The Heong Gallery
THE HEONG GALLERY: RASHEED ARAEEN
18 October 2024 - 2 February 2025
The Heong Gallery will close for the Christmas period at 5pm on Friday 20 December 2024, and reopen at 12 noon on Thursday 2 January 2025.
For six decades the Pakistani-born, London-based artist, writer, and educator Rasheed Araeen has been at the vanguard of art and activism in the UK. In 1964, on first moving to London following training as a civil engineer in Karachi, Araeen quickly established himself as one of the pioneers of British minimalist sculpture, creating colourful, tessellating structures like the iconic, interactive Zero to Infinity (devised in 1968).
Rasheed Araeen: A British Story condenses Araeen’s artistic career into a representative selection of work across painting, collage, sculpture, and participatory installations.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of talks and events, including a Symposium that bring together academics, writers and artists involved in The Other Story - to be announced in due course.