Mostly self-taught, Filipino-American artist Pacita Abad is best known for her trapuntos, quilted paintings made by stitching and stuffing her canvases. After moving to the United States in 1970 to escape political persecution from the authoritarian Marcos regime, Abad sought to give visibility to political refugees and oppressed peoples through her work. Born in Batanes,…
Marie Mitchell’s debut cookbook – a project almost four years in the making – was published in the U.K. this month. Kin: Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen, Mitchell tells me over the phone, is a book about “change”. She says it’s much more than a cookbook: “It’s a springboard for having conversations, about how we move…
Atim Ukoh is a food explorer at heart, inspired by the flavours of her childhood and the endless possibilities that she believes exist in Nigerian cuisine. Ukoh began her career in pharmaceuticals before moving into digital enterprise management, but a love for food has always been with her. Her pioneering brand, Afrolems – afro-lems is…
Across a walkway from Tottenham Hotspur’s giant London stadium, in a small third floor room of the old townhouse that houses the Sarabande Foundation, Leyman Lahcine is thumbing through some of his old sketchbooks. Ambient sounds from an old episode of Alex Rita’s NTS show tinkle in the background, while the minty-sweet legacy of palo…
Listening to Amy Winehouse’s Frank while burning the incense she created in collaboration with Apotheke, Paria Farzaneh is wearing a look almost all of her own creation: a blue mesh top with lace trim, military green balloon shorts, black tights, and a pair of Hoka slides. She holds a steaming cup of tea close to…
Step inside cake-maker extraordinaire Lily ‘Vanilli’ Jones’s east London home to see the books, bottles, pictures, and home furnishings that mean the world to her. Jones set up her bakery and cake business in 2008 just off Columbia Road in east London and has become best-known for her outlandish, extra and often towering designs, that…
Calum Jacobs is best known for his seminal work on the importance of Black footballers and Black culture in the evolution of modern football: through his magazine, Caricom, and debut book A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game, Jacobs has upended stereotypes, spoken for a generation, and written into history the significance…
Chef Behzad Jamshidi began his career in 2016 when he moved from Vancouver BC to New York, the city he still calls home. After working in some of the city’s most well-known and celebrated kitchens, in 2018, Jamshidi started the Moosh platform to create what he calls more “meaningful collaborations and representation for the marginalised…