To coincide with the upcoming exhibition The Legend of King Arthur: A Pre-Raphaelite Love Story, I have been commissioned to create an installation exploring international myths and legends. I have worked with a local ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) group to gather stories from around the world. These will be the starting point for …
Cultural Connections Cornwall, a collaborative residency at Mounts Bay Academy with year 10 students, in association with The Exchange and the National Portrait Gallery. Through a series of workshops [including a brilliant field trip], we explored cultural connections between Cornwall and the National Portrait Gallery collection. In response, the students researched and selected portraits from …
Autograph Commission Care I Contagion I Community – Self & Other for which I made Madam Photo’. This work is based on my encounters in and with my local park throughout lockdown. This will be published online on 20th May. Please sign via Autograph website for further updates. To celebrate the launch of ‘Madam …
Care | Contagion | Community & Other commission, which I am part of is due to be launched this spring.
Video introducing my commission for this year’s exhibition ‘In Plain Sight: Transatlantic Slavery and Devon’ at RAMM to mark Black History Month.
Autograph has commissioned ten artists to create new works in the coming months, responding to the wider context of the Covid-19 crisis. As one of the ten artists selected for Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other, I decided to focus on the development of structures and creation of a new routine geared …
I have been invited to participate in a new public art commission ‘Breath Invisible’, featuring Khadija Saye, who tragically died in the Grenfell fire, Martin Ware (in collaboration with Zachary Eastwood – Bloom) and myself. My contribution includes working with young people at the Harrow Club, exploring cameraless photography, diasporic plant histories and the essential …
As part of the Black Cultural Archives annual Windrush programming, and to launch their new opportunity for young creatives (Windrush Waves Competition), I gave an online presentation of my work. This is now available to view. Inspired by the programme and in the light of current events in the UK I decided to make a …
“A new location for the Breaking Barriers exhibition” Black Cultural Archives is now part of the Bloomberg Connects app and their content lives alongside galleries and museums from the Guggenheim to the Serpentine, from Dulwich Picture Gallery to Whitechapel Gallery. The Breaking Barriers exhibition can now be viewed using the app.
The commission in Exeter is moving forward, following a very successful and inspiring visit to the Ark in February. I spent the better part of the week with Lara Goodband and Tony Eccles looking at objects relating to Exeter and the RAMM‘s connection to the transatlantic trade – with some very surprising discoveries… I will …