Artist: Parham Ghalamdar

Medium: Print

Size: A3

This print accompanies the collaborative project “Post-Pandemic Hungover” by Kaveh Soory and Parham Ghalamdar, which stage and perform the sounds of existentialist crises. The sounds recorded on a cassette tape are taken from the four corners of MCR including the Huddersfield Road, Heaton Park, Manchester Airport JetParks, Stockport Air Raid Shelters, Prime Pizza Ltd (New Moston), and the artists’ private studios during the National Lockdown and the post-lockdown abnormalities.

Artist Biography

Parham Ghalamdar is a painter and animator based in MCR. He is specialized in oil painting with a background in graffiti and public art. He studied MA Painting at Manchester School Of Art. Since the National Lockdown in 2020 he has been expanding his painting practice into the digital by making stop-motion animations and AI-generated works.

Parham is a recent recipient of Art Council Of England Project Grant and Innovate Grant quarterly fund. He was longlisted for John Moores Prize 2019, Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021, UK New Artist Of The Year 2021. He is also shortlisted for Gilchrist Fisher Award 2022 and Emerging Art Scene Prize 2021. Website

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Photography by studio member Bridget Coderc