Designer Peter Mabeo hails from Botswana’s capital Gaborone, where he continues to helm his eponymous furniture studio. Back in 1997, Mabeo began collaborating with local artisans to produce design objects, embracing Botswana’s rich craft heritage. Close to a decade later, Mabeo established his own atelier, Mabeo Furniture, and has since collaborated with a breadth of…
Sameep Padora & Associates (sP+a) is a Mumbai-based architecture studio helmed by founding principal Sameep Padora. The practice’s remit traverses the spheres of architecture, interior design and urban planning, approaching every project as a distinct brief executed by a multidisciplinary team. Padora completed his undergraduate studies in Mumbai followed by a Master’s from the Graduate…
From 11 August 2020, Barbican Art Gallery hosts A Countervailing Theory, the first-ever UK commission by Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola. An epic cycle of new work unfurls across the 90-metre long gallery, The Curve, documenting an imagined civilisation conceived by the artist. Drawing on an eclectic range of sources, from ancient history to popular…
Brazilian photographer Rafael Pavarotti is known for his eccentric and sensitive approach to image making; he meticulously builds stories in his work, carefully analysing composition, colour and light as he does so. Having photographed for magazines like Vogue and i-D, and collaborated with fashion retailers from Matches to Browns, Pavarotti has accrued an impressive client…
Following his first solo exhibition last year, Mousganistan, Moroccan-born, Belgian-raised Mous Lamrabat’s images have become somewhat of an internet staple, appearing seemingly everywhere. With a background in interior design, the self-taught photographer developed his idiosyncratic vision of fashion photography while exploring the amalgam of his Moroccan heritage, tradition and culture with the Western world he…
Based between Dehli and London, Himali Singh Soin’s complex practice embraces numerous outputs, from poetry and writing to film and performance. Her multidisciplinary works employ metaphors from outer space and the natural environment to construct imaginary cosmologies of interference, alienation and intimacy. Inspired by her own journey to the Arctic Circle, last year Singh Soin…
Dominican born and US based visual artist Bony Ramirez’s works explore complex social and political issues through sumptuously rendered depictions of anatomically distorted figures. Taking inspiration from nature and his Caribbean roots, as well as architecture and Renaissance art, the artist’s practice embraces a breadth of media, from paint and oil pastels to clay and…
Born and raised in a small village in the Western Province of Rwanda, self-taught multidisciplinary artist Cedric Mizero’s work embraces the exchange of ideas and meaningful collaborative relationships, celebrating the voices of many diverse fellow artists and artisans with the intention of drawing attention to the people of the rural and poor areas of Rwanda….