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Upcoming Digital Residency by Anne McCloy and Femi Dawkins

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CCA are delighted to announce the final Digital Residency of 2022, Black Gold and Green (Mobilise the Poets), by Anne McCloy and Femi Dawkins- a collaboration with the Black Gold Collective, founded at Goldsmiths CCA in 2019. The residency will run from Monday 5 December to Sunday 11 December 2022 on our website.

The residency will be an exploration and response to historical, archival and autobiographical aspects of the civil rights movement in Ireland and the USA using as a starting point Brian Dooley’s book Black and Green, The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and Black America (1998). Mobilise The Poets considers art and the artist's role and the use of language in the context of political protest.

Check back in on Monday 5 December 2022 for the first post of Anne and Femi's residency.

Anne McCloy is an Irish artist from South Derry currently based in London at Goldsmiths. Her multidisciplinary practice involves drawing, poetry, performance, painting, film and sculpture. As a cultural producer, she is interested in the transformative capability of art and the idea of art as a sacred narrative or myth. Archival material provides an opportunity to preserve and present material and reconfigure its significance and create new meanings towards new audiences and new understandings.

Femi Dawkins aka Jimmy Rage, is an independent London and Amsterdam based multidisciplinary artist from Jamaica with an MFA from Goldsmiths University. His practice involves drawing, collaging, object-making, installation, music, vocalizing, performing, poetry and writing. His work focuses on the significance of personal narratives that translate into universal truths, his research an anthropological excavation that brings to light untruths and voices the unspoken, by proposing new pathways, transcending social codes and connecting in a new togetherness through experiencing art and the exploration of truth. Allyship is important to Femi as it involves interconnectedness of our everyday humanity in all its forms.