PHOTO JOURNALING 2021
by Pia Jaime
During the 3rd lockdown I took part in a series of Photo Journaling sessions for mothers and carers in the UK, run by amazing artist and educator Pia Jaime. This beautiful book is a summary of our journey.
London, 2021
INLAND #4
To Whom The Flesh / My Flesh/ Connects Me
Focusing on queer desire To Whom The Flesh/ My Flesh/ Still Connects Me explores queer poetry's cannon through a series of new work from contemporary visual artists and poets. Writers of all backgrounds and sexual identities have captured their varied experiences and feelings of love in the expressive medium of poetic verse. Walt Whitman used the natural symbolism of the calamus plant and its “phallic-shaped bloom” to celebrate homoeroticism in his work the Leaves of Grass. Audre Lorde vividly eroticised the female body in Love Poem with sensual descriptions such as: “honey flowed / from the split cup / impaled on a lance of tongues.”. This project seeks to connect a range of voices and perspectives that all coalesce to present a complex, nuanced, picture of the queer experience of love. To whom the flesh is an act of celebration and solidarity, bringing visual arts and poetry communities together.
To Whom The Flesh/ My Flesh/ Still Connects Me was mounted as an exhibition of riso prints and a performance event at The Poetry Society as part of Art Licks Weekend 2019.
Participating Artists: Luca Asta, Isobel Atacus, L. Barron, Paul Coombs, Chloe Cooper, Penny Florence, Roxmann Gatt, Sam Hill, Paul Kindersley, Katherine Leedale, Laura Dee Milnes, Steph Morris, Jason Morris, Danino Holt, Joanne Newman, Leyli Salayeva, Ellen Witley. Text by Scott Lawrence Macfadyen, London, 2019
Curated by Inland Project - Flora Bradwell and Sylwia Narbutt.
Design by Sylwia Narbutt.
The irresistible rituals of dust
Catalogue accompanying my solo exhibition at no format gallery made in response to experience of visiting the Caucasus region.
Project supported through Artists Development Bursary a-n The artists Information Company and The Eaton Fund.
Text by Scott Lawrence Macfadyen
London, 2018
INLAND #3:
Juggling Lilith's Crumbs
Lilith has many guises and incarnations. Her image and her reputation have been pulled apart, dissected, distorted and the crumbs have been scattered throughout cultural history. In Juggling Lilith’s Crumbs, artists Flora Bradwell and Sylwia Narbutt present six works exploring the complex character of Lilith and notions of personal identity alongside text from Scott Lawrence Macfadyen. By playfully merging fantastical, everyday and archival imagery Bradwell and Narbutt present a contemporary reimagining of Lilith as an icon of power and resistance to patriarchal expectations of women.
Exhibited as large format posters as part of Deptford X Fringe Festival and APT Open Studios in 2018, Juggling Lilith's Crumbs was also produced as a small publication by Inland Project.
London, 2018