ESka
& Dan Canyon
Showcasing local artists and creatives,
come and see what your creative community
has been dreaming up!
Art is everywhere and nowhere more than our local Hastings & St Lens Neighbourhoods. The Shop Front Gallery is a paid opportunity for local artists to showcase a piece of work and give access to all to experience a wide variety of local artist work- whenever you want!
come and see our latest artists: Eska & Dan Canyon: 'the ordinary life of a magic woman"
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Tuesday 20th april - Sunday 17th May
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24hours just walk by
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Afri-Co-Lab, 3 Marine Court, Tn38 0DX
About:
The ordinary life of a magic woman
Reflections from eska:
The Ordinary Life of a Magic Woman is a window into an ongoing creative exchange between myself and Dan Canyon - an evolving archive of conversation, image and sound, translated into visual form.
This work has grown through dialogue. Over time, we’ve shared voice notes, late-night calls, references, drawings, fragments of text and music - an accumulation of moments that now sit together in this space. What you see here is not just the outcome, but the process itself: album artwork, photography, moving image, and the WhatsApp messages that held it all together.
I’m interested in the idea of the everyday as art - how the ordinary, when attended to, becomes something else. This project holds that attention. It traces a call-and-response between us, shaped by time, trust and curiosity.
Here, fragments, gestures and exchanges are not background - they are the work.
Reflections from DAn canyon:
This project was sewn together through conversation, in pixel and in person. A catalog of WhatsApp messages, feature-film length phone calls, images, movie clips, gifs, memes and the written word. The call and response of creative exchange.
Through a seemingly unending series of black swan events, both universal and personal, we kept the conversation moving. The anchor of this exchange was the premise of ‘The Everyday as Art’.
We lent into the monochrome world of 70’s video art, flirted with comic book formats, delved into typewriter art and concrete poetry and got lost in the grain of old Japanese photography books.
All the while soundtracked by the emerging songs and mixes of the album. Eska and the machine, dancing for us (all).
Check back Next week for images from the instalLation
the install
dan canyon
eska
eska
ESKA is a multi-disciplinary artist, composer and performer working across music, visual art, film and text. A Mercury Prize–nominated artist, she has released acclaimed solo albums, composed for film and theatre, and collaborated with a wide range of international artists. Alongside an extensive touring history, her practice also extends into acting and broadcast, reflecting a fluid, interdisciplinary approach.
Rooted in voice as both instrument and idea, her work explores improvisation, storytelling and transformation across forms. Moving between composition, image-making and collaborative exchange, she creates works that blur the boundaries between the sonic and the visual, the personal and the collective.
At its core, ESKA’s practice is concerned with presence: how we listen, how we witness, and how meaning is made through sustained creative dialogue.
dan canyon
I like making many things. Films for instance, music, written pieces. Cakes, sometimes. But subversion seems to be the thing I like the most. Finding something and changing its meaning; the narrative of a cartoon, the context of a song. Known things gently shifted. Sometimes it’s a starting point and sometimes it’s the point. Either way, it’s what I like to do.