Event Category: Performances

Silver Tongued Deviance

Silver Tongued Deviance is an open mic platform event hosted by spoken word artist Frank Rafferty at Void Gallery in partnership with Gasyard Development Trust (Bluebell Arts).

 

During these sessions, spoken word performers/singers/(acoustic) musicians are invited to come along and perform; they may choose any pieces of work from their repertoire, they can create something new which connects to themes in Void’s current exhibition, or they can perform something else entirely which simply resonates with them.

 

The viewing public are invited to simply attend and enjoy! There is no requirement to perform at these events.

 

Refreshments are also provided; visitors are invited to enjoy a glass of wine, a beer, or some tea or coffee.

 

Void is wheelchair accessible.

 

Acknowledgements

 

Silver Tongued Deviance is a collaboration with Gasyard Development Trust (Bluebell Arts).

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.

 

Silver Tongued Deviance

Silver Tongued Deviance is an open mic platform event hosted by spoken word artist Frank Rafferty at Void Gallery in partnership with Gasyard Development Trust (Bluebell Arts).

 

During these sessions, spoken word performers/singers/(acoustic) musicians are invited to come along and perform; they may choose any pieces of work from their repertoire, they can create something new which connects to themes in Void’s current exhibition, or they can perform something else entirely which simply resonates with them.

 

The viewing public are invited to simply attend and enjoy! There is no requirement to perform at these events.

 

Refreshments are also provided; visitors are invited to enjoy a glass of wine, a beer, or some tea or coffee.

 

Void is wheelchair accessible.

 

Acknowledgement

 

Presented as part of NI Mental Health Arts Festival.

 

Silver Tongued Deviance is a collaboration with Gasyard Development Trust (Bluebell Arts).

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.

 

Silver Tongued Deviance

In celebration of Poetry Day Ireland, come along to enjoy some live poetry and spoken word performances at Void, on Thursday 27 April at 6:45pm!

 

Silver Tongued Deviance is an open mic platform event hosted by spoken word artist Frank Rafferty at Void Gallery in partnership with Gasyard Development Trust (Bluebell Arts).

 

During these sessions, spoken word performers/singers/(acoustic) musicians are invited to come along and perform; they may choose any pieces of work from their repertoire, they can create something new which connects to themes in Void’s current exhibition, or they can perform something else entirely which simply resonates with them.

 

The viewing public are invited to simply attend and enjoy! There is no requirement to perform at these events.

 

Refreshments are also provided; visitors are invited to enjoy a glass of wine, a beer, or some tea or coffee.

 

Void is wheelchair accessible.

 

As part of NI Mental Health Arts Festival

 

Acknowledgements

Silver Tongued Deviance is a collaboration with Gasyard Development Trust (Bluebell Arts).

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.

 

Krunal Gohil – Vyang-Kath I MFA Award Winner

Void Gallery is delighted to welcome MFA graduate Krunal Gohil to present his exhibition, Vyang-Kath, in our education space between 21 March – 4 April. Krunal received the Void Gallery Fine Art Graduate Prize in 2022.

 

The collection of work is a response to his life experience, childhood, and the nature and domestic animals of Angadh, India, where he was born. His biggest interest and driving force has always been to be connected to nature. He sees animals as having personalities and personalities, as well as commonalities between them and people. This background served as the foundation for his body of work and captures the spirit of what he wishes to portray via his images. Animals, in his opinion, are “pure characters” with no overlapping complicated emotions; this purity is essential in producing characters with narratives. He finds inspiration in natural history and ancient mythology, believing that animals and their stories can elicit intense emotions. He applies both a metaphor and a psychological viewpoint to reinterpret natural processes, raises awareness about environmental issues, repairs damaged ecosystems, and demonstrates nature’s and wildlife’s strength and beauty.

 

Krunal Gohil Biography

 

Krunal Gohil was born in 1994 in Vadodara, Gujarat, India, and he completed his bachelors in painting and his Masters in Printmaking at M S University, Baroda, India. He completed a second masters in fine arts from University of Ulster, Belfast, UK.

 

The baroda printmaking atmosphere attracted him to become a full-fledged print maker. In India, he was the recipient of the national award in photography in 2014 by Centenary Celebrations All India Art Exhibition, Org. by New Delhi Municipal Council, New Delhi. In 2016 he participated in Kala Vart international art festival, Ujjain, India and received a national award. He was also awarded the state award by Gujarat Lalitkala academy in 2019. He participated in Baroda strikers International photography contest, Baroda, 2018; 3rd Macao Printmaking Triennial in Macao, China, 2020; International Virtual Engraves Printmaking Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey, 2021; Polyphony 21|QSS gallery Belfast UK, 2022; Concurrence MFA fine art show at QSS Belfast, UK, 2022; NGXX Group exhibition at Noughton gallery, Belfast, UK, 2023; winter exhibition at D31 gallery, UK.

 

He has participated in national and state workshops in 2013 Youth Artist Photography Camp at Ambaji, organised by Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academy, Ahmedabad, 2013; Youth Artist Portrait Camp at Amreli, organised by Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academy; Ahmedabad, 2014 Youth Artist Photography Camp at Bhuj, organised by Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academy; Ahmedabad, 2014-15 National Wildlife Photography Workshop by Lalit Kala Academy, Ahmedabad, 2015; Photography Workshop at CVM College of Fine Arts,Vallabh Vidyanagar, 2017; National Photography Workshop at Dang Ahmedabad, 2018; Inter-college Multidisciplinary Art Workshop, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, West Bengal.

 

Acknowledgements

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council National Lottery Fund, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.

 

Blurred image of a young man wearing a black coat with medium length auburn hair standing in front of a wall with a large gold framed painting behind him.

Finissage event : Live performance by Autumns

Visitors are invited to listen to this performance by Autumns in response to Re_sett_ing_s.

Autumns Biography

 

Autumns  is an outlet for electronic post-punk, fused with elements of dub and sound experimentation. The project showcases a love of whip-cracked rhythms, heavily effected vocals and no-wave guitars, processed through dub techniques within the mixing desk. An obsession with freak sounds leads to a high-intensity live show, using minimal equipment for maximum results.

 

Acknowledgements

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council National Lottery Fund, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.

 

Print + Protein

Print + Protein is a peer-led philosophy reading group organised by Aphra Hill responding to the Void Gallery programme, using diverse theory to expand alternative understandings of contemporary art. It takes its name from Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers by Katherine Hayles which explores immaterial media and the affinity between books and bodies.

 

For its first edition, the group will discuss the essay The Intertwining by phenomenological philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, selected to refract the collaborative exhibition Re_sett_ing_s by Locky Morris and Jaki Irvine running at Void Gallery from 4 March – 3 June 2023. The text considers sentient experience in relation with objective existence as a system of mutual expression. Attendees will have the opportunity to read the text in advance, with readings also taking place on the day.

 

The event takes place on Friday 14 April 2023, 6pm-7.30pm, is free and open to the public but advance booking is required.

 

Aphra Hill is a writer, researcher and recent graduate of Visual Culture at NCAD.

 

Acknowledgements

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.

 

Locky Morris and Jaki Irvine in conversation with Anne Tallentire

On Saturday 4 March at 5:30pm, join artists Locky Morris and Jaki Irvine as they are joined in conversation with Anne Tallentire, to discuss the exhibition Re_sett_ing_s, which opens at Void Gallery on 4 March, and its origins. Book via our website at www.derryvoid.com. The event will also be live streamed on Instagram for those who cannot join in person. The exhibition opening will follow from 6-8pm.

 

For more about the exhibition, go here.

 

Jaki Irvine Biography

 

Jaki Irvine works with video installation, photography, music composition and writing. Her immersive video and sound installations tell stories through fragmented, elliptical and open-ended narratives informed by rigorous research. Irvine picks out evocative details from the landscape or cityscape, in particular honing in on Dublin and Mexico City, two cities that have shaped and informed her practice. Contested histories, sonic bricolage, the built environment, and the customs and communities of a city’s residents have all found their way into Irvine’s deep-reaching and polyphonic work: songs that filter through a city’s streets, overheard conversations, the flap of a hummingbird’s wings are given equal gravitas. Her attention is often turned to the peripheral or the undervalued: re-centring stories or figures written out of history, particularly female figures, or presenting an alternative approach to the present, making space for strangeness. Humans and nature become intertwined in her imaginative worldview, with plants, birds and creatures permeating her practice, and adding to the sense of the unknown and unknowable, and blurring the boundary between the real and the imagined.

 

Locky Morris Biography

 

Locky Morris was born in Derry City where he continues to live and work. Renowned for his early work that explicitly dealt with the conflict in Northern Ireland – most notably from a socially embedded perspective – he has gone on to develop another working vocabulary that moves fluidly between the personal, public and political. While still informed by the complexities and intricacies of his immediate landscape, this work extends across photography, video, gallery installation and incorporates the social media platform, Instagram. Morris’s practice, born in part out of a fascination for what confronts him in the often chaotic details of the everyday, is rich, inventive and marked by a visual playfulness that feels distinctly his own. Running parallel to this have been numerous large-scale works and interventions in the public realm. The work has also been influenced by his active musicianship.

 

Anne Tallentire Biography

 

Anne Tallentire (b. County Armagh, Northern Ireland) has lived and worked in London since the 1980’s. Her practice encompasses moving image, sculpture, installation, photography and performance. Through visual and textual interrogation of everyday materials and structures, Tallentire’s work seeks to reveal systems that shape the built environment and the economics of labour. In 2018 Tallentire was the recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Award for artists. She is Professor Emerita at Central Saint Martins, where she taught from the early 1990s to 2014.

 

Image credits:
1. Jaki Irvine
2. Locky Morris
3. Emilie Holba

 

Acknowledgements

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.

 

1:1 – Belinda Quirke

1:1

Join Belinda Quirke and exhibiting artist, Isabel Nolan in this joint live performance in response to and concerning Nolan’s exhibition flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict. Together they will respond to and further explore related trajectories through sound improvisation and spoken word.

Belinda Quirke explores the universal geometric foundation, and nature of sound, through experimentation with electronic sound materials. The space between, how we listen, where we listen, and what we hear, is ultimately individually experiential, and species dependent. Quirke uses voice, vintage Juno 6 Synthesiser and stylophone combining palindromic medieval systems and inverted Tectractys structures in construction.

Belinda Quirke

Belinda is a curator, producer, musician, singer, and inaugural director of award winning Solstice Arts Centre in County Meath. Belinda is a graduate of NCAD, (MFA ACW), UCC Music and Crawford College of Art, Cork). An eclectic early performance career manifested through a number of bands and ensembles. Belinda is currently a trustee of the Golden Fleece Award; an independent artistic prize fund established as a charitable bequest by the late Helen Lillias Mitchell. In June 2021, Quirke returned to music making with the release of “The Black Hill”. 1:1 is scheduled for release Summer 2023.

Isabel Nolan

Isabel Nolan’s work includes sculpture, textiles, paintings, drawings, photography and writing. Her work responds to the fundamental question of how humans bring the world into meaning. How we make, (through science, politics, agriculture, religion, etcetera), reality happens. Whether examining the knees of a 17th C sculpture, perceptions of a Neolithic artefact, the shifting symbolic status of a donkey or images of distant galaxies, Nolan looks for the ways we can like, or even love, the difficult and complex human world we’ve made.

Images courtesy of Belinda Quirke.

This is a finissage event for Isabel Nolan’s exhibition flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict.

Find out more about the exhibition here.

 

Acknowledgements

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Derry City and Strabane District Council, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation, Art Fund, Halifax Foundation, The Arts Society.

 

Isabel Nolan logo strip

Painting

Isabel Nolan – flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict

Void Gallery is delighted to present flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict, a solo exhibition by Dublin-based artist Isabel Nolan. The exhibition comprises paintings, drawings and objects, reflecting Nolan’s ongoing interest in modes of human organisation, the shifting status of artefacts and images over long periods of time.

 

The preview will commence with an in conversation between Isabel and Declan Long, art critic and Course Director of the MA Art in the Contemporary World at NCAD Ireland. Booking can be made by visiting this link.

 

The experience of lockdown during Covid-19 and the slowing down of time has a resonance in this exhibition. Often working at home, drawing, an important element of Nolan’s practice, became the sole conduit of how she made ‘meaning’ happen and manifested a response in a time of huge uncertainty.Drawing is integral to her studio practice, it is a means to conjure new representations of the world, of making it legible. Sketching, scribbling, note-taking, erasing and sometimes simply expending nervous energy is fundamental to the way Nolan draws. Often made without the intention of being exhibited, pages absorb ideas and begin to suggest material ways to formulate and give shape to often abstract ideas. The line, colours, patterns and forms are a starting point for her expanded practice; from there she transfers this mode of working to encompass painting, sculpture or tapestry.

 

The paintings have an ethereal and otherworldly quality stemming from years of reading and harvesting ideas from diverse fields; philosophy, archaeology, physics and theology. The figures in the paintings, such as shadowy St. Jerome, the patron saint of archaeology, known for his translation of the bible, and St. Columba, the patron Saint of Derry, who is credited with spreading monastic Christianity Christian culture in Ireland, and Scotland (and overseeing the emergence of an Irish historical record,) reflects Nolan’s love for elaborately honed narratives that become the channel for disseminating both troubling beliefs and great spirituality.

 

The paintings have an energetic quality to them, a hum, a liveness through her use of colour and motifs that recur throughout her work; suns, spirals, and waveforms give this sense of momentum. These forms also express the macro and the micro, the cosmic to the cellular.

 

Her works are revealing; representing the unseen, a fluid version of the world that continues to explore the periphery, the otherworld, and questions of ‘meaning’. As we have returned to the everyday, and things are as they were, and we are overloaded with quotidian concerns, those philosophical questions concerning the nature of the human condition have receded. This exhibition is a reminder that existence is delicate, unfathomable and our vocabulary often struggles to encapsulate the profundity and strangeness of being alive. In a time where the world feels as if it is teetering on a precipice of cumulative disasters Nolan provides a provisional space for us to occupy and ruminate on the nature and beauty of existence.

 

Isabel Nolan Biography

 

Isabel Nolan’s work includes sculpture, textiles, paintings, drawings, photography and writing. Her work responds to the fundamental question of how humans bring the world into meaning. How we make, (through science, politics, agriculture, religion, etcetera), reality happens. Whether examining the knees of a 17th C sculpture, perceptions of a Neolithic artefact, the shifting symbolic status of a donkey or images of distant galaxies, Nolan looks for the ways we can like, or even love, the difficult and complex human world we’ve made.

 

“The arc of almost every little thing I’ve proffered in public, in exhibitions or texts is quite similar. It goes as follows: Life is often hard and without meaning in any grand, a priori sense. Art is a good way to find meaninglessness beautiful. Meaning must be invented. And those inventions must be contested and questioned, and never taken for granted.” Isabel Nolan

 

Curling up with Reality, 2020, is a monograph featuring select work and writing from 2011 to 2020, published by Launchpad, London; Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, in association with DHG, Dublin. Recent exhibitions include A delicate bond that is also a gap, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, 2021; Spaced Out, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, 2021; a two-person show (with Stephen McKenna), Boxes Art Museum, Shunde, China, 2019, and solos at Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2018; Grazer Kunstverein, 2017-18; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 2017; London Mithraeum/Bloomberg Space, 2017; Mercer Union, Toronto, 2016; Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2014. Isabel Nolan represented Ireland at the 2005 Venice Biennale in a group exhibition. Her work has featured in EVA International, Limerick; LIAF biennial, Norway; Artspace, Sydney; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Beijing Art Museum, and Glasgow International.

 

Image credit: Eurydice (dead again…) and Orpheus, 2022 water-based oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm / 27.6 x 23.6 in

 

Acknowledgements

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Derry City and Strabane District Council, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation, Art Fund, Halifax Foundation, The Arts Society.

 

Isabel Nolan in conversation with Declan Long

On Saturday 19 November at 5:30pm, join us for a special in conversation at Void, between artist Isabel Nolan and art critic Declan Long, in response to Isabel’s solo exhibition flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict. The exhibition will open to the public at 6pm and drinks will be served, provided by Northbound Brewery.

This is a FREE event but booking is advised.

About the exhibition

 

flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict is a solo exhibition by Dublin-based artist Isabel Nolan. The exhibition comprises paintings, drawings and objects, reflecting Nolan’s ongoing interest in modes of human organisation, the shifting status of artefacts and images over long periods of time.

The experience of lockdown during Covid-19 and the slowing down of time has a resonance in this exhibition. Often working at home, drawing, an important element of Nolan’s practice, became the sole conduit of how she made ‘meaning’ happen and manifested a response in a time of huge uncertainty.Drawing is integral to her studio practice, it is a means to conjure new representations of the world, of making it legible. Sketching, scribbling, note-taking, erasing and sometimes simply expending nervous energy is fundamental to the way Nolan draws. Often made without the intention of being exhibited, pages absorb ideas and begin to suggest material ways to formulate and give shape to often abstract ideas. The line, colours, patterns and forms are a starting point for her expanded practice; from there she transfers this mode of working to encompass painting, sculpture or tapestry.

The paintings have an ethereal and otherworldly quality stemming from years of reading and harvesting ideas from diverse fields; philosophy, archaeology, physics and theology. The figures in the paintings, such as shadowy St. Jerome, the patron saint of archaeology, known for his translation of the bible, and St. Columba, the patron Saint of Derry, who is credited with spreading monastic Christianity Christian culture in Ireland, and Scotland (and overseeing the emergence of an Irish historical record,) reflects Nolan’s love for elaborately honed narratives that become the channel for disseminating both troubling beliefs and great spirituality.

The paintings have an energetic quality to them, a hum, a liveness through her use of colour and motifs that recur throughout her work; suns, spirals, and waveforms give this sense of momentum. These forms also express the macro and the micro, the cosmic to the cellular.

Her works are revealing; representing the unseen, a fluid version of the world that continues to explore the periphery, the otherworld, and questions of ‘meaning’. As we have returned to the everyday, and things are as they were, and we are overloaded with quotidian concerns, those philosophical questions concerning the nature of the human condition have receded. This exhibition is a reminder that existence is delicate, unfathomable and our vocabulary often struggles to encapsulate the profundity and strangeness of being alive. In a time where the world feels as if it is teetering on a precipice of cumulative disasters Nolan provides a provisional space for us to occupy and ruminate on the nature and beauty of existence.

Isabel Nolan Biography

 

Isabel Nolan’s work includes sculpture, textiles, paintings, drawings, photography and writing. Her work responds to the fundamental question of how humans bring the world into meaning. How we make, (through science, politics, agriculture, religion, etcetera), reality happens. Whether examining the knees of a 17th C sculpture, perceptions of a Neolithic artefact, the shifting symbolic status of a donkey or images of distant galaxies, Nolan looks for the ways we can like, or even love, the difficult and complex human world we’ve made.

“The arc of almost every little thing I’ve proffered in public, in exhibitions or texts is quite similar. It goes as follows: Life is often hard and without meaning in any grand, a priori sense. Art is a good way to find meaninglessness beautiful. Meaning must be invented. And those inventions must be contested and questioned, and never taken for granted.” Isabel Nolan

Curling up with Reality, 2020, is a monograph featuring select work and writing from 2011 to 2020, published by Launchpad, London; Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, in association with DHG, Dublin. Recent exhibitions include A delicate bond that is also a gap, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, 2021; Spaced Out Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, 2021; a two-person show (with Stephen McKenna), Boxes Art Museum, Shunde, China, 2019, and solos at Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2018; Grazer Kunstverein, 2017-18; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 2017; London Mithraeum/Bloomberg Space, 2017; Mercer Union, Toronto, 2016; Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2014. Isabel Nolan represented Ireland at the 2005 Venice Biennale in a group exhibition. Her work has featured in EVA International, Limerick; LIAF biennial, Norway; Artspace, Sydney; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Beijing Art Museum, and Glasgow International.

Declan Long Biography

 

Declan Long is a lecturer at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin, Ireland, where he is Course Director (with Francis Halsall) of the MA Art in the Contemporary World, a theory-practice postgraduate contemporary art programme for critics, curators and artists (www.acw.ie). He is a regular contributor to Artforum and Source Photographic Review.

His book Ghost-haunted Land: Contemporary Art and Post-Troubles Northern Ireland, is available from Manchester University Press.

Acknowledgements

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Derry City and Strabane District Council, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation, Art Fund, Halifax Foundation, The Arts Society.

Derek Jarman award nominee films – online screenings

Void is delighted to present the six nominated films as part of this year’s films in the Jarman Award Touring Programme 2022. Below you will find links to view each film. If you have any difficulty in viewing these, please contact us at hello@derryvoid.com or phone 0044 (0)28 7130 8080 or DM us on social media @derryvoid.

 

Discover the incredible diversity within the world of artists’ filmmaking in the UK, with a presentation of the work of the shortlist of this year’s Film London Jarman Award. Films in the programme use animation, archive, poetry, dance and hypnotic music to explore narratives around abolition and colonial history, adolescent London in the 90s and Fairy folklore, pop culture and climate change.

 

The artists shortlisted this year are: Grace Ndiritu, Onyeka Igwe, Alberta Whittle, Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Morgan Quaintance, Jamie Crewe. The programme will also feature a Q&A with one of the shortlisted artists. [Venues to customise with name of artist participating]

 

Inspired by visionary British filmmaker Derek Jarman, the Award recognises and supports artists working with the moving image. The shortlisted artists illustrate the spirit of inventiveness within moving image, highlighting the breadth of creativity and craftsmanship the medium has to offer, as well as its powerful ability to engage and provoke audiences. The Award comes with a £10,000 prize. 

 

The winner of the Film London Jarman Award will be announced on the 22 November at the Barbican Centre. The award is presented in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery. 

 

The tour runs from 23 September to 12 November, in partnership with seven arts venues across the UK.

 

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Films in the Jarman Award Touring Programme 2022:


Grace Ndiritu, Black Beauty (2021), 29 mins

 

Interview with Grace Ndiritu

 

 

Onyeka Igwe, a so-called archive (2020), 20 mins

 

Interview with Onyeka Igwe

 

Alberta Whittle, Lagareh – The Last Born (2022), 32 mins

 

Interview with Alberta Whittle

 

 

Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Black Poirot (2018-2021), 21 mins

 

Interview with Rosa-Johan Uddoh

 

 

Morgan Quaintance, Surviving You, Always (2020), 18 mins

 

Interview with Morgan Quaintance

 

 

Jamie Crewe, False Wife (2022), 15 mins

 

Interview with Jamie Crewe

 

 

 

About the 2022 shortlisted artists

 

Jamie Crewe

 

Jamie is a graduate of Sheffield Hallam University and Glasgow School of Art. They have had a number of solo exhibitions, including at Gasworks (London), Tramway (Glasgow), and Grand Union (Birmingham). Their work has also been presented in group exhibitions such as Glasgow International Festival Director’s Programme and I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London). Jamie was the recipient of the tenth Margaret Tait Award, Scotland’s most prestigious moving image prize for artists, and the resultant work, Ashley, was premiered at Glasgow Film Festival in March 2020.

 

Onyeka Igwe

 

Onyeka is an artist and researcher working between cinema and installation. Onyeka’s video works have been screened at Camden Arts Centre (London), Dak’art OFF (Senegal) and Dhaka Art Summit (Bangladesh) and at film festivals internationally including European Media Arts Festival (Germany), London Film Festival, Media City Film Festival (Canada) and the Smithsonian African American film festival (USA). Solo exhibitions include The High Line (New York), Mercer Union (Toronto), LUX (London) and Jerwood Arts (London). She was awarded the Foundwork Artist Prize (2021) and the Berwick New Cinema Award (2019). 

 

Grace Ndiritu

 

Grace Ndiritu is a British-Kenyan filmmaker and visual artist whose artworks are concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world. Her work is housed in museum collections such as Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The British Council, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Modern Art Museum Warsaw. Recent exhibitions include the British Art Show (2021/2022), Kunsthal Gent (2021) and Nottingham Contemporary (2021). Her debut short film Black Beauty (2021) was screened at 72nd Berlinale Film Festival (2022), FID Marseille (2021) and 16th Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival (2021). Upcoming exhibitions include a mid-career survey at SMAK, Ghent, Belgium in 2023.

 

Morgan Quaintance

 

Morgan is a London-based artist and writer. His moving image work has been shown and exhibited widely at festivals and institutions including MoMA (New York), McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (San Francisco), Konsthall C (Sweden), David Dale (Glasgow), European Media Art Festival (Germany), Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (Scotland), Images Festival (Toronto), International Film Festival Rotterdam and Third Horizon Film Festival (Miami). He is the recipient of the 2022 ARTE Award at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, the 2021 Jean Vigo Prize for Best Director at Punto de Vista in Spain, and the 2021 UK Short Film Award at Open City Documentary Film Festival, London.

 

Rosa-Johan Uddoh

 

Rosa-Johan is an interdisciplinary artist inspired by Black feminist practice and writing. Solo exhibitions include Stuart Hall Library (London), Bluecoat Gallery (Liverpool), Focal Point Gallery (Southend-on-Sea) and Destiny’s Atelier (Oslo). Group shows include Workplace Gallery (London), Pioneer Works (New York), 68 Institute (Copenhagen) and EXILE (Vienna). Her work is in collections including the Arts Council Collection. She won the Artquest Peer Forum Award at Camden Arts Centre, received a Sarabande: Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation Scholarship – selected by Nick Night (OBE) and is a New Contemporaries Artist.

 

Alberta Whittle

 

Alberta is an artist, researcher and curator. She was awarded a Turner Bursary, the Frieze Artist Award, and a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award in 2020. She is Margaret Tait Award winner (2018/9). Alberta has exhibited and performed in various solo and group shows including Gothenburg Biennale, Lisson Gallery (London), Liverpool Biennial, Art Night London, British Art Show, Glasgow International Festival, Eastside Projects (Birmingham), GoMA (Glasgow), the National Galleries of Scotland, 13th Havana Biennale (Cuba), The Showroom (London) and the Apartheid Museum (Johannesburg). Her work has been acquired for the UK National Collections, The Scottish National Gallery Collections, Glasgow Museums Collections and The Contemporary Art Research Collection at Edinburgh College of Art. 

 

About the works in the Touring Programme

 

Grace Ndiritu, Black Beauty (2021)



African fashion model Alexandra Cartier (aka Black Beauty) is doing a photo shoot advert for Black Beauty ecological face cream in the desert of Patagonia. When Alexandra is saying her lines, the blazing desert sun momentarily blinds her and she goes into a momentary cosmic hallucinatory state. Her inner vision shows a sound-stage with her as a Late Night talk show host called Karen Roberts, interviewing Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges about Climate change, pandemics, migration and Time.

 

Onyeka Igwe, a so-called archive (2020)



a so-called archive interrogates the decomposing repositories of Empire with a forensic lens. Blending footage shot in two separate colonial archive buildings—one in Lagos, Nigeria, and the other in Bristol, UK—this double portrait considers the ‘sonic shadows’ that colonial images continue to generate, despite the disintegration of their memory and their materials. Igwe’s film imagines what might have been ‘lost’ from these archives, mixing genres of the radio play, the corporate video tour, and detective noir with a haunting and critical approach to the horror of discovery.

 

 

Alberta Whittle, Lagareh – The Last Born (2022)



Shot on location in Scotland, England, Sierra Leone and Barbados and featuring footage from Venice, Lagareh – The Last Born brings together histories and communities that connect across these geographies to decipher different modes of not only taking care of the dead and confronting grief but also imagining how to create families of kithship. Whittle embraces storytelling as a means of exploring ideas of displacement but also family and community.

 

The themes of the film build on ideas of the Caribbean Gothic and Hauntology, but are also bound by the desire to cultivate hope and personal healing as forms of resistance against a background of catastrophe. The film is intended to offer an insight into different potential layers of resistance that allow for Black love to be situated in proximity with historical sites of trauma that Whittle re-inscribes with rage, hope and exhaustion.

 

 

Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Black Poirot (2019-2021)



Black Poirot is a 20-minute ride on the Orientalised-Other Express, investigating a crime no one can remember, an internalized struggle with latent respectability politics, and featuring a special guest appearance from Édouard Glissant in the role that could have defined him. Appropriating the popular Agatha Christie’s Poirot detective novels, this work uses a well-known format to tell a not-so-well known history, while satirising the current trend for tokenistic casting practices.

 

Morgan Quaintance, Surviving You, Always (2020)



In Surviving You, Always, a narrative opposition between the proposed metaphysical highs of psychedelic drugs and the harsher actualities of concrete metropolitan life, sets up a formal and conceptual study in contrasts. These two realities also form the backdrop of an adolescent encounter told through still images and written narration. Voice-overs by American psychologist Timothy Leary and spiritualist Ram Dass, profess that psychedelic drugs trigger the expansion of consciousness. Simultaneously, on screen text tells us of Quaintance’s own experience as a teenager in 1990s South London, whose acid-infused journeys revealed the city’s built environment to be a nightmarish and alienating scene for the dissolution of self. Following both perspectives simultaneously is a mind-twisting exercise, but Quaintance’s seamless editing, confessional candour and compelling sound design reveal a hidden history of working class multicultural life in London that burns with multiple socio-political resonances, and a deep sense of urban melancholy.

 

Jamie Crewe, False Wife (2022)



False Wife is a work that leads its visitors through an ordeal of transformation. A poppers training video is typically a user-made compilation of pornographic clips, uploaded to adult video hosting sites. These clips are paired with text, hypnotic music, voiceovers, and instructions for action. Viewers are told to masturbate and sniff poppers, to let imagery and sensation meld, and reach a gooning ecstatic fervour.

 

False Wife is a poppers training video, but its material is obscure. Its narrative is drawn from a variety of folk tales in which transformation occurs, and relationships happen. Its footage is scavenged from sources that reflect these themes, reduced to slivers of significant imagery, rubbed together. These originating sources are warped or inflamed to say ambiguous things: to discuss desire, shame, transgression, and the longing for change, and the various ways we want — and don’t want — to face them.

 

The 2022 Film London Jarman Award Touring Programme host venues


Jarman Award 2022 main page on Film London website:
https://filmlondon.org.uk/flamin/the-jarman-award/jarman-award-2022

 

Towner Eastbourne
Friday 23rd September
Q&A with Morgan Quaintance
https://townereastbourne.org.uk/

 

LUX Scotland, Glasgow
Tuesday 11th October
Q&A with Onyeka Igwe
https://luxscotland.org.uk/

Void, Derry
Tuesday 18th October
Q&A with Jamie Crewe
https://www.derryvoid.com/

 

G39, Cardiff

Wednesday 26th October

Q&A with Grace Ndiritu

http://www.g39.org/

 

Nottingham Contemporary

Monday 7th November

Q&A with Rosa-Johan Uddoh

http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/

 

Spike Island, Bristol

Thursday 10th November

Q&A with Alberta Whittle

http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/

 

Whitechapel Gallery, London

Saturday 12th November

Event with all shortlisted artists

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/

 

About Film London

 

Film London is the capital’s screen industries agency. We connect ideas, talent and finance to develop a pioneering creative culture in the city that delivers success in film, television, animation, games and beyond. We work to sustain, promote and develop London as a global content production hub, support the development of the city’s new and emerging filmmaking talent and invest in a diverse and rich film culture. Funded by the Mayor of London and the National Lottery through the BFI, we also receive support from Arts Council England, Creative Skillset and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

 

Film London’s activities include: 

 

  • Maintaining, strengthening and promoting London’s position as world-class city to attract investment through film, television, animation and games 
  • Investing in local talent through a range of specialised production and training schemes 
  • Boosting employment and competitiveness in the capital’s screen industries by delivering internationally facing business development events 
  • Maximising access to the capital’s film culture by helping audiences discover film in all its diversity 
  • Promoting London through screen tourism

 

Film London also manages the British Film Commission (www.britishfilmcommission.org.uk) through a public/private partnership which is funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport through the BFI, and UK Trade and Investment.

 

www.filmlondon.org.uk
@Film_London

 

About Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN)

 

Since 2003, Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) has been at the very heart of the sector’s development, bringing artist filmmakers to a wider audience away from the margins. We provide professional support and expert training along with valuable funding and national and international exhibition opportunities in galleries, cinemas and for broadcast. Funded by Arts Council England, FLAMIN has commissioned over 200 productions and supported the careers of countless other artists. Flagship projects from FLAMIN include the commissioning fund FLAMIN Productions, the prestigious annual Film London Jarman Award, and development programmes The FLAMIN Fellowship and FLAMIN Animations, aimed at early career moving image artists. 

 

www.filmlondon.org.uk/FLAMIN 

 

For further Press Information please contact:


Penny Sychrava PR  |  0796 791 5339  |  penny@pennysychrava.com
Haylie Read  |  0207 6137694  |  Haylie.Read@filmlondon.org.uk

 

Acknowledgements

 

Image credits: False Wife (2022) [still 08]

 

Void Gallery is supported by Arts Council Northern Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Halifax Foundation, The Ragdoll Foundation, The Ireland Funds, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, and Arnold Clarke Foundation.

 

 

Silver Tongued Deviance – spoken word evenings

Silver Tongued Deviance is a monthly open mic platform event hosted by spoken word artist Frank Rafferty on the last Thursday of every month in Void Gallery.

 

During these sessions, spoken word performers/singers/(acoustic) musicians are invited to come along and perform; they may choose any pieces of work from their repertoire, they can create something new which connects to themes in Void’s current exhibition, or they can perform something else entirely which simply resonates with them. 

 

The viewing public are invited to simply attend and enjoy! There is no requirement to perform at these events.

 

Refreshments are also provided; visitors are invited to enjoy a glass of wine, a beer, or some tea or coffee. 

 

Void is wheelchair accessible.

 

This is a drop-in event so no booking is necessary – however in order for us to prepare for the event we ask you to kindly RSVP here.

 

Upcoming Silver Tongued Deviance session dates are as follows:

 

  • Thursday 26th January 6:45pm
  • Thursday 23rd February 6:45pm

 

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Acknowledgements

 

Silver Tongued Deviance is a collaboration with Bluebell Arts, Derry and hosted by spoken word artist, Frank Rafferty.

 

Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Derry City and Strabane District Council, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation, Art Fund,, Halifax Foundation, The Arts Society.

 

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