Meet 2025 Stuart Hall Fellow, Bleue Liverpool
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Last updated: Tuesday, 6 May 2025
As part of her Stuart Hall fellowship, Bleue Liverpool is collaborating with Nigerian sound artist Ibukun Sunday in the Brighton Festival, producing a visual soundscape that explores the migration narratives of East and West Sussex coastline port culture.
Earlier this year the School of Media, Arts and Humanities welcomed Bleue Liverpool as the 2024 Stuart Hall Fellow. For this year’s Brighton Festival, she will collaborate with Nigerian sound artist Ibukun Sunday, to produce a visual soundscape that explores the migration narratives of East and West Sussex coastline port culture.
What is the Stuart Hall Fellowship?
The Stuart Hall Fellowship is a partnership between the Stuart Hall Foundation and the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, established in 2018. The Foundation is committed to promoting cultural diversity and understanding through the arts.
Each year as part of its pledge to support new artists, the Fellowship is awarded to a local artist to help develop their skills and gain valuable experience to work with academics in their chosen field.
As part of the partnership, the University of Sussex also offers opportunities to students including the Stuart Hall MA Scholarship with a tuition fee discount of £5,000 and two funded Stuart Hall Foundation PGR Studentships.
Meet Bleue Liverpool, Stuart Hall Fellow
Bleue Liverpool is a New York City and London based Caribbean-American intermedia artist, who uses film, photography, text and new media techniques sculpturally to explore and illustrate anti-colonial feminist and non-binary diasporic movements.
She has exhibited at museums and galleries across the world, including New York, Geneva and Berlin, and this will be her first time presenting her work to a UK audience.
Festival of Ideas: an unclassified syncretism, 23 May
As an intermedia artist, Bleue Liverpool is collaborating with musician and sound artist, Ibukun Sunday, to create an audio visual intervention with the Meeting House Chapel.
The duo will composite the metaphysical abstractions of University of Sussex alumni Paul Gilroy with research into migration narratives and landscapes of the south east English Channel coastline port culture.
Festival of Ideas: an unclassified syncretism is taking place on Friday 23 May, 7.30pm at The Meeting House, and tickets are £5. Book your ticket.