PARTICIPATING ARTISTS.
Alice Rekab
/ Lead ArtistWebsite: www.alicerekab.com
Email: alicerekab@gmail.com TBC
Istagram: @alicerekab
Alice Rekab’s practice is concerned with expressions and iterations of complex cultural and personal narratives. Alice Rekab takes their own mixed-race Irish identity as a starting point from which to explore experiences of race, place and belonging. Recent Projects include Museum VILLA STUCK , Munich (2023); FAMILY LINES Project, Douglas Hyde Gallery(2022) and Mountain Language, Galway Arts Centre (2022). Rekab holds a PhD in Art from Kingston School of Art London and an MA from Goldsmiths College London. Their work is in the collections of Trinity College Dublin, The Cathal Ryan Trust and The Arts Council of Ireland amongst others.
Eireann and I (Joselle Ntumba and Beulah Ezeugo)
/ Lead ArtistsWebsite: www.eireannandiarchive.com
Email Address: eireannandiarchive@gmail.com
IG Handle: @eireannandi
Éireann and I is an archive and migrant memory project which focuses on documenting the lives of Black migrants in Ireland, and programming events and discussions around community archives, memory work, and agency within the public record. It is co-curated by Beulah Ezeugo and Joselle Ntumba.
Tobi Balogun
/ Invited ArtistWebsite: www.tobi-tobe.com
Email: tobesince93@gmail.com
IG Handle: @freshprinceer
Tobi Balogun is a Nigerian born, Dublin based Multidisciplinary Movement Artist working primarily in Dance, Fashion. A professional member of Dance Ireland and Create Ireland, Tobi has performed for and created community led performances and projects with many Artists/companies such as Cois Ceim, Cathy Coughlan, Story of the Sei, David Bolger and more. He was the recipient of the Create AIC Scheme Bursary Award 2020: Collaborative Arts and Human Rights. This period of research and critical reflection stemmed from a specific interest in delivering high quality arts engagement to Black-Irish communities and in expanding points of access for young Black Artists.
Osaro Is a multi disciplinary artist, DJ and producer with a fascination for Nigerian folklore, Irish mythos and the Rapture; themes which influences her music practice and personal style. Osaro created her original audio-visual music piece 'Obsidian Black'; a melodic song-cycle that presents her state of metamorphism during the Lockdown Era. The video is a metaphoric depiction of a three-headed doll who, when left in the grounds of Killiney Forest to grow, eventually split into 3 separate beings who slowly ascend to the tallest trees. This piece was part of 'On Belonging' an 2021 exhibition curated by Diana Bamimeke.
Daranijoh Sanni - E The Artist
/ Invited ArtistWebsite: www.soundcloud.com/etheartistisonline
Email: etheartistdublin@gmail.com
IG Handle:@etheartistdublin
Daranijoh Sanni (E The Artist) is a Nigerian-Irish sound, visual & performance artist whose work focuses on and documents POC experiences & communities in Contemporary Ireland.
Ly Hagan - Lychee
/ Invited ArtistWebsite: www.soundcloud.com/lychee800
Email: clycheehagan@gmail.com
IG Handle: @lychee800
Ly Hagan (“Lychee”) is a DJ and writer in Dublin. They enjoy bringing experimental music to an accessible environment, with their club night BPM (“Bitches Play Music”.) Their DDR show “fruits basket” is a display of all things silly, sombre, and ethereal.
Tessy Ehiguese
/ VideographerWebsite: www.tessymedia.myportfolio.com/home
Email: tessymedia@gmail.com
IG Handle: @tessymedia
Tessy Ehiguese is a visual artist who specializes in photo and video production. Her work mostly reflects on her community and on her own personal experiences. Which leaves her intrigued to explore and to create works in the aim of understanding cultures. Her artworks range from video documentary, racial and community focused photographs , and graphic portraiture.
Samantha Brown
/ Invited ArtistWebsite: www.samantha-j-brown.format.com
Email: brownjosamantha@gmail.com
IG Handle: @samantha.bmcg
Collage informs her current practice combining her own photography with various narratives and
storytellers. The online project Middle Passage hosted by the Center for Creative Practices delves into
the enslaved transportation routes from Europe to Africa to the Americas. Researching documentation
into enslavement, gender, personal family history and herbs.
Bia! – meaning ’food’ in Irish and ‘come’ in Igbo – is a storytelling project. Through the words and images of immigrant and diasporic communities in Ireland, Bia! seeks to document our commonality, counterbalance mainstream food narratives, and celebrate how immigrants and diasporas assert their presence in Ireland through food.
Diana Bamimeke
/ Independent Curator / InvitedWebsite: www.dianabamimeke.com
Email: dianabamimeke@gmail.com
Diana Bamimeke is an independent curator, art writer & maker, primarily interested in curating and producing socially engaged art. Their practice is informed by Black & queer radicality, total abjection, fiction & speculation, and critical conjecture. Diana is currently Superprojects' 2023/24 Curatorial Fellow, and their work has featured in publications by Origins Eile, Visual Artists' Ireland, the Royal Hibernian Academy, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and TU Dublin.
