EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Studies in Photography
9th May - 7th June
Announcing our spring group exhibition, which hosts three artists who were featured in our last Winter Journal. Each artist will exhibit a series of portraits from their previous bodies of work which explore contemporary ways of seeing, self-identification, acceptance, and identity.
Tayo Adekunle
Tayo Adekunle (b. 1997) is a Nigerian-British visual artist from West Yorkshire, based in London.
Using predominantly portraiture and self-portraiture, Her work explores issues surrounding race, gender and sexuality. In an interrogation of racial and colonial history, her work is centred around reworking tropes and narratives about black people and black culture. Tayo received her BA(Hons) in Photography at Edinburgh College of Art in 2020. Since then she has been an artist in residence at institutions around the UK including the Southbank Center in London, Leeds Playhouse in Leeds, Hospitalfield in Arbroath, Dundee and Edinburgh Printmakers in Edinburgh.
Tayo will be showing images from two bodies of work. Reclamation of the Exposition (2020) explores the commodification, fetishization and sexualisation of the black women’s bodies. In comparison, Yemoja (2021) acts as a negotiation of painful histories while also representing a celebration of connection with cultural history.
Eoin Carey
Eoin Carey is an Irish portrait and documentary photographer based in Glasgow. He has worked across the design, visual and performing arts sectors in Scotland for 15 years, documenting and creating photographic work with artists and national organisations. His colourful portrait work includes artists from disciplines across performance, film, visual art, design and music. His work is regularly published in national media and editorial publications.
Father is a photographic series and publication by photographer Eoin Carey that focuses on the tender and tired routines of everyday parenthood. Created over two years with participants from Glasgow and Edinburgh, Father documents unstaged, candid moments of fathers with their children.
Tiu Makkonen
Tiu Makkonen (b.1989) is a queer immigrant artist and photographer originally from Finland. Since moving to Scotland in 2009, her work has developed from personal reflections on identity and queerness to documenting the LGBTI+ scene in Scotland at large. Using both analogue and digital formats, her work ranges from fine art portraiture projects addressing visibility, representation and empowerment to documentary work shooting underground queer raves, art festivals and national gender equality campaigns. The ethos underpinning her work is a desire to bolster the community from within, like a two-way mirror: to have us be seen, but also to really see ourselves, full of fierce love and radical vulnerability.
Tiu Makkonen brings together images from two bodies of work, both featuring members of the Scottish LGBTI+ community who are over the age of 50. Letters to Ourselves (2017), the original project that sparked off these visual, intergenerational conversations; and Portraits of an LGBTI+ Generation (2021), a photo series made in connection with an LGBTI+ elders community engagement project with National Theatre of Scotland.