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Selected presentations

Tate Britain (UK)
Art Gallery of New South Wales (AUS)
Dakar Biennale OFF (SEN)
T4TV Queer Art at IFC Center, New York (USA)
Minor Attractions (UK)

Awards

Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund x Pride Australia, 2025
Best Screenplay, Queer Pitch Off x Gender Matters Taskforce Prize, 2025
Bowness, MaPH People’s Choice Award, 2025
Wyndham Art Prize, 2025

Selected residencies

Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock (SEN)
My Queer Blackness, My Black Queerness at Villa Lena (ITA)
The Art House (UK)
Bundanon (AUS)

Selected writing & press

VOGUE Italia (ITA)
The Face (UK)
The Guardian (UK/AUS)
Art Monthly Australasia (AUS)

I respectfully acknowledge the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung peoples as the Traditional Custodians of Naarm, where I live and work. This was and always will be Aboriginal land. I extend my respect to Indigenous peoples across the Kulin Nation, whose sovereignty, lore, and cultural authority endure despite ongoing colonial violence.

I also acknowledge the many nations, communities, and cultures of the continent now called Africa, whose lands, bodies, labour, and lore have been and continue to be subjected to extraction, displacement, and erasure through slavery, colonialism, and ongoing global systems of exploitation. These processes remain active in the present, shaping conditions of visibility, dispossession, and survival.

I recognise African and African diasporic communities living in so-called Australia, many of whom are Indigenous to their own ancestral lands and cultures, now living in displacement as a result of colonial violence, forced migration, and economic extraction.

As a Black diasporic artist shaped by histories of displacement, my relationship to Africa is relational rather than territorial, formed through inheritance, dispersal, and responsibility rather than ownership or fixed origin. I understand Blackness as an expansive condition that enables relation without sameness, holding space for difference, self-determination, and agency across lived experiences.

Living and working on Aboriginal land, I approach this place with care and responsibility, while holding the complexity of respect, solidarity, and loss that mark my own interrupted relationship to land.