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I am an award-winning artist, visual strategist and creative director. My practice explores the process and placement of the portrait as a cultural arbiter in the activation of agency.

I am an Artist and change influencer, disrupting the process and the placement of the portrait through critical thinking, strategic research and investigation. My practice expands the content and context in the narratives and language used to create and give the work agency. My work is about the power of an alternative narrative.

I have participated internationally in solo and group exhibitions including: ‘Underexposed’, W1Curates, Oxford Street, London.‘Radiating Greatness’, JP Morgan and BCA, London. ‘Devotion: A Portrait of Loretta’, Autograph-ABP. ‘The Big 30’, Heart n Soul, The Albany and Deptford Lounge, London. ‘Underexposed’, National Portrait Gallery, London. ‘The 2011 Festival of Britain at London Southbank’. ‘Get Up, Stand Up Now’, Somerset House, London. ‘The African Continuum’, The United Nations, New York. ‘Counterbalance’ Royal Albert Hall, London. ‘Recontres au noir’, Arles, France. ‘Transforming the Crown’, The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York. ‘You can’t get from here to there’, Galerie Hunchentoot, Berlin.

Awards include NESTA Fellowship, Arts Council GFA, The London Arts Board, B.A.V.C San Francisco, Art 360 and I was nominated for the Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize.

‘The Philosophy of Strangers’ is my first monograph published by Autograph-ABP in 2007.

My work is held in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain, Welcome Collection, Lloyds of London, Autograph-ABP, The Queen Mary University and Arts Council England.