Exhibition
Portals
24 Sep 2021 – 30 Oct 2021
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Address
- 86 Heath Mill Lane
- Birmingham
- B9 4AR
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 10 min walk from Birmingham Moor St/Birmingham New St Stations
Portals examines the display cabinet in West Indian front rooms. Artist-Curator Candice Nembhard invites artists to treat the gallery as a cabinet.
About
Portals examines the display cabinet in West Indian front rooms as a site for domestic archiving, memory, and structuring futures. Artist-Curator Candice Nembhard has invited Jade Foster, Marlene Smith, Rianna Jade Parker and Vanley Burke to treat the second gallery space as its own cabinet; a view into the experiences of Black British culture and customs via the objects we keep and the stories we tell.
Jade Foster is a British artist, curator and creative producer of Jamaican heritage based in Nottingham, UK and a current CCCADI Curatorial Fellow in Afro-Caribbean Art. They are a founding member and initiator of Black Curators Collective (BCC) with an upcoming project at Glasgow International 2021. Foster holds positions as a Trustee of Nottingham Contemporary, Assistant Curator at Primary, and Creative Programme Coordinator at New Art Exchange (NAE) in Nottingham. They are currently working with artist Maybelle Peters for Primary. As a freelancer, they have worked with UK New Artists (formerly UKYA); Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) Glasgow; Live Art Development Agency (LADA); performing borders and Never Done.
Marlene Smith is a British artist and curator, and one of the founding members of BLK Art Group.
Rianna Jade Parker is a critic, curator and researcher based in South London where she studied her MA in Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Previously a Tate Collectives Producer, she is a Contributing Editor of frieze and a founding member of interdisciplinary art collective Thick/er Black Lines. She has curated numerous artist projects and creative commissions for Tate Modern, Transmission Gallery, Tropenham Museum, Showroom MAMA, Prada Mode London and the 10th Berlin Biennale. She has presented work at South London Gallery, Tate Britain, Southbank Centre, Iniva, Autograph ABP, Senate House, Jupiter Woods, Somerset House and the Royal College of Art.
Vanley Burke is a British Jamaican photographer and artist, who has been described as “the Godfather of Black British Photography.”