Photo50 Panel: Home, Memory and Diaspora
Friday 20 January 2023
2.30-3.30pm
Talks Theatre, Gallery Level
Chair
Caroline Molloy, writer, curator
Panel
Joy Gregory, artist
Vanley Burke, photographer and archivist
Maryam Wahid, photographer and artist
Karis Beaumount, photographer
A panel discussion centred around the idea of home as a place where memory can be activated, and how different artists have approached this through their photographic practice and research.
Music and fine art have been inextricably linked for centuries through a combination of pure inspiration, collaborations and appropriation. Considering the curatorial theme of Art & Music for Platform at London Art Fair 2022, this panel will discuss music as a significant influence in the history of art, through to contemporary and popular culture, how contemporary craft and contemporary art increasingly occupy a shared space in both exhibitions and collections, and the range of music inspired visual art being made today.
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Caroline Molloy
Caroline is an artist, academic and writer. She is the
programme director of Fine Art, Digital Arts and Photography at University for
the Creative Arts in Farnham. She holds a PhD in Arts and Humanities, from
Birkbeck, University of London, in the Centre for Photographic History and
Theory; an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, an MA in Visual
Anthropology from Goldsmiths UoL. Her research interests are focused on the
marginalised voice in both gender and post/decolonial colonial contexts. Recent
peer reviewed written publications include (2020) ‘Rethinking the photographic
studio as a politicised space’, in Ashley, T., Weedon, A. (eds.) Developing a
Sense of Place: Models for the Arts and Urban Planning. London: UCL publishing.
In addition she has a chapter due out later this year, ‘Identity Politics: A
study of diasporic identity mediated through family photography’ in Handbook of
Research on the Relationship between Autobiographical Memory and Photography.
IGI Global. Furthermore, she regularly writes for Visual Studies, The Journal
of Visual Practice, 1000words magazine and Photomonitor around the relationship
between photography and visual culture.
She recently launched an artist’s publication the PORTRAIT
ROOMs at the Small Publishers book fair in London with bookROOM and presented
the body of work in the Foyer Gallery as part of the Family and Other Ties at
UCA. Her work in Women of Walsall was presented at the New Art Gallery Walsall
(2021) as part of the Living Memory Project, she also exhibited Untouched Copy
and the Book of Backgrounds at the Four Corners, London, as part of the Ph
research network exhibition Bridging Boundaries (2021). Caroline was part of
the 209 Women in Parliament exhibition at the Palace of Westminster (2018) that
celebrated 100 years since women had the vote and was shortlisted for RPS 100
heroines in Photography.
Wahid holds a First-Class BA (Hons) in Photography from Birmingham City University. Since graduating in 2018, she has won many prestigious awards, these include accolades from Format Festival, Photoworks and The Magenta Foundation and the British Journal of Photography. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Most recently, she exhibited Zaibunnisa, a major solo exhibition at the Midlands Arts Centre.
Wahid’s work has been featured by The Royal Photographic Society, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Wellcome Collection, The Telegraph and Digital Photographer Magazine. In 2020, she was featured on the BBC’s Great British Photography Challenge television show with Rankin.
Maryam Wahid was also invited to be on the selection panel alongside The Princess of Wales for a prestigious competition held by the National Portrait Gallery, Hold Still (2020). This was an ambitious community project that created a unique collective portrait of the UK during lockdown.
Karis Beaumont
Karis Beaumont is a Jamaican-British photographer and archivist from Hertfordshire.
Known for her signature emotive style, her work primarily focuses on themes of beauty and diversity, whilst highlighting nuances, authentic essence and community. Her ability to capture intimacy and richness in skin tones is both revered and distinct.
Beaumont has built clients which include Rollingstone Magazine, Cantu Beauty, Uber, Telegraph, WePresent and more, and has more recently exhibited work at Google HQ and BCA Heritage in Brixton.
Karis Beaumont is the founder of Bumpkin Files, a documentation, archive and community resource centred around Black life in Britain beyond the London-centric narrative.
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Joy Gregory
Joy Gregory is an artist specialising in photography who is known for her work concerning issues of ‘beauty’ culture and identity politics. Born in England to Jamaican parents her work has been influenced by a combination of race, gender and aesthetics. Her research interests focus on issues relating to the impact of European history and colonisation on identity, memory, folk and traditional knowledge. Gregory graduated from the Royal College of Art where she was awarded a Masters in Photography in 1986.
She has worked in Art Education for almost three decades and is an Associate Lecturer in Fine Art Photography at Camberwell School of Art and Visiting Artist / Academic in the Departure of Arts at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Gregory worked alongside students and staff at Slade School of Art as an Honorary Research Associate in Fine Art Media (2016-18) where she developed a new work [Overlooked and Underreported] for exhibition in the Diaspora Pavilion in the 57th Venice Biennale [2017]. In 2019 Gregory was commissioned by the Black Cultural Archives to create portraits of five prominent Black British Women. This work ‘Breaking Barriers’ continues the Archives initiative ‘Stories of Black Leadership’ and adds to their collection of contemporary art.
An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Gregory continues to work and exhibit internationally, featuring in many prominent galleries, Biennales and festivals as well as receiving numerous awards. Her work is featured in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia, Government Art Collection, Yale University, New Haven. She lives and works in London.