Resonances: Ain Bailey with Christine Kirubi, Gail Lewis, and Elle Reynolds - Camden Art Centre
Type
Events
Format
In the Building
Date 14 Jun 2026
16:00-17:30
Price £4/5
Book

Conversation, listening and reflection

In place of a conventional artist’s talk, Resonances brings together Christine Kirubi, Gail Lewis, and Elle Reynolds in response to Ain Bailey’s exhibition The Jamaica Project at Camden Art Centre. Through conversation, listening and reflection, the event explores expanded approaches to interpretation and collective exchange.

Taking Bailey’s exhibition as a point of departure, the programme invites open-ended and experimental responses that move beyond singular readings of the work. Bringing together distinct perspectives and forms of knowledge, Resonances foregrounds dialogue and attentive listening as shared modes of engagement.

Developed as part of Camden Art Centre’s Public Programme, the event reflects an ongoing interest in interdisciplinary and discursive formats that connect artistic practice with broader social, cultural, literary and sonic histories.

Contributors

dove / Christine Kirubi is a poet-artist based in London. She is the author of WILDPLASSEN published by the87press in 2024.

Gail Lewis has written, but is trying to become a writer; Gail likes to speak, but is still seeking her tonalities; Gail sometimes feels lonely, inept and scared; but Gail is brought into being in and by the company, care and joy of black/women of colour feminisms and queer knowings and livings.

Elle Reynolds, scholar/researcher/quiet disrupter, has an extensive background in organising practice and teaching within art higher education. Yet she continually challenges traditional institutional structures, reimagining the use of time and space in academia. Working both within and against these frameworks, Elle formulates strategies for alternative models of education systematically applying her concept of Diagonal Practices. Her making includes object installation, collaborative events, performative lectures, and interventions that unsettle the notion of archive through spatial exploration, participation, and the disruption of academic language. She holds a PhD investigating alternative art school spaces and serves as a Non-Executive Director and Board member of TOMA (The Other MA), an alternative art school in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Elle is currently Programme Leader of the Graduate Diploma in Art at Goldsmiths.