Shanaz Gulzar is a British visual artist.
She specialises in stage design and digital and installation work and has been a producer at the
Manchester International Festival
The Manchester International Festival is a biennial international arts festival, with a specific focus on original new work, held in the English city of Manchester and run by Factory International. The festival is a biennial event, first taking ...
.
She was born in
Keighley
Keighley ( ) is a market town and a civil parish
in the City of Bradford Borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is the second largest settlement in the borough, after Bradford.
Keighley is north-west of Bradford city centre, north-west of Bi ...
, West Yorkshire, and gained a degree in fine art at
Leeds Metropolitan University in 1995.
She starred in the 2019
BBC Four
BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was launched on 2 March 2002 series ''
Yorkshire Walks'', where she walked in scenic areas with a 360 degree selfie-stick to record her surroundings.
She is an associate artist of the
National Theatre Wales
National Theatre Wales (NTW) is a theatre company known for its large-scale site-specific productions and its grassroots work with diverse Welsh communities. It is the English-language national theatre of Wales, and refers to Theatr Genedlaeth ...
.
In 2020 she was appointed to lead
Bradford
Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...
's bid to become the
UK City of Culture
UK City of Culture is a designation given to a city (or a local area from 2025) in the United Kingdom for a period of one calendar year, during which the successful bidder hosts cultural festivities through culture-led regeneration for the ye ...
in 2025;
the bid was successful.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British women artists
People from Keighley
Alumni of Leeds Beckett University
21st-century British artists
21st-century British women artists
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