Suzanne Césaire (2023)
Suzanne Césaire (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Langston Hughes (2023)
Langston Hughes (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Khalil Gibran (2023)
Khalil Gibran (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Audre Lorde #1 (2023)
Audre Lorde #1 (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Audre Lorde #2 (2023)
Audre Lorde #2 (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Mark 'Mr T' Thompson (2023)
Mark 'Mr T' Thompson (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Ndéla Faye (2023)
Ndéla Faye (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Saidya Hartman (2023)
Saidya Hartman (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Oodegeroo (2023)
Oodegeroo (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Vanessa Kisuule (2023)
Vanessa Kisuule (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Decolonial Dreaming Dinner (2023)
Decolonial Dreaming Dinner (2023)

Installation shot of live event

Decolonial Dreaming Dinner (2023)
Decolonial Dreaming Dinner (2023)

Video still from documentation of live event

From the river to the sea... #2 (2023)
From the river to the sea... #2 (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

From the river to the sea... (2023)
From the river to the sea... (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Gaza Gaza don't you cry... (2023)
Gaza Gaza don't you cry... (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

In our thousands... (2023)
In our thousands... (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Churchill's Genocide (2023)
Churchill's Genocide (2023)

Documentation of live event in Parliament Square, London using porcelain rice bowls to discuss Churchill’s role in the Bengal Famine of 1943

Churchill's Famine (detail) (2023)
Churchill's Famine (detail) (2023)

Glazed porcelain, cobalt and gold lustre, rice

White But Working On It (2022)
White But Working On It (2022)

Glazed porcelain ceramic badges (5-6cm)

Porcelain badge #2 (2024)
Porcelain badge #2 (2024)

Raw porcelain (5cm)

Porcelain badge (2024)
Porcelain badge (2024)

Raw porcelain (5cm)

Audre Lorde: There are so many silences to be broken (2023)
Audre Lorde: There are so many silences to be broken (2023)

Digital photograph (20x30cm)

Pithy (2022)
Pithy (2022)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (30x20x10cm)

Weaponised Whiteness (2021)
Weaponised Whiteness (2021)

Porcelain, glass, glitter, glycerine, water (8x11cm)

Shattering Whiteness: A Provocation in Porcelain (2022)

Documentation of a performance with handmade porcelain vase and hundreds of eggshells cast in porcelain (3’ 51”)

A Porcelain Provocation: Shattering Whiteness (2022)
A Porcelain Provocation: Shattering Whiteness (2022)

Performance piece with handmade porcelain vase and hundreds of eggshells cast in porcelain

A Provocation in Porcelain: Shattering Whiteness (2022)
A Provocation in Porcelain: Shattering Whiteness (2022)

Performance piece with handmade porcelain vase and hundreds of eggshells cast in porcelain

A Porcelain Provocation: Shattering Whiteness (2022)
A Porcelain Provocation: Shattering Whiteness (2022)

Performance piece with handmade porcelain vase and hundreds of eggshells cast in porcelain

Mission (Opium) 2020, Opium poppy heads, rubber, copper, sugar, African hardwood,plaster (10x10x60cm)
Mission (Opium) 2020, Opium poppy heads, rubber, copper, sugar, African hardwood,plaster (10x10x60cm)
Mission (Opium) 2020
Mission (Opium) 2020

Opium poppy heads, sugar, African hardwood, plaster (10x10x60cm)

Mission (Rubber) 2020
Mission (Rubber) 2020

Rubber, sugar, African hardwood, silver wire, plaster (10x10x60cm)

Mission (Copper) 2020
Mission (Copper) 2020

Copper, sugar, African hardwood, plaster (10x10x60cm)

Mission (Opium) 2020, Opium poppy heads, sugar, African hardwood,plaster (10x10x60cm)
Mission (Opium) 2020, Opium poppy heads, sugar, African hardwood,plaster (10x10x60cm)
Mission (Copper) 2020
Mission (Copper) 2020

Copper, sugar, African hardwood, plaster (10x10x60cm)

Mission (Rubber) 2020
Mission (Rubber) 2020

Rubber, sugar, African hardwood, silver wire, plaster (10x10x60cm)

Spilt Scarlet (2020)
Spilt Scarlet (2020)

Antique British Military Jacket as worn by colonial soldiersThis edition of Spilt Scarlet was suspended from a tree in a secluded area of Hampstead Heath – not far from Kenwood House and its infamous links with colonial slavery. Realised as part of the curatorial project Bern69 devised by Nadia Berri (Photo credit: Cristina Pedreira)

Spilt Scarlet (2019) Antique British military jacket
Spilt Scarlet (2019) Antique British military jacket
Spilt Scarlet (2019)
Spilt Scarlet (2019)

Antique British military jacket and cochineal, indigo, turmeric and logwood on canvas

Cargo (2007)
Cargo (2007)

Cast sugar and timber, 150x90cm

Cargo (detail) (2007)
Cargo (detail) (2007)

Cast sugar and timber, 150x90cm

Raw Rubber

Raw Rubber – if rubber collectors in Congo Free State did not meet their harvest quotas Belgian King Leopold II's overseers would chop off the hands and feet of workers' children

King Sugar, 2016 (cast sugar, 22x10x2cm))
King Sugar, 2016 (cast sugar, 22x10x2cm))
Milligan Must Fall 2016 (cast sugar, 22x10x2cm)
Milligan Must Fall 2016 (cast sugar, 22x10x2cm)
Milligan Must Fall 2016 (cast sugar, 22x10x2cm)
Milligan Must Fall 2016 (cast sugar, 22x10x2cm)
Big Sugar (2016)
Big Sugar (2016)

Cast sugar
Nicknamed the ‘Goldilocks bird’ because its habitat conditions have to be just right in order for it to survive, the Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow is a rare, reclusive and endangered subspecies of seaside sparrow endemic to southern Florida. A combination of global warming and the industrial-scale production of sugar in the US has devastated the birds’ natural habitat. The sparrow’s now protected status is jeopardising an $8 billion flood-prevention project in the Everglades – a huge engineering feat required to correct decades of human folly and environmental mismanagement. Big Sugar is my response to this.

Empire England
Empire England

(2018) sugar, ink and vintage ceramic

alltheErics (2016)
alltheErics (2016)

Sugar cubes and ink

Famine Queen (2018)
Famine Queen (2018)

Ceramic and plaster

Pillar of Pillage (2018)
Pillar of Pillage (2018)

Ceramic and plaster

President Snowflake (2018)
President Snowflake (2018)

Ink on cotton, fabric, pins, 14x14cm

Snowflake: a person known to be opposed to the abolition of slavery, valuing white people over black people.
Commonly found: Missouri, 1860s 

Whiteness (2018)
Whiteness (2018)

Ink on bagasse (sugar cane fibre), fabric, pins, 14x14cm

Whiteness: a fragile specimen; prone to tears and defensiveness if made to feel uncomfortable; likely to aggressively protect its position. Commonly found: areas of former colonial power.

Victorias (2018)
Victorias (2018)

Rubber, silk, gold and indigo on antique map

Surviving (2019) Ceramic and goldleaf, 90x170cm
Surviving (2019) Ceramic and goldleaf, 90x170cm
Plundered (2018)
Plundered (2018)

Mixed media and c-type print, 80x30 cm

Blanket (2017) digital video still, mylar survival blanket and River Lea
Blanket (2017) digital video still, mylar survival blanket and River Lea
Suiker Piet (2016)
Suiker Piet (2016)

Porcelain and ceramic decals

Sweet Strength
Sweet Strength

Bagasse and resin

Sweet Strength
Sweet Strength

Bagasse and resin 2019

Sweet Strength (detail)
Sweet Strength (detail)

Bagasse and resin

Crown (2019)
Crown (2019)

Mixed media, 160x160cm

Commissioned by Art+Christianity for Waltham Forest London Borough of Culture and made in workshops with the community of All Saints Leyton

Love thy neighbour... (2010)
Love thy neighbour... (2010)

Sand and lead shot

Raft (2015)
Raft (2015)

Ceramic, timber, paint

Folly (2015)
Folly (2015)

Leaves and acrylic lacquer

The City sets sail 2016
The City sets sail 2016

Paper, tape and digital images supplied by the public
240x320 cm installed at All Hallows by the Tower, Byward St, London

Cell (2015)
Cell (2015)

PVC and nylon

Shed (2015)
Shed (2015)

Timber, lightbulb, sound recording

Heath ritual (2014)
Heath ritual (2014)

Feathers, logs

Always greener (2014)
Always greener (2014)

Soil and grass

Creekside (2012)
Creekside (2012)

Gold leaf

Hard aber herzlich (2013)
Hard aber herzlich (2013)

Timber, tape and twine

Heygate Pond (2012)
Heygate Pond (2012)

Glass, fish, leaves, water, kitchen sink

Your Move (Heygate) (2012)
Your Move (Heygate) (2012)

Chairs and paint

Party at St Pauls (2013)
Party at St Pauls (2013)

Colour printed postcards (15x9cm)

'Party at St Paul's' infiltrated the famous cathedral's giftshop with a St Paul's-branded postcard depicting a bunch of party balloons in peace/pride rainbow colours pinned to the large wooden doors of the church. A stock of these postcards was surreptitiously added to the shop's display carousels and then unknowingly sold as souvenirs to unsuspecting tourists. St Paul's had been the site of the Occupy London protest in 2012 that campaigned against corporate greed. This work was my gift to the cathedral, in honour of the Occupy Movement, which was evicted from the churchyard by the City of London Corporation.

Untethered (2018)
Untethered (2018)

Bioresin

Untethered (detail)
Untethered (detail)

Bioresin

Armour (2010)
Armour (2010)

Mixed media

Life sentence? (2011)
Life sentence? (2011)

Barbed wire

Id (2009)
Id (2009)

Maps and thread

Sacrifice (2008)
Sacrifice (2008)

Bread dough and pins

Sacrifice (detail) (2008)
Sacrifice (detail) (2008)

Bread dough and pins

Shelled (2007)
Shelled (2007)

Latex

Powerplay (2009)
Powerplay (2009)

Ceramic and acrylic lacquer

Relic (2008)
Relic (2008)

Clay

Dereliction (2007)
Dereliction (2007)

Sugar

Broken
Broken

Ceramic (2018)

me too? (black)
me too? (black)

2018, ceramic and acrylic lacquer

me too? (pink)
me too? (pink)

2018, ceramic and acrylic lacquer

Comfort in pain (2006)
Comfort in pain (2006)

Ceramic

Suzanne Césaire (2023)
Langston Hughes (2023)
Khalil Gibran (2023)
Audre Lorde #1 (2023)
Audre Lorde #2 (2023)
Mark 'Mr T' Thompson (2023)
Ndéla Faye (2023)
Saidya Hartman (2023)
Oodegeroo (2023)
Vanessa Kisuule (2023)
Decolonial Dreaming Dinner (2023)
Decolonial Dreaming Dinner (2023)
From the river to the sea... #2 (2023)
From the river to the sea... (2023)
Gaza Gaza don't you cry... (2023)
In our thousands... (2023)
Churchill's Genocide (2023)
Churchill's Famine (detail) (2023)
White But Working On It (2022)
Porcelain badge #2 (2024)
Porcelain badge (2024)
Audre Lorde: There are so many silences to be broken (2023)
Pithy (2022)
Weaponised Whiteness (2021)
Shattering Whiteness: A Provocation in Porcelain (2022)
A Porcelain Provocation: Shattering Whiteness (2022)
A Provocation in Porcelain: Shattering Whiteness (2022)
A Porcelain Provocation: Shattering Whiteness (2022)
Mission (Opium) 2020, Opium poppy heads, rubber, copper, sugar, African hardwood,plaster (10x10x60cm)
Mission (Opium) 2020
Mission (Rubber) 2020
Mission (Copper) 2020
Mission (Opium) 2020, Opium poppy heads, sugar, African hardwood,plaster (10x10x60cm)
Mission (Copper) 2020
Mission (Rubber) 2020
Spilt Scarlet (2020)
Spilt Scarlet (2019) Antique British military jacket
Spilt Scarlet (2019)
Cargo (2007)
Cargo (detail) (2007)
Raw Rubber
King Sugar, 2016 (cast sugar, 22x10x2cm))
Milligan Must Fall 2016 (cast sugar, 22x10x2cm)
Milligan Must Fall 2016 (cast sugar, 22x10x2cm)
Big Sugar (2016)
Empire England
alltheErics (2016)
Famine Queen (2018)
Pillar of Pillage (2018)
President Snowflake (2018)
Whiteness (2018)
Victorias (2018)
Surviving (2019) Ceramic and goldleaf, 90x170cm
Plundered (2018)
Blanket (2017) digital video still, mylar survival blanket and River Lea
Suiker Piet (2016)
Sweet Strength
Sweet Strength
Sweet Strength (detail)
Crown (2019)
Love thy neighbour... (2010)
Raft (2015)
Folly (2015)
The City sets sail 2016
Cell (2015)
Shed (2015)
Heath ritual (2014)
Always greener (2014)
Creekside (2012)
Hard aber herzlich (2013)
Heygate Pond (2012)
Your Move (Heygate) (2012)
Party at St Pauls (2013)
Untethered (2018)
Untethered (detail)
Armour (2010)
Life sentence? (2011)
Id (2009)
Sacrifice (2008)
Sacrifice (detail) (2008)
Shelled (2007)
Powerplay (2009)
Relic (2008)
Dereliction (2007)
Broken
me too? (black)
me too? (pink)
Comfort in pain (2006)
Suzanne Césaire (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Langston Hughes (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Khalil Gibran (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Audre Lorde #1 (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Audre Lorde #2 (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Mark 'Mr T' Thompson (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Ndéla Faye (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Saidya Hartman (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Oodegeroo (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Vanessa Kisuule (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Decolonial Dreaming Dinner (2023)

Installation shot of live event

Decolonial Dreaming Dinner (2023)

Video still from documentation of live event

From the river to the sea... #2 (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

From the river to the sea... (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Gaza Gaza don't you cry... (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

In our thousands... (2023)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (27cm)

Churchill's Genocide (2023)

Documentation of live event in Parliament Square, London using porcelain rice bowls to discuss Churchill’s role in the Bengal Famine of 1943

Churchill's Famine (detail) (2023)

Glazed porcelain, cobalt and gold lustre, rice

White But Working On It (2022)

Glazed porcelain ceramic badges (5-6cm)

Porcelain badge #2 (2024)

Raw porcelain (5cm)

Porcelain badge (2024)

Raw porcelain (5cm)

Audre Lorde: There are so many silences to be broken (2023)

Digital photograph (20x30cm)

Pithy (2022)

Porcelain, cobalt, gold lustre and glaze (30x20x10cm)

Weaponised Whiteness (2021)

Porcelain, glass, glitter, glycerine, water (8x11cm)

Shattering Whiteness: A Provocation in Porcelain (2022)

Documentation of a performance with handmade porcelain vase and hundreds of eggshells cast in porcelain (3’ 51”)

A Porcelain Provocation: Shattering Whiteness (2022)

Performance piece with handmade porcelain vase and hundreds of eggshells cast in porcelain

A Provocation in Porcelain: Shattering Whiteness (2022)

Performance piece with handmade porcelain vase and hundreds of eggshells cast in porcelain

A Porcelain Provocation: Shattering Whiteness (2022)

Performance piece with handmade porcelain vase and hundreds of eggshells cast in porcelain

Mission (Opium) 2020, Opium poppy heads, rubber, copper, sugar, African hardwood,plaster (10x10x60cm)
Mission (Opium) 2020

Opium poppy heads, sugar, African hardwood, plaster (10x10x60cm)

Mission (Rubber) 2020

Rubber, sugar, African hardwood, silver wire, plaster (10x10x60cm)

Mission (Copper) 2020

Copper, sugar, African hardwood, plaster (10x10x60cm)

Mission (Opium) 2020, Opium poppy heads, sugar, African hardwood,plaster (10x10x60cm)
Mission (Copper) 2020

Copper, sugar, African hardwood, plaster (10x10x60cm)

Mission (Rubber) 2020

Rubber, sugar, African hardwood, silver wire, plaster (10x10x60cm)

Spilt Scarlet (2020)

Antique British Military Jacket as worn by colonial soldiersThis edition of Spilt Scarlet was suspended from a tree in a secluded area of Hampstead Heath – not far from Kenwood House and its infamous links with colonial slavery. Realised as part of the curatorial project Bern69 devised by Nadia Berri (Photo credit: Cristina Pedreira)

Spilt Scarlet (2019) Antique British military jacket
Spilt Scarlet (2019)

Antique British military jacket and cochineal, indigo, turmeric and logwood on canvas

Cargo (2007)

Cast sugar and timber, 150x90cm

Cargo (detail) (2007)

Cast sugar and timber, 150x90cm

Raw Rubber

Raw Rubber – if rubber collectors in Congo Free State did not meet their harvest quotas Belgian King Leopold II's overseers would chop off the hands and feet of workers' children

King Sugar, 2016 (cast sugar, 22x10x2cm))
Milligan Must Fall 2016 (cast sugar, 22x10x2cm)
Milligan Must Fall 2016 (cast sugar, 22x10x2cm)
Big Sugar (2016)

Cast sugar
Nicknamed the ‘Goldilocks bird’ because its habitat conditions have to be just right in order for it to survive, the Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow is a rare, reclusive and endangered subspecies of seaside sparrow endemic to southern Florida. A combination of global warming and the industrial-scale production of sugar in the US has devastated the birds’ natural habitat. The sparrow’s now protected status is jeopardising an $8 billion flood-prevention project in the Everglades – a huge engineering feat required to correct decades of human folly and environmental mismanagement. Big Sugar is my response to this.

Empire England

(2018) sugar, ink and vintage ceramic

alltheErics (2016)

Sugar cubes and ink

Famine Queen (2018)

Ceramic and plaster

Pillar of Pillage (2018)

Ceramic and plaster

President Snowflake (2018)

Ink on cotton, fabric, pins, 14x14cm

Snowflake: a person known to be opposed to the abolition of slavery, valuing white people over black people.
Commonly found: Missouri, 1860s 

Whiteness (2018)

Ink on bagasse (sugar cane fibre), fabric, pins, 14x14cm

Whiteness: a fragile specimen; prone to tears and defensiveness if made to feel uncomfortable; likely to aggressively protect its position. Commonly found: areas of former colonial power.

Victorias (2018)

Rubber, silk, gold and indigo on antique map

Surviving (2019) Ceramic and goldleaf, 90x170cm
Plundered (2018)

Mixed media and c-type print, 80x30 cm

Blanket (2017) digital video still, mylar survival blanket and River Lea
Suiker Piet (2016)

Porcelain and ceramic decals

Sweet Strength

Bagasse and resin

Sweet Strength

Bagasse and resin 2019

Sweet Strength (detail)

Bagasse and resin

Crown (2019)

Mixed media, 160x160cm

Commissioned by Art+Christianity for Waltham Forest London Borough of Culture and made in workshops with the community of All Saints Leyton

Love thy neighbour... (2010)

Sand and lead shot

Raft (2015)

Ceramic, timber, paint

Folly (2015)

Leaves and acrylic lacquer

The City sets sail 2016

Paper, tape and digital images supplied by the public
240x320 cm installed at All Hallows by the Tower, Byward St, London

Cell (2015)

PVC and nylon

Shed (2015)

Timber, lightbulb, sound recording

Heath ritual (2014)

Feathers, logs

Always greener (2014)

Soil and grass

Creekside (2012)

Gold leaf

Hard aber herzlich (2013)

Timber, tape and twine

Heygate Pond (2012)

Glass, fish, leaves, water, kitchen sink

Your Move (Heygate) (2012)

Chairs and paint

Party at St Pauls (2013)

Colour printed postcards (15x9cm)

'Party at St Paul's' infiltrated the famous cathedral's giftshop with a St Paul's-branded postcard depicting a bunch of party balloons in peace/pride rainbow colours pinned to the large wooden doors of the church. A stock of these postcards was surreptitiously added to the shop's display carousels and then unknowingly sold as souvenirs to unsuspecting tourists. St Paul's had been the site of the Occupy London protest in 2012 that campaigned against corporate greed. This work was my gift to the cathedral, in honour of the Occupy Movement, which was evicted from the churchyard by the City of London Corporation.

Untethered (2018)

Bioresin

Untethered (detail)

Bioresin

Armour (2010)

Mixed media

Life sentence? (2011)

Barbed wire

Id (2009)

Maps and thread

Sacrifice (2008)

Bread dough and pins

Sacrifice (detail) (2008)

Bread dough and pins

Shelled (2007)

Latex

Powerplay (2009)

Ceramic and acrylic lacquer

Relic (2008)

Clay

Dereliction (2007)

Sugar

Broken

Ceramic (2018)

me too? (black)

2018, ceramic and acrylic lacquer

me too? (pink)

2018, ceramic and acrylic lacquer

Comfort in pain (2006)

Ceramic

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