Join us at Gravesend Library and Archives where artist Exodus Crooks’ will be displaying their work with Art and Photography students at Northfleet School for Girls. Together they have been exploring Northfleet’s local geography through alternative forms of charting its space and place.
Inspired by the practice of counter-mapping, Exodus and the students have used text, drawing, cyanotype, and found materials to create a collaged, ‘new’ map of Northfleet which highlights the young people’s experiences of the place, overlaid on existing maps of the town.
This event is part of Exodus Crooks why live anywhere else?, which has been commissioned by Cement Fields and supported by Creative Estuary, Gravesham Borough Council, and Ebbsfleet Development Corporation through the Northfleet Place Partnership. With additional support from Northfleet School for Girls.
Exodus Crooks (They/He) is a British-Jamaican multidisciplinary artist and educator who was recently shortlisted as a 2025 Arts Foundation Future Awards artist. Exodus is interested in self-determination and how it is steered by religion and spirituality. Informed by a fractious domestic life, their practice is auto ethnographical and exists in the orbit of their educational role where they work to reimagine Western pedagogy. Their art is research focused and follows the lead of the many radical Caribbean writers and thinkers advocating for indigenous ways of living. Exodus is currently experimenting with gardening, text, filmmaking, and installation to better understand the complexities of the human experience.