Leeds West Indian Carnival is Europe’s longest-running authentic Caribbean carnival parade. Started in 1967 as an antidote to the yearning for the Caribbean culture and heritage of a group of West Indian students in Leeds – today is a place for joy, feathers, steel pan drums, sound systems and political activism. This piece is a ’16-’17 record of that tradition of song, dance and costume taking over the streets of the Caribbean Chapeltown suburb.
Gretė Tvarkūnaitė (b.’94) is a photographer / multimedia artist (BA Photography ’16, MA Digital Media ’17, University of Huddersfield, UK). The main subject that interests her and therefore occupies her work is a study of people: their relationship to the physical environment, and to the economic, political and intellectual conditions that determine them.
Her work has been presented in various group exhibitions and media outlets in the United Kingdom (’15 – ’18), China (’16) and Lithuania (’17 – ’24). For the project “not one dimensional society”, Gretė was awarded major bursary by the Association for Photography in Higher Education (APHE, UK, ’16) and Dean’s Award for Contemporary Practice (University of Huddersfield, UK, ’16). Also, was an artist selected for the Royal Photographic Society’s lnternational Photography Exhibition 160 (RPS, UK, ’17), Vilnius Photo Circle Festival (LT, ’17) and Nida OFF (LT. ’20). For the project “region nubibus”, Gretė was an artist selected for the Photo Circle Festival (LT, ’23).
She also curates as well as coordinates projects and residencies at the independent art platform “Iškrovos” and the Užupis art incubator (LT).
currently based in Vilnius, Lithuania
/ works on personal and commissioned projects worldwide
\ reach out for any idea and we will sort this out together