Banana Sharks Youth Collective
Hampden Park
Ongoing
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Towner Eastbourne is delivering sessions at Willingdon Trees Community Centre in Hampden Park, supporting the development and delivery of an artist-led collaborative youth project. Young people (11 – 19) will work with artist Babalola Yusuf and artist and therapist Dana Brass to explore art-making processes and experiment with themes and materials in a safe, supportive environment onsite in Hampden Park.
In August 2024, the Banana Sharks collaborated on an outcome in response to Future Collect's artist Maria Amidu: in the perpetual back and forth exhibition at Towner. Find out more about this event Lots of Great Things!
About Dana Brass
Dana Brass is an interdisciplinary artist, primarily working with photography, drawing, painting, and printmaking. Dana is also a psychotherapist and supervisor.
Dana has worked as an artist-facilitator in community organisations, with people of all ages and backgrounds, for over 15 years. In particular, Dana enjoys the group process and facilitation of collaborative work. Originally from the USA, Dana moved to the UK in 1998. Dana has lived in East Sussex since 2006.
About Babalola Yusuf
Babalola Yusuf is a multidisciplinary artist interested in how art can explore intersections, how it is possible for a photograph or the repetition of a phrase or simple imagery to transcend itself. Much like a seed which in specific soil, with specific conditions, begins to unfold up and into light – is it possible through an artwork to exist to both soil and sky, to experience eternity in time? Babalola works with performance, painting, film, photography, sculpture and sound and was on Flatland Projects' Early Careers Programme from 2022/2023.
With support from The Meads Fund - Sussex Community Foundation and John Jackson Charitable Trust