Reframing the Archive, International Conference on Photography and Visual Culture

poster for 'reframing the archive' conference

CREAM PhD researcher Lucy Rogers presents her paper ‘Thinking Through’ the Artist’s Archive. Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, a complex case study at Reframing the Archive, International Conference on Photography and Visual Culture on Thursday 26 September 2024.  In this paper, Rogers uses the example of Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s archive as a complex case study through which to explore the many […]

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The Ways to Celebrate Life

Poster for 'The ways to celebrate life: On migratory and diasporic home-making in contemporary London', an exhibition by Claire Jing Wang & 'The Stockroom' at London Gallery West, July 8July 20 2024

The Ways to Celebrate Life: On Migratory and Diasporic Home-Making in Contemporary London, an exhibition by CREAM PhD researcher, Claire Jing Wang has opened at London Gallery West in Harrow Campus. Claire Jing Wang is a London-based researcher and artist with an interdisciplinary background in visual arts and anthropology. Influenced by the practices of Do-Ho […]

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Lola Olufemi curates public programme for the SLG exhibition, Acts of Resistance

portrait photograph of Lola Olufemi

Lola Olufemi is curating the public programme for the South London Gallery exhibition, Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest. This group exhibition at the SLG, organised in collaboration with the V&A, brings together works by international artists and collectives who are using the camera to challenge and move beyond traditional protest photography. This urgent and political […]

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Deniz Sözen: Kahvehane

photograph of Turkish style coffee cups imprinted with maps

Deniz Sözen‘s ceramic piece, Kahvehane (2016) is Artwork of the Month at the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Austria, 5-29 October. Originally commissioned by Soho in Ottakring Vienna in 2016, Kahvehane (Coffee House) explores the question of transcultural relations and belonging through an artistic exploration of coffee and its colonial history.  In tandem with the exhibition, visitors will have […]

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