BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4066@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180926T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180926T183000 DTSTAMP:20180919T203908Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/ib18-bluecoat-graduate-artists-i n-conversation/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: IB18: Bluecoat: Graduate Artists in Conversation DESCRIPTION:Graduate Artists in Conversation\n\nFree\, booking required. B OOK HERE\n\nJoin us to hear from some of the winners of this year's Art i n Liverpool Graduate Residency: Amber Akaunu\, Fauziya Johnson\, Harriet M orely and Sally Slingsby.\n\nAll are recent graduates of Liverpool John Mo ore's University or Liverpool Hope University. Speaking together about the ir most recent works\, their inspirations and their plans for the future\ , including a question and answer sessions with the audience.\n\nPart of L iverpool Independents Biennial\n\nAmber Akaunu\n\nAmber works predominantl y with video and photography to dissect themes of identity\, racism and hy per-masculinity. The negative depiction of Black people in media adds to t he harmful stereotypes placed upon Black people globally. Therefore\, Ambe r enjoys creating visual imagery that challenges this\, by presenting the viewer with a "different" side to Black women and men. Amber's ideas usual ly stem from heated debates and conversations with friends on current affa irs to Hip Hop lyrics\, as well as the work of Arthur Jafa\, Solange Knowl es and Mark Rothko.\n\nAmber Akaunu recently graduated from Liverpool Hope University with a 1st class in BA Fine Art (Hons). During Amber's final y ear in university she\, and classmate Fauziya Johnson\, started ROOT-ed Zi ne. ROOT-ed Zine is an independent magazine and social platform that aims to promote\, support and inspire creatives of colour within the North West of England. Amber and Fauziya started the zine after noticing a lack of r epresentation and opportunities for North West creatives of colour. Amber is also currently on a three-month residency with FACT\, in which she aims to create artwork and content for ROOT-ed on the topic of hair.\n\n\nAmbe r's most current body of work is titled 39 and is a series of 39 videos th at have each been inspired or influenced by a Hip Hop lyric.\n\n\nFauziya Johnson\n\nMy work specialises in photography and drawing\, where the subj ect matter consists predominately of portraiture of people of colour withi n North West communities. A section of my portfolio is also of modern arch itectural structures within the U.K\, as I link certain issues of this mod ernism to my Black identity. Photography is my raison d'être because of t he freedom of documentation\, archiving and expression derived from the pl atform. My drawings are generally figurative or methodical in preparation for a photoshoot.\n\nContextually\, my work challenges the continual issue s of systemic racist practice of Orientalism\, exoticism\, and fetishism\, relating this to the discourse of people’s cultural opinions within the Afro-Caribbean community in the U.K today. This primary focus has several tributaries\, which include: cultural appropriation\, modern feminism and anthropology. During my last year at Liverpool Hope University in my Fine Art degree\, I co-founded ROOT-ed Zine\, which we specialise in promoting and positively representing creative people of colour within the North We st of England.\n\n\nSally Slingsby\n\nExploring the lexicon of online inte raction\, Slingsby's recent series of work studies the intimate dialogue and customary behaviours expressed through Vlogging\, a subculture formed on YouTube. Through interactive performance Slingsby’s work addresses i ssues relating to social control and the jurisdiction of behaviour when op erating through online spaces. The directives of her performance draws a n arrative between the mechanisms of social media and the censorship and dis tortion of how we function in reality.\n\nSlingsby has exhibited as a solo artist and in group shows throughout the UK\, she is currently an artist in residence at The Royal Standard having been awarded the Poly Prize in J uly 2018. She co-founded artist-run collective YAW an initiative working t o facilitate studio spaces for emerging artists with The Independents Bien nial 2018. She is currently working with the engagements team at Bluecoat - Liverpool's centre for the contemporary arts.\n\nHarriet Morley\n\nHarri et is an artist from Suffolk who has just graduated from Liverpool John Mo ores. She has worked with ideas that surround and involve digital culture\ , technology\, how we exist in an age of online documentation including th e distractions that come between physical and technological realities. She explores humans placement and displacement in relation to this\, recyclin g and dismantling performances and conversations. She works in ways that e ngage with recorded and live processes\, fluctuating between the two. A me thod that is necessary for her practice to unfold is by recording\, transc ribing\, analysing and deconstructing.\n\nBOOK HERE\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2018/09/gem_MED.png LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K ingdom GEO:53.404542;-2.984173 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=School Lane\, Liverpool\, L 1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bluecoat:geo :53.404542,-2.984173 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180325T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR