Access BEAF

Access BEAF is a group of emerging artists from across Bournemouth and Dorset. The group was set up to support one another, particularly for those artists who have experienced racism and may have faced barriers and access into the arts and education.

The artists within this exhibition are using the Sovereign Centre as a test space to experiment, acting as a platform to share their work with a wider audience in a shared space.

Access BEAF exhibition is a BEAF 2023 Commission

Sat 17-Sun 25 June, 11am – 6pm
Free event

Banner Image ©️ Elizabeth Walker. Images from top left to bottom right: Huda Osni, Salma Adi, Adilson Naueji, Elizabeth Walker, Lucas Militao, Prajvi Mandhani, Tracey Jane, Miles Bagarinao (animation) and Dr. Aanka Batta (performance video)

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Artist Bios

Salma Adi
Salma Adi is a conceptual artist, author, and art teacher based in Bournemouth. Her burning desire to answer the question of “Who am I? and How can I be here?” made her dive into analytical psychology to explore the depth of B E I N G, leading her to create art in different mediums that are mind-state conscious based. Art helps Salma evoke conceptuality and form a precise incarnation of complex states humans experience. Since art has significantly influenced her life, her mission has been to help people unfold their potential and create better life journeys. Salma considers her art as visual affirmations, which can be a self-discovering journey and a self-empowering tool to support people in their lives.
SALMAADIART

Miles Bagarinao
saltseashark (he/they) is an all-rounder, jack-of-all trades artist that makes silly TTRPGs, short video games, animations and illustrations for whatever medium suits at the time, recently making art about the transmasc experience. He creates heartfelt short stories of characters in extreme situations through illustration, animation and interactive media.
@saltseashark saltseashark.portfolio.site

Dr. Aanka Batta
Aanka Batta is a south asian born artist and activist residing in the UK. She explores migration, race relations and gender in her work. Aanka is a performance poet who combines theatre and poetry to deliver emotionally evocative experiences. She has performed at theatre venues nationally, and at conferences, festivals and demonstrations. Aanka is also a public speaker on political matters centered on race. She speaks at public sector meetings and also does case work in anti-racism advocacy.

Tracey Jane
Tracey Jane graduated from Exeter College of Art and Design and has painted in all media throughout her life. Now she concentrates purely on acrylics on canvas or wood. Since moving to Dorset from London in 2016, she has been inspired by the beautiful Dorset coastline and her experiences as an Argentine Tango dancer and teacher. Currently she is trying to express the energy and connection of people whilst they dance and also their relationship to others in the room.
www.bfmedia.co.uk

Prajvi Mandhani
Prajvi Mandhani works across video, sound, printmaking, and drawing. She creates multi-media installations through a blend of digital as well as material-led processes. She is interested in creating experiential works that contain multiple video screens and channels of audio.
prajvimandhanicom.wordpress.com @poetic_licence_

Lucas Militao
Lucas Militao is a Brazilian musician, digital and stencil artist. In love with arts in all forms, he was always interested in play and study different media, from visual arts to music, dancing and anything that he can use to connect to his emotions. He thinks art is necessary in human lives as it’s a way to understand your own feelings. Now a days the main medium used are digital and stencil art that he uses together to create his paintings. His stencils usually use strong contrasting colours due to the medium limitations, but it’s also a great way for evoking strong emotions. Lucas is excited about this new tools and think it will be great to inspire not only him but everyone in the world.
instagram.com/um_dia_posto_arte

Adilson Naueji
“Curiosity in from who, where from, and how they fell in and with surrounding…”
Adilson Naueji is currently based in Bournemouth, originally from Angola but more than anywhere African. He advocates that everyone has a story behind their facial features and is proud to introduce these people to the world. This is the foundation for his work: realistic portraits in acrylic or oil on canvas, this is his first exhibition experience but he has done several commissions.

Huda Osni
Huda Osni is currently pursuing a Ba (Hons) Film Production degree at Arts University Bournemouth. She is currently doing research on her own heritage and identity. She has always believed that films are a great medium of telling stories.
And spends a lot of her time watching films and analyzing them. She explains “It’s fun to watch people’s theories on the stories as well. I hope that one day I get to create a compelling and impactful story with the resources I have.”
http://hudaosni.creatorlink.net/index#HOME

Samantha Zandile Ngwenya
Samantha Zandile Ngwenya is a talented Bournemouth-based artist with a passion for shining a spotlight onto familiar, mundane and frankly “bog standard” subject matters. Born and raised in Bournemouth by her parents who emigrated from Zimbabwe, Samantha developed a non-stop work ethic that drives her artistic passion. She draws inspiration from the Renaissance work of Edward Hopper and Vilhelm Hammershoi, as well as contemporary artist George Shaw. By exploring the unorthodox, Samantha aims to inspire conversation and evoke feelings that transport you back to a moment in your own life. With relatability and community at the heart of her practice, there is no need to shroud her story with artistic jargon.
www.szngwenya.com @szngwenya

Elizabeth Walker
Elizabeth Walker was born in Zapopan Mexico and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She now lives and works in the UK. She is a mixed media artist with her mediums including oil paint, digital collage, photograms, and photography. Her practice is concerned with combining the figurative and the natural through forms of collage that then spark compositions for oil paintings. Her oil paintings currently explore themes of memory, time passing, and diaspora. Her subjects are often family members or close friends as her work likes to explore relationships and human connection.
https://ewalkerart1706.wixsite.com/my-site-2 @ewalker.art