Virtual Residencies


Autumn 2020

Raymond Boisjoly

A citizen of the Haida Nation, Raymond Boisjoly has an MFA from the University of British Columbia and is Assistant Professor in the School for Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. He has exhibited widely with several solo exhibitions across Canada, and has been featured in international group exhibitions at SITElines, Santa Fe; Triangle, Marseille, France; Camera Austria, Vienna; L'avenir, Biennale de Montréal; and The Power Plant, Toronto. His work was featured at The Polygon in "Phantasmagoria" in 2012 and the inaugural exhibition "N. Vancouver", and in 2016 he curated "Screens and Thresholds", a group exhibition that considered the impact of mediation on the understanding of history. Raymond is represented by Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver.

Events with Raymond:

Caught in Time: Workshop for Students. Using story and video, this interactive session for KCL students will focus on experiences of feeling caught in time, and the sense of coming from a time to which we can never return. How can we speak to this unprecedented time of change, when everything feels different and in flux? Wednesday 28th October, 3-4pm. Join on Teams here.

Caught in Time: Workshop for Students (repeat): Wednesday 4th November, 3-4pm. Join on Teams here.

'Becoming the Past of Another Time'. Artist Talk via Zoom - open to the public. Wednesday 2nd December, 5-6pm [link coming soon]

Spring 2021

Tasnim Mahdy

Tasnim Mahdy is an Egyptian visual artist currently living in London, employing mediums of dance, illustration and painting. She is a founding member of BLKBRD Collective, which was commissioned by Royal Museum of Greenwich for the residency "Ghost Meridian", June 2020-June 2021. BLKBRD was commissioned to create a large-scale public artwork for display at the museum. The artwork, called 'Ghost Meridian', addresses the generational experiences of migrants in a historic and contemporary British environment. National Maritime Museum.

Other recent work includes the Stay Strong Route: A self-funded mural tour across London during the Covid-19 lockdown responding to a depressed and boarded up city. BLKBRD painted bold murals to encourage the public to stay strong in the face of threat and isolation. BLKBRD Collective provided a continued presence at the anti-racist and BLM protests. Painted Parliament Square with the imagery of disaffected key workers.

Deploying the very same template used to design, organize and create our murals (sketch, colour, outline) BLKBRD collective has hosted workshops for organisations servicing marginalised communities and individuals i.e. The Tutorial Foundation, Action for refugees, Mobile Refugee Support and The Greenwich Inclusion Project.

Events with Tasnim:

Artist's Talk, Wednesday 3 March 2021, at 12.30 pm.

For details please see the listing on our Events page.

Transforming the Ordinary: Workshop for Students. What images have been constant to you throughout lockdown--be it an old photograph, your corner shop, a poem, a paragraph, yourself, or your cat? They may be comforting or haunting, due to the heightened isolation we have all endured far from our communities.

For this workshop, please select an image of this type and bring it to the workshop to share. Through the course of discussion of the materials you provide, Tasnim will begin work on collaging them into a large-scale piece of art work that will eventually be displayed in our department.

The figures and stories will create a community that we have struggled to enact at a distance and document this time we have all lived.

This event is free and open to all students in the KCL English department, but places are limited. Please register ASAP to reserve a place.

Weds 24 February 3-4 pm. Register here.



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