RELAY Open Studio Visit

Schedule

Fri Jun 09 2023 at 11:00 am to 05:00 pm

Location

The Digital Hub | Dublin, DN

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Open Studio Day, providing curators an exclusively preview of works in progress by 3 RELAY artists of 2023.
About this Event

We invite you to meet the 3 artists partaking in the RELAY Mentorship Programme by PhotoIreland. Under the mentorship of artist Alice Rekab, artists Daranijoh Sanni, Samantha Brown, and Tobi Balogun have been developing new bodies of work to be exhibited this year at PhotoIreland Festival. This is a unique opportunity to meet the artists in person, find out about their emerging practices and preview their work-in-progress as they prepare for exhibition.

There are three time slots throughout the day available. Each artist will introduce their work and be open for questions and feedback. Please book your hour and arrive on time to ensure you have the opportunity to hear each artist.

[Image: ETHAN_REFRACTION BY BLACKBOYSBLUSH*, courtesy of E The Artist / Daranijoh Sanni]

About the Artists

E The Artist (Daranijoh Sanni) is a Yoruba – Irish sound and visual artist from Coolock, North Dublin. His work documents and creates realities of POC artists and cultural workers on the Emerald Isle. His acclaimed multinational ongoing project, BLACKBOYSBLUSH* was exhibited by both The Douglas Hyde Gallery and The Racket Space. Alongside the BLACKBOYSBLUSH* Project, his visual art consists of medium bending multimedia, from photography to 3D art to video editing, presenting a visceral experience comprising manipulation and flashes of energy. Outside of visual art, he creates and implements soundscapes within his work, with artistic inclinations along the lines of Sampha, Machinedrum, John Coltrane and DJ Erik JP. This can be heard best within the BLACKBOYSBLUSH* Album which released last year, to wide cultural acclaim.

During RELAY, Daranijoh has been developing the BLACKBOYSBLUSH* project. BLACKBOYSBLUSH*’s aim is to both document and explore the current state of the Biracial & BIPOC experiences in Ireland’s contemporary cultural and social landscapes respectively.

Samantha Brown is a visual artist based in Ireland. She studied Fine Art Painting at Camberwell College of Arts. After moving to Ireland, she returned to study a Masters in MultiDisciplinary Design at the University of Ulster in 2008. This marked her return to artist practice migrating from painting to photography. Currently, her output consists of using photographic images as a basis for collage work incorporating research in subjects matters of females in the workplace and presently the enforced migration of Africans across the Middle Passage. This research has caused her to consider her heritage of migration of Caribbean parentage which revealed her DNA results leading back to Nigeria to the Yoruba tribe, Hide tribe in Cameroon and the Mafa tribe in Cameroon.

During RELAY, Samantha has been investigating how sites of memory can be visualised in various forms as a multimedia project that seeks to incorporate varied sources of information, while allowing exploration into a combination of photography, collage, painting, writing and research.

Tobi Balogun is a multidisciplinary artist. Over the past years, Tobi has been building a multidisciplinary practice bringing together dance, spoken word, sound and visual installation. Tobi’s work incorporates his experience with black masculinity, attempting to present a nuanced perspective into this topic that also reflects on the artist’s Irish roots as a diaspora artist.

During the mentorship, Tobi has been working on sculptural and installation work, incorporating dance performance and how these can be presented in a space together alongside an immersive spoken word soundscape.

About RELAY

RELAY is a new artist-driven and artist-focused mentorship programme by PhotoIreland facilitated every year by a different mentor; responding to the focus of the PhotoIreland Festival in each edition, it aims to support the development of artists while encouraging multidisciplinary approaches and critical engagement with representation, identity and the image. RELAY provides an artist fee, working space, peer critique, as much as curatorial and administrative support throughout the programme.

The participating artists are taken full circle through the preparation, installation, and presentation of a new piece of work, in turn learning core skills of an artist’s work, including practical and conceptual strategies, as well as expanding their own peer network.


RELAY is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin City Council, and The Digital Hub.
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The Digital Hub, 10-13 Thomas Street, Dublin, Ireland

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