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In partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery, with Freelands Foundation support
The Visible Practice Residency is a three-year project to support and expand the personal practice of art and photography teachers from global majority backgrounds, elevating the teacher as artist and artist as teacher. This is a collaborative project between Autograph, The Photographers’ Gallery and three schools.
In response, the Visible Practice Residency project offers:
• Three global majority Artist Teachers investment to develop their practice and research through a series of well resourced, six-month-long residencies located in each of their schools.
• A professionally curated public presentation of the work created by the Artist Teacher in both a gallery and digital space.
• A public events programme to share learning and best practice.
In 2017, the Department of Education recorded that children in UK schools (of whom 31% were “minority ethnic”) were introduced to visual art by teachers who were 94% white
Visualise: Race and Inclusion in Art Education, The Runnymede Trust
Dianne Minnicucci is a London based visual artist exploring the boundaries of documentary storytelling.
Her work begins autobiographically, exploring family, memory, conflict and love, all carefully underpinned by an experimental approach that plays with layers, light, focus and fragmentation. Rooted in the domestic, Minnicucci presents familial moments, loaded with intimacy. She is interested in a sensitive, intuitive approach to documentary style photography, unravelling the tension between the obscuring and unveiling of identity, knowing and unknowing, the interior and exterior and desire and fear. Inspiration comes from artists such as Ming Smith, Lorna Simpson, Zohra Opoku, Zanele Muholi, Alex Llovet and Raymond Weeks. Minnicucci studied Fine Art Film and Video at Central St. Martins. She is subject leader for photography at Thomas Tallis School, a large comprehensive in south east London.
When this project came through, it made me think it could be a blueprint for not only how teachers are artists but how we educate and how we show students what to do. We must do it alongside them, we cannot stand behind the desk. We need to be involved in the process as well.
Dianne Minnicucci 
A residency each year
Will engage with the project
Of work produced during the residencies
Marking major milestone
Peer-to-peer networking and learning
Will take place in London
Documenting the project
Recruiting new schools to take part
Banner image: Courtesy Autograph, London
Autograph is a place to see things differently. Since 1988, we have championed photography that explores issues of race, identity, representation, human rights and social justice, sharing how photographs reflect lived experiences and shape our understanding of ourselves and others.
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