event 13 Nov 2022
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Exhibition & Soundscape

Date 12 Nov 2022
Time 19:00 – 21:00
Venue Samuel Worth Chapel, General Cemetery

Following the success of our 2021 exhibition, we hosted a follow up event at The Samuel Worth Chapel in 2022. This time we shared a new soundscape produced by Otis Mensah and Désirée Reynolds. Together they discussed the process behind their work and the experience of discovering Black and marginalised voices in the archives.

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artist 01 Jan 2024

Otis Mensah

A photograph of Black artist Otis Mensah in amongst tree branches looking into the far distance A photograph of Black artist Otis Mensah in amongst tree branches looking into the far distance

Otis Mensah (recipient of Jerwood Arts Live Work Fund & Arts Council England's Developing your Creative Practice) is a musician and multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersection of poetry and experimental music(s). Taking influence from the rhythmic and expressive freedom of Jazz, Otis’ work uses aesthetic language as an instrument to solo through themes of race, identity, gender and the body. Since being appointed Sheffield’s first Poet Laureate in 2018, Otis has sold-out their debut poetry collection Safe Metamorphosis published with Prototype in 2020, debuted at Glastonbury, & We Out Here Festival, as well as performing with the likes of Moor Mother, Nightmares On Wax, Benjamin Zephaniah and Little Simz.

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Désirée Reynolds

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Désirée Reynolds, (she/her) a South Londoner up North, was brought up in Clapham, London to Jamaican parents and now living in Sheffield. She told her Mum, at about 8 years old, that she was going to write a book and has been writing ever since. She started her writing career as a freelance journalist for the Jamaica Gleaner and the Village Voice. She has gone on to write film scripts, poetry, flash fiction and short stories.

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