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Francesca Telling: Emergency
Join us for the preview of Emergency, an exhibition by Peer-to-Peer artist Francesca Telling.
Francesca Telling is an artist, facilitator and learning practitioner. Her practice investigates how the social histories of displaced communities are seen in objects and images.
In this exhibition, Francesca offers a study of education, linguistics and colonialism from the archives of a 1950s British-Malayan teaching experiment in Kirkby, Merseyside, to the fragmented records of learning found in a family archive. Composed of collages, photography, prints and analogue time-based media, the exhibition draws on the materials and aesthetic languages of educational environments.
The exhibition will open with a preview on Thursday 9 January, 6-8pm. We look forward to seeing you there!
This exhibition platforms the work of an artist on our Peer-To-Peer studio and associates programme. Peer-to-Peer artists use the Metroland Cultures gallery to test new work, or as a site of further production.
Metroland Cultures is an arts charity that works in, and for, the London Borough of Brent. Our mission is to build, share and support art and culture in the borough.
About Francesca Telling
Francesca Telling is an artist, facilitator and learning practitioner. Francesca’s practice investigates how the social histories of displaced communities are seen in objects and images. She uses sculpture, photography, writing and time-based media to explore the grief embedded in migration narratives – asking what it means to collect things in the context of survival and assimilation, and how this is recorded.
As a facilitator Francesca explores structural inequalities in education, collaborating with children and young people to reimagine learning environments and their authority. Her work is informed by anti-racist approaches and activated by locality, usually emerging through combining dialogue with participatory documentation. Francesca is currently supported by Grand Plan Fund to develop research into oral history and diasporic labour across London’s archive sector.
Francesca is part of Metroland Culture’s 2024 Peer-to-Peer cohort.