Artists

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58 Artists

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Artist Anna Best in coat and scarf looking at the camera

Anna Best

Anna Best holds a process-based practice into narrative structures and the complicated process of making art with other people.

Artist Barby Asante wearing a red coat and looking at the camera

Barby Asante

Barby Asante is a London based artist, curator and occasional DJ. Her work is concerned with the politics of place, space memory and the histories and legacies of slavery and colonialism.

Artist Sonia Boyce talking to a group of people on a microphone

Sonia Boyce

Sonia Boyce came to prominence in the early 1980s as a key figure in the burgeoning black British art-scene of that time – becoming one of the youngest artists of her generation to have her work purchased by the Tate Gallery, with paintings that spoke about racial identity and gender in Britain.

Nabiséré Nicole

Growing up between the U.K and Uganda, Nabiséré Nicole gained a unique perspective on the complexities of belonging and identity. After graduating from Central St Martins Womenswear, she established KAKAZI studio in 2018. This came at a time when she was seeking authentic representation of African and Caribbean experiences within the fashion industry. A space […]

Artist Azarra Amoy

Azarra Amoy

Azarra Amoy is a producer of public art installations in the form of murals. Her practice can be defined in three overlapping strands: artist, designer and creative strategist.

image of Resolve Collective, three pioneering creatives, Akil Scafe-Smith, Seth Amani Scafe-Smith and Melissa Haniff

Resolve Collective

Resolve is an interdisciplinary design collective of three creatives: Akil Scafe-Smith, Seth Amani Scafe-Smith and Melissa Haniff.

portrait of Nigel R. Glasgow

Nigel R. Glasgow

Nigel R. Glasgow is a London based photographer and retoucher Nigel has created since he was a young child. He started in music playing instruments and developed into studio engineering, composition, production and touring. His work history allowed him to continue to work on wonderful projects and make art that inspires. Peckham Platform has invited […]

Artist Manu Luksch standing on concrete stairs

Manu Luksch

Manu Luksch, founder of Ambient Information Systems, is a filmmaker who works with moving images. The core theme of her works is the evolution of film in the digital or networked age.

Eva-Grace Bor

Eva-Grace Bor

Eva-Grace Bor (Eva Bor) is a writer and filmmaker based in London.  She has been published by Media Diversified and gal-dem and her short documentary Zero Zero screened at festivals in the UK and USA, including London Short Film Festival, Aesthetica, Hot Springs and Blackstar.

Daryl Stenvoll-Wells

Daryl Stenvoll-Wells is a socially engaged artist based in Peckham.  As founder of Art Responders she produces international exhibitions and events centred on racial and environmental justice.

Headshot and portrait of the artist Koby Martin

Koby Martin

Koby’s work is an introspective autobiographical exploration of his life as he believes knowing of self is pivotal in the exploration of any subject matter.

Artist Melanie Manchot

Melanie Manchot

Melanie Manchot is a London based visual artist who works with photography, film and video as a performative and participatory practice.

Yoruba Londoner, Visual Artist and Storyteller.  Using analogue photography and poetry as creative mediums, Elusadé aims to document, archive and preserve ideas cultivated from the desire to deeply understand themselves and the world around them. At the heart of her practice, she connects intergenerational communities with art activism, preserving aural and tangible histories through authentic creation. Aiming to create and share imagery to illuminate the magic in the mundane, Elusadé curates dialogue reflective of their own experience in an effort to highlight the delicate and nuanced ways in which they choose to manoeuvre through the complexities of being.

Tolu Elusadé

Yoruba Londoner, Visual Artist and Storyteller. 

Using analogue photography and poetry as creative mediums, Elusadé aims to document, archive and preserve ideas cultivated from the desire to deeply understand themselves and the world around them.

At the heart of her practice, she connects intergenerational communities with art activism, preserving aural and tangible histories through authentic creation.

Aiming to create and share imagery to illuminate the magic in the mundane, Elusadé curates dialogue reflective of their own experience in an effort to highlight the delicate and nuanced ways in which they choose to manoeuvre through the complexities of bein

Artist Kathrin Bohm posing for a portrait picture in red scarf

Kathrin Böhm

Kathrin Böhm is a London based artist who considers herself local in Hackney and Höfen.

Yes Make

Yes Make specialise in public spaces and community projects in London and beyond.

Birungi Kawooya

Birungi Kawooya’s art embodies the beauty of the African diaspora with a focus on dance, nature and wellbeing. She takes inspiration from Ugandan classical Kiganda dance styles, flash dancing by The Nicholas Brothers and hiplet from Homer Bryant, interpreting these influences in collages using layers of Ugandan batik fabrics and cutout card.

Artist David Cotterell standing with miniature stunt helicopter as part of the film Slipstream

David Cotterrell

David Cotterrell is an installation artist working across varied media including video, audio, interactive media, artificial intelligence, device control and hybrid technology. His work exhibits political, social and behavioural analyses of the environments and contexts, which he and his work inhabit.

A comic style drawing of artist Janette Parris

Janette Parris

Janette Parris is a contemporary artist who uses the everyday as the basis for her work.

Nana Varveropoulou

Nana Varveropoulou is a photographer, artist and lecturer. Varveropoulou’s practice and research is focused on various issues relating to human rights and social justice, often through the process of collaboration.

Artist Gayle Chong Kwan holding salad leaves in a outdoor market

Gayle Chong Kwan

Working primarily with photography and installation, Chong Kwan creates fantastical landscapes and environments consisting primarily of waste materials.

Mhairi Macaulay

Mhairi Macaulay’s work is characterised by a fascination with ‘The Social’: the way individuals interact with each other. Without a fixed aesthetic, Macaulay plays with the preconceptions we have about different communities, from grassroots groups to large corporations.

Artist Meera Shakti Osbourne standing in front of trees wearing an orange t-shirt

Meera Shakti Osborne

Meera Shakti Osborne has a practice of collective healing through creative self-expression.

Artist Kimathi Donkor

Kimathi Donkor

Kimathi Donkor is a British artist living and working in London. His work re-imagines mythic, legendary and domestic encounters across Africa and its global Diasporas.

Yvonne E. Maxwell

Yvonne E. Maxwell is a Saint Lucian-Nigerian self-taught documentary photographer, writer and columnist whose work covers stories on migration, social justice, culture and identity of the Black communities within London and the wider UK. Yvonne also extends her focus to stories surrounding ancestral ties, cultures, familial relationships, health, sexuality and human rights of people from […]

portrait image of artist Zuleika Lebow

Zuleika Lebow

Zuleika Lebow is an artist and cultural producer born and raised in London. The diverse cultural wealth of the city and its history as a home for migrant communities is central to both her practice and her personal identity

Artist Ana Laura Lopez wearing a blue jumper and leaning on a brick wall

Ana Laura López de la Torre

Ana Laura López de la Torre is an artist and writer based in Uruguay. Using the overlooked and the underrated as a starting point, her work creates visible and unexpected connections between things, people and places.

Portrait of Lola Komolafe

Lola Komolafe

Lola Komolafe is a London- based illustrator and graphic designer engaging with the role of design to provide visibility and representation, particularly for minority and underrepresented groups.

Artist Francoise Dupre

Françoise Dupré and Rebecca Snow

Françoise Dupré is a London-based French-born artist who creates large textile and sculpture installations that celebrate the everyday and cultures.

Portrait of artist Michael McMillan

Michael McMillan

Born in the UK of Caribbean migrant parents, artist and writer Michael McMillan uses mixed media as part of a creative collaborative process that brings in other artists and local people for performances and exhibitions.

Lottie Child

Lottie Child’s practice includes participatory, live art explorations of public space, utilising strategies of collaboration and spontaneous interaction

The People Speak

The People Speak

The People Speak is an art collective that primarily takes its practice into the public domain of everyday civic space.

Christopher Lutterodt-Quarcoo

Christopher Lutterodt-Quarcoo

Christopher Lutterodt-Quarcoo (CL-Q) MA(RCA), FRSA, FHEA is a Creative Entrepreneur, internationally exhibiting Designer, awarding-winning Director, Writer and Consultant.

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Vote Art

Vote Art is an arts initiative inspired by the theme of democracy that aims to encourage people to take part in the democratic process.

Enam Gbewonyo

Enam Gbewonyo is a British Ghanaian textile and performance artist based in London. She is founder of the Black British Female Artist Collective, a platform that supports emerging Black women artists’ careers and advocates inclusivity.

Black and white image of artist Barbara Majek.

Barbara Majek

Majek is a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher who experiments with the complexities of her bicultural identity.

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