Portrait of an Almshouse
Sandi Hudson-FrancisFilm still from Portrait of an Almshouse by Sandi Hudson-Francis, 2024
Film still from Portrait of an Almshouse by Sandi Hudson-Francis, 2024
Sandi Hudson-Francis was commissioned to make a film portrait of a community and their home at a time of change. Over 18 months 2022-2023 the artist visited Edward Edwards House, attending the weekly knitting club and chatting over tea in residents’ flats as the moving date approaches. The film gently documents the lives, histories and relationships within this South London community and their echo in the gradually emptying flats and garden.
Biography
Sandi Hudson-Francis is a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist working in photography, moving image, sound, and sculpture. She is particularly interested in the ways in which the past and the present intersect and in histories that are forgotten and often misrepresented. She believes that by amplifying the voices and experiences of people from marginalised communities we can begin to challenge and resist certain kinds of conservatising representation and at the same time create new and exciting representations.
Selected exhibitions and screenings: The Decolonising Lens – Super Sam, Barbican Centre, London (2021); Lambeth Heritage Festival, 198 Contemporary Arts, London (2021); Super Sam, Sheffield Doc Fest (2021); Super Sam, National Portrait Gallery (2019); Everyday Now, Copeland Gallery, London (2018); A bath of self-esteem, Ferrara Residency 2017, Galleria del Carbone, Ferrara (2017); Selected Drawings, Dorchester Court, London (2016).
