Scholars & Artists

  Siphiwe Nokukhanya Mnguni is a British–Zimbabwean artist and curator whose multidisciplinary work explores the Black female figure and themes of identity, womanhood, community, and perception. Her work uses abstract figuration to celebrate diverse figures and reimagine how they are...
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  Georgina Odell is a London-based artist working primarily in sculpture using textiles and metalwork. Her work examines personal and collective histories— childhood, family, memory—and how stories are retold. Using familiar materials and objects, she explores how nostalgia can feel...
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Furmaan Ahmed is a Scottish artist living and working in London. Through set design, photography and film, Ahmed explores decadence, theatricality and diasporic memories. Furmaan creates dream-like documentary work through highly staged photographs often including large casts and props in...
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Taiba Akhuetie is a multidisciplinary artist whose primary medium, hair serves as both material and metaphor. Akhuetie is particularly interested in the emotional and historical weight hair carries: its ability to connect generations, signify identity, and hold traces of self....
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Jane Preston is a British ceramic artist creating sculptures inspired by nature’s shapes, balance, and metaphors. Her work explores communication through form, responding to the pleasure and pain of lived experience. Improvisation is central to Jane’s practice, with each hand-built...
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