Isabel Lima is a Newcastle-upon-Tyne-based artist whose most recent work titled Gresham’s Wooden Horse aims to brings together disparate communities living in Gresham, central Middlesbrough. The project is inspired by the ancient Greek story of the Trojan Horse, built by Greek soldiers as a means of infiltrating and taking control of the city of Troy. […]
House of Illustration is planning an exhibition for 2018-9 that will show how illustration has been used to document the refugee crisis and share human stories. The exhibition is still in its early stages, but the aim is to humanise the refugee crisis and show the importance of illustrators in helping the public understand political […]
By Who is? Project. The Who is? Project has been made to ask the public to question the way we think about each other: our neighbours, our co-workers, our families, those we see living on the street, those we see struggling, those who are complete strangers to our particular community, those of a different nationality […]
An installation by Kazzum is available for suitable venues in London. Kazzum’s Pathways programme has been engaging young asylum seekers, refugees and new migrants for over a decade. We use multi arts to support creative expression, professional and personal development and raise awareness. Kazzum are collaborating with 5 groups across London to create a public […]
By Steph Goodger. The Twilight Kingdom is series of seven paintings, all oil paint on canvas, made by me in 2017. The series was inspired by the last few weeks in the life of the refugee and migrant camp at Calais, the Jungle. Signed, limited edition, archival quality, giclée (digital) prints of the seven paintings, […]
Look Up is a high impact, outdoor gallery, produced by ArtReach as part of Journeys Festival International. Artworks are scaled up to large format and exhibited high up on the exteriors of buildings across the city. Journeys Festival International aims to celebrate and highlight the extraordinary and powerful artwork, music, creativity, culture and experiences that […]
By Pablo Dilet. “Welcome”, simple and intense at the same time, is the word I used to start an artistic project about migration. Living in Sicily, this is one of the central themes because we are like a pot where all cultures, coming in particular from Africa by Mediterranean Sea, meet their difference for the […]
An exhibition ANON by Paul Hill and Maria Falconer is available for suitable venues The more people there are, the more invisible they become. Imagine a million people all travelling en masse, they have the kind of anonymity that is only possible in large numbers. Trapped in a system designed to manage large numbers of […]
By Stephanie Gervais. I am an artist with a proposal for an exhibition during Refugee Week 2017 in association with the Manchester-based Syrian advocacy organization Rethink Rebuild Society. Below I outline the projects and the different exhibition format they could take. I am looking for an appropriate space to exhibit this work in whole or […]
Ricky Romain, Cedoux Kadima and Robert Golden introduce their new project. EXILE is a project that will rely upon metaphor and mood to transport the audience to a domain in which our shared humanity becomes paramount, where all the worst may be contemplated and all the best may be embraced. It touches upon lost dreams […]
By Monika Dorniak Collective Synchronisation: An open invitation to a workshop on biological rhythms 15.01.2017 / Sunday / 11-6pm / Tate Modern, London / Free Teacher: Monika Dorniak, MA Art & Science, Central Saint Martins, mo710y@gmail.com More Information: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/workshop/tate- exchange/art-school Whether we perceive them consciously, or let them run, rhythms are essential parts of our […]
By Tolu Agbelusi. At 14, I moved to the UK from Nigeria with my family. The dream was far more exciting than the reality of attending school with a different accent, in a different country, with people who thought and verbalised various assumptions, including that I must have been living in trees because that’s what […]
Now in it’s third edition, FLUX, curated by Lisa Gray, has established itself as the platform for contemporary artists to be discovered. This year Iranian-born artist Aziz Anzabi was one of the exhibitors, presenting a selection of paintings and sculpture.
A new art exhibition has opened in London called Amrar Zaga which translates as “Our Place” in English. We speak to the artist and curator of the exhibition, Saif Osmani whose artworks cover contemporary issues about migration and its impacts on existing communities. How would you describe your arts practice and why do you cover […]
Gil Mualem Doron is an artist of boundary blurring and the challenging of signs that purport to construct the landscape of civil meanings. His work is multidisciplinary, socially engaged, activist and political, and combines research on art, architecture and urban culture. His artistic activities integrate various media, from drawing and photography to installations and performances, […]
