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My Art Practice explores
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Sacred Sounds

2022 – St Paul’s Cathedral, London
A reflective experience created in response to the Princess Louise monument and in collaboration with artist Gary Stewart. A moment of contemplation featuring poetry, a reflection, music, stillness and a closing blessing. The experience explores the themes of finding the common humanity between us in spite of conflict, rooting ourselves in love, reorienting ourselves towards peace instead.

Sacred Sounds draws on over a thousand years of Christian contemplative practice, and is aimed at people of all faiths and none.

Photographs by Theirry Bal

Folded Life: Talking Textile Politics

2021 – Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich

An online research and exhibition project, led by curator Grant Watson, Folded Life explored the way in which textile biographies intersect with social and political histories, mapping stories about women, fashion, race, migration and cultural identity. Folded Life artfully suggested that textiles make the political ‘material’. 

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Photograph Courtesy of Thys Dullaart

The Arrivants

2016 – FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg

A collection of customised mens pinstripe suits, oral history recordings, projected photographs, a musical soundscape and ephemera relating to the 1948 arrival of the Empire Windrush at London’s Tilbury Docks carrying some 500 Jamaican migrants – hoping to make a better life in the ‘Mother Country’. The Arrivants investigated the relationship between culture, race and dress.

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Photograph Courtesy of Thys Dullaart

Back a Yard

2016 – FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg
A collaborative spoken-word performance piece with fellow artist/curator Michael McMillan, based on the stories, music, style, dress and objects that feature in the Arrivants and the West Indian Front Room. The performance expressed ideas around style, fashion and dress as forms of resistance, and the place of respect for the self and others within mid-twentieth century Caribbean migrant aspirations and aesthetics.
Photograph Courtesy of Thys Dullaart

Tidalectic Encounters

2015 – White Cloth Gallery, Leeds
A spoken-word performance, a synthesis of literature, philosophy and personal reflection. Tidelectic Encounters considered the parallels, contradictions and differences between the re-presentation of African diaspora male bodies in England and across the continents. It serpentined its way through issues around visibility and invisibility, self- respect and the respect for others, the reclamation of personhood and voice, elegance or ‘fine dressing’, appropriation and reappropriation.

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