Image: Courtesy of the artist, a still image from We need 2 talk (2024), co-commissioned by Ikon Gallery and The Exchange.

When: Wednesday 12 February 2025, 6PM – 8PM
Where: Online
Booking: Booking required. Free to Primary and Kaleidoscope Network Members.
£5 to non-members.

Organised by Eastside Projects and facilitated by Artist and Educator Exodus Crooks, this online workshop will invite participants to explore their senses during a time when we are encouraged to be disconnected from them.

Exploring embodiment through all five senses we will embrace the challenges of making and collaborating whilst online as participants find and make art with and beyond the screen using the mundane and domestic materials and objects around them.

Artist Biography:

Exodus is a (British-Jamaican) multidisciplinary artist and educator, interested in self-determination and how it is steered by religion and spirituality.

Informed by a fractious domestic life, their work can best be understood as a diaristic mirror. (a diaristic mirror can be defined as the pauses in life that provoke introspection, as confessions spoken aloud, found in Sophie Chapman and Kerri Jefferis’ book, Private insurrections to loosen public ground.)

Their practice exists in the orbit of their educational role where they work to reimagine Western pedagogy. They have trained, and untrained, to be a teacher and now prioritise using art as a tool to have hard conversations softly.

Recent projects include Break Bread with Me: Part 2, Serpentine Galleries as part of the Infinite Ecologies Marathon (2024); Epiphany (Temporaire), Ikon Gallery Birmingham (2024), commissioned by Ort Gallery and International Curators Forum (ICF); The Nature of Things, Castor Gallery, London (2024); Promise Me Tomorrow: Radical Art Education Practices and Processes, Stuart Hall Library, London, 2024; We need 2 tlk, Ikon Gallery & the University of Birmingham (2024); Miss Olga, to you and I, National Gallery, London (2024); Epiphany (Temporaire) Block 336, London, (2023); Promise me tomorrow, commissioned by Iniva. 2023; Seeking, QUAD Gallery, Derby, 2022.

Kaleidoscope Network:

The Kaleidoscope Network is a collaboration between Spike Island (Bristol), Eastside Projects (Birmingham), Primary (Nottingham), The NewBridge Project (Newcastle) and Bloc Projects (Sheffield). Formed in response to a need for mutual support, the network has come together as a way to share resources, increase what each partner is able to offer and create new connections between communities of artists. It also offers professional development for the associated partners learning from one another. Membership to any of the above organisations automatically makes you part of the Kaleidoscope Network.

Primary Residents and Members are automatically part of the Kaleidoscope Network and can attend selected events programmed by each partner for free.