Unruly Bodies.

Artist Talk: Heather Agyepong
February 16th: 6.30pm - 8pm [online]

Heather Agyepong is a multidisciplinary artist and actor who lives and works in London. Heather's art practice is concerned with mental health and wellbeing, invisibility, the diaspora and the archive. She uses both lens-based practices and performance with an aim to culminate a cathartic experience for both herself and the viewer. She adopts the technique of re-imagination to engage with communities of interest and the self as a central focus within the image.

Heather Agyepong shares the story of her powerful new solo performance, The Body Remembers, which explores how trauma lives in the body, particularly for Black British women across different generations.

Artist Talk: Claire Sunho Lee
March 2nd: 6.30pm - 8pm [online]

Claire Sunho Lee is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher born in Seoul, Korea. Claire's practice engages with seeing various meanings within one “reality” by questioning acceptable norms. Having lived in multiple cultures, she often thinks about the ways of “being” and how we exist in the world individually and collectively.

Claire will be discussing her ongoing multimedia project <Tell Me What I’m Remembering> which raises questions around the authenticity of memory, truth and fiction, from a deeply personal perspective. Claire’s work focuses on the accidental disclosure of a childhood illness, hidden from her from her family.

Artist Talk: Jameisha Prescod
March 9th: 6.30pm - 8pm [online]

Jameisha Prescod is a London based filmmaker, journalist and chronic illness advocate. Specialising in documentary filmmaking, video journalism and content creation, Jameisha applies creative digital techniques to uncover powerful human experiences.

Jameisha will discuss building a community through online creative storytelling. As the founder of You Look Okay to Me, Jameisha will go through their journey of producing online visual content that explores themes like disability, illness, culture and identity. They will also dive into authentically engaging their community with transparency while establishing boundaries to manage their own health challenges.

Workshop with Carol Grantham
March 5th: 2pm - 4pm [in person]
Nutbrook Studios, Peckham, London (open map)

Our bodies are constantly in flux: from the key developmental changes such as puberty, menstruation and menopause, to weight gain or loss or the scars we gain in life.

Carol Grantham is a feltmaker, embroiderer and painter.  Carol loves sharing with others her passion for textiles and making things by hand.  This particular workshop resonates with Carol as one of her adult daughters succumbed to the pressures we’ll be talking about around the table as we make together.

Join Carol in this in workshop that combines using fabric, fibre and thread to explore elements of the bodies we’d like to see represented, leave in the past or that go unseen. You’ll be using a variety of creative processes to explore your own interpretation of Unruly Bodies.

Exhibition & Workshops: Unruly Bodies
Seen Fifteen Gallery, Peckham, London (open map)
10th — 13th March

Exhibition Opening Times:
7pm - 9.30pm on 10th March.
10am - 4pm on 11th - 13th March.
Workshops: 4pm - 6pm on 12th & 13th March (info below).

Unruly Bodies brings together works by artists Liberty Antonia Sadler and Fenn Eddy- Gardiner exploring body politics and our relation to food, and an unfiltered and honest portrayal of life with ADHD.

About Liberty Antonia Sadler

Liberty Antonia works with mediums of drawing, text and moving image to explore issues of 21st century body politics, with a focus on the experience of living in a large femme body in a photo-shopped world. Liberty uses characters, radical softness & raw playfulness to discuss themes of abjection, vulnerability, queerness, femininity, food, the erotic & the psycho-sexual. In her McDonalds Series she utilises McDonald’s packaging as a canvas to make public the discarded, and often purposefully secretive, provocative object. Liberty explores the emotions & morality attached to its consumption, especially toward fat people. These drawing works are built in layers of text and mark-making; with words hidden and revealed within its structure, the soft figures enclosed inside condiment-coloured frames, exposing their vulnerability and their rage on paper made delicate from being stretched, painted & torn.

Liberty Antonia is an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, the founder of artist film night MicroActs, and their artist research explores the portrayal of fat bodies & the power of subjectivity within art practice.

libertyantoniasadler.com
@libertyantoniasadler

About Fenn Eddy-Gardiner

Fenn Eddy-Gardiner’s drawing practice explores her lived experience as a person living with ADHD, after her diagnosis in 2018. Fenn notes that drawing has always been a form of escape and control, in a mind and world where she felt that she had none. What began as a way to bring a little joy to herself has become a significant part of her practice, with drawing taking prominence in her graduate show at Camberwell College of Arts in 2021. 

Fenn’s unfiltered and honest works continue to explore her struggles with both ADHD and mental health difficulties. Combining drawing, installation and personal objects, Fenn’s insights challenge stereotypes of ADHD by providing raw depictions of the scope of how the condition can affect a person. Fenn sees the work as “a way to dissect my mind: to display my mind and body, the good and the bad, the fun and the not so fun.”

Fenn Eddy-Gardiner was born in South London before spending her early teens in South Wales. She graduated from UAL Camberwell College of Arts in 2021 with a BA in Fine Art Photography.

@geddy_art

Workshop with Fenn Eddy-Gardiner
Saturday 12th March, 4pm — 6pm

Join artist Fenn Eddy-Gardiner in this comic and storyboarding workshop. Just as Fenn does in her own work you'll create your own comic style storyboard, mirroring her way of working combining drawing and text squeezed into thick black frames.

With guidance from Fenn you'll begin with drawing out your frames, followed by reflecting on prompts from life experiences on what to fill them with: journeys, conversations and the impacts they've had on us.

Materials will be provided — all you need to bring is your creative minds!

Workshop with Liberty Antonia Sadler
Sunday 13th March, 4pm — 6pm

This workshop will combine poetry and art writing, using guided prompts, artist inspirations and experimenting with writing in a supportive environment. Liberty will support you to play with text, explore its relationship to body politics and share tools for you to add to your poetry practice & personal writing.

We’ll explore a selection of different techniques, from cut ups to automatic writing, and experiment with words as images, poetry as catharsis and the power of personal storytelling.

Materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring along old magazines/books & photocopies of any of your own writing you’d like to experiment with, for collage exploration.