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TAB FAMILY: THIS IS FAMILY
30 APRIL – 21 MAY 2022
GALLERY 1 & PROJECT SPACE
A black and white portrait showing Nidal, an African woman, playing a small Djembe instrument while standing in front of a tree and surrounded by nature. She is dressed in African attire, with a scarf tied on her head, a blouse, a clothing wrapper and jewellery on her fingers, neck and ears. She is looking away from the camera.
Mohammed ‘Ayo Busari’, ‘A Visual Ode to the African Sound 1’, 2021. Digital print; 253 × 340 mm.

TAB Family: This is Family brings together diverse cultural and art communities for the purpose of sharing knowledge and memories, learning histories and traditions, and creating beautiful moments and experiences. The aim is to give young artists the opportunity to feel loved, valued and worthy, both inside and outside of their communities.

The artists in TAB Family: This is Family share a similar passion for love, belonging and acceptance in the world they find themselves. When asked what Family, Friendship and Community meant to them, the common passion was these three.

The significance of this theme is for art lovers and the wider community to understand how it impacts the artists to navigate through life, explore their identities and collaborate with people to tell important stories through their art medium.

TAB Family in partnership with The TOOL Event and TAB Studios presents TAB Family: This is Family, a creative community art exhibition curated by founder and creative director Mohammed ‘Ayo Busari’, presented by Drug Aware and sponsored by Healthway to promote the Drug Aware message with additional sponsorship from Propel Youths Art WA.

A Creative Arts Collective and Community led by the African Diaspora Folks founded by Ayo Busari and friends. The innovative collective of creatives has solidified their spot in the history books as one of the most prominent creative talents to come out of Africa.

The group of African youths are based in different parts of the world, Nigeria, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. They have provided career-changing projects for themselves and their communities with their unique and inventive way of creating masterpieces and classic arts—music, literature, visual art, or performing arts.

Together as an art community, sound system and creative collective, they have been able to curate moods in every space with their love for sounds, stories and art originating from Africa and the diaspora with influences across many borders.