10 Jan – 26 Apr 2025
Nationhood: Memory and Hope
Aïda Muluneh
A modern-day insight into our four nations.
Date 10 Jan – 26 Apr 2025
Location Impressions Gallery
Access Wheelchair user access, Seating available, Relaxed environment
Portraits of our local heroes form the backbone of Aïda Muluneh’s major exhibition at Impressions Gallery.
Aïda Muluneh, the acclaimed Ethiopian photographer, celebrates the diversity of the UK in 2025 with Nationhood: Memory and Hope. This outstanding collection of new photography serves as a modern-day insight into the UK’s four nations – and shines a spotlight on those individuals who quietly but tirelessly work to make our world a better place.
Nationhood: Memory and Hope includes the portraits of community heroes that featured in A Portrait of Us, first exhibited on billboards around Bradford in September and October 2024. Alongside them are striking new photographs inspired by these local legends, shot during 2024 in iconic locations around Bradford, Belfast, Cardiff and Glasgow, as well as newly commissioned portraits by emerging photographers in each of the four cities:
- Bradford: Roz Doherty & Shaun Connell
- Belfast: Chad Alexander & Eva O’Rawe McCarthy
- Cardiff: Robin Springer & Grace Springer
- Glasgow: Haneen Hadiy & Miriam Ali
Nationhood: Memory and Hope opens in January 2025 at Impressions Gallery before travelling to Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow, Ffotogallery in Cardiff and Belfast Exposed – making this the first ever UK City of Culture project to take place in all four nations of the UK.
Lead image: © Aïda Muluneh
