Ravi Deepres

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Ravi Deepres is a British artist who works with lens based and screen based media. He has worked extensively with contemporary dance companies, including Wayne McGregor Random Dance Company (UK) and Karas (Japan), and with the British avant garde music group, :zoviet*france:. His first solo exhibition, Patriots, shown at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, in 2003, explored aspects of patriotic and national identity around the football World Cup and European Championships. [1] [2]

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Deepres works as a lecturer in photography and moving image at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, part of Birmingham City University. [3] [4]

Selected screen based works

Selected photographic projects

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References

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  2. anonymous (n.d.). "Ravi Deepres – Patriots". forma. Archived from the original on 2007-11-10. Retrieved 2008-04-15.
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