Internationally renowned artists Hew Locke, Tai Shani and Michelle Williams Gamaker have awarded 'Black Girl Essex, Here We Come, Look We Here' (2019) to be part of the 2021 programme and touring exhibition
PUBLICATION LAUNCH
A new text by Jon Blackwood, published by Firstsite with Metal Southend, will be launched at Estuary Festival with an in-conversation on 10 June. The text discusses two seminal works made between 2006-10 and studio practice from 2018 to date. A digital copy can be downloaded free by clicking below; softback copies will be available to purchase from the Firstsite gallery shop from 26 June.
Posted: 31.05.2021
Posted: 09.06.2021
ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT
The Government Art Collection committee has acquired three screenprints from The Blackness Series as part of Art X-UK--- a new permanent collection
Posted: 31.05.2021
'Walking in the Wake' a new film produced working with Michael McMillan and Dubmorphology artists Trevor Mathison and Gary Stewart, and curated as part of Estuary 2021 online opening weekend.
New public artwork and procession culminating from workshops at The White House on the Becontree Estate with Barking and Dagenham-based foster carers and children in care for the Becontree Centenary Programme in August 2021
ONLINE FILM SCREENING AND TALK
Black Girl Essex: Here We Come, Look We Here: Screening and In-Conversation with Sepake Angiama, Artistic Director, Iniva and Jon Blackwood, curator, lecturer and writer, Firstsite online. Wed 3 Feb 2021, 6.30 pm
Posted: 15.02.2021
FOCAL POINT GALLERY AT 30
Contributed self-portrait drawing for the 30th-anniversary commemorative tea towel.
Posted: 01.11.2020
ESTUARY 2021
Selected co-curator for the Festival Opening Weekend Online Live Broadcast Programme.
Posted: 01.11.2020
IN OTHER WORDS
Contributing artist for a new collection of urgent reflections published by Metal and the Live Art Development Agency
Posted: 30.10.2020
SELECTED ARTIST FOR SYLLABUS VI
A national collaboratively-produced alternative learning programme delivered by five arts organisations to support ten artists across the UK, Sept 20 - July 21
Posted: 01.09.2020
CREATE LONDON COMMISSION
Commissioned to collaborate with foster families at The White House on the Becontree Estate in Dagenham to engage with the identity of place and explore what makes people feel at home from Sept 2020 to March 2021
Becontree Estate: Circa 1945|Getty Images
Posted: 10.09.2020
METAL SOUTHEND REMOTE RESIDENCY
Artist selected for month-long residency focusing on new research, 1-31 August 2020
Posted: 30.07.2020
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
New collaboration between the Centre for Place Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and writers, artists and film-makers
Posted: 17.07.2020
CARING AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE
Panellist with Marc Garrett (Co-director, Furtherfield), Cassie Thornton (Artist) and Tomislav Medak (PhD researcher), RadicalxChange Annual Conference online, New York, 19 June 2020
Posted: 30.06.2020
Art Historian, curator, and writer, Chloe Austin talks to Katy Hessel about 'BlackGirl Essex: Here We Come, Look We Here' (2019) and Love in Social Practice (2019) for her takeover of the Great Women Artists Instagram account
Posted: 20.06.2020
AXISWEB: IN CONVERSATION
With artists R.M Sanchez-Camus and Sian Willams, 17 June 2020
Posted: 30.06.2020
AUTOGRAPH: A CALL TO CARE SERIES
A new online series of conversations during Covid-19 inspired by the ProFest Campaign, 11 May 2020
Posted: 11.05.2020
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Due to current public health concerns relating to the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Posted: 19.03.2020
POLICY MAKING: EXHIBITION
New vinyl wall text installation and 'The Black Essex Flag' in The Agency of Visible Womxn exhibition, Beecroft Art Gallery, 8 March to 31 May 2020
Posted: 08.03.2020
IN CONVERSATION AT FIRSTSITE
Firstsite Gallery, Sat 21 Mar 2020
Posted: 02.03.2020
CO-LEAD ARTIST COMMISSION
Climate Emergency inter-generational women and girls project with Sue Mayo for Magic Me, January - August 2020
Posted: 31.01.2020
CURATING SUPER BLACK
Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme website feature, 14 November 2019
Posted: 18.11.2019
RADIO INTERVIEW
The Dave Monk drivetime show interview on Princess Dinubolu, 17 October 2019
Posted: 21.10.2019
FIRSTSITE PRESENTS: BLACK GIRL ESSEX
Short film about the Black Girl Essex residency and exhibition, 25 September 2019
Posted: 25.09.2019
ESSEXISM PROJECT
Included in a new portrait photography project to challenge the Essex girl stereotype, August 2019
Posted: 01.09.2019
SUPER BLACK
New work coming to Arts Council Collection National Partners Exhibition, Firstste Gallery,11 October 2019 - 12 January 2020
Posted: 01.08.2019
BLACK GIRL ESSEX
Exhibition of fims and launch of a new residency at Firstsite Gallery, 22 June - 22 September 2019
Posted: 21.06.2019
THE GUILTY FEMINIST LIVE TOUR SOUTHEND
Panel discussion hosted by Deborah Frances-White with local writer Sadie Hasler
and artistic director Colette Bailey, Cliffs Pavilion, Southend, 12 May 2019
Posted: 20.05.2019
THE C WORD...CLASS!
Part show, part discussion with Scottee & friends, The Albany, 11 May 2019
Posted: 29.04.2019
SUMMIT RESEARCH BLOG
Commissioned blog, a-n The Artist Information Company, 25 April 2019
Posted: 25.04.2019
ARTIST TALK
University of East London,19 Feb 2019
Posted: 26.02.2019
JOSHUA SOFAER WORKSHOP
Artist nominated to take part in Joshua Sofaer's radical experimental workshop for Axisweb, 30 Nov 2018
Posted: 01.11.2018
SOCIAL ART SUMMIT
Artist invited to devise a lab for the Summit, Site Gallery, Sheffield, 1- 2 November 2018
Posted: 18.10.2018
IN CONVERSATION WITH MARIA ANASTASSIOU AND REN STEDMAN
Who am I? Identity and Belonging, Focal Point Gallery,13 October 2018
Posted: 01.10.2018
BLACK HISTORY MONTH SCREENING
Forgotten Black Essex showing on Big Screen Southend, 6 - 31 Oct 2018
Posted: 01.10.2018
DECORUM: ACCEPT | REJECT
Special Launch & Film Preview at Twenty One, Southend, 16 July 2018
Posted: 01.07.2018
FORGOTTEN BLACK ESSEX CITED IN RADICAL ESSEX BOOK
Focal Point Gallery publication launch, 30 June 2018
Posted: 01.06.2018
PANEL DISCUSSION AND AUDIENCE Q&A
With artist Ingrid Pollard and historians Caroline Bressey and Gemma Romain, 9 May 2018
Posted: 16.04.2018
WORKSHOP: FOCAL POINT GALLERY
Inspired by Alexandra Leykauf 'Caprona' exhibition for the Start schools programme, 16 - 20 April 2018
Posted: 16.04.2018
CO-LEAD ARTIST COMMISSION
Artist commissioned to co-lead Magic Me project in partnership with Metal Southend, April - July 2018
Posted: 01.03.2018
ESSEX GIRLS LIBERATION FRONT COLLECTIVE
Selected to create one of the hundred centenary banners for Artichoke Processions, April - June 2018
Posted: 30.03.2018
THE ESSEX GIRLS LIBERATION FRONT
New t-shirt design for a pop-up gallery at Essex Book Festival, Firstsite, 4 Mar 2018
Posted: 24.02.2018
SOLO EXHIBITION: METAL SOUTHEND
Forgotten Black Essex, Chalkwell Hall, 22 Feb 2018
Posted: 12.02.2018
RADIO INTERVIEW ON HESTER WOODLEY
Peter Holmes Sunday Breakfast Show, 18 Feb 2018
On air at 06.40hrs and 07:40hrs
Posted: 26.02.2018
GROUP EXHIBITION: BEECROFT GALLERY
Video screening: Goat Curry & Rap (2010), 17 Feb to 14 April 2018
Posted: 12.02.2018
WORKSHOP: FOCAL POINT GALLERY
Inspired by Hilary Lloyd 'Theatre' exhibition for the Start schools project, 9 - 11 Oct 2017
