Online In Conversation: Karen Tam and Matthew Bamber, Mon 19 Aug, 6.30pm GMT
Join us for an online in-conversation event with artist Matthew Bamber and Montreal based artist and curator Karen Tam. The event will explore the various ideas, inspirations, and approaches to creation that inform both Matthew’s and Karen’s artistic practices.
Matthew’s current exhibition ‘Dream home’ is currently on show in HOME’s Granada Foundation Gallery. His solo show features two bodies of work: ‘Dream home’ which explores ideas around queer domesticity within the artists own home; and the ‘GM series’ which explores themes related to the LGBTQIA+ community and its recent broad history.
Karen’s research practice focusses on constructions and imaginations of cultures and communities through installations in which she recreates Chinese restaurants, karaoke lounges, opium dens, curio shops and other sites of cultural encounters.
Guests include:
Karen Tam
Karen Tam is a Tiohtià:ke/Montréal-based artist and curator whose research focusses on the constructions and imaginations of cultures and communities. In her installations, she recreates Chinese restaurants, karaoke lounges, opium dens, curio shops and other sites of cultural encounters. Since 2000, she has exhibited her work and participated in residencies in North America, Europe, and China, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, He Xiangning Art Museum, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Deutsche Börse Residency at the Frankfurter Kunstverein. She has received grants and fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts du Québec, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Tam was the winner of the 2021 Giverny Capital Prize awarded by the Fondation Giverny pour l’art contemporain, a finalist for the 2017 Louis-Comtois Prize, a finalist for the 2016 Prix en art actuel from the Musée national des beaux-arts de Québec, and long-listed for the 2010 and 2016 Sobey Art Awards.
Matthew Bamber
Matthew Bamber’s practice encompasses photography, drawing, video, textile and installation. He creates work using a combination of found, archival and personal images that are broken down and built back up. These deconstructed, overloaded compositions are blends of photography, collage and drawing that do not fall neatly into any one category. Matthew is influenced by the composition and arrangement of Baroque art and its relevance as a contemporary lens to look at a world in a constant state of turmoil.
Recent exhibitions include a two-person exhibition at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; “(Un)Defining Queer” at The Whitworth, Manchester; “HIDDEN DOORS” at P7 Gallery, Berlin and “I don’t know what I want, but I want it NOW” at A.P.T Gallery, London.