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2024-06-19
Abdulrazaq Awofeso: at Aberdeen Art Gallery

Our fellow Abdulrazaq Awofeso is participating in a group exhibition New Aberdeen Bestiary at the Aberdeen Art Gallery in Scotland.


The 50th anniversary of Peacock – a workshop for art, Aberdeen’s renowned print studio, is being marked with an exhibition of the New Aberdeen Bestiary at Aberdeen Art Gallery.


The exhibition is the culmination of a three-year collaborative project involving Peacock printmakers and seven international artists from a variety of cultural and artistic backgrounds, from performance art to textiles. The artists are Abdulrazaq Awofeso, Delaine Le Bas, Joy Charpentier, Carla Felipe, Julio Jara, Sadie Main and Pedro G Romero.

The New Aberdeen Bestiary has been inspired by the 12th-century illuminated manuscript known as the Aberdeen Bestiary. It arrived in Aberdeen during the 17th century when it entered the library collection at Marischal College. It is now in the collections of the University of Aberdeen. Prompted by the amount of marginalia in the medieval text, the notes, comments and corrections, sketches and doodles, the New Aberdeen Bestiary looks at the liminal spaces between categories, where categories shift and morph into one another; the blurry areas between animal and beast.


The exhibition is curated by Nuno Sacramento, Director of Peacock & the worm.

Work by artist Abdulrazaq Awofeso, exploring memories and stories, both personal and universal, revolving around the figure of the cock and the keeping of chicken.


Photo: Two of the exhibiting artists, Abdulrazaq Awofeso and Sadie Main, pictured at the Art Gallery with exhibition curator Nuno Sacramento, Director of Peacock & the worm


8 June 2024 – 5 January 2025, Aberdeen Art Gallery (Gallery 16), admission free.


For visiting information go here

More information about the New Aberdeen Bestiary here

About the work of Abdulrazaq Awofeso here

Thami Mnyele Foundation promotes the exchange of art and culture between Africa, African Diaspora and Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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