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I am a practising Visual Artist/Maker based in South London. My work includes drawing, painting, mixed media, moving image and installation. My practice derives from my experience as a black British woman of dual heritage, a mother and aspects of my background thus far. I assemble, work and rework the multiple strands of this personal material to create work that comments on of issues of identity and culture within our racially complex sociality today.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Black and White


What's up with the work... none getting done... ideas evolving of a local narrative since I sense the enormity of London my birth place and the cycle of my life Wow it’s been long one and still going on.  Look how old things look in this pic with my father and baby brother, I don’t look happy, and perhaps I’m already aware of the pending disastrous future ahead.
I feel a correlation with living in close proximity to Peckham or little Lagos as I like to call it and the fact that my father came here when so few African immigrants populated the London streets.  If he were to return?!  How would things appear to him now?   He would surely reflect on his experience as parent of a mixed family and compare it now as Londoners are a mixture of cultures with families of many origins and he would fell at home with the amount of Nigerians in Peckham .. wow home from home ?? maybe... these are the lines I’m thinking along..

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