(RETURN) TO THE SEA – a wonderful year-long exhibition showcasing the work of over 150 photographers from around the world.
Following the success of our year-long TO THE SEA exhibition in St Gilles Croix de Vie, France, (RETURN) TO THE SEA encompasses multiple visions of the sea – environmental, actual, emotional, and more.
The exhibition will be open every day, and free to view 24/7, from 12 October 2024 to 12 October 2025 at the Seafront Gallery, Worthing, England. The outdoor exhibition space, located on the beachfront, attracts over 200,000 visitors a month.
An ode to the ocean, something for the sea.
OFF Bratislava: ego death
8-22 November
o.z. OFF festival Bratislava
Tbiliská 13, 831 06 Bratislava, Slovakia
The 15th edition of the festival OFF Bratislava, entitled PERSONA INCOGNITA, delves into the complexity of veiled identities and hidden characters. It explores themes of cognition and self-discovery. Since ancient times, humans have wanted to hold a mirror to the images of their own self – egos, in order to hide their own identity. The mask, a phenomenon that crosses all cultures and the entire history of the human species, constantly accompanies us regardless of time or geographical limitations. The mask is created by a human-artist not only out of a desire to return to the original roots and myths, but also as a way of coming to terms with oneself. A mask is a kind of sophisticated form of penetrating the secrets of one's own existence and reshaping its foundations and laws.
V&A Friday Late: Dreams and Desires
Between Dreams and Realities Panel, Friday 28th June 19:30 at the Lecture Theatre.
The focus will be on how they address community issue and the absence of Black voices through re-imagination and dreamscapes. Also, it would be important to talk about their multi-disciplinary approach to create changes through photography, film, therapeutic practice and performance.
Heather Agyepong x Doyle Wham: Reclaiming Our Gaze
14 May- 14 July 2024
Heather Agyepong and Doyle Wham present Reclaiming Our Gaze: a reflection, a response and a call to arms inspired by the artist’s award-winning series Wish You Were Here.
NAE OPEN 2024
New Art Exchange, Nottingham
25 MAY AT 10:00 AM - 21 SEP AT 4:00 PM
The NAE Open returns for its fourth iteration with a presentation of works that includes paintings, video, live art, photography, textiles and sculpture. This dynamic exhibition was created through a competitive open application process for Nottinghamshire-based artists and Global Ethnic majority* artists living anywhere in the UK. Tasked to seek out the most innovative and high-quality artworks that address critical societal concerns and interests, a panel of advocates, including neighbours, artists and curators, chose from a substantive amount of submissions. The result is an eclectic and compelling selection of artists at different stages of their careers.
NIKON PRESENTS: HEATHER AGYEPONG – THERAPEUTIC CHARACTER CREATION
Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
Saturday 18 May 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
SCREENING ROOM
Africa Rising: 21st-Century African Photography
February 24, 2024 – February 23, 2025
Africa Rising is the inaugural exhibition of FAM’s new collection of 21st-century Africa photography, a sampling of the recent explosion of fine art photography on the continent. The exhibition includes photographs by internationally acclaimed artists Zanele Muholi (South Africa), Lalla Essaydi (Morocco), Heather Agyepong (UK) and Aida Muluneh (Ethiopia). Themes that recur across this visually stunning show include identity in the aftermath of colonialism, environmental exploitation and decay, female empowerment, and Afro-Futurism. Africa Rising, and the expansion of FAM’s collection, are supported by a generous grant from the Geneviève McMillan – Reba Stewart Foundation.
Fitchburg Art Museum
185 Elm Street, Fitchburg, MA 01420
Identity and Diaspora: Heather Agyepong at Aesthetica Film Festival
Wednesday 8 November | 16:30-17:30 | Yorkshire Museum
Nephertiti Oboshie Schandorf will chair a masterclass from artist and actor Heather Agyepong, who will reflect on her experiences as a young Black woman and creating identities on stage and screen.
Reimag(in)ing The Victorians
From taxidermy and photography to forgotten lives and colonial histories, this exhibition explores how leading contemporary artists reimagine the Victorians in their work. By exploring how artists creatively respond to the 19th century, the exhibition asks why its legacies still matter today.
Africa Writes Festival - The British Library- Sunday October 1st
Aneephya: The Implosion of the Black Body
5:30-16:45
Nicola Rollock, Heather Agyepong and Ibrahim Kamara discuss survival, reflection, and alignment.
Curated and chaired by Yomi Sode.
NIKON PRESENTS: SHOAIR MAVLIAN IN CONVERSATION WITH HEATHER AGYEPONG
Saturday 13 May 2023
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
SCREENING ROOM
Somerset House
Strand, London WC2R 1LA
NIKON PRESENTS: ART, AGENCY AND THE SAFE SPACE
Sunday 14 May 2023
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
SCREENING ROOM
Somerset House
Strand, London WC2R 1LA
BELFAST EXPOSED
HEALING THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY
CONFERENCE
In conversation with Joanne Coates
4th April 2023
Seeing Through A Different Lens
This April, Belfast Exposed is running HEALING THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY – Seeing Through A Different Lens a two-day conference examining the use of photography to support those experiencing mental health.
Women of the World Festival- The Power (Panel)
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Friday 10th April
Southbank Centre, London
Naomi Alderman, author of The Power, discusses the hotly anticipated TV adaptation of the literary phenomenon.
"We never dared to imagine it: A world that was built for us, where we made the rules. That world was at our fingertips all this time. All we had to do was burn down the world that was.”
Don't miss this electrifying event as Naomi Alderman, author of the international bestseller The Power, joins us on stage ahead of the release of the hotly anticipated TV adaptation of the literary phenomenon on Prime Video. She'll be joined onstage by Jane Featherstone (Chernobyl) SISTER co-founder and award-winning executive producer of the forthcoming series, with special guests to be announced.
In the early stages of a new world order, teenage girls suddenly find they have the ability to electrocute anything - and anyone - they want. As the rebellion and 'the Power' spreads worldwide, the beginning of a Matriarchal society begins to emerge, following the lives of four women who could never have dreamt of the power they now wield in their fingertips.
Presented in partnership with Amazon Studios.
Venue: Royal Festival Hall
Belfast Exposed hosts Jerwood/
Photoworks Award 4
Belfast Exposed is delighted to be hosting the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 4 Touring Exhibition from 6th April – 20th May 2023.
The current awardees are Heather Agyepong and Joanne Coates.
Centre for British Photography
Infocus: Wish You Were Here, 2020
The new Centre will champion work by contemporary photographic artists living and working in the UK, as well as show photographs from the world-renowned Hyman Collection.
Entry to the Centre is free and there will be a programme of talks and events running alongside the exhibitions which run until the end of April 2023.
The Centre will open with two major group exhibitions and a series of "Infocus" exhibitions that spotlight specific artists and bodies of work.
London Art Fair: Photo 50
17th-22nd January
2023 PHOTO50: BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS
London Art Fair is proud to announce the theme for Photo 50 2023. Beautiful Experiments, curated by Pelumi Odubanjo and Katy Barron.
The 2023 edition of Photo50 will bring together the work of a group of multigenerational women photographers whose practice engages with their diasporic heritage, and through their lens explores domestic life and the home as not only a physical place but also a space of memory and generational exchange.
The title is taken from the 2019 book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by the American writer Saidiya Hartmann, who writes about the lives of Black women in the US through a lens of fiction, using photographs from the archive and taking a sensory approach to narrating such histories.
The majority of selected artist are based in the UK, but they have a range of diasporic heritages and have made work that reflects their particular histories and ideas around home.
In Conversation: Heather Agyepong and Osei Bonsu, Curator of International Art at Tate Modern
Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London, SE1 0LN10 Dec 2022, 3-4pm
Jerwood Lates // ego death Exhibition Tour with Julia Bunnemann
Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London, SE1 0LN
Friday 30 Sep 2022, 6-8pm (7pm Tour)
Jerwood Photoworks Award 2022 // Debut Solo Exhibition
Launched in 2005, the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards are a biennial major commissioning opportunity open to all UK based artists using photography and within the first ten years of their career. The Jerwood/Photoworks Awards offer the awardees the opportunity to make ambitious new work and significantly develop their practice at a pivotal moment in their career. Now in their fourth iteration, the awardees of the latest edition are Heather Agyepong and Joanne Coates.
Heather Agyepong is developing ego death, a project inspired by psychiatrist Carl Jung’s concept of ‘The Shadow’. Exploring techniques including free writing/painting, observation, and self-reflection, Agyepong is developing twelve self-portraits using double exposure to create an arresting new visual language where her shadow characters are revealed. ego death is a project about self-discovery, imperfection, compassion, and radical acceptance.
The preview of Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 4 will take place on Thursday 22 September 4.30pm - 8.30pm. The exhibition continues until 10 December 2022.
Refreshments will be served throughout the event.
Exhibition continues
23 September - 10 December
Wednesday - Saturday: 11am - 6pm
Jerwood Space
171 Union Street, London, SE1 0LN
Admisson free
PHOTO LONDON X NIKON EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER AWARD 2021
With the support of Official Partner Nikon, Photo London will continue its Emerging Photographer of the Year award at the 2022 Fair. The work of last year’s winner Heather Agyepong together with shortlisted
work by Almudena Romero (Fisheye Gallery) and Alia Ali (Peter Silem) will be shown at the Nikon space. Alongside a full programme of workshops and talks, Nikon plan to create their own comprehensive digital section of the Fair, covering all aspects of digital imaging making to form an innovative and engaging addition to the Fair.
Picturing Black Girlhood: Moments of Possibility
Exhibit Date 17th Feb - 2nd July 2022
Express Newark
54 Halsey Street
Newark, NJ
PICTURING BLACK GIRLHOOD: MOMENTS OF POSSIBILITY, is an international exhibition that features more than eighty Black women, girls, and genderqueer artists—ranging in age from 8 to 94—who work in the mediums of photography and film and have a sustained practice exploring the theme of Black girlhood. By bringing together iconic image-makers, emerging artists, and young photographers (over half the artists in the show are under 18), the show considers Black girlhood as an essential stage of development, an integral moment of political awakening, an embattled site of representation, and a critical source of artistic inspiration around the world.
Picturing Black Girlhood: Moments of Possibility was curated by Scheherazade Tillet and Zoraida Lopez-Diago.
Exhibition Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 12-5 pm, Thursday 12-8 pm, Saturday 12-5 pm. Admission is free.
Photo Vogue Festival 2021 • Reframing History
Photo Vogue Festival is Base Milano, open every day from 11am to 9pm CEST from the 18th until the 21st of November (except November 18th : 3 pm - 9 pm CEST). The entrance is free and no invite is needed.
For its 6th edition, titled REFRAMING HISTORY, we wanted to explore the projects that have reclaimed an alternative, different way of telling a tale. From projects that reframes omitted, forgotten and overlooked historical figures to works that reclaims an idea of beauty that has been diminished, stereotyped or exoticised. Helping in achieving what Chinua Achebe called "a balance of stories" is one of the founding missions of Photo Vogue, Vogue's global photographic platform that this year celebrates its 10th anniversary.
This exhibition features 35 photographers selected through the Open Call on Photo Vogue, Picter and Instagram. On Picter alone we received 24.913 images, 2.949 projects by 2.513 photographers from 98 different countries, 6 continents.
Foam Talent 2021 | Digital Exhibition
Following the award-winning first edition in 2020, Foam presents a brand new online exhibition celebrating a new generation of image-makers. Foam Talent 2021 | Digital is a multi-media platform showcasing the work of 20 artists that were selected through the annual Foam Talent Call. Their projects are translated into the digital realm, supported by audio, video and interactive elements. Liberating the photographs from their frames and taking them beyond the museum walls, the exhibition pushes the boundaries of the medium and explores the outlines of its future form.
PhMuseum Days 2021
23-26 September
Bologna, Italy
International Photography Festival
10am - 11pm
23 - 26 Sept
Binario Centrale, DumBO
Via Camillo Casarini 19. 40131 Bologna
Collective Show at PHmuseum Days 2021
These images will take part in the A New Beginning collective installation, which is part of the official exhibition's program together with the festival's individual shows.
Artist talk: Heather Agyepong – Too Many Blackamoors
Artist Heather Agyepong talks about her series of work “Too Many Blackamoors” for the Bristol Photo Festival and explores who is remembered in our history.
FORMAT21 Open Call: Five Selected Artists
19 Chapel Street, Derby, County, DE1 3GU
17th May to 18th July 2021
The FORMAT21 Open Call received over 800 submissions from 66 countries and a small selection of the 50 selected projects will be shown at Deda. Exploring the many manifestations of the festival theme – Control, the work of LeiLei, Anouchka Renaud-Eck, Tami Aftab, Juan Orrantia and Heather Agyepong look at the struggle for control in the personal and political spheres.
Features Wish You Were Here
Format Festival: Control 21
Digital Exhibition: Selected Open Call Artist
12 March – 5th March 2023
FORMAT21 Online will present exhibitions, events and visitor participation throughout the festival. The exhibitions include over 160 international artists and a selection of the 40,000 images submitted from over 90 countries from the #massisolationFORMAT archive created during the Covid-19 pandemic.
You will be able to access the digital FORMAT21 exhibitions on any desktop or mobile device in your web browser, without registering, downloading or configuring anything.
A simple set of instructions and a phone, tablet, laptop of PC are all you need to enjoy FORMAT21.
Features Wish You Were Here
A PICTURE OF HEALTH | WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM THE HYMAN COLLECTION
Arnolfini
16 Narrow Quay
Bristol BS1 4QA
Tuesday 18th May 2021 to Sunday 13th June 2021
A Picture of Health is a group exhibition of eleven contemporary women photographers from The Hyman Collection who have responded to subjects of health and wellbeing. Featuring autobiographical perspectives to social commentaries on wider society, the exhibition touches upon a variety of timely subjects, as those throughout the world are united by the effects of the current global pandemic.
Exploring what lies behind the camera’s exposing eye the exhibition explores themes of trauma, from physical to psychological effects; environment, asking how the people we live with and the places in which we live affect our health and wellbeing; and care, considering the dynamics between the carer and those that are cared for.
Features Wish You Were Here
Bristol Photo Festival: Museum Interventions
Memorialization in the Age of Forgetting
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Queens Rd, Bristol BS8 1RL
17th May 2021- October 2021 TBC
Artists Heather Agyepong, Jessa Fairbrother, and Lua Ribeira have been invited to take part in collaborate with Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. The artists’ own work will be displayed alongside and juxtaposed with the Museum’s collections and archives.
Features Too Many Blackamoors
Starting Something New: Recent Contemporary Art Acquisitions and Gifts
September 10, 2019 - July 18, 2021 - Digital Walkthrough Available
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts.
Drawn from museum purchases and an extraordinary recent gift of 172 contemporary artworks from an anonymous donor, this exhibition builds on the Mead’s first and most comprehensive contemporary art exhibition, presented in fall 2019. Spanning four decades, from the 1980s to 2019, the exhibition highlights how artists experiment with media and use historical events, ideas, and images to address politics and the nature of art. Featured artists include Heather Agyepong, Moira Dryer, Mark Fox, Al Hansen, Analia Saban, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya.
Features Too Many Blackamoors
Cabinet of Remedies: Hundred Heroines
Virtual Exhibition
Digital interventions of artistic contributions and responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic by Women Artists
Features Wish You Were Here
PhotoFringe 2020
Open Call Selected Artist
Worthing Beach Seafront
Till Spring 2021
In-venue
Operating within up-to-date social distancing guidelines, over 20 self-curated exhibitions, together with presentations of work curated from open call, are showing throughout October in galleries, pop-up venues and outdoor installations in Brighton & Hove and along the coast in Worthing.
Features Wish You Were Here
Fuel Theatre presents The Body Remembers
Coming in 2021
The Body Remembers is a solo performance that uses movement, projection, and a series of audio testimonies created and performed by Heather Agyepong, co-created by Imogen Knight (movement) and Gail Babb (dramaturgy).
The technique of Authentic Movement has allowed Heather to process what her body has been trying to communicate for years and most importantly brought gentle attention to the self. Authentic Movement consists of the mover and the witness. The mover without restriction, through impulse, reclaims space. The witness observes, reflects, and notes what is happening in their own bodies.
The Body Remembers creates a space for audience and artist to attend to themselves and each other through authentic movement, testimonies from 20 Black women living in the UK, soundscapes, and projections. The piece focuses on the six parts of her body that speak the loudest; head, throat, heart, stomach, womb, and hands.
Solo performance for a socially distanced audience in a theatre in Bristol / London.
The Body Remembers is produced by Fuel, with support from Arts Council England, Wellcome Trust, and the Jerwood New Work Fund.