BLACK OUT FESTIVAL
A day featuring Black startup founders & investors
‘The Future of Black Art ’
Kanaiza in Conversation with artist Aaron Bevan Bailey at the Phoenix Court Group.
Kanaiza was delighted to host the art and culture segment of the Black Out Festival alongside Aaron Bevan-Bailey at Local Globe.
Aaron speaks on his time in Kenya and shares the stories behind the indigenous Samburu tribe that feature in the selection of his art that was curated on display at the Black Out Festival.
Multidisciplinary artist Aaron Bevan-Bailey was born in Peckham south London, of Jamaican and Scottish heritage. His paintings reflect having to negotiate ever changing boundaries of race, environment, identity and anonymity. The work seeks to explore the fractured connection we experience in modern society.
It is the inner sanctuary which Bevan-Bailey is striving to capture within his portraits.
“People are just a collection of stories that they tell about themselves when you remove that fragile perception of self you make room for a much deeper sense of connection awareness and understanding to happen.”
