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Larry Achiampong

Larry Achiampong - What I am Reading Now… Monthly Digital Publication at Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee What I am Reading Now… is a monthly digital publication and learning platform that provides a critically engaged space for Black practitioners and practitioners of Colour to share ideas, research, and reflections. Established in 2020 in response to the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement and urgen...

Larry Achiampong

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Larry Achiampong (b. 1984, London) is a British-born, Ghanaian artist who lives and works in Essex. His projects employ film, still imagery, aural and visual archives, live performance, objects, sound, and game design to engage with ideas surrounding class, gender, cross-cultural, and digital identity. With works that examine his communal and personal heritage, in particular, the intersection between popular culture and the residues of colonisation, Achiampong crate-digs the vaults of history. These investigations examine constructions of “the self” through splicing the audible and visual materials of personal and interpersonal archives, offering multiple perspectives that reveal deeply entrenched inequalities. In 2025, Tate Publishing released Achiampong’s debut monograph, ‘If It Don’t Exist, Build It’.

He has had recent solo exhibitions at venues including Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, UK, 2024; a touring exhibition in the UK at Turner Contemporary in Margate, MK Gallery in Milton Keynes, and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, 2022–23; and PHI, Montreal, 2021. His work has also been commissioned by Art on the Underground, London, 2022; Liverpool Biennial, 2021; and The Line, London, 2020. Achiampong received the Stanley Picker Fellowship in 2020 and the Paul Hamlyn Award in 2019.
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What I am Reading Now… invites Black practitioners and practitioners of colour to share, with a preface, a selection of five readings that are shaping their current thinking, research and practice.

DJCAD Degree Show previews tonight! Open Saturday and all week!

Art student's show-stopping exhibition launches in Dundee The Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design's Degree Show is ...

We’re counting down to DJCAD Degree Show 2026!
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Opening times
Saturday 23 - Sunday 31 May 2026
10am – 4pm each day

Extended late openings until 8pm
Thursday 28
Saturday 30

Free, unticketed and open to all
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Artwork (detail) by Mathew Tilbrook, Fine Art


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Reuter in Tehran
Live performance
11 April 2026

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Film excerpts
‘The Lovers’ Wind (Bad-e Saba)’ by Albert Lamorisse (1978)
‘Minab’s Thursday School’ by Nasser Taghvai (1935)

Poem
Kayf Nansaby by intibint (2026)

3D model
Magi Chapel, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence (1459–60), first bank institution in Europe, fresco by Benozzo Gozzoli
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The last event in the programme ‘Weird Economies X Scotland’, co-curated with Bahar Noorziadeh accompanying Noorizadeh’s exhibition ‘The Debtor’s Portal’.

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The Debtor’s Portal is now closed.

Here’s glimpse of what the press covered!
for
Susan Mansfield
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Bahar Noorizadeh
The Debtor’s Portal

Exhibition continues
Tuesday – Saturday, 12–5pm
until 11 April 2026
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📸 A young visitor in the show
Installation views Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, 2026
Photos sent by our colleague John Robinson
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The exhibition is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and with the kind support of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Centenary Trust. The Otolith Collective is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

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