I’m a black feminist artist researcher, writer, editor, and curator based in London. I have a PhD in Gender Studies [SOAS], an MA in Women’s History [Sarah Lawrence College], and a BA in Anthropology and African American Studies [Rollins College]. My practice builds on theories of racial, gendered, diasporic, and queer formation, black feminism, black studies, and my previous experience working at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
In my creative approach to knowledge production, I use archives, ethnography, photography, the moving image, and the imagination to curate programs and visual narratives, write essays and performance texts exploring the gendered and diasporic dimensions of Black being and becoming. I also create ancestral altars using family pictures and memorabilia, found photographs and archival images, West African textiles and wood carvings, crystals, fossils, stones, shells, and other curios.
These practices converge in my forthcoming monograph, Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Back Feminist Archives (Lawrence Wishart, 2024), Daughters of Diaspora (2023), an artist film made during my Caird Research Fellowship at The National Maritime Museum (December 2021-September 2022), and Becoming with Archive (2010 - Present), an ongoing visual think piece.
Alongside this practice-based research, I work as the Curator of Talks & Research at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, where I collaborate with academics, curators, artists, and writers to develop a multi-disciplinary, practice-based research and learning program. I’m also a member of Feminist Review’s Editorial Collective and the Curator of Programmes, and co-edited a recent issue on queer, feminist, diasporic, and decolonial archives.
This portfolio highlights my research, writing, and curatorial work. You can download my complete CV here.