The evening will feature hands-on activities, reflective discussions, and a guided tour of the Leonardo Drew exhibition with curator Lily Tonge. Drew’s practice will serve as a springboard for exploring identity and inclusion in the classroom.

Come to engage with the exhibition, connect with fellow educators, and leave with fresh ideas, inspiration, and practical tools for your teaching.

SLG’s programmes for teachers are designed to support individual practice development, empower educators to drive positive change in their schools, and promote the wellbeing of all students. Through twilight workshops, study days, and online sessions, we focus on developing skills in inclusive and anti-racist creative practices. Our goal is to foster a supportive community where teachers can connect, share, and grow together.

ACCESS

Wheelchair Access and Accessible Toilets are available at this site.Please let us know if you have any additional access needs at paul@southlondongallery.orgABOUT YOLANDA SHIELDS

Yolanda Shields aka Milktooth is a South London based artist that engages in intuitive colour journalling, constructing assemblage with fabrics and watercolours. Inspired by their Jamaican background, they merge folklore, dialect, and tradition to create a personal iconography. Inventing language to explore memories and record conditions of being, their work is process led catharsis. They have taken part in exhibitions at Turf Projects where they remain an active member of the artist community and Facilities Lead. They are currently working on a body of mixed media works titled “Altars to my Alters” where they assemble altars in memoriam to their fractured selves.

ABOUT LEONARDO DREW

Leonardo Drew’s works have been shown nationally and internationally, and are included in numerous public and private collections. Public institutions include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; and Tate, London, among others. Drew also collaborated with Merce Cunningham on the production of “Ground Level Overlay”. New York Times art critic Roberta Smith describes his large reliefs as “pocked, splintered, seemingly burned here, bristling there, unexpectedly delicate elsewhere. An endless catastrophe seen from above. The energies intimated in these works are beyond human control, bigger than all of us”. Drew currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and San Antonio, Texas.