The conversation explores Douglas Camp’s working processes and creation of the artist’s new sculptures, while unpacking her daily approach to her work within her studio. This free talk will take place on the ground floor of the gallery and has disabled access.
The event accompanies Sokari Douglas Camp's new solo exhibition Fashion & Fortune at October Gallery. Douglas Camp observes how people of diverse ethnicities, social positions and occupations impacted the emergence of a distinctive sartorial culture across the Atlantic world.
Commenting upon these imaginative displays, Douglas Camp notes that, “As a woman, I notice how colonised peoples and women of the diaspora cope; how they fashion their own styles, using whatever materials are to hand; how they forge a self-image that, by imitating and subverting their oppressors’ images of them, creates something that remains uniquely their own.” These latest sculptures tease out the complex intertwining histories of trade, colonialism and lineage, while simultaneously celebrating the resilience of the people of Africa and the African diaspora throughout the globe.
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