Fiona Reilly, 2021

Since 2017, artist and researcher Kelly Lloyd has interviewed people in the arts about their livelihoods, documenting diverse stories of artists as workers. Join her discussion with the artist and writer Morgan Quaintance and critic Zarina Muhammad, part of writing duo The White Pube, on the issues and inequalities surrounding artistic labour.

The White Pube is the collaborative identity of Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad under which they publish reviews and essays about art, video games and food.

Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer. His moving image work has been shown and exhibited widely at festivals and institutions including: MOMA, New York; Mcevoy Foundaton for the Arts, San Francisco; Konsthall C, Sweden; David Dale, Glasgow; European Media Art Festival, Germany; Alchemy Film and Arts Festival, Scotland; Images Festival, Toronto; International Film Festival Rotterdam; and Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami.

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Dominique White is a sculptor who recently relocated to Marseille after the first Covid wave in 2020. She’s been working nomadically since forfeiting her London studio at the beginning of the pandemic, and has since pondered how working nomadically has changed her health and her practice. Her practice is positioned within the theories of Black Subjectivity, Afro-pessimism and Hydrarchy (from below) as a space that she defines as the Shipwreck(ed). 

Recent and upcoming exhibitions include The Cinders of the Wreck at Triangle France, Marseille (2022), Hydra Decapita at VEDA Firenze, Florence (2021); Techno Worlds at Art Quarter Budapest, commissioned by Goethe-Institut (2021) and Blackness in Democracy's Graveyard at UKS, Oslo (2021).

She was awarded the ad occhi chiusi… prize by Fondazione Merz in 2021 and the Roger Pailhas Prize in 2019 in conjunction with her solo presentations with VEDA Firenze and has received awards from Artangel (UK) and the Henry Moore Foundation (UK) in 2020. White was in residency at Sagrada Mercancía (CL), Triangle France – Astérides (FR) and La Becque (CH) in 2020 and 2021. 

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