CHILDREN'S WORKSHOP WITH ART THERAPIST HANNA LEIPOLD
SATURDAY 24 JULY FROM 10AM TO 12PM
SUNDAY 25 JULY FROM 10AM TO 12PM
Engaging with the arts and creativity generally has proven throughout history to aid communication, build relationships, form social connections and to help make sense of complex emotions and feelings.
In this 90-minute workshop, the participants will be guided through a creative experience facilitated by a qualified Art Therapist to explore and reflect together on the impact of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic on their emotional and psychological wellbeing.
We will use art materials and the exhibited photographs to reflect together in a supportive group environment on the challenges and pressures for young people to navigate the ‘new normal’.
EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS
KOREBAJU PROJECT BY CÉSAR CUSPOCA
INTERVIEW - SEPT 2020
Artist César Cuspoca talking about the Korebaju Project, a long term collaborative project with the Korebaju, an indigenous community of Colombia.
César Cuspoca is a Colombian artist (b.1987) based in Paris.
His work challenges human perceptions and beliefs established by convention or tradition within society. The idea of experience takes a central role in Cuspoca’s approach and allows him to structure his creative process. Through experiences, Cuspoca produces still images, videos, and sound recordings. He combines these gathered materials with elements of the local environment to build installations in situ.In 2018, accompanied by a production team and a phonetician, Jenifer Vega, Cuspoca spent a month among the Korebaju (Children of the Earth), an Indigenous community located in the Caqueta region of Colombia. The Korebaju population is estimated at two thousand individuals. Like other groups in the region, they were affected by the exploitation of rubber, minerals and wood which consequently lead to human-forced displacements and environmental damages. It’s a community in danger of disappearance according to UNESCO. While Cuspoca spent time with the Korebaju, he was struck by their capacity to adapt and survive despite the continuous violence around them. The Korebaju allowed the artist to record sound, video and photographic materials. Cuspoca used these materials subsequently and combined them with items of the local environment from the exhibition space.
The final installations provoke a sensitive reflection on the Korebaju reality and explore the interconnected stories between Indigenous people and Western civilisations.
www.cesarcuspoca.com
FOCUS ON PHOTOGRAPHER BEX DAY
Bex Day (b.1992) is a photographer and director from London.
Rigid beauty ideals and stereotypes are a burden to our society, they exist only to exacerbate division and tribalism within our communities. By breaking conventions and removing people from these futile constructs and empowering the overlooked and underrepresented communities, Bex challenges this archaic view of what it means to be human. By toying with the concept of categorisation, Bex aims to produce playful, humorous and surreal imagery that questions the effects of labelling on identity. Her portfolio constitutes an amalgamation of these themes, focusing predominantly on gender, diversity, individuality, the human condition, and freedom of choice.
Bex uses storytelling to disrupt the flow of preconception and judgement within her work. By empowering each subject through their sensibilities, she is able to create intimate, raw and sensitive images, designed to encourage both honesty and ambiguity, and explore the subtleties within human behaviour and identity politics. This is executed through the use of jaunty, vivid, saturated colour palettes and colour-blocking within her imagery.
Surrealism shakes off the limitations of the standardised world view; by constructing fantastical settings and scenes within her work, she is able to show and invite others to understand her subjects as they truly are, legitimising each and every individual throughout the varied sectors of fashion, documentary and portraiture. By leading her creative collaborations on set, she is able to perfect every minute detail within the image-making process, to create authentic representation and relatable imagery. Here’s to a new sense of normality.
AWARDS, TALKS AND EXHIBITIONS
AWARDS
Magnum Graduate Award Shortlist
C/O Berlin Talent Award Shortlist
British Journal of Photography - Portrait of Humanity Shortlist
British Journal of Photography - CALM shortlist
This is Gender - Shortlist
Wolf Suschitzky Prize - Shortlist
TALKS
June 2020 - The British Journal of Photography, London
May 2019 - Nicer Tuesdays, It’s Nice That, London
April 2019 - Hen Panel Discussion, Herrick Gallery, London
February 2019 - Gender Fluidity Panel Discussion, Mina Raven, London
November 2016 - Vogue Italia, Base Milano
October 2016 - Recylart, Brussels
June 2016 - The Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield
January 2016 - Cambridge University
EXHIBITIONS
November 2019 - All That Man Is – Fashion and Masculinity Now
April 2019 - Hen, solo show, Herrick Gallery Curated by Mina Raven
November 2016 - Vogue Italia 'The Female Gaze'
