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Gallery news, press and updates
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Hot Docs selects Leah Gordon's Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters
Screenings May 2 (plus Q&A with directors) & May 6 2023Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters has been selected for the prestigious Hot Docs in Toronto; s creening May 2 (plus Q&A with directors) and May 6... -
In Conversation with Eric Pina
March 13, 2023How would you describe your artistic style? Would you say there is some sort of recognisable characteristic? In the past, my artistic research focused a lot on the shadows and... -
Foreign Lands: Things to do in London this weekend: 13 – 19 March 2023
March 13, 20239. Catch a new exhibition Two celebrated African artists, Ermias Ekube and Senegalese Eric Pina are behind the latest exhibition to take over Ed Cross Gallery. Foreign Landsincorporates many themes... -
Abdulrazaq Awofeso: Broad Streets
Ed Cross at 19 Garrett Street 30 March - 6 May 2023PV: March 29 // 6 – 8pm // 19 Garrett Street, London EC1Y 0TY DOWNLOAD THE DIGITAL CATALOGUE HERE Ed Cross is delighted to present Broad Streets, new portrait... -
Foreign Lands: A Dialogue
Ermias Ekube and Eric Pina in conversation, moderated and translated by Hanou Amendah -
The Next Big Thing? Here Are 6 Breakout Artists to Watch From the 1-54 Art Fair in Marrakech
February 10, 2023'Who: Awofeso is a Nigerian artist based in Birmingham. On view at the fair is a series of sculptural portraits of figures the artist encountered on two streets of the... -
The Best Booths at 1-54’s Marrakech Art Fair, Including Kehinde Wiley’s First Painting Created in Africa
February 10, 2023'1. Abdulrazaq Awofeso at Ed Cross For 1-54, Ed Cross put together “Broad Streets,” a presentation meant as a prelude to the first show he’s doing with Abdulrazaq Awofeso at... -
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... -
Ermias Ekube and Eric Pina: Foreign Lands
Ed Cross at 19 Garrett Street 23 February - 25 March 2023Read the artists' dialogue here Ed Cross is delighted to present Foreign Lands, a joint exhibition bringing together the work of two artists from the African continent – Ermias Ekube,... -
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... -
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... -
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. -
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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