ROOT-ed Zine: Retrospect, Reality, Reform

7 Oct 2022-22 Jan 2023

Overview

The Tetley presents Retrospect, Reality, Reform, the first institutional exhibition by ROOT-ed Zine.

ROOT-ed Zine’s co-founders and collaborators, Amber Akaunu (she/her) and Fauziya Johnson (she/her), are artist-curators who established the magazine and social platform in 2017, with a commitment to supporting Black, Asian and People of Colour creatives that are from, or based in north west England.

The exhibition includes work by Yasmin Ali (she/her), Liverpool-based filmmaker and photographer; Hanna Gwynn (she/her), comic artist and illustrator based in Liverpool; Linnet Panashe Rubaya (she/her), Leeds-based figurative artist; and Simone Yasmin (she/her), Leeds-based writer, spoken word artist and vocal soul.

The exhibition also includes a free limited edition zine, amplifying the practices of more northern artists and providing insight into the thoughts, ideas and research behind the artworks and curation of the show. This will sit within a reading room alongside an archive of ROOT-ed Zines, dating back to 2018.

Through their practice of platforming, collaborating and archiving, ROOT-ed Zine hope to preserve their community knowledge in order to disrupt institutional cycles and make long-standing and authentic change.