Gravity

Yvonne Mullock 24.02.2022

Yvonne Mullock
Born Chester, Cheshire, U.K 1978, Currently lives and works in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Education

1997–2001 Glasgow School of Art, B.A (Hons) Drawing and Painting.

Emily Speed 3.3.2022

You may know the work of Emily Speed for her recent solo exhibition at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool, Flatland. This work is inspired by Edwin Abbott’s 1884 novella Flatland, a satire of Victorian society, where all existence is limited to two dimensions and women are restricted to thin, straight lines.

Known for her work examining the relationship between the body and architecture, Speed’s practice considers how a person is shaped by the buildings they have occupied and how a person occupies their own psychological space. Working in many different media, including sculpture, drawing, performance and film, Speed regularly collaborates with choreographers, dancers and filmmakers and embeds community groups and real life narratives within her work.

Kimathi Donkor 10.3.2022

Kimathi Donkor is a contemporary artist who lives and works in London, England. His solo exhibitions include Kimathi Donkor: Notebooks at Brixton Library (London, 2021), Some Clarity of Vision at Gallery MOMO (Johannesburg, 2015), Queens of the Undead at Iniva (London, 2012) and Fall/Uprising at the Bettie Morton Gallery, (London, 2005). Group exhibitions include War Inna Babylon at the ICA, London 2021, the Diaspora Pavilion (57th Venice Biennale, 2017), Untitled: Art on the Conditions of Our Time at the New Art Exchange (Nottingham, 2017, touring to Kettle’s Yard (Cambridge, 2021) and the 29th São Paulo Biennial (Brazil, 2010). He is the recipient of awards, residencies and commissions including the 2011 Derek Hill Painting Scholarship for The British School at Rome and the 2019 De’Longhi Art Projects Artist Award.


Donkor’s work re-imagines mythic, legendary and everyday encounters across Africa and its global Diasporas, principally in painting, but also through drawing, video, assemblage, collage, digital design, performance and installation. His paintings address historic figures like Toussaint L’Ouverture and Harriet Tubman, as well as contemporary themes such as urban political dissent or the pursuit of leisure, beauty and knowledge.