Shenece Oretha & Camara Taylor: Some Rhythms Persist

Glasgow Print Studio is delighted to present a two-person exhibition by artists Shenece Oretha & Camara Taylor.

 

The exhibition centres on innovative approaches to making and experiencing sculpture, sound, and printmaking. This includes research-led techniques such as molasses-based mordants for steel etching, instrument mallet forming, printing with rice, and the integration of sound and embodied action. These methods have been explored through a Production Residency at Glasgow Print Studio.

 

The Production Residency, alongside support from the Henry Moore Foundation, has created the conditions for the artists to develop experimental material processes and conceptually rich works grounded in Black histories, sensory experience, and expanded forms of making.

 

Oretha's practice draws on research into Caribbean objects, plants and instruments of communion and defiance-particularly steelpan traditions and the agricultural heritage of the grass family. Her work considers sculpture and print not as a static form, but as a vessel and instrument to unlock and activate the mobilising potential of sound and offer an embodied connection to land.

 

 

Taylor's work traces sugar's industrial heritage and the material residues of colonial trade in the Caribbean and Scotland. Steel, sugar and their byproducts act as both material and conceptual anchors for works that sift through imperial sediment and the afterlives of slavery.

 

Together, the artists have developed several commissioned works based in innovative sculpture and print making that reimagine how these forms can be perceived, produced and somatically experienced. The resulting works will offer new ways of encountering materials, sound and embodied experience, accessible to the public, students, researchers and artists alike.

 

Supported by the Henry Moore Foundation