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Sumia Juxun
Sumia Juxun is a poet, producer and educator currently based between Rotterdam and London. She often writes about memory, movement and the cyclical process of leaving. Her poem ‘Before Leaving’ won the FourHubs’ 2018 Poetry Prize. Sumia is a Barbican Young Poet Alumni and most recently published in Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry. She is also founder of SAWTI and programme lead (Social Practices) at Willem de Kooning Academy.

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‘Passport as freedom papers’ I

Prize Entry

February 2022

Sumia Juxun

Prize Entry

February 2022

(Title after a line from Momtaza Mehri’s poem ‘Mouthwash’).   ‘A home is only as safe as flesh’ – Dionne Brand   You share...

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March 2016

Seeing from behind: Park McArthur

Anna Gritz

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March 2016

In a public conversation between Park McArthur and Isla Leaver Yap that accompanied the former’s exhibition Poly at the...

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December 2016

Bonnie Camplin: Is it a Crime to Love a Prawn

Bonnie Camplin

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December 2016

  The title of Bonnie Camplin’s exhibition at 3236RLS Gallery, ‘Is it a Crime to Love a Prawn’, brings...

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March 2013

Strangely Ordinary: Ron Mueck's art of the uncanny

Anouchka Grose

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March 2013

Since the Stone Age, people have been concerned with the problem of how to represent life.   Cave paintings...

 

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