This piece is part of the Image Frequency Modulation series contributed by Palm Heights artist-in-residence Ethel Tawe. By definition, an album is a collection of material or records, whether formatted visually as a photo album, or sonically as a music album. This process of collecting is inherently curatorial by the common threads that often bind…
Open now and running until 19 February 2023, Kettle’s Yard presents Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso, a major new exhibition curated by Habda Rashid in dialogue with Barbadian artist, educator and writer Paul Dash, Jamaican artist and editor Errol Lloyd, and Trinidadian poet, artist and curator John Lyons. Alongside a selection of their own…
Cuban-born multidisciplinary artist Ana Mendieta produced a diverse and radical body of work that traversed photography, film, video, drawing, sculpture, and site-specific installation over the course of her short life. Exploring complex themes including dislocation, separation and our connection to nature, her combination of form and documentation most famously manifested in a series she called…
Something Curated highlights six funded opportunities established to support creatives working across the arts in India, along with their respective deadlines and links to applications. Arts at CERN & Pro Helvetia — Connect India Programme Arts at CERN and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia are hosting an open call for their Connect programme, this…
British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare’s multi-disciplinary practice explores colonialism and post-colonialism within the context of globalisation. Through examining race, class and the construction of cultural identity, Shonibare’s works comment on the tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe, and their respective economic and political histories. Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation, an evolution of Guest Projects, Shonibare’s long-standing…
Helmed by botanical enthusiast Allison Baird, Instagram account @hawaiinativeplants is a celebration of the verdant diversity of Hawaii. Located in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles from the US mainland, the state comprises nearly the entire Hawaiian archipelago – 137 volcanic islands spanning 1,500 miles that are ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania….
The below essay, written by Justin Smith, is part of the Image Frequency Modulation series curated by Palm Heights artist-in-residence Ethel Tawe. Smith is an artist-curator, writer-researcher, theorist and designer from Richmond, Virginia. He is the founder and curator of Afrovisualism – his curatorial platform and continual studio practice. Within my Afrovisualist practice, Black Aesthetic…
Open now and running until 8 January 2023, London’s Hayward Gallery presents Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art, an ambitious group exhibition exploring how contemporary artists have used the medium of clay in inventive and unexpected ways. Given the recent surge of interest in ceramics by artists around the world, as well as countless people…