Photo by Lala Meredith-Vula from the series "Women and Water"

Lala Meredith-Vula (born 1966) is a Kosovan artist and photographer. In 1988 she was included in the Damien Hirst-led Freeze exhibition.

1 Life and work
2 Awards
3 Notes and references
4 External links

Life and work [link]

Lala Meredith-Vula was born in Sarajevo and moved to England in 1970. She attended Trent University, Nottingham (1984-85) and Goldsmiths College (1985–88), then the University of Priština, Kosovo, for postgraduate studies.

In 1988, she was one of the exhibitors in the seminal YBA show Freeze show, organised by Damien Hirst. Since then she has exhibited widely internationally.

From 1989, she has lectured at various colleges in the United Kingdom, United States and Kosovo. In 1995, she set up the first photography department at the University of Tirana, Albania, and in 2000 a photography department at Priština University.

A particularly significant experience for Meredith-Vula was a series of photographs in Kosovo showing haystacks built by Albanian farmers. The juxtaposition of her cosmopolitan art experience with her provincial origin, asking the question "What is art?", provided a resolution of the two:

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Having studied art for many years and visited many galleries throughout the world I soon found that the context of a work of art played a major part on where it is placed. For all my research, it took my returning home to discover the real significance of my search, it was in the fields of my former home town that I witnessed a way of life as old as the land itself where farmers went about their business, everything had its place. Within all this, I saw that somehow the farmers were unconsciously creating strange, sculptures that had the presence of modern sculptural pieces. Here part of my search was over. I had found the meeting place between my new world of art, being an artist, and my past, in the landscape of Kosova.^[1]

”

She has also photographed women in Turkish baths over a two year period (6 months of which was gaining permission), and a series showing women standing and moving beneath the surface of water. She has explained this:

"Women and Water" is about the beauty and imperfection of the free body underwater. Many women feel themselves deformed by social influences particularly in the West. In the water they are free to dissolve and re-appear as a part of nature both classical and expressive.^[1]

Her work can be found in a range of major art collections including, but not limited to: Arts Council of Britain, Arthur Andersen Collection, Centre of Photography in Geneva, Collezione La Gaia, Doria Pamphilj Gallery Collection, Doria Pamphilj Palace Museum, The Teseco Foundation, The British Council Collection.

Lala now lectures at De Montfort University in Leicester

Awards [link]

1997 London Art Board's "Individual Artists Award".
1998 "Special Jury Prize", PhotoSynkria Festival, Greece.
1998 "Flash Art" Prize, Onufri '98, National Gallery, Albania.
2001 Sargent Fellowship, British School, Rome, Italy
2002 "Paul Hamlyn Award" nominee.
2006 Bryan Robertson Trust Artist Award.

Notes and references [link]

^ ^a ^b Images page on Meredith-Vula website Retrieved 25 March 2005

External links [link]

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Lala

Lala VC (20 April 1876 – 23 March 1927) was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth soldiers.

Details

Lala was born at Parol, Hamirpur district, Himachal Pradesh, India in 1876. He entered the Indian Army in February 1901. He was 38 years old, and a Lance-Naik in the 41st Dogras, Indian Army, when he was awarded the VC during World War I for most conspicuous bravery.

The citation reads:

Finding a British officer of another regiment lying close to the enemy, he dragged him into a temporary shelter, which he himself had made, and in which he had already bandaged four wounded men. After bandaging his wounds he heard calls from the Adjutant of his own regiment who was lying in the open severely wounded. The enemy were not more than one hundred yards distant, and it seemed certain death to go out in that direction, but Lance Naik Lala insisted on going out to his Adjutant, and offered to crawl back with him on his back at once. When this was not permitted, he stripped off his own clothing to keep the wounded officer warmer, and stayed with him till just before dark, when he returned to the shelter.

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Lala (given name)

Lala is the given name of:

Lala (1876-1927), Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross

Lala (painter), 1st century BC Ancient Roman painter and sculptor

Lala de Cizique, 1st century Greek woman who may be the first manuscript illuminator known by name

Lala Deen Dayal (1844-1905), Indian photographer

Lala Fazal-ur-Rehman, Pakistani politician, appointed administrator of Karachi District in 2010

Lala Hansraj Gupta (died 1985), Indian educationist and mayor of Delhi

Mahatma Hansraj (1864–1938), Indian educationist

Lala Har Dayal (1884-1939), Indian revolutionary and founder of the Ghadar Party

Lala Hasanova (born 1978), Azerbaijani-Russian science fiction writer, pen name Elizabeth Tudor

Lala Hsu (born 1984), Taiwanese singer-songwriter

Lala Karmela (born 1985), Indonesian singer-songwriter

Lala Ram Ken (1931-2007), Indian politician

Lala Mara (1931-2004), Fijian chief, wife of Kamisese Mara, founding father of modern Fiji

Lala Meredith-Vula (born 1966), Kosovan artist and photographer

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LaLa

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About

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