Dates:
30 Sep 2023
People:
Paul Dash, Aleema Gray, Mansour Mansour, Richard Mark Rawlins
Location:
ICF @ Block 336
Black Curatorial and ICF are excited to announce a day of programming – including two Talks and a Lab – in Brixton, featuring an incredible line up of practitioners. Registration for the events is now open!
PROGRAMME SUMMARY
Saturday 30 September, 12-5pm
Curating as a Lived Practice, Talk and Screening with Dr. Aleema Gray
Intellectual Property Law Lab with Mansour Mansour
Artists’ Talk with Paul Dash and Richard Mark Rawlins
ICF @ Block 336
336 Brixton Road
London SW9 7AA
These events are for those of African-Caribbean heritage or of Mixed Black heritage who identify as Black.
FULL PROGRAMME
12-1:30pm Curating as a Lived Practice – Talk & Screening – with Dr. Aleema Gray
In this session Dr. Aleema Gray will explore how alternative ways of knowing can be used to disrupt curatorial approaches. Drawing on her ongoing research, Bun Babylon, she will explore the methodological challenges, opportunities and complexities that emerge when curating community voices from below.
Gray is a Jamaican-born curator, researcher and public historian based in London. She was awarded the Yesu Persaud Scholarship for her PhD entitled Bun Babylon; A community-engaged history of Rastafari in Britain. Gray’s work focuses on documenting Black history in Britain through the perspective of lived experiences. Her practice is driven by a concern for more historically contingent ways of understanding the present, especially in relation to notions of belonging, memory, and contested heritage. She is the founding member of the Young Historians Project and is currently the Lead Curator for Black British Music Exhibition at the British Library.
2-3pm Intellectual Property Law Lab with Mansour Mansour
During this Lab, Mansour Mansour will introduce attendees to the basics of IP law. Mansour is an IP and Commercial Solicitor at Ronald Fletcher Baker LLP who has a unique understanding of IP law because of his Art History/Museum background that has allowed him to assist clients in their Art ownership and even creation. Furthermore, his practice in IP extends to advising influencers and YouTube channels on their content including sponsorship contracts. Mansour often posts on tiktok under theartishlawyer, regarding IP, Culture and Social Media Law.
3:30-5pm Artists’ Talk with Paul Dash and Richard Mark Rawlins
Don’t miss this important cross-generational exchange between Trinidadian artist Richard Mark Rawlins and Barbadian artist Paul Dash.
Richard Mark Rawlins (b.1967, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago) currently lives and works in Hastings, UK. A graduate of the Royal College of Art’s print programme (2019), Rawlins’ research takes a transnational approach to the “pop-cultural” poetics and politics of life in the Caribbean, the contested and resultant histories/realities of colonialism and it’s transpontine consequence, black identity and diaspora politics. Rawlins is one of the selected artists for both the inaugural RBSA Drawing prize and this year’s Trinity Buoys Wharf Drawing Prize. Rawlins was also one of the commissioned artists for the World Reimagined Project (2022), and Hospital Rooms’ site specific works for the Titian, PICU ward in Goodmayes Hospital (2021) and the new Springfield Hospital in Tooting (2022). Rawlins’ work has featured in We Out Here, Hastings Contemporary, (2023); The Derwent Drawing Prize, 2022; Breaking Bread, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, (2022); Drawn Out, (2021); Drawing Room, London; the Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London; The Human Touch: Making Art, Leaving Traces, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, (2021).
Paul Dash is a Barbados-born artist who arrived in the UK in 1957. As a young artist in 1960s London he was asked to join the Caribbean Artists Movement, through which he made a number of important connections and was able to share his passion for art with other like-minded individuals. Paul has created many pieces of work throughout the years with some of them shared on this website. His work has also been exhibited at Tate, Royal Academy (Summer Show), Kettle’s Yard, Barbados Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, Mall Galleries, Guildhall Art Gallery, 198 Gallery Brixton, and many more. Pieces by Dash have been acquired by Tate Galleries.
People:
Paul Dash, Aleema Gray, Mansour Mansour, Richard Mark Rawlins
Black Curatorial and ICF are excited to announce a day of programming – including two Talks and a Lab – in Brixton, featuring an incredible line up of practitioners. Registration for the events is now open!
PROGRAMME SUMMARY
Saturday 30 September, 12-5pm
Curating as a Lived Practice, Talk and Screening with Dr. Aleema Gray
Intellectual Property Law Lab with Mansour Mansour
Artists’ Talk with Paul Dash and Richard Mark Rawlins
ICF @ Block 336
336 Brixton Road
London SW9 7AA
These events are for those of African-Caribbean heritage or of Mixed Black heritage who identify as Black.
FULL PROGRAMME
12-1:30pm Curating as a Lived Practice – Talk & Screening – with Dr. Aleema Gray
In this session Dr. Aleema Gray will explore how alternative ways of knowing can be used to disrupt curatorial approaches. Drawing on her ongoing research, Bun Babylon, she will explore the methodological challenges, opportunities and complexities that emerge when curating community voices from below.
Gray is a Jamaican-born curator, researcher and public historian based in London. She was awarded the Yesu Persaud Scholarship for her PhD entitled Bun Babylon; A community-engaged history of Rastafari in Britain. Gray’s work focuses on documenting Black history in Britain through the perspective of lived experiences. Her practice is driven by a concern for more historically contingent ways of understanding the present, especially in relation to notions of belonging, memory, and contested heritage. She is the founding member of the Young Historians Project and is currently the Lead Curator for Black British Music Exhibition at the British Library.
2-3pm Intellectual Property Law Lab with Mansour Mansour
During this Lab, Mansour Mansour will introduce attendees to the basics of IP law. Mansour is an IP and Commercial Solicitor at Ronald Fletcher Baker LLP who has a unique understanding of IP law because of his Art History/Museum background that has allowed him to assist clients in their Art ownership and even creation. Furthermore, his practice in IP extends to advising influencers and YouTube channels on their content including sponsorship contracts. Mansour often posts on tiktok under theartishlawyer, regarding IP, Culture and Social Media Law.
3:30-5pm Artists’ Talk with Paul Dash and Richard Mark Rawlins
Don’t miss this important cross-generational exchange between Trinidadian artist Richard Mark Rawlins and Barbadian artist Paul Dash.
Richard Mark Rawlins (b.1967, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago) currently lives and works in Hastings, UK. A graduate of the Royal College of Art’s print programme (2019), Rawlins’ research takes a transnational approach to the “pop-cultural” poetics and politics of life in the Caribbean, the contested and resultant histories/realities of colonialism and it’s transpontine consequence, black identity and diaspora politics. Rawlins is one of the selected artists for both the inaugural RBSA Drawing prize and this year’s Trinity Buoys Wharf Drawing Prize. Rawlins was also one of the commissioned artists for the World Reimagined Project (2022), and Hospital Rooms’ site specific works for the Titian, PICU ward in Goodmayes Hospital (2021) and the new Springfield Hospital in Tooting (2022). Rawlins’ work has featured in We Out Here, Hastings Contemporary, (2023); The Derwent Drawing Prize, 2022; Breaking Bread, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, (2022); Drawn Out, (2021); Drawing Room, London; the Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London; The Human Touch: Making Art, Leaving Traces, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, (2021).
Paul Dash is a Barbados-born artist who arrived in the UK in 1957. As a young artist in 1960s London he was asked to join the Caribbean Artists Movement, through which he made a number of important connections and was able to share his passion for art with other like-minded individuals. Paul has created many pieces of work throughout the years with some of them shared on this website. His work has also been exhibited at Tate, Royal Academy (Summer Show), Kettle’s Yard, Barbados Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, Mall Galleries, Guildhall Art Gallery, 198 Gallery Brixton, and many more. Pieces by Dash have been acquired by Tate Galleries.
Dates:
30 Sep 2023
Location:
ICF @ Block 336
