Radiance: An Art Exhibition Moving Image

Radiance exhibits the manifestation of the artist’s thoughts and feelings towards diasporic African & Caribbean radiance and spirituality.

This moving image programme accompanies an art exhibition and will run in the Lyric Cinema on Saturday 29th Jan between 14:00 – 19:30 and Sunday 30th Jan between 15:00 – 17:00.

The artists in this programme include:

Alberta Whittle an artist, researcher, and curator. Her creative practice is motivated by the desire to manifest self-compassion and collective care as key methods in battling anti-blackness. She choreographs interactive installations, using film, sculpture, and performance as site-specific artworks in public and private spaces. She was awarded a Turner Bursary, the Frieze Artist Award, and a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award in 2020. She is also the first Black woman to represent Scotland at the Venice Biennale.

Ufuoma Essi is a video artist and filmmaker from Lewisham, South East London. She works predominantly with film and moving image as well as photography and sound. Her work revolves around Black feminist epistemology and the configuration of displaced histories. She seeks to re-centre the marginalised histories of the Black Atlantic and specific histories of Black women; exploring intersectional themes of race, gender, class and sexuality.

De’Anne Crooks is a multidisciplinary artist educator who works with moving image, performance, and text. They’re area of research is concerned with how these art forms interact with, originate from, and are removed from Blackness. Their moving image work and performative writing resembles the preaching and teaching styles seen in Black Pentecostal churches as an attempt to engage in critical conversations with love, sincerity, and urgency; elements that are evident within Black and Pentecostal church culture.

Sade Mica is a Manchester based artist whose practice is rooted in exploring the self; in relation to gender and performance. They are interested in how the world affects their relationship with queerness and the body They inhabit. Their work explores how movement is policed by the environment and us as well as the fraught the control we have over our perception when thrust outside of solitary environments such as the vast British Countryside.

Darryl Daley is a graphic designer and artist who works with static and time-based media to dissect his social environment and reflect on his position within that space. He uses sound, video montage, and typography to provide a social commentary on topics surrounding British Caribbean and African history bypassing the restrictions of traditional film making.

Rhiana Bonterre is a UK based filmmaker, who’s work draws inspiration from Caribbean life and culture, and the ways its complex and traumatic past affects and shapes thought, identity and perception in the present; both at home and amongst the Diaspora, with a focus on her Trinidadian heritage.

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This exhibition is curated by Bolanle Tajudeen and Pacheanne Anderson from the Black Blossoms School of Art and Culture and features painting, sculptural installation and film. 

Black Blossoms School of Art and Culture is an e-learning platform that delivers short courses & masterclasses that decolonise, deconstruct and democratise art history and creative learning. Classes are taught by leading artists, scholars and art professionals.

This exhibition runs concurrently with all For The Culture events. Admission is free. 

Artwork: Darryl Daley, Black Transmisson (2021), film still