Join us for a conversation between Cloud Sediments – Hyphen Lab artists Shannon Alonzo and Amanda Egbe, moderated by Sarah Niazi. This will be a hybrid event, accessible both at Ambika P3 in London and online. Register here.

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Trinidadian interdisciplinary artist Shannon Alonzo has been working in the creative industries since 2011, in a variety of roles from visual art to production design. Her project collaborations include work with design house Meiling Inc and production design for feature films ‘Play the Devil’ and ‘Moving Parts’. Her artistic practice explores themes of collective belonging, place attachment and the significance of carnival ritual to the Caribbean consciousness. In August 2019, Alonzo exhibited an ongoing body of work entitled ‘IMPRINT’ at The Loftt Gallery in Port of Spain. In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize and was awarded grants from the 125 Fund and CATAPULT Caribbean Artist Showcase. In the same year, she undertook an artist residency at Alice Yard Project Space and has recently completed a Masters of Research in Creative Practice, at the University of Westminster, UK.

Amanda Egbe is an artist, filmmaker and senior lecturer in media production at the University of Bedfordshire. Her practice and research concerns archives, new technologies, race, and activism. You can see her solo show in March and April 2022 at the Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City.

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Sarah Rahman Niazi has completed a PhD at the University of Westminster in 2021. Her work maps the entangled history of cinema’s relationship to the Urdu public sphere in India (1930–1950) and explores questions of language, literary culture, performance and gender. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and in books by Sage and Routledge, among others. She works as an Assistant Editor for the Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) and is part of the Hyphen Journal editorial collective. She has worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi.