This talk will bring together artist Olukemi Lijadu and resident Pamela Dayes. For Rooms of Neighbours, Lijadu puts Pamela’s photo albums in conversation with photos of her late maternal grandmother – Beryl Ediale – both Jamaican women who migrated to the UK before spending time in West Africa. By extracting and enlarging small markers of overlapping histories and experiences between Dayes and Ediale, the works become a collaborative document exploring the self fashioning of Caribbean women at that time.

Olukemi delved into Pamela’s family photos and those of her own grandmother, setting them against each other in framed works that hang in Pamela’s home on Clifton Crescent. Their silver bangles, kitten heels and red nails act as markers that root them in connected cultures, eras and geographies.