In Conversation: Artist Dean Kelland and James Latunji-Cockbill Part 1

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Join Dean Kelland in conversation with James Latunji - Cockbill about their involvement with the artist residency at HMP Grendon.

James Latunji-Cockbill is a Producer at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham where he manages the artist residency at HMP Grendon, Buckinghamshire. The focus of the residency is towards the development of artistic practice – that of the artist in residence, Dean Kelland, and of the prison’s communities. James facilitates this work by paying particular attention to the project’s national partnerships, organising exhibitions of prisoners’ work and by writing a public programme encouraging reflection on aspects of the residency.

James undertook Film Studies (BA Hons and MA, 2010-15) at the University of Wolverhampton where he developed a keen interest in the moving image and visual art. In 2015, he started working at Ikon, where the gallery’s offsite programmes became a focus.

IKON Gallery: www.ikon-gallery.org

Dean Kelland is Ikon’s artist in residence at HMP Grendon, Buckinghamshire. Funded by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust, the focus of the residency is towards the development of artistic practice at HMP Grendon – that of Kelland and of the prison’s communities. For Kelland, the relationship between artist and prison is an exchange of ideas and practices, an ongoing dialogue that informs all aspects of the residency.

Dean is a UK Based Artist who explores portraiture as a performative practice. His process follows an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates performance film, live performance techniques and photography as well as other media and methods

Dean is also course leader for MA Fine Art at the University of Wolverhampton. 

Art at HMP Grendon: www.ikon-gallery.org/event/artist-in-residence-at-hmp-grendon-2019-2022

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Beatrice Warde's VE Day Diary - A reading by Jessica Glaser / Liz Berry and Tom Hicks: In Conversation / In Conversation: Artist Dean Kelland and James Latunji-Cockbill Part 1 / Dr Max Stewart and Glass Artist Allister Malcolm in Conversation / Lisa Blower and Rob Francis in conversation / Louise Fenton - Lethal in Lace: The Story of a Witchcraft Poppet / Finding our Funny Roots: delving into Black Country humour / Books Across the Sea - Talk by Jessica Glaser / Dr Dean Kelland and James Latunji-Cockbill from IKON In conversation Pt2 / The Rise of Mass Fashion in the Black Country, Talk by Dr Jenny Gilbert / VJ Day Diary of Beatrice Warde - Reading By Jessica Glaser / Printing and Print Culture in the Midlands: a Webinar / Black Country Geopoetics, Talk and Workshop with Writer R.M. Francis / The Haunted and Cursed Dolls in Greyfriars Bothy, Dr Louise Fenton / Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles at Seventy, a talk by Dr Phil Nichols / Pen, Print and Communication in the Eighteenth Century: Webinar Book / We are Invisible, We are Visible / HoPIN Launch Event (History of the Printed Image Network) / 'Somehow', Poetry Reading and Talk with Helen Calcutt / Myriad Editions Literary Salon / Liz Berry Chats Dialect and Poetry with R. M. Francis