Education
Recipient of Kirsty McColl Full Scholarship 2014
• Goldsmiths College, University of London
Master of Arts, Photography & Urban Cultures
Pass with Distinction
• University of Kent
Bachelor of Science, Applied Psychology
2:1
• City of Westminster College
National Diploma in Performing Arts
Triple Distinction
Art Fairs
2019: AIPAD, James Hyman Gallery, Too Many Blackamoors
2018: Paris Photo, James Hyman Gallery, Too Many Blackamoors
Collections
Autograph ABP
The Hyman Collection
New Orleans Museum of Art
Mead Art Museum
Exhibitions
2020/21: Wish You Were Here, Women Photographers from The Hyman Collection, Arnolfini, Bristol
2020: Wish You Were Here, OpenSolo2020: Brighton Photo Fringe
2020: Wish You Were Here, Hundred Heroines: Cabinet of Remedies,
2020: Too Many Blackamoors, Starting Something New: Recent Contemporary Art Acquisitions and Gifts, Mead Art Museum
2020: Wish You Were Here, In Sickness and In Health, James Hyman Gallery
2019: LDNWMN: Mary Seacole, Art at Foyles
2018: LDNWMN: Mary Seacole, Public Art Exhibition, Cockpit Arts
2018: Habitus: Potential Realities, Brighton Photo Biennial, Jubilee Library, Brighton
2018: Too Many Blackamoors, Play It Again: The art of remaking, Firstsite: Colchester
2018: Too Many Blackamoors, Skinned Alive, Itch Collective, CamdenPeoples Theatre
2018: Too Many Blackamoors, Volume 4: Celebration of African Female Photographers, Nubuke Foundation, East Legon, Accra, Ghana
2018: The Gaze on Agbogbloshie, Agency Gallery, Drawing, scanning, (body)mapping..., London,
2017: Yaa: But we are Still Here, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern
2017: Habitus, Ghana at 60, Autograph ABP
2017:The Gaze on Agbogbloshie, The Young Africa Centre: 'A Day of Blackstars', The Africa Centre
2017: Too Many Blackamoors/The Gaze on Agbogbloshie, Harris Girls East Dulwich Academy, Artist Residency, ID Gallery,
2016: Too Many Blackamoors, TEDxUCLWomen 2016: Intersect, Unmasked Women: Identity
2016: Too Many Blackamoors, Victoria & Albert Museum, Unmasked Women: Identity
2016: Too Many Blackamoors, Girltown, Photomonth, St Margaret’s House, East London
2016: The Gaze on Agbogbloshie, Innovation Box, Holborn Postbox, Waste Agency
2016: Too Many Blackamoors, Visible:In, Seen Fifteen- part of Art licks Weekend, Peckham
2016: Too Many Blackamoors, Unmasked Women, The Artworks Elephant
2016: Too Many Blackamoors, Shutterhub Open, Stir Cambridge
2016: Too Many Blackamoors, Children of the gap, Center for Better Health
2016: Too Many Blackamoors, TMC Collective Showcase, Autograph ABP: Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund
2014: The Gaze on Agbogbloshie, The Waste-Agency, London
2014: The Gaze on Agbogbloshie, Habitus Group Show, Menier Gallery: Urban Photo Fest, London
2014: Life in Technicolor, MA Interim Photography & Urban Cultures Show 2014 at Goldsmiths College, NAB, London
2014: Re-Imagining Deptford, ‘Regeneration’ then and now: 21 years of urban change in Deptford at Deptford Town Hall, Council Chamber, London
2012: Life in Technicolor, See Africa Differently, Tanner Street Space, London
Talks & Workshops
2021: Out of the Archives: Panel Talk with Heather Agyepong, Ingrid Pollard & Anita Corbin, Four Corners, London
2020: In conversation talk with Keiko Higashi, Arnolfini, Art in the City
2020: Noughts and Crosses Panel: with Heather Agyepong and Preethi Mavahalli.
2020: Artist Talk, University of the Arts, London
2020: Noughts and Crosses Panel – with Heather Agyepong and Preethi Mavahalli, University of Kent
2020: Artist talk with Aneeka Henderson, Amherst College, Mead Art Musuem
2020: Photo London Digital, In Conversation with Helene Love-Allotey
2020: Artist Talk, Brighton Photo Fringe, Projecting Power
2020: Over Journal, Artist Talk, Photo Ireland
2019: National Portrait Gallery, Hidden Histories: Revisiting Representations of History, Artist Talk
2018: The Photographers Gallery, Key Speakers: 4 Saints In 3 Acts, Artist Talk & Panelist, London
2018: Re-imagining Black Britain, Identity & Afrofuturism Panelist, Birmingham
2017: “Visible/Invisible”, Artist Talk, But we are Still Here, Tate Modern
2017: Tate Exchange Lead Artist: But we are Still Here, Exhibition & Programming.
2017: Nifty’s present One Pot, Arcola Theatre, Presentation
2017: Feeling Images: Photography’s Relationship with Illness, Mental Health and Wellbeing Symposium, Panelist
2017: Le Gateau Chocolat: Black, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Post Show Talk
2017: Harris Girls East Dulwich Academy, Artist Residency, ID Gallery, Artist Talk/Workshop
2016: Journey to Justice Youth Training Day, Re-imagining the narrative workshop
2016: UNIQLO Tate Lates, Human Library, Radical Photographic Artist 2016: The Lighthouse Launch Event: Oxford University International Relations Society, Does Photojournalism still have the power to bring change?, Panelist
2016: BLACK PORTRAITURE[S] III: Reinventions: Strains of Histories and Cultures Conference, South Africa, Johannesburg, Panelist
2016: Embodying Emotions: Speaking with the body, Bloomsbury Festival, Wellcome Collection, London
2016: Open16: Studio Peckham, Peckham Platform, Black History Month Workshop
2016: 'Re-imagining art works with Winifred Knights', Off the wall workshop, Dulwich Picture Gallery
2016: Black women- and how we deal with trauma- is it working, The Albany Theatre, Panelist
2016: Archives Matter, Goldsmiths College, London, Panelist
2016: "How can we represent" Circuit & Renaissance Foundation workshop, Tate Britain
2016: What's Happening to Black British History 4, Black British History, Artist Talk
2016: TMC Collective, Artist talk, Autograph ABP
2014: Life of Electronics Conference, University of London, Artist talk,
Performances
2019: The Body Remembers, Research & Development. Awarded Jerwood Arts & Arts Council England Prod. Fuel Theatre
2018: The Body Remembers, Research & Development, Dir. Imogen Knight at Barbican Centre. Awarded Barbican Lab Residency Prod. Fuel Theatre
2018: The Oracle, Paul Maheke, A fire circle for a public hearing (2018). Produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery and Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg at Chisenhale Gallery
2018: The Oracle, Paul Maheke, A fire circle for a public hearing (2018). Produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery and Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg at Ateliers de Rennes
Awards
Foam Talent 2021 Selected Artist
Format Festival21 Open Call Selected Artist
Firecracker Photographic Grant 2020 Winner
Photo Fringe 2020: Danny Wilson Memorial Award: Trainee Curator Choice
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Photo Fringe: OPENSOLO 2020 Shortlist
South Bank Sky Arts Breakthrough Award Nominee 2018
Prix Pictet 2016/17/21 Nominee
Foam Paul Huf Award 2017/18/21 Shortlist
Selected as one of Talawa's MAKE: Sustain Artists of 2017.