Professor Lala Meredith-Vula

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• Contemporary Photography
• Video
• Film
• Fine Art
• Contemporary Visual Art
• Photography and film history
• Fine Art and Photography practice
• Focusing particularly themes of migration, diaspora, identity and belonging
• Art in Eastern Europe both contemporary and historic.

• Photography, Video, Art
• Photographic, Fine Art and Film/Video Practice 
• Photographic, Fine Art and Film/Video History
• Photographic research practices

BA hon Fine Art (London), Post Graduate Studies (former Yugoslavia)

• Photography and Video BA (Hons)
• Photography MA
• Photographic History and Practice MA
• Media BA (Hons)

Rome Scholarship, Sargant Fellowship, British School Rome (2001)

Nominated twice for the Paul Hamlyn Award (2002 and 2006)

Bryan Robertson Trust Artist Award (2006)

My Film ‘Are You Everybody?’ is nominated for the ‘Best short film’ category at ‘Doku Fest 10’ International Balkan Film festival (2011)

Other forms of public presentation

Solo Exhibitions as follows:

2008 Apr, Arte Contemporanea, Alberto Peola Gallery, Torino, Italy

2012 July, Interlude National Museum of Kosova, Kosova

Group or selective shows as follows:

2008 Jan, “Book 2 ” U H galleries, Margaret Harvey Gallery, St. Albans, England

2008 Aug, “Freeze 20” with Damien Hirst, Hospital club gallery, London

Toured to ‘Month of the Photography', November Bratislava, Slovakia

2009 April, August Gallery as part of East 2009 (London Arts’ Festival), London

2009 Dec, “Mulliqi Prize 09” Gallery of Art Kosova, Prishtina, Kosova

2010 March, “Are you Everybody” Cultural Xchange DMU, Leicester

2010 Oct, Perception on Reality, Fotohuis, Brugge, Belgium

2011 Sept, South Hill Park Arts Centre Bracknell, UK

2011 Dec, Bosnian and Hercegovina Embassy Exhibition, London

2012 Sept, “Time, Place, and The Camera: Photographs at Work” curated by Christine Frisinghelli of Camera Austria, Kosova National Art Gallery, Kosova

Public Film Screenings as Follows:

2010 2 Sept University of Auckland, New Zealand Electroacoustic Symposium

2011 23-31 July  Dokufest 10 International Film Festival Prizren 

2013 February University of Edinburgh

• 2001 Rome Scholarship, Sargant Fellowship, British School Rome £12,000
• 2006 AHRC small grant in creative and performing arts £19,998

• ADH Research Leave Award 2012

For example, my exhibition “Caravaggio e la Fuga” which exhibited 16 of my large photographs and ran from March – September 2010, had more than 20,000 visitors, many of whom bought the large book published about the exhibition containing a chapter on my work.  Through the medium of the book, the images were also seen by readers who were unable to attend in person.  The work also received extensive coverage in conventional media, including over 40 journals and newspapers in Italy.  The exhibition was reviewed favourably in the Spectator (Sept 2010) in the UK.  In all these ways, it is clear that it reached at least the existing audience for art.

But significant effort was also devoted to widening the appeal of the exhibition.  The challenge was to reach a different art audience.  The show was promoted on Facebook - a social network with over 400 million users world wide and 14 million in Italy.  Game applications, Facebook ads, and other activities were designed to announce the exhibition appealing to universal concepts and aiming to share them in an accessible way.  Facebook users were enticed to escape from everyday life and the city, and to respond to the evocative power of landscape, with my landscape photographs playing a key part alongside old masters.

There was also a downloadable application from the AppStore showing in iTunes.  Visitors to the exhibition could down load the app and walk around the exhibition with the information audio information and then take it away as a virtual souvenir of great art historical value.

There was evidence therefore of the impact of my art work, that many people came because of these promotions, and that the impact of the exhibition extended beyond the gallery into people’s own homes.