6.30-8pm
This event took place at Hoxton Hall.
Peer presented an evening of discussion with Samson Kambalu and Emma Ridgway, Chief Curator at Modern Art Oxford at the time, during which they discussed Kambalu's practice, latest work and his exhibition at Peer, Postcards from the Last Century.
BIOGRAPHIES
Samson Kambalu (b.1975), an artist, author and academic was born in Malawi, where he attended Kamuzu Academy. He graduated from the University of Malawi's Chancellor College, Zomba, completed his MA in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, and wrote his PhD at Chelsea College of Art and Design. One of his most well-known artworks is Holy Ball, a football plastered in pages of the Bible. He has shown his work internationally and in 2015 was included in Okwui Enwezor's All the World's Futures at the 56th Venice Biennale. His first book, an autobiographical narrative entitled The Jive Talker or How to Get a British Passport, was published in 2008. Kambalu is represented by Kate MacGarry in London and Galerie Nordenhake in Stockholm.
Emma Ridgway curates exhibitions and creative projects with artists and audiences in order to invigorate fresh thinking on life today. At the time of this event she was Chief Curator at Modern Art Oxford, where she led the artistic programme since 2015. There she led on major exhibitions of artists Lubaina Himid, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Hannah Ryggen, Penny Woolcock, Claudette Johnson and projects Kaleidoscope, Future Knowledge, Same Road and City as Studio. Formerly at the Barbican Centre she initiated experimental education projects such as Arts School Lab, and participatory events such as Brain Waves about neuroscience, as Senior Curator at The RSA she specialised in arts and ecology. At The Serpentine Gallery she organised the first four interdisciplinary Marathon events that platformed leading ideas in art, science and the creative industries, including Experiment Marathon in London and Reyjavik, and she has also worked as an associate curator for Khoj International Artists Association, New Delhi.
