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K’Zhayha James

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
K'Zhayha James Kzhayha.James@mail.bcu.ac.uk
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
2022
#Activist
#Educator

“Unheard conversations” is K’Zhayha’s personal experience of motherhood; a difficult time where, alongside the joy of being a new mother, she experienced postpartum depression, hair loss, breastfeeding and body dysmorphia. Things not spoken about or not considered ‘normal’.

The effects of these situations are known but, surprisingly, not part of the popular ‘motherhood’ narratives. There is very little information to help understand the emotional, mental and physical burden a mother has to endure once she has given birth. In K’Zhayha’s work, operating as Artist Activist/Educator, she documents conversations with young mums, using the everyday materials such as breast pads, clumps hair and pieces of clothing to represent the everyday struggles.

The six plaster tiles in the exhibition represent the six months after the birth of her baby, a time in which she endured these experiences before finding a balance between social life and baby.

Past Shows

The annual Degree Show is a highly anticipated event amongst staff, students, external partners and friends of the School of Art – it provides a platform for the work that the students have spent so long conceiving and producing. The 2023 Degree Show has been realised through an ongoing testing of ideas in public arenas in which the discourse around art practice takes place. This process of realising practice which engages with audiences has over […]

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Zehui Ju
Zehui Ju
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Niki Loizidou
Niki Loizidou
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Sharon Efomi
Sharon Efomi
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#Educator #Historian #Storyteller
A digital illustration showing a small boy by his bed. His mum is facing the wall so all we can see is her back. The woman and young boy are both African-Caribbean. The scene shows a boys bedroom, it is dark blue and there is a small desk and chair with a book shelf to its left.
Colette Walsh
Colette Walsh
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Colette Walsh