Exhibition Opening
BL CK B X: Morgan Quaintance in Conversation with Tendai Mutambu and Russell Newell

Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer. His moving-image work has been shown recently at KARST, Plymouth, LIMA Amsterdam, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Jerwood Space London, the 14th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, London Film Festival 2018, November Film Festival, the Palace International Film Festival, and Videonale.17.

Tendai John Mutambu is a Zimbabwean-born New Zealander writing and curating in London. He is Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival’s Programming Fellow for 2019 and his most recent project is a series of five film programmes for LUX and British Council touring internationally from April 2019.
Previous projects include: ‘Twenty-Two Hours,’ Experimenta at London Film Festival (2018) and ‘Sriwhana Spong: a Hook but no Fish’, ‘The Long Dream of Waking’, ‘First as Fiction, then as Myth’, ‘David Clegg: Loca Projects / Correction’ at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, New Zealand and ‘Potentially Yours, The Coming Community’ at Artspace NZ. Tendai is a regular contributor to Ocula Magazine and has written for frieze and BFI.

Russell was born in Peckham in 1965 where he began taking photographs in his early teens. He became a photographer and filmmaker moving to digital and web-based projects in the mid-1990’s. As a teenager, he was closely involved with the community darkroom movement. He has always had a commitment to community and grassroots projects and continues to develop his practice as an artist today. Recent projects include: 7 Bridges Archive,  The reactivation of the radical education journal Schooling & Culture, The reactivation of the radical education journal Schooling & Culture, The Chatham Office and collaboration with Morgan Quaintance using Russell’s Video Penpals project from 1994/95.