Effra Creek! Effra Wash! Effra Splash! Image Behaviour 2022, ICA
Somerset House Studios resident

Kadeem Oak

 Artist and filmmaker based in London.

Somerset House Studios
New Wing

Kadeem Oak is an artist and filmmaker based in London; his work is concerned with the vernacular and reconfiguration of artist's moving image, storytelling and experimental documentation. Examining the ways in which we share and articulate a sense of place through time, locality, sonic experimentation, nature and ecology while exploring new perspectives on Black British identity and a diasporic heritage today.

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Brixton Lift (2014)
Brixton Lift (2014)

Kadeem is currently the recipient of the Arts Council's DYCP grant and was the recipient of the ICA Image Behaviour 2022 production grant which culminated in a solo presentation of his new film installation: Effra Creek! Effra Wash! Effra Splash! in the ICA Theatre in March 2022. Recent group exhibitions/screenings include: Reel, Axis Not Poles (2022) at Cubitt Gallery, London; Nicoletti Gallery (2022); Berbeck Institute of Moving Image (2021); Transmissions, Somerset House (2020).

During his residency Kadim will be working towards completing his Arts Council DYCP project encompassing the research and production of a film / installation work touching on themes such as: black ecology, ethnobotany and British botanical gardens.

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Still from Effra Creek! Effra Wash! Effra Splash! (2022)
Still from Effra Creek! Effra Wash! Effra Splash! (2022)