Navigating Art Worlds. Defining Your Practice - with Harold Offeh

Led by our current exhibiting artist Harold Offeh, this session is a professional development assembly aimed at  visual artists and art students, and will focus on the question, 'how do artists develop strategies for maintaining their practice?' 

Harold will start with a short presentation looking at networks and approaches to articulating your practice before leading an examination of artists’ statements, portfolios and biographical texts, thinking about different ways you can write about you and your work. 

The session will cover starting points, from defining an artistic practice through materials or media, whether film, painting, sound, sculpture, ceramics or performance, or through themes and concerns such as anti-capitalism, queerness, feminism or ecology. You will interrogate how the two can be combined to articulate compelling ways to describe your practice, which will in turn determine sources of funding, networking and audiences.

The afternoon will include case studies and existing examples of artist writing in addition to setting a short writing task, and is an opportunity for participants to share experiences and pool knowledge for their mutual benefit and support.

Booking essential as places are limited

Image credits:
Photo of Harold Offeh © Emile Holba
Main image: Installation view, Croydon Plays Itself (2019) Turf Projects, Croydon, UK © Tim Bowditch

Harold Offeh is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice. Offeh is interested in the space created by

the inhabiting or embodying of histories. He employs humour as a means to confront the viewer with historical narratives and contemporary culture. He has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally including: Tate Britain and Tate Modern; South London Gallery; Turf Projects, London; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Wysing Art Centre; Studio Museum Harlem, New York; MAC VAL, France; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark; and Art Tower Mito, Japan.

He studied Critical Fine Art Practice at The University of Brighton, MA Fine Art Photography at the Royal College of Art and in 2020 completed a PhD by practice exploring the activation of Black Album covers through durational performance at Leeds Beckett University. He lives in Cambridge and is currently a Senior Visiting Tutor on MFA Fine Art at The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University and Interim Head of Programme for MA Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art, London.

www.haroldoffeh.com
ig @harold_offeh