CONVERSATION : CAMARA TAYLOR AND JUSTINE BLAU

Artists-in-residence Camara Taylor (Scotland) and Justine Blau (Luxembourg) invite you to discover their work and discuss their practice during an evening in their studios at Fonderie Darling, just before they leave for Matapédia for the second part of their residencies in Quebec. 

 

Food and refreshments will be served in the 3rd floor lounge, accessible by stairs.

> Current exhibitions will also be open to the public until 10 pm.

CAMARA TAYLOR
Camara Taylor is an artist based in Glasgow. Recent projects include backwash, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2022) ; a rant! a reel!, Cubitt Gallery, London; holus-bolus, 17th Edinburgh Art Festival; IMG_5917, with Sulaïman Majali, Artists’ Moving Image Festival and suspiration! commissioned by The Newbridge Project, Gateshead, and recipient of a 2021 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival New Cinema Award. Camara has undertaken residencies across Scotland, and screened their moving image works across the UK and internationally. They have participated in programmes including Satellites (Collective Gallery, 2020-2022); Curatorial Directions (MAC Belfast, 2019) and Constellations (UP Projects/ FTHo, 2017-18). Camara was a Committee Member at Transmission Gallery from 2016 to 2018 and Programme Coordinator of the Race, Rights & Sovereignty series at The Glasgow School of Art from 2017 until 2021. They are currently a member of Collective Text.

JUSTINE BLAU
The works of Justine Blau have been  exhibited in Luxembourg and Europe, including VIDA INERTE at the Centre Nei Liicht in Dudelange, a project that will be collected in a publication THE VEIL OF NATURE, to be published this autumn by K.Verlag in Berlin. In 2019 she was in artist residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. She also focuses on creating public artworks as part of 1% commissions. She has a master's degree in sculpture from Wimbledon Sculpture of Art, from the University of the Arts London.