About — Exodus Crooks

︎︎︎ My developing goal is to “speak more conversationally, with rather than at an audience, in the rhythm of my own feelings” Stuart Hall

I am a (British-Jamaican) multidisciplinary artist and educator, interested in self-determination and how we make versions of home for ourselves while challenging governed borders of place and body. I am, in no particular order, Black, Queer, invisibly disabled, and autistic, all of which appear within my practice as methodologies for making and resisting.

I tend to work with text, installation, sculpture (assemblage) and moving image. All of which allow me to map out a horizon of emotions and memories that I am reckoning with.

Much of my making uses readily-available materials and found objects to re and dis-member aspects of identity. I am inspired by writing and listening practices, as well Afro-indigenous spirituality, folklore, and love systems.

I am currently a trustee for Film and Video Umbrella and recently served on a regional arts advisory board and a national artists council that advocates for the development and protection of artists. I have previously exhibited and worked with Studio Voltaire, Hospital Rooms, Ikon Gallery, the International Curators Forum, iniva, LUX Scotland and Serpentine Galleries in London. I am proud to work out of a studio in the heart of the Midland’s vibrant art community in Digbeth, Birmingham, working closely with local galleries such as The New Art Gallery Walsall and Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
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Photo credits:
(1) The confession: part 1, Katerzyna Perlak, 2023
(2) A message from my ancestors, Katerzyna Perlak, 2023
(3) Epiphany (Temporaire) installation, Katerzyna Perlak, 2023
(4) Y: the symbol of man, Amadeusz, 2023

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Exodus Crooks

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