About this Event
Artist Talk: Sunday 25 August (11:00am-12:00pm)
Join us for an informal In Conversation with Flannery O'kafka and Ben Harman as they discuss the work in For Willy Love and Booker T: Blue babies do whatever they want part of the Edinburgh Art Festival Programme 2024.
There will be an opportunity to view the exhibition then join Artist, Flannery O'kafka and Ben Harman (Senior Curator of Photography, National Galleries of Scotland) in the gallery, where they will talk about Flannery's work and answer your questions. Sierra Metro will also be broadcasting the talk via instagram live, follow @sierrametro_
All welcome, please email [email protected] if you have any accessibility requirements that we can assist with.
Facilities: Gender neutral toilets, baby change, dog friendly, free wifi, coffee bar.
Exhibition: 11 August - 15 September (open Tuesday-Sunday 10am-2pm or by appointment)
Flannery O'kafka (she/they) is a queer Autistic adoptee artist living and working in Glasgow, graduating from GSA in 2018. Their practice is mostly photographic, but she also works with text & short films, writes filthy poetry, makes zines, and tries hard to stay soft. Born a small-town scandal in the Summer of 1976, O'kafka's work is an emotional document of the search for familiarity and a cumulative clumsy stab at a self portrait (or sometimes a public mourning diary). An interest in amateur museums, passion projects, the medium of the family album, stigmata snapshots, and photography's history of depicting marginalised bodies anchors their work. All work is collaborative in some way and made within a context of care and play and dark comedy. It's maybe mostly about staying alive. O'kafka's images have been shown widely in the UK (including Stills Centre for Photography) as well as internationally (The National Museum Gdańsk, Pinyago Photography Festival, Wunder Der Prärie festival). In 2022 she won the RSA Morton Award for lens-based artists and 3 of their photographs are held in the Scottish Photography collection at City Art Centre in Edinburgh.
Sierra Metro is a not for profit gallery committed to artist-centred practice and our intention is to showcase and support emerging and mid-career visual artists and designers. We aim to engender a climate of flexibility and experimentation for everyone who exhibits with us, and offer broad public access to contemporary art experiences and discussions.
Edinburgh Art Festival #EAF24 programme is now live and takes place in Edinburgh from 9–25 August. The UK’s largest annual festival of visual art is back with a programme that connects the people and city of Edinburgh with global dialogue through a range of exhibitions, commissions, performances and events. This year, EAF celebrates its 20th Birthday and invites audiences to join in a moment to pause, and consider how we have arrived here. EAF24 will reflect on the conditions under which we live, work, gather and resist.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Sierra Metro, 13-15 Ferry Road, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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