Rana Begum Curates: Opposing Forms

Organised by : Pallant House Gallery

An exhibition of works from the Gallerys collection will be shown alongside invited contemporary artists in the Gallerys Queen Anne townhouse and No.1367 Mesh (2024), Begums site-specific staircase commission. 

Rana Begums own work distils spatial and visual experience into ordered form. Through her refined language of Minimalist abstraction, Begum blurs the boundaries between sculpture, painting and architecture. Begum brings this approach to her curated selection, using the architectural context of the historic townhouse as a guide through which to explore the Gallerys collection.

The exhibition includes artists from our collection, ranging from Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson to Tess Jaray and Rachel Whiteread. Alongside them, Begum has included artworks by invited artists Gillies Adamson Semple, Mary Hurrell, Zara Ramsay and Asha Vaidyanath. 

Ive loved exploring Pallant House Gallerys collection and thinking about how it resonates with my own practice and contemporary artists I admire. I wanted to create something that celebrates the joy of and draws connections between movement and colour, the melodic visual language and the rhythmic quality of mark-making, pattern, form, colour and light.
Rana Begum