Category: Photography
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We do Black hair

We do Black hair proposes to bring together the local African and Caribbean communities as part of OPEN SOURCE Festival through an afro hair event addressing ongoing questions of aesthetic canons, identity politics, and visual representations in the media. This project is informed by the all-too-common experience of the random “Can I touch your hair?”…
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OPEN SOURCE 2016

OPEN SOURCE is a multidisciplinary arts festival held on Gillett Square in Dalston, London, exploring subcultures, identity, fluidity and self-determination across video, painting, installation and performance. In its second edition, OPEN SOURCE 2016 is curated by Emily Butler, Christine Eyene, Helen Nisbet, Joe Fletcher Orr & Doug Bowen, Richard Parry and Amy Sherlock. Artists include:…
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Murder Machine photo gallery
Curated by Christine Eyene, Guild Research Fellow in Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) Preston as part of the Making Histories Visible (MHV) project, and developed in collaboration with Ormston House, Murder Machine takes its cue from thoughts and writings by Irish linguist and activist Pádraig Pearse, notably his pamphlet The Murder…