The artists behind AfroCaledonia take centre stage for an interactive morning exploring Black identity, intersectionality and creative expression in Scotland.
Following the exhibition’s opening night, this session gives visitors an opportunity to move beyond viewing the finished artwork and hear directly from creatives Ese, Carla and Philip about the ideas and experiences that inform their work.
Artist conversations can provide an important additional layer to an exhibition.
Choices involving colour, imagery, materials or subject matter may carry personal or cultural meanings that are not immediately obvious to the viewer.
This discussion creates space to explore those meanings while considering how Black identity can intersect with nationality, gender, community and other aspects of lived experience.
The Scottish dimension is particularly interesting.
There is no single Black Scottish experience.
People arrive at that identity through different family histories, migration stories and relationships with both Scotland and the wider African diaspora.
Contemporary creative work can reflect those differences while also revealing areas of shared experience.
The session’s focus on intersectionality acknowledges that identity is rarely defined by one characteristic alone.
Black artists may simultaneously be navigating questions of Scottishness, African or Caribbean heritage, gender, class, faith, family and creative identity.
Those layers can influence not only what artists make but also how their work is understood by audiences.
For Black History Month, Meet the Artists provides something slightly different from a conventional history talk.
It gives living Black-Scottish creatives the opportunity to speak for themselves about culture and identity in the present day.
Taking place on the morning after the AfroCaledonia launch, the two-hour session should appeal to artists, students and anyone interested in contemporary Black Scottish culture and the stories behind the exhibition.
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