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2 years ago

Officially post-grad 🎓. Dissertation finished 📑. Stage walked 🚶🏽‍♂️‍➡️. Ready for the next chapter 📗. This was a daunting task, but I pushed myself hella hard to get it done.I want to thank everyone for the encouragement and giving me that spark I needed to do this ❤️.My research focused on a new framework and term for understanding an emergence within contemporary curatorial practice — I called it Transcuratorial — in which practitioners are applying curatorial approaches to lead on-going, community-rooted projects, initiatives, and organizations, and creatively contributing to cultural infrastructure through unique forms of access, connectivity, knowledge production, and support for creatives.Although it feels like this just the beginning this is the best research I’ve ever done. I was able to bring my full self to this work and I’m proud to have produced this. If you’d like to read it, DM me your email and I’ll send it over 📧 I would genuinely love feedback from people both inside and outside of curatorial/arts & cultural work — this kind of thinking grows through conversation and community. 🙏 by @thomasjames.dc

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TOMORROW! Please join us for our curatorial panel at Hypha Studios (1 Poultry London EC2R 8EJ)! @creativedimensionart is somebody who doesn’t hold back so if you’re into honest, insightful conversation in which YOU will also be part of the discussion … please pull up on us tomorrow (Saturday) @ 1pm.RSVP link in bioThank you @davidkwawmensah for these incredible photos 😆📸 by @thomasjames.dc

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We’re excited to invite you to our curatorial panel this Saturday @ 1pm, featuring the exhibition’s curator Thomas James (@thomasjames.dc) and Lison Sabrina Musset (@creativedimensionart), curator and founder of @thecollectivemakers. This conversation will examine the exhibition’s curatorial process, transnational cultural exchange, and how transcuratorial practice, and other strategies of support, contribute to the collective future of the UK’s creative communities. FREE with ticket. Link in bioWe hope to see you there! by @thomasjames.dc

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What a way to open our exhibition Exiting the Forest, Into a Sea of Open Arms! The private view was packed with friends, family, and our arts community and patrons who were both interested in and excited about what we’ve been up to!Thank you to everyone who came through, everyone who helped us promote (tell a friend to tell a friend!), folks who walked by and said “👀”, and our sponsors and funders! More to come!📸: @carlozambon📸: @davidkwawmensah 🎥: @xavierlaurentleopold by @thomasjames.dc

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Exiting the Forest, Into a Sea of Open Arms is NOW OPEN!!! On view through Aug 29 at 1 Poultry, London, EC2R 8EN (Thurs-Fri 12-8pm, Sat-Sun 12-6pm)Super excited to share this work with the London arts community and beyond. More to come! Catalog in bio! by @thomasjames.dc

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📣 HYPHA PRESENTS -‘Exiting the Forest, Into a Sea of Open Arms’ by Vibrantform @vibrantformcollective🎟️ PV: Thursday, 16th July, 6 – 9 PM🔗 RSVP via Hypha Studios’ Eventbrite📍 Hypha Gallery 1 / No. 1 Poultry💭 Vibrantform is an intergenerational uk-based collective of Black male artists, curators, and cultural workers. The collective is built on shared values of contemporary art, cultural expression, positive community impact, and mutual support. The exhibition traces how identity, belonging, and everyday experiences are continuously shaped through perception and social interactions. Through personal stories, found materials, folklore, memory, imagined futures, and the exploration of urban environments, the artists explore how Black diasporic histories are passed on, remembered, reshaped, and reimagined. Rather than following a single theme, the exhibition makes space for each artist's practice to stand on its own. It offers a portrait of a collective actively forming, questioning, and building together, while highlighting the relationships, conversations, and shared experiences that shape its work. At its heart, the exhibition also becomes a reflection of community, accountability, care, and the creative possibilities that emerge between Black men navigating artistic and personal life together.Head to our website for the full press release.👤 Featured artists:Adjani Okpu-Egbe (@adjani_okpu_egbe) Aziah Lusala (@screetart)Donald Senyah (@donzart)David Kwaw Mensah (@davidkwawmensah)Djofray Makumbu (@djofraymakumbu)Emmanuel Awuni (@black__obiwan)Geoffrey Chambers (@Geoffreychambersartist)Joshua Donkor (@joshuadonkorart) Ken Nwadiogbu (@kennwadiogbu)Kwesi Awotwi (@kwesiawotwiart)Neequaye Dreph Dsane (@dreph_)Renoir Saulter (@renoirsaulter)Sani Sani (@inxsanixty)Suley Wellings-Longmore (@suley.art)Tami Masunda (@curatingmoments)Tonye Ekine (@wherestonye)Xavier Laurent Leopold (@XavierLaurentLeopold)Curated by Thomas James @thomasjames.dc🗓 Open: 17th July – 29th August, Thursday – Friday, 12 – 8pm & Saturday – Sunday, 12 – 6pmKindly supported by @cheapsideba by @thomasjames.dc

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Présentation d’archives de la Maison Saint-Joseph was developed during my residency at @msj.art.residency in Crépy-en-Valois, France. Through intuitive staging, juxtaposition, and speculative meaning-making, the exhibition functioned as a situated, embodied archive of my time there.Installed on a 10-foot wooden table in the residency’s formal dining room, the display brought together more than 30 antiques, ephemeral items, and decorative objects from the site’s collection. A responsive approach was taken to arrange this semi-maximalist display, in which formal decisions were made alongside the discovery of truths, both historical and theoretical, that existed within each object. This mode of working allowed me to explore new storytelling tools, especially when not working with contemporary art nor artists. I consider this exhibition a ‘second becoming’: one in which the curatorial operates as a method for understanding worldly intricacies, and where my practice can exist within their exploration.🌟Check out the full essay/reflection using the link in my bio🌟📸: @lutinesque by @thomasjames.dc

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2 months ago

A few install shots from the REVISIT/REIMAGINE exhibition at @bannekerdouglasstubmanmuseum on display until Jan 5, 2025. 📸 @museofire by @thomasjames.dc

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Some incredible install shots from Scorched Petals to Pages now on view at @thenicholsonproject until Nov 16th! A few quick things:1. We have extra poetry zines, so if you aren’t able to visit the space hit me up and I can send you one. 2. Join is on Nov 9th for what promises to be an insightful artist talk.3. I have some free time and will be in and around DC, so if you’d like to visit the space and connect with me in person, send me a DM!Images by Anne Kim / courtesy of The Nicholson Project by @thomasjames.dc

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Install shots from Devotion by Jabari Jefferson curated by me. On display Oct 14-Nov 11, 2023 at The Bishop Gallery (630 Flushing Ave. Brooklyn, NY).📸: Max Lee-Russell by @thomasjames.dc

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3 years ago

Install shots from Get In Where You Fit In: Exploration of Form by Black Women Artists featuring Rhema Jordan Labbe, Rebecca Marimutu, Linnea Poole, and Ciarra K. Walters curated by me. On display Sep 11-Nov 4, 2023 at Brentwood Arts Exchange (3901 Rhode Island Ave. Brentwood, MD).📸: Pete Duvall by @thomasjames.dc

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