- Hairytage archive with Alix Bizet
- Literary provocations with Dr. Nicole King, Goldsmiths University with yr. 9 English Students
- Crafting Beauty with Louise Rondell, Goldsmiths University, with yr. 9 textile students
These workshops explored the importance of hair, both in Peckham and the wider community.
Hair has a history, shaped by fashion, controlled by gender or by age.
Hair has a history, formed by culture or class and cut by power.
Hair is part of our cultural identity, whether we have it in abundance or not.
Hair is a material, it is holds our DNA: whether straight, permed, natural, dyed, short, long, fake, extended, hair is a signifier of our identity.
Hairdressers are part of the DNA of a community.
As the Hairytage film explored the complex nature of Afro Caribbean hair dressers have an integral role in community life, they move far beyond a place to simply get a haircut.
We discussed texts such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah, and Malcom X’s recounting of the first time he relaxed his hair.
We played with beauty materials to disrupt beauty standards that affect us all.
Thinking through crafting, sticking, cutting, forming and reforming.
We collected hair from our school and the local hairdressers to form the thread that stitches this project together.
Click below for further details of each creative exchange
Hair has a history, shaped by fashion, controlled by gender or by age.
Hair has a history, formed by culture or class and cut by power.
Hair is part of our cultural identity, whether we have it in abundance or not.
Hair is a material, it is holds our DNA: whether straight, permed, natural, dyed, short, long, fake, extended, hair is a signifier of our identity.
Hairdressers are part of the DNA of a community.
As the Hairytage film explored the complex nature of Afro Caribbean hair dressers have an integral role in community life, they move far beyond a place to simply get a haircut.
We discussed texts such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah, and Malcom X’s recounting of the first time he relaxed his hair.
We played with beauty materials to disrupt beauty standards that affect us all.
Thinking through crafting, sticking, cutting, forming and reforming.
We collected hair from our school and the local hairdressers to form the thread that stitches this project together.
Click below for further details of each creative exchange