2019: Truth that shakes the soul

Grace Wales Bonner @ Serpentine Gallery Grace Wales Bonner brought together works by those who had had influence on her artistic and personal development, with or without direct collaboration. Each artist built a kind of shrine, an altar, representing their engagement with Black experience,  Black aesthetic, spirituality, transcendentality, even magic - lived, moved, meditated upon. …

Reframed City

Reframed City: Canterbury Seen Through Rare Archival Images from the Canterbury Museums and Galleries Collection was an archival photography research project I carried out from autumn 2016 to spring 2017. The research focused on infrequently used visual material held in the archives in order to bring its richness to light. It was paired up with …

Al This Blisse

al this blisse was a site-responsive window installation in the main reception of the Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whistable. It took place during Whistable Biennale 2018 and was part of Whitstable Biennale Satellite programme. The work quotation means 'all this joy' and came from the oldest surviving poem in Middle English, Lenten ys come (Spring has …

Why do you never speak?

Why do you never speak? presents two art commissions informed by T S Eliot’s famous poem The Waste Land (1922). Harriet Gifford’s new immersive sound installation draws on voices of the multiple characters found in Eliot’s text and layers readings by community members into a difficult, fragmented audio field. This methodology alludes to the almost impenetrable …

Here comes the who are you and what do you do bit. Hm... I have worked in the creative/cultural industry for four years. Having studied History and Philosophy of Art - Film at University of Kent, I developed interests that led me to carry out research projects for Canterbury Museums and support art events in …

Excerpts on resistance, survival & solidarity

Afterall (Issue 43) looks into deep-seated capitalist and/=  (neo-)colonial systems not from political or economic perspectives but by dissecting the issues of indigeneity. Obviously, these are all interrelated in very sad and disturbing ways until today when grass-roots initiatives to overcome this state of affairs both proliferate and face elimination. In her article 'Chronicle of …

OSE: Tool Making for a Precarious Future

After today's workshop at OSE in Margate, it is abundantly clear that preparation for the future, especially from our contemporary standpoint, follows multiple paths - constructing weapons for protection, fashioning primitive musical instruments out of rubber bands and plastic containers so that a (post-apocalyptic) landscape is not devoid of culture/personal expression and turning a computer …