Painting & Poetry 2025
Wed, 21 May
|London
Guest Poet Leo Boix will host a workshop for students and the public sharing his own ways of working with word and image at Brixton Tate Library, Oval, London SW2 1JQ. Wed 21st, 2 - 4pm 020 7926 1058 www.lambeth.gov.uk/libraries
Time & Location
21 May 2025, 14:00 – 16:00
London, Brixton Oval, London SW2 1JQ, UK
About the event
Hons Painting at Camberwell College of Arts have worked towards this exhibition by exploring the relationship between painting and poetry, word and image. The paintings reveal their personal responses to poems and include subjects of identity; home; belonging; unbelonging; family; the body; community; history and personal history; cultural heritage and storytelling. These subjects reflect the vibrant and diverse nature of the painting course. The accompanying publication includes the poems and ideas that have inspired the art.
During the Festival guest poets Lola Oh, Akhera Williams and Leo Boix will be hosting workshops for students and the public sharing their own ways of working with word and image.
Lola Oh (lolaoh.com) is a Black British poet, photographer and facilitator based in London.
Through her poetry, Lola uses her work to explore family, loss, migration and blackness. Through photography, Lola uses her creative eye to document the world around her, distilling the…