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Leah Gordon: KANAVAL: Ed Cross at 19 Garrett Street
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Gallery news, press and updates
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Breaking News: Mario Macilau, Tate Etc
January 24, 2023'In 2012, I discovered the Hulene rubbish dump, an open-pit waste site in Maputo, Mozambique, and began photographing the people who lived and worked there. More than a thousand families... -
FT Magazine, Gallery: Leah Gordon
January 21, 2023'As a nation, Haiti has used every cultural tool at its disposal to share its history', says photographer Leah Gordon, “from song to ritual, from drum-beat to dance step, from... -
Abdulrazaq Awofeso: 1-54 Marrakech 2023
Ed Cross at La Mamounia 9 - 12 February 2023Ed Cross is delighted to present Broad Streets, new portrait works by British-based Nigerian artist Abdulrazaq Awofeso (b. 1978, Lagos, Nigeria), at 1-54 Marrakech from 9 to 12 February 2023.... -
Anya Paintsil: 5 Artists on Our Radar in January 2023
January 13, 2023'Long before tufted rugs spawned a viral pandemic-era hobby, Welsh and Ghanaian artist Anya Paintsil learned rug hooking from her grandmother. The technique, passed down through her family for generations,... -
Considering Art Podcast: Leah Gordon
January 16, 2023'In this episode, Leah talks about her background in photography, her interest in the interconnectivity of folk traditions, the Enclosure Acts, the Industrial Revolution and the transatlantic slave trade. She... -
Leah Gordon, KANAVAL: Digital Catalogue
Exhibition at 19 Garrett Street, January 12 - February 18Each year, Haiti’s southern commune of Jacmel holds pre-Lenten Mardi Gras festivities where Haitian history is replayed through the masks, costumes, and street theatre of the carnival troupes. Fusing Vodou... -
Leah Gordon: KANAVAL
Ed Cross at 19 Garrett Street 12 January - 18 February 2023In her exhibition KANAVAL, London-based artist, curator, filmmaker and writer Leah Gordon presents a series of black-and-white photographs from her long-term project of the same name. Featuring revellers... -
Interview: Eugene Palmer with Flo London
November 16, 2022'How would you describe your artistic style? My artistic style has in the past been referred to as ‘Black Classicism’, but I really consider my work to be more modernist,... -
Anya Paintsil: World of Interiors
November 1, 2022World of Interiors, December cover: Anya Paintsil's 'Blod', 2022. -
Leah Gordon's film 'Kanaval' is nominated for two BIFAs
KANAVAL: A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF HAITI IN SIX CHAPTERS is in cinemas from November 11Congratulations to Leah Gordon and Eddie Hutton-Mills, now through to the nomination stage of the BIFA awards for Best Debut Director for Feature Documentary, and to DOP Joel Honeywell, through... -
Mário Macilau is shortlisted for The Norval Sovereign African Prize, 2023
Grand Prize Winner to be announced January 25 2023'Norval Foundation and The Sovereign Art Foundation (SAF) announced the names of 30 artists shortlisted as finalists for the second edition of The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, an annual... -
Anya Paintsil and Hannah Traore: The Gucci Podcast
October 28, 2022'To celebrate Anya's new exhibition in New York, Hannah Traore, founder and director of the Hannah Traore Gallery - a space committed to advocating for artists who have been historically... -
A Turning Tide
October 3, 2022'Ed Cross was one of the first galleries to offer solely contemporary African art, opening his eponymous space in 2009. He lived and worked in Kenya as an artist himself... -
What I Buy and Why: Ed Cross on Collecting African Artists Before the Market Boom, and the £20,000 Jadé Fadojutimi Work
July 18, 2022'Ed Cross has been championing the work of African and African diaspora artists since he founded his eponymous gallery 13 years ago. A former artist himself, he has also long... -
Editors’ Picks: Six Standout Projects from Documenta 15
July 6, 2022'At the St. Kunigundis Catholic Church in Bettenhausen, Atis Rezistanz has staged an exhibition that is, at turns, haunting and ambitious in its artistic and historical scope. [...] Leah Gordon’s... -
Textile artist Anya Paintsil incorporates humour, hair and folklore to tell stories of her dual heritage
May 30, 2022'She grew up speaking Welsh and always had a 'weird little art practice' going on the side, even though she wasn't much a fan of school or art, for that...
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