Adwoa Owusu-Barnieh (she/they) is a British-born Ghanaian curator based in South London. Adwoa is interested in how socially engaged creative practices can be utilised to nurture people’s sense of self. Their work experience has bridged the arts, education, publishing and social care. Adwoa has worked with Birmingham Early Help Services, Women & Theatre Birmingham, Edgbaston Foundation, The […]
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 […]
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
Tyreis Holder, a South London artist with Jamaican/St. Vincent heritage, explores self, identity, and colonial spaces through installation, textiles, poetry, and more. Her work, embracing textiles as healing language, addresses trauma among Black women. She sparks conversations on race, disability, community, class, sexuality, and culture through lived experiences.
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.
Drew is an Artist/Graphic designer, creating graphic harvests and facilitating creative embodiment workshops, incorporating Art, sound, movement and origami.
Lesley Asare is a British Ghanaian Multidisciplinary Artist, Tamalpa Teacher training graduate, Somatic Coach, Breathwork Practitioner and Mentor, based in Milton Keynes, UK Led by a quest for truth and desire to deeply listen, her practice explores identity, personal histories and the experiences of Black People. Through her work, she aims to create the space […]
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.
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.
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 […]
Louis Vann Johnson is a multi-instrumentalist and South London singer songwriter whose talents span across genres. Louis Vann Johnson is a creator of “mixed music” with sounds that blend R&B, Soul & Jazz. With a strong nod to the Pop world, his music is equal parts groovy and sensual. Coming from a highly musical family, […]
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 […]
Christopher Lutterodt-Quarcoo (CL-Q) MA(RCA), FRSA, FHEA is a Creative Entrepreneur, internationally exhibiting Designer, awarding-winning Director, Writer and Consultant.
Linett Kamala is the Director of Lin Kam Art which seeks to enrich lives through art and education. Her socially engaged practice is deeply-rooted in community empowerment.
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.
Sarina Mantle is an artist, designer and singer-songwriter based in Barking and Dagenham, London. Mantle works across print, fashion and music, incorporating patterns, florals, sacred geometry, intuitive tribal and ancient visuals to reconnect with the cosmic and natural world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
A.G is a DJ, producer and presenter from east London. Her work takes inspiration from American underground club music in Baltimore and New Jersey to Bollywood soundtracks.
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.
Neal White is a UK artist based in Brixton, London. His art practice engages with the ongoing impact that science and technology have in shaping our relationships to one another and to the environments we live in.
Working primarily with photography and installation, Chong Kwan creates fantastical landscapes and environments consisting primarily of waste materials.
The creative collective in south east London was set up in 2004 by Chris Ratcliffe, Laura Cave, Anna Walsh and Hannah Havana. With individual specialisms in screen printing, jewellery and painting, the group also work together and with friends, taking part in exhibitions and events, as well as making props, displays and products.
Jessica Voorsanger is an American artist living in London. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA) and Goldsmiths College (MA Fine Art), and has had one-person exhibitions in London, New York, Edinburgh, Berlin & Turin.
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.
Lottie Child’s practice includes participatory, live art explorations of public space, utilising strategies of collaboration and spontaneous interaction
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.
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.
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.
Eileen Perrier is of Ghanaian and Dominican descent and has explored questions on identity, diversity and placement. Perrier lives and works in London and is a graduate of The Royal College of Art.
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.
David Blandy is primarily a video artist whose work investigates the cultural forces that inform and influence him, using himself as an anthropological subject.
Michael Clegg and Martin Guttmann live and work in New York and Vienna with their work centering on the public’s interaction with their pieces, and how this transforms traditionally formal institutions such as art galleries and libraries.
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.
Marc Bauer studied at the École Supérieure d’Art Visuel in Geneva and attended the post-graduate program at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
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.
