Clove Consulting
Clove Consulting
Clove Consulting
ABOUT
Public anthropologist
Alexa Fairclough is a multi-media griot who uses written and visual language to mend the Black diaspora. She uses visual ethnography, photography, installation and curation to tell stories.
She is an Honours Bachelor of Arts candidate at University College at the University of Toronto where she studies Anthropology and Visual Culture.
Her research explores material culture, collections research management, memory, kinship, intergenerational trauma, and place-making among the Black diaspora, particularly in the Caribbean and South America.
WRITING
FILMS
Domesticated, (Forthcoming, 2024)
Writer, Director, Animator, Cinematographer
Linden Hills, 2022
Animator
Intergenerational, 2022
Writer, Director, Cinematographer
Black Mirror, 2022
Assistant Director
CURATION
An archival research project utilizing the Globe and Mail Fonds as well as an Archival Letter from the Mary Ann Shadd Fonds. The work interrogates the presence of Black people in Canadian media narratives throughout history.
EXHIBITIONS
“Do You Know Who Toiled the Waters”
Calling the Conjurers. 2024. It’s Ok! Toronto.
Intergenerational and Black Mirror
Black GirlFilm Camp 2022 Cohort Screening, Daniels Spectrum, Toronto.
ABRIDGED CV
RESEARCH
- 2024- Present Research Assistant, Office of the Vice-Principal Academic & Dean
- 2021-2024 Research Assistant, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- 2023- 2024 Research Fellow, Faculty of Information
WRITING
- 2024- 2025 Arts & Culture Editor, The Strand
- 2022- 2023 Arts & Culture Writer, CanCulture
GALLERIES, LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, AND MUSEUMS
- 2023- 2024 Intern, Ontario Heritage Trust
- 2022- 2023 Archives and Special Collections Assistant, Toronto Metropolitan University Library
