Primer: Onyeka Igwe
Join commissioned artist Onyeka Igwe, who will screen her film ‘The Miracle on George Green’ and discuss her practice to date. 'Primers' are presented by The Common Guild in collaboration with Dr. Dominic Paterson at the University of Glasgow.
Thinking Culture | School of Culture & Creative Arts | College of Arts
Date: Thursday 13 April 2023
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8AW
Category: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Speaker: Onyeka Igwe
Primer / Onyeka Igwe
6-8pm, Thursday 13 April / Kelvinhall 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow
‘Primers’ offer an opportunity to hear from artists during the development of new projects with The Common Guild. As part of the upcoming project ‘anywhere in the universe’, this event presents commissioned artist Onyeka Igwe. Igwe will screen her film ‘The Miracle on George Green’ and discuss her practice to date.
'Primers' are presented by The Common Guild in collaboration with Dr. Dominic Paterson at the University of Glasgow.
About the artist /
Onyeka Igwe is an artist and researcher working between cinema and installation. She is born and based in London, UK. Through her work Onyeka is animated by the question “how do we live together?” with a particular interest in sensorial, spatial, and non-canonical ways of knowing can provide answers. She uses embodiment, voice, archives, narration and text to create structural “figure-of-eights”, a format that exposes a multiplicity of narratives.
Onyeka Igwe’s solo exhibitions and commissions include ‘Ungentle’ (with Huw Lemmey), Studio Voltaire, London; ‘The Miracle on George Green’, Highline, New York (both 2022); ‘a so-called archive’, LUX, London; ‘THE REAL STORY IS WHAT’S IN THAT ROOM’, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada, (both 2021), ‘There Were Two Brothers’, Jerwood Arts, (2019), and ‘Corrections’ with Aliya Pabani, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada (2018).
In 2022 Igwe was nominated for the Jarman Award and shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2022–2024. She was awarded the 2021 Foundwork Artist Prize; the 2020 Arts Foundation Futures Award for Experimental Short Film; and was the 2019 recipient of the Berwick New Cinema Award in 2019.
