New Contemporaries Tayo Adekunle, Eoin Carey, Tiu Makkonen

New Contemporaries: Tayo Adekunle, Eoin Carey, Tiu Makkonen

Announcing our spring group exhibition, which hosts three artists who were featured in our Studies in Photography Winter Journal, 2024. Each artist will exhibit a series of portraits from their previous bodies of work which explore contemporary ways of seeing, self-identification, acceptance, and identity.

The exhibition will run from 9 May - 7 June, open from 12pm - 5 pm Weds - Sat.

Tayo will be showing images from two bodies of work. Reclamation of the Exposition (2020) explores the commodification, fetishization and sexualisation of the black women’s bodies. In comparison, Yemoja (2021) acts as a negotiation of painful histories while also representing a celebration of connection with cultural history.

Father is a photographic series and publication by photographer Eoin Carey that focuses on the tender and tired routines of everyday parenthood. Created over two years with participants from Glasgow and Edinburgh, Father documents unstaged, candid moments of fathers with their children.

Tiu Makkonen brings together images from two bodies of work, both featuring members of the Scottish LGBTI+ community who are over the age of 50. Letters to Ourselves (2017), the original project that sparked off these visual, intergenerational conversations; and Portraits of an LGBTI+ Generation (2021), a photo series made in connection with an LGBTI+ elders community engagement project with National Theatre of Scotland.

Please also join us for a reception on 6 June 4-8pm, where the artists will join us to discuss their works. More information on our Eventbrite.