Experience
CURATOR
Project: Cabbage Arts Resilience Programme 2022 - Love & Legacy: Our Grandmothers.
A collaborative offering with South Korean Artist Joy Baek. The project focussed on Identity as seen through the eyes of our grandmothers.
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Project: Harbinger, Glasgow, Glasgow 2021
Harbinger -A physical and digital exhibition about marginalized communities dealing with the climate crisis in line with COP26, which was in Glasgow from the 1st -the 12th of November 2021.
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Project: NOWYOUSEEUS, Glasgow, Glasgow 2020
NOWYOUSEEUS - an online exhibition about Identity, social justice and social choreography and the effects of racial bias against women with Afro-Caribbean textured hair – Glasgow 2020
CURATORIAL INTERN
Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow 2020
Curatorial Project: Assisting with Palimpsest of Voices workshops for the students, guardians and teachers at Oakgrove Primary School. I assisted with the complete set-up of the workshops and worked with the students to produce sketches and clay pieces that would become part of the project's outcome for Glasgow International.
Research: I worked in the office and researched all aspects of the area surrounding the whisky bond, including creating historical archives of past businesses for GSS and The Whisky Bond.
COLLABORATIVE CURATOR
In/Visible - The Hunterian Project, Glasgow, Glasgow 2020
In/Visible: "In/Visible" The Hunterian Collaborative Project:
This project focused on dance and performance, one of the century's most significant and developing art historical fields. "A new performance turn" has emerged, its correlations with shifts in performance, discourses, and broader society, especially in today's world of divisive politics. This project is critical within the current political climate, especially within the context of the Windrush generation, Brexit, and the current feeling of imposed isolation. Collaboration with The Hunterian Art Gallery, April 2020
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Project: Reclamation, Glasgow, Glasgow 2019
Reclamation –A site-specific event with Artists Ashanti Harris and Georgia Robenstone
The aim of "Reclamation" was to disrupt the notion of a safe space, as propagated by the frameworks of educational institutions. By initializing performance and interactions with the site of Rockvilla School- the ruin of a Victorian school building designed at the same time as the development of teacher training. Safe space is seen through the lenses of feminism and post-colonial theory, referring to the specificity of being a person of colour or woman within spaces of education and related knowledge power structures.
Workshops:
Decolonising the Arts – Glasgow University’s Students of Colour Network, Glasgow
Decolonising the Rainbow Flag – Glasgow University’s Students of Colour Network, Glasgow – October 2020
Introduction to Black Lives Matter, Glasgow Connected Arts Network, Glasgow
A palimpsest of Voices art, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow – June 2020
Collaborative Projects:
Hair: Untold Stories- 2022
The Horniman Museum -This new exhibition puts the substance before the style and unlocks the untold stories of hair. -https://www.horniman.ac.uk/event/hair-untold-stories/
“At Home” Exhibition –2020:
A Digital Exhibition - Thistles and Dandelions Heritage Group –Part of 23 volunteers on this project, with women from all over the world – galleryofmodernart. blog; Thistles and Dandelions –
“At Home”, a Digital Exhibition - https://galleryofmodernart.blog/portfolio/thistles-and-dandelions/
Pass the Mic – ongoing: BAME womxn selected as expert opinion writers working with media partners to develop skills to better represent womxn of colour
Forget Me Not House | Forget Me Not - The Forgotten Women 2020-2021- This project was an online creative project highlighting the missing narrative of women in house museums. The long-term goal of this project was to see change within house museums and the representation of the female voice. To have their voice permanently displayed whether through their archives or interpreting female narratives within the history of their sites.
Garnethill Community BLM Mural -2020: In response to recent international outpouring of support for Black Lives Matter, following the killing of George Floyd in USA, Scotland’s Black and Asian artists are stepping up. A Scotland wide Black Lives Matter Mural Trail will be popping up, with displays on multiple arts venues and sites across Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Inverness, with many more to follow. The Garnethill Community are strong supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, and in solidarity with this movement the Garnethill Community Council is supporting the creation of this mural in collaboration with the Black Lives Matter National Mural Trail and part funded by The Glasgow School of Art Students' Association and the Glasgow School of Art. Worked on a series of online collaborative design workshops, facilitated by Ursula Kam-Ling Cheng, in order to allow the local communities voice to be expressed through the mural.
Postcards for Solidarity –2019. Commissioned by Interfaith Scotland and created by Artist Iman Tajik, Postcards for Solidarity explores facets of shared humanity across the globe in the ace of the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic. Responding to the theme of connecting.
Panels:
Virtual Panelist: Climate Impact Fieldwork– AAMC Conference, USA 2022
Hair: Untold Stories – The Horniman Museums, London 2021
Intersectional Panel Discussion: Being Queer and Black – Glasgow University’s Students of Colour Network;
Intersectional Panel Discussion: Being a Black Woman in Society Today – Glasgow University’s Student of Colour
Network; Intersectional Panel Discussion: Being Black in the Arts – Glasgow University’s Student of Colour Network
Publications:
Newspaper Articles: The National Scotland; The Herald Newspaper
Press:
Harbinger - https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/art/art-reviews-forever-changes-code-red-the-word-for-world-is-forest-under-the-skin-harbinger-3440372
