Harsh Light: APR artists Francesca Telling & Rehana Zaman

Established in 2002, Bloc Projects is a contemporary arts organisation in the centre of Sheffield.Bloc Projects is a not-for-profit creative organisation with educational and charitable aims.We support artists at key stages in their careers through an acclaimed contemporary exhibitions programme.Our free public programme of talks, heritage projects, workshops and events supports the creative professional development of the local community, promoting diverse creative career pathways and providing generous opportunities for participatory learning, meaningful arts engagement and skill development.As an organisation we continue to work with other local art organisations, universities and charities to ensure our educational activities welcome a diverse and intergenerational demographic.

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Artists Rehana Zaman & Francesca Telling discuss the role of education in relation to their practice & talk through their recent works.

<h2>Harsh Light: A Particular Reality, Part 2 - Francesca Telling &amp; Rehana Zaman</h2>Wednesday 23 November, 7 – 8:30pmOnline (via Zoom)Free &amp; open to all<h3>Accompanied by BSL interpretation</h3>In collaboration with A Particular Reality (APR), Bloc Projects is pleased to present two conversations this autumn that foreground the practices and life experiences of artists who are differently marginalised. The first on Casteism took place in September 2022, and in this second instalment, artists Rehana Zaman and Francesca Telling will continue a conversation that began when Rehana was Francesca’s studio practice tutor on the BA Fine Art course at Goldsmiths University from 2019 to 2020. Rehana and Francesca will discuss the role of education in relation to their practice, both within and outside of the institution, before taking up their recent works; Francesca’s 81 years in Fungal Time (Year of the Snake), 2022 and Rehana’s Alternative Economies (2021) and Rubus (2022), to expand on their shared interests around ecologies and relationships to land.--Francesca TellingWorking predominantly in sculpture - incorporating elements of writing and photography - Francesca’s practice extracts familiar objects and iconographies to be viewed through the lens of the artefact or heirloom; in order to investigate their relationships to gestures of heritage, memory, grief and assimilation. Searching for the specific moments where objects and symbols within the remit of the everyday can come to embody the talismanic, votive or ritual - and how the care with which these images are preserved can reference languages of the souvenir, collection or archive - she constructs speculative studies of personal and microcosmic histories; alongside the wider political, cultural, ecological and mythological contexts of the landscapes these emerge from.Rehana ZamanRehana Zaman is an artist from Heckmondwike. Her work speaks to notions of kinship and sociality, seeking out possibilities of intimacy and transgression within hostile contexts. Conversation and cooperative methods sit at the heart of her films which extend into texts, performances and group work. Recent presentations include Serpentine Projects (forthcoming) British Art Show 9 (touring), ICA Miami, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Borås International Sculpture Biennial (Sweden), Artist Film International Whitechapel, London and worldwide. In 2019 she co-edited ‘Tongues’ with Taylor Le Melle, published by PSS and was shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award. She is currently a board member of not/nowhere artist workers cooperative and her films are distributed by LUX. Rehana lives and works in London. (Image courtesy of Francesca Telling)The webinar will be recorded and available to view via our website following the event. <h2>This event is free but booking is essential.</h2>A link to attend the online event will be sent via email following registration.This series of events have been generously supported by The Arts Council England.

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Harsh Light: APR artists Francesca Telling & Rehana Zaman

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