Name: 1. Artefact Series, Tayo Adekunle by Workplace Foundation
Duration: 3 min 40 s
Description: Tayo Adekunle describes the source of inspiration for the Artefact Series alongside how she uses her artworks to retell left-out histories and stories.

Bertola and Meikle explore the series Sad Bones concerning Bertola’s deeper interest in archives and historical sites and her gestural intervention into the narratives that are preserved.

5. Sad Bones, Catherine Bertola

Adekunle discusses Reclamation of the Exposition in the context of unlearning the Western Gaze of black people whilst finding joy and power from difficult historical events.

4. Reclamation Of The Exposition, Tayo Adekunle

Voice actor Zoë Hakin performs Untitled by Bruce McLean, a pithy burst of words enacting Claire Dorsett’s approach to her practice, wrought with anxiety, humour and quiet observation of everyday things and events.

3. Kitchen & Rory's Car Seat, Claire Dorsett

Catherine Bertola and Meikle discuss the wall drawing Filling Absence in the context of visibility for women and Bertola’s engagement with overlooked materials to reanimate forgotten histories.

2. Filling Absence, Catherine Bertola

Tayo Adekunle describes the source of inspiration for the Artefact Series alongside how she uses her artworks to retell left-out histories and stories.

1. Artefact Series, Tayo Adekunle

Workplace Foundation

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