have the means and accesses to express it utilising modes and methods taken for granted in affluent societies and
• to practise and popularise recycled media art as a homage to millions of people who make do and create art with whatever media they have been able to find and recycle