Having this on my CV and being able to reference this work with Alberta has led to other opportunities that felt beyond my grasp before.’ - YP

During Summer 2021,  Abergavenny Train Station was one of a series of new locations across the UK hosting Art Night 2021 - a free month-long annual contemporary art festival. Over five weekends from 18 June to 17 July 2021, Platfform 2 presented Creating dangerously (we-I insist!), a trio of film works by Barbadian-Scottish artist Alberta Whittle. I developed the paid professional development programme for young artists, curators and writers to offer paid opportunities to invigilate the space alongside training and group workshops. Alongside caring for Alberta’s work, I developed a series of mentoring sessions bespoke to young people’s needs and interests - including with artists, writers and curators: Laura O’Leary and Alice O’Rouke (Assistant curators for Turner Prize at the time), Kandace Siobhan Walker, Dylan Huw.

You can read more about the wider programme, including writing commissions HERE

“While invigilating at Platfform 2, I was aware of the constant buzzing movement of people through the landscape. In contrast, the small screening room offered a serene resting point for weary travellers. But Alberta Whittle's films highlighted how minorities never had the pleasure to move freely, but instead were forced to migrate to entirely unknown places against their will. The train station setting emphasised just how fortunate we are: to be able to go wherever we want, whenever we want.” – Invigilator at Platfform 2.

Image credits: Polly Thomas, Vaida Barzdaite