About
This workshop is an exercise in deliberate unpredictability, where chance, play and intuition become essential mediums in the image-making process. Within every discipline and when working in the darkroom, there is a generally accepted “correct” method to achieve a certain outcome. In this workshop we will be disregarding the rules and removing the constraints of expectation —with exception to health and safety protocols—to produce photographic artworks created from a place of audacious fluidity.
Workshop participants will be led to discover new unconventional ways of working in the black & white darkroom, leaving them with the courage to embrace experimentation, variability, and surprise within their artistic practice.
Students are asked to bring objects of various opacities, textures, and sizes, cellphones or tablets, and any negatives they might like to use.
Artist Spotlight
Instructor
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Dainesha Nugent-Palache
Artist
Dainesha Nugent-Palache (b. Toronto, ON.) holds a BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design University (2016) where she was the recipient of The Dorothy Hoover Research Award, and an OCAD University Photography Faculty and Friends Award. Her work has been exhibited Nationally through venues such as Patel Brown, the National Gallery of Canada, The Portrait Gallery of Canada, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Gallery TPW, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and TRUCK Contemporary, and internationally in New York, Finland, and Vienna. Her work can be found in The Wedge Collection, Toronto Dominion Bank Art Collection, EQ Bank Art collection, as well as several private collections. Nugent-Palache was a 2021 recipient of the Scotia Bank New Generation Photography Award. She currently lives and works in Toronto, ON. and is a founding member of Toronto artist collective and gallery the plumb.
Through her performative video works and photographs, Toronto-based artist Dainesha Nugent-Palache explores the dichotomies and paradoxes inherent in representations of Afro-Caribbean femininities. Dainesha’s artwork flirts with anthropological and archaeological realms, often produced as a result of her familial digging. Her practice is concerned with visualizations of Black diaspora across pasts, presents, and speculative futures, producing portraits and other still life-based works. With an exuberant approach to colour and display, Dainesha's work often negotiates with forms of glamour, excess, and other photographic strategies inherent to the visual cultures of capitalism.
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