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Some stills from an evening of short film screenings. 06/03/26 Biggest thank you to @a____9.o and @miriampescaru2.0 Captured by Jacob @jahcob5_

6/03 - Twilight Contemporary ••• Blessings to all the filmmakers, @cla.yfoot , @miriampescaru , @sound_services , @twilight_contemporary , @twilight_lates , everyone who lent me equipment and to my brother and right hand @hal.igtree who patterned the sound for the eve and without whom I might never put out a single fire. ••• Captured by Jacob @jahcob5_ as always

Unlimited thank you’s so everyone who made it to Téa’s (@a____9.o , ‘Continuing in Skin’ last weekend ❤️ We’re so grateful to everyone who showed up, spent time, and shared the space with us. 📸: @wilfmerson

(Part 1) Ahead on her @set.stage.gallery installation debut, we sat with Téa (@a____9.o ) to talk tattoos, cultural symbolism & inspiration as we trace identity through skin, memory and mark making. The last available tickets are available through the link in our bio! ✨ 🎥: @kamal.casj Edit/ direction: @thereturnofshe

‘Continuing in skin’ by Téa-Anya Earle (@a____9.o ) draws lines of connection between ancient and contemporary tattoo histories. Leaning into frameworks around collective memory and grounded in pre-colonial and indigenous aesthetics, this installation seeks out reappraisal of the relationships between body modification, skin marking and recollection 📍 Stage Gallery, SET Social Peckham 🗓 Fri 20 Feb | 19:00–22:00 (Opening Night ) Ends: Sun 22 Feb 🎟 Free/£5 Donation Tickets linked in bio! poster & direction: @thereturnofshe

Continuing in Skin. A meditation on mark-making, the body and memory by Téa-Anya Sage Earle (@a____9.o ) at Set Stage Gallery (@set.stage.gallery ) 20th February. Free RSVP Link in Bio🤍 direction: @thereturnofshe

excuse my delayed processing, here are some colours from my year just passed. Onto the next ♾️

Final few days of ‘Subvert Your Gaze to Meet Mine’. We will be closing this Saturday with an artist talk co-led by myself and @ma.kevelli , expanding/ elaborating/ complexifying. Sign up link in my bio if you would like to see and hear.

Deepest gratitude to all my people, all the artists and all who came and saw yesterday. ‘Subvert Your Gaze to Meet Mine’ remains open till 13th September. Love. 📸⭐️- @jahcob5_

THIS EVE. From 6pm, 378 Essex Rd, London N1 3PF

‘Subvert Your Gaze to Meet Mine’ opens in just under a week @twilight_contemporary . The culmination of more than a year’s work - thinking thoughts, connecting the dots and bringing them to life. Curated by me but with deepest gratitude to sam, aarony, colin and all my peopledem. Special love to the artists @aaronybailey @emilyalicemitch @k.africana @khadijacecileart @calliste.art @monicaokello @ncharles.art @npariss @saint.akua @yvadneydavisart Join us from 6pm 28/08 to feast ur eyes More info here /subvertyourgazetomeetmineainfo •••••••• ‘Our most private thoughts and feelings, our tender origins and our intentional constructions are not just personal but deeply political- shaped by the world around us and shaping the world we want to create.’

Introducing Téa and the Twilight Curator Program We are incredibly excited to announce Téa-Anya Earle as the first curator selected for the Twilight Curator Program, a new annual initiative at Twilight Contemporary aimed at supporting and giving space to emerging curatorial talent. The Twilight Curator Program is designed to help provide the knowledge, practical skills, networks, and space needed to thrive in the curatorial art world. Each year we will invite one early career curator to join us, offering the opportunity to develop and deliver an ambitious exhibition proposal from the ground up. Open calls for 2026 will open in December. Over the coming months, Téa will work closely with us to put the finishing touches to her exhibition, ‘Subvert Your Gaze to Meet Mine,’ at the gallery in August. A little bit about Téa: Téa is a budding curator researching, organising and exploring transgressive mark-making practices in London. She is compelled by a deeply felt impetus to explore and create space for communities and intersections of society that are overlooked or maligned. Téa recently completed an MA in Curation and Cultural Theory at Central Saint Martins where she researched and wrote about urban visual cultures, outsider art and urban mark-making. She is motivated most by community-centred work that reanimates the voices of those marginalised and overlooked, bringing light to stories and experiences that have been historically misunderstood or sidelined.  We can’t wait to share more about Téa’s show in the coming months and to launch the open call for our 2026 curator in December.