AiRM 2022

‘I am a visual artist and writer exploring Black British experiences through work that is research and text led and incorporates poetry, memory and film. I am particularly enraged by the (mis)representations of the Black female body and the projections that are placed on individuals – namely the extreme polarities imposed on Black women, expecting them to simultaneously be hyper-visible Jezebels and invisible mammy figures.

My most recent work has been centring Black people living in rural spaces in the U.K. and examining the alienation and isolation experienced in such environments.

Having grown up in Norfolk, I am concerned with how I can feel attached to a land that rejects me. I often place myself as an object within my performances to explore ideas of fetishisation.’

We are grateful to RDHCT and Kent County Council for funding us to build on our heritage research and community outreach. We want to thank Arts Council England and National Heritage Lottery for supporting our projects and allowing us the chance to commission from such an amazing and exciting number of contemporary artists