Sat, 12 Oct
|Tiwani Contemporary
Exhibition Walkthrough and Fireside Chat with Emma Prempeh: Wandering Under a Shifting Sun
On the occasion of Frieze, join us for an exhibition walkthrough and conversation between artist Emma Prempeh and writer, artist, curator, and academic Dr Michael McMillan.
Time & Location
12 Oct 2024, 15:00 – 17:00
Tiwani Contemporary, 24 Cork St, London W1S 3LZ, UK
Who's Going
About the event
During Frieze, join us for an exhibition walkthrough and conversation between artist Emma Prempeh and writer, artist, curator and academic, Dr Michael McMillan. Experience her evocative exploration of memory, identity, and diaspora through stunning paintings and installations, and learn more about her vision and creative process through this intimate conversation between Emma and Michael.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Emma Prempeh is a British artist with Ghanaian and Vincentian heritage based in London.
The starting point to Prempeh’s paintings is the matter of blackness – the tonal properties of the colour establishes the ground to her paintings and a cinematic basis to invoke and project memories of events, people, and places to emphasise an appreciation of ancestral time and relationships, selfhood and transformation. Schlag metal, a brass alloy of copper and zinc imitative of gold leaf, is a material that Prempeh applies to selected areas of her often large-scale paintings. Over time this oxidises creating slow, live visual changes that animate the…