Tab Space X Art et al: Cultural Connections
In Spring 2024, we began a British Council funded international collaboration with Tab Space supported studio in Indonesia. We wanted to introduce the two partnerships that will be involved in each Peer to Peer collaboration, sharing the outcomes later in the year. Follow the projects over on our social media to see what happens!
The first collaboration
Angkasa Emir
Angkasa Emir likes to draw kind-hearted creatures. As an artist with autism, Angkasa enjoys exploring various mediums for his artwork. Angkasa has been creating art since 2017 when he joined an art therapy institution. In 2018, Angkasa was involved in his first collective art exhibition in the capital city of Jakarta. The works he presented were a collection of homages to famous paintings that he painted with acrylic on canvas.
In the following years, Angkasa's works were actively involved in collective exhibitions with Tab Space, including the Indonesian Contemporary Art and Design 12 (2022), Lets Be Friends at Jabar Art Space IKEA Kota Baru Parahyangan (2022), and Open in New Tab: Selasar Sunaryo at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space (2023).
Photograph credit Tab Space
Richard Phoenix
Richard Phoenix is an artist working in London and the South East whose practice involves painting, drawing, writing, music and learning about how these things support people to be together.
Recent projects include a solo exhibition at Flatland Projects, group shows at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool (shortlisted for John Moore’s Painting Prize) and Exeter Phoenix Gallery (prize winner in the Exeter Contemporary Open), publishing the full length work of non-fiction 'Do Your Own Thing’ through Rough Trade Books, facilitating projects and giving talks at Towner Gallery, South London Gallery, Cubitt Gallery, Studio Voltaire, London College of Communication and Goldsmiths. He was an artist-in-residence within Tate’s Schools and Teachers department, was part of the Conditions Studio Programme in Croydon and published the pamphlet 'D.I.Y. as Privilege: A Manifesto' with Rough Trade Books in 2020. He has worked with learning disability arts organisations and individual artists and musicians since 2006 as a facilitator, collaborator and project co-ordinator and has been Associate Artist for Heart n Soul since 2015.
Photograph credit Robin Christian
The second collaboration
Suzanne M Yazid
Suzanne is the eldest woman artist at the Indonesian support studio, Tab Space. She is always upbeat and cheerful during sessions, and truly enjoys a variety of hands-on activities!
As an individual with cerebral palsy, Suzanne's work captures wobbly lines that give her art a distinctive look. Suzanne is someone who is eager to learn. Prior to developing her current interest in drawing, she enjoyed stitching into a specific illustration template.
2022 was groundbreaking year for Suzanne, as it was the first time her artwork was exhibited in a collective Tab Space exhibition: "Let's Be Friend" at Jabar Art Space IKEA Kota Baru Parahyangan, Bandung. In 2023, Suzanne, along with other Tab Space artists, participated in the exhibition "Open in New Tab: Selasar Sunaryo" at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung.
Photograph courtesy of Tab Space.
James Lambert
James Lambert is an artist and illustrator living and working in London. Drawing lies at the heart of his practice, often digitally manipulated combining graphic line, ‘thumb-like’ figures, solid flat colour, rhythm and pattern. He is interested in the ability to communicate the intangible and the use of omnipresent visual codes and symbols to talk across divides. Images often only existing as digital files are imbued with a sense of melancholy, and embrace the absurd, sometimes big topics are explored in simple universal terms. Tableau take inspiration from personal experience as well as infographics encountered in the everyday.
James has worked on a wide range of creative projects that intersect other disciplines from fashion, film and architecture to illustrating current events in newspapers. He considers this process of commission a collaboration and is also interested in arts dissemination across different platforms in popular culture.
Graduating from the Royal College of Art, his work is housed the Tate Archives and has been exhibited at the Design Museum. His solo show Look and Learn - 40 looped animations was held at Sketch gallery London.