Dineo Seshee Raisibe Bopape’s artistic practice explores manifold notions of memory, encompassing the individual and collective, the known and unknown. Working with commonplace and elemental materials like soil, bricks and timber, as well as found objects, archival imagery, video and sound, the artist creates complex and multisensory installations. Through her experimental work, she investigates remembering…
Hailing from Lagos, London-based multidisciplinary artist Ken Nwadiogbu recently graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Painting. On his canvases, stories are superimposed in manifold layers. Nwadiogbu explores weighty themes in unfettered colour, inviting us to address matters from Black representation and identity to displacement and socio-political control. Open now and…
Hailing from New York, artist Esteban Jefferson’s practice explores matters of race, identity and the legacies of colonialism. Utilising photography, drawing, painting and sound as forms of documentation, Jefferson typically depicts the focal points of his compositions in great detail, creating a stark contrast between the subject or object in focus and the surrounding environment….
While Tunisia boasts a rich cultural heritage spanning millennia, a significant shift occurred in the dynamics between art and politics in the country following the 2011 Tunisian Revolution. An era of censorship gave way to a freedom of expression, sparking questions on how to use it. Pioneering the way in the contemporary art sphere, established…
British-born South Asian artist and writer, Osman Yousefzada’s practice employs various modes of storytelling across diverse mediums, compellingly blending elements of autobiography with fiction and ritual. Through moving image, installation, text, sculpture, garment design, and performance, the artist examines the representation and rupture of the migrational experience, making reference to current socio-political issues along the…
Mat Collishaw is a key figure within the influential cohort of British artists that came to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s, graduating from Goldsmiths’ College. His participation in the seminal group exhibition Freeze in 1988, along with peers Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas, marked a pivotal moment in the evolution of British…
Oluwatosin Oluwole Ajibade, better known by his stage name Mr Eazi, is a musical innovator, record executive and philanthropist hailing from Nigeria. He is the pioneer of Banku music, a fusion of sound he describes as a mixture of Ghanaian highlife and Nigerian chord progressions and patterns. As a recording artist, having collaborated with the…
Hailing from Sierra Leone, Julianknxx dexterously utilises his life experiences as a lens through which he dismantles prevailing viewpoints concerning African art, historical narratives, and cultural expressions. Laden with symbolism, his works examine the Black experience of self-definition and redefinition, challenging conventional labels to build new and often unexpected collective narratives. Chorus in Rememory of…