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PUBLISHED Sep 2023
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Caleb Kwarteng Prah, Dazed Autumn 2023 ‘Beyond Borders’ issue (interview)
PUBLISHED Sep 2023
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Ulysses Jenkins by Jareh Das, Bomb Magazine 165, fall issue (interview)
PUBLISHED Aug 2023
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Black Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art, The Journal of Modern Craft, 16:1 (statement of practice)
PUBLISHED Jun 2023
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How I became an artist: Alberta Whittle, Art Basel stories (Interview)
PUBLISHED Jun 2023
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Theaster Gates: Black Chapel, Serpentine Pavilion 2022 (exhibition catalogue essay)
PUBLISHED Jun 2023
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PUBLIC PRIVATE – Pond Society, Shanghai (2023)
PUBLISHED Jun 2023
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Simon Skinner — Reimagining the Afro comb, WePresent (feature)
PUBLISHED May 2023
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Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis, Hayward Gallery (exhibition catalogue texts)
PUBLISHED May 2023
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Ladi Kwali and her cross-cultural pottery, Journal du Thé (feature)
PUBLISHED Apr 2023
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Adelaide Cioni: On Patterns (exhibition catalogue essay)
PUBLISHED Mar 2023
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Nifemi Marcus-Bello, Disegno (interview)
PUBLISHED Mar 2023
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Sonia Boyce: ‘The Afterlife of Projects Remains a Question’, Ocula Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Feb 2023
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Africa and its diaspora at Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Basel Stories (feature)
PUBLISHED Feb 2023
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Aissa Dione: Ruling the Weaves, World of Interiors (feature)
PUBLISHED Feb 2023
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Under the Hammer Abuja! Ladi Kwali & The Art of Clay, Bonham’s stories (feature)
PUBLISHED Jan 2023
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Sara Naim: Reality Beyond Rose-Tinted Lenses, Ocula Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Jan 2023
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On Tunji Adeniyi-Jones’s Cascading Violet II, 2022, The FLAG Art Foundation (essay)
PUBLISHED Dec 2022
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On Extractivism, Ndidi Dike: Discomfort Zones (essay)
PUBLISHED Nov 2022
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Zizipho Poswa’s new ceramics and photography explore hair as a medium for sculpture, Wallpaper* (feature)
PUBLISHED Nov 2022
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Interventions and Placemaking in Kumasi: Interview with crazinisT artisT, X-TRA, Volume 24, Number 2 (interview)
PUBLISHED Nov 2022
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The Politics of Memory and Belonging in Sasha Huber’s Action Portraits, Autograph ABP (essay)
PUBLISHED Nov 2022
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Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Hayward Gallery (exhibition catalogue texts)
PUBLISHED Oct 2022
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Making history, not sculpture: artist Barbara Chase-Riboud on her seven-decade career, The Art Newspaper (interview)
PUBLISHED Oct 2022
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Frieze Masters London: Nike Davies-Okundaye – kó gallery, Lagos (2022)
PUBLISHED Oct 2022
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Deptford X 2022 festival commissions
PUBLISHED Oct 2022
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Textiles from a personal and social perspective in the work of Nike Davies-Okundaye (exhibition text)
PUBLISHED Sep 2022
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How potter Ladi Kwali’s legacy travelled the globe, Crafts Council Stories (feature)
PUBLISHED Aug 2022
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Nifemi Marcus-Bello, Apartmento Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Jul 2022
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MATERIAL EVOLUTIONS: A Thing of Beauty, Apartamento Magazine and Maximillian William (essay)
PUBLISHED Jul 2022
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The hand-painted pirogues of Senegalese fishermen, World of Interiors (feature)
PUBLISHED Jun 2022
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Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art – York Art Gallery (2022)
PUBLISHED Jun 2022
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Dak’Art Shines a Light on Contemporary Art in Senegal, Frieze (opinion)
PUBLISHED Jun 2022
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Material Qualities of Sound: Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Bomb Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED May 2022
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Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, White Cube and Charleston Trust (interview)
PUBLISHED May 2022
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Performative Clay, Mater (essay)
PUBLISHED May 2022
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Guadalupe Maravilla Connects Healing Practices from East to West, Ocula Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Apr 2022
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The politics of clay: Black women, ceramics and contemporary, ART UK (feature)
PUBLISHED Apr 2022
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Ghanaian pavilion: returning country’s presentation to spill out across Venice, The Art Newspaper (feature)
PUBLISHED Mar 2022
Pélagie Gbaguidi: The Body as Archive, Ocula Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Feb 2022
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Shaping the nation: Clara Etso Ugbodaga-Ngu, Bonhams Magazine, Spring 2022 | Issue 70 (feature)
PUBLISHED Jan 2022
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Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art – Two Temple Place (2022)
PUBLISHED Jan 2022
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A Politics of Clay Hybrid Practices, Body Vessel Clay, Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art exhibition catalogue (essay)
PUBLISHED Jan 2022
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Shawanda Corbett: To the fields of Lilac (exhibition text)
PUBLISHED Dec 2021
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The Artsy Vanguard 2021: Wallen Mapondera (feature)
PUBLISHED Nov 2021
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Tiwani Contemporary’s New Lagos Space Celebrates 10 Years of Championing Art of the African Diaspora, Artsy (interview)
PUBLISHED Nov 2021
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Agatha’s Fashion: A Confluence of Pre and Post-Independence Nigerian Styles, Fashion and Race database (interview)
PUBLISHED Nov 2021
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How Clay is Connected to our Bodies, Frieze Magazine, Issue 223 (interview)
PUBLISHED Oct 2021
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Emerging designers explore identity and ‘the new world’ at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Wallpaper* (feature)
PUBLISHED Sep 2021
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Phoebe Collings-James: Metaphors for a malleable potential (essay)
PUBLISHED Sep 2021
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One in the Other – Camden Art Centre (2021)
PUBLISHED Jul 2021
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Doreen Garner: On White Monumentality and Sacrificial Aesthetics, X-TRA, Volume 23, Number 2 (feature)
PUBLISHED Jul 2021
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How I Made This: Theresah Ankomah’s Repurposed Produce Baskets, ARTNews (interview)
PUBLISHED Jun 2021
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Designing dining: How kitchen objects become imbued with culinary culture, It’s Nice That (feature)
PUBLISHED Jun 2021
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Samson Bakare: Why the artist paints Black people in positions of power, WePresent (feature)
PUBLISHED Apr 2021
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Making and Destroying Myths: Precious Okoyomon, Bomb Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Apr 2021
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Senzeni Marasela: ‘My work is rooted in Johannesburg’, Ocula Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Mar 2021
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Nigerian-American artist Dozie Kanu on disrupting the norm, Wallpaper* March 2021 issue, (interview)
PUBLISHED Feb 2021
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Ibiye Camp on her hybrid practice materializing data and mapping public space, PIN-UP Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Feb 2021
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South South is a new platform for art from the Global South, Wallpaper* (feature)
PUBLISHED Feb 2021
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Cinga Samson: A different conversation on representation, Ocula Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Dec 2020
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NIC Kay: radical self-fashioning, movement, and site-responsive performance, X-TRA, Volume 23, Number 1 (interview)
PUBLISHED Dec 2020
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Studio Visit: Sonya Dyer, Delfina Foundation Platform (feature)
PUBLISHED Nov 2020
Tschabalala Self: ‘We must abandon the lies and mistruths we have been told’, Ocula Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Nov 2020
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7 West African Institutions Animating the Region’s Contemporary Art Scene, Artsy (feature)
PUBLISHED Oct 2020
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Kenneth Ize: On Reflection, Crafts Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Oct 2020
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Sackitey Tesa: Things are not meant to be thrown away, WePresent (feature)
PUBLISHED Oct 2020
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Chitra Ganesh on Utopia, Futurity, and Dissent, Ocula Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Sep 2020
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GaHee Park: Building Fluid Worlds, Ocula Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Aug 2020
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Deana Lawson’s intimate and resplendent visions of Black life, Wallpaper* (feature)
PUBLISHED Aug 2020
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Lauren Halsey: Centring Community, Ocula Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Jul 2020
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New Readings, New Meanings: Frida Orupabo, Bomb Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Apr 2020
Billie Zangewa: Soldier of Love, Ocula Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Apr 2020
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The Culture Trip (features)
PUBLISHED Mar 2020
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Joy Matashi: On Black Hair As Architectural Medium, PIN-UP Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Dec 2019
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Multiple Representations: Florine Démosthène, Bomb Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Nov 2019
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Illness as Metaphor: Donald Rodney’s X-ray Photographs, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art (essay)
PUBLISHED Sep 2019
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Chale Wote: From local festival to boundary-pushing global platform, CNN Style (review)
PUBLISHED Aug 2019
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Labor and Nature: Deborah Anzinger, Bomb Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Aug 2019
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Patty Chang: From Xinjiang to the Atlantic Ocean, Ocula Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED Jul 2019
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Lagos Art Studio : Karl Ohiri’s conservational Impulse, The Art Momentum (feature)
PUBLISHED Jul 2019
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Who is stealing the Lagos coast? Domus 1033 (op-ed co-authored with Mathias Agbo Jnr)
PUBLISHED Jun 2019
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Kenneth Ize, Sleek (feature)
PUBLISHED May 2019
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The Colorful Nostalgia of Yinka Ilori’s Designs, Cultured Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED May 2019
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Zheng Bo: How to Live on Planet Earth, Ocula Magazine (interview)
PUBLISHED May 2019
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Ghana makes a star-studded debut at the Venice Biennale, CNN Style (review)
PUBLISHED Apr 2019
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How Ghanaian artists are reimagining the country’s past and future at the Venice Biennale, Sleek (feature)
PUBLISHED Feb 2019
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Devan Shimoyama: Cry Baby review, Burlington Magazine (review)
PUBLISHED Nov 2018
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The Multifaceted Narrative of Illness – Visual AIDS (Nov 2018)
PUBLISHED Sep 2018
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Ocula Magazine archive of interviews and reviews
PUBLISHED Aug 2018
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Here’s Martin! The zombie as metaphor in Taste of Flesh/ Bite Me I’m Yours, Survival of the Sickest, the art of Martin O’Brien (essay)
PUBLISHED Apr 2018
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Dissident Gardens – Het Nieuwe Instituut, Metropolis M (review)
PUBLISHED Jan 2018
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Marres Currents #5: I Spy, I Spy a little lie, Metropolis M (review)
PUBLISHED Nov 2017
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Performance Matters Performa 17’s opening week, Metropolis M (review)
PUBLISHED Nov 2017
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Who is María Zambrano? Metropolis M (feature)
PUBLISHED Apr 2016
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Lagos by Lagosians, Mojeh Magazine
PUBLISHED Apr 2016
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An Art Collective Takes Over a Portuguese Palace and Retells Its History, Hyperallergic (review)
PUBLISHED Oct 2015
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On Curating Pain: The Sick Body in Martin O’Brien’s Taste of Flesh/Bite Me I’m Yours, Leonardo Journal (essay)
PUBLISHED Jun 2014
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Marrakech Biennale 5, Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia (review)
PUBLISHED Apr 2014
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Nezaket Ekici: Kiss the Pain Away, Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia (interview)
PUBLISHED Jan 2014
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Bomb Magazine archive of interviews, reviews and Theory + Practice essay
PUBLISHED Oct 2013
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Laugh Out Loud Group Dynamics and the Catharsis of Tala Madani, Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia (review)
PUBLISHED Jun 2013
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Indelible Marks: Africa’s Traces on Dubai, The State vol. iv (essay)
PUBLISHED Apr 2013
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Science or Fiction: Imaginary Narratives in the Works of Laylah Ali, Hamad Butt, Basim Magdy and Larissa Sansour, Contemporary Practices (essay)
PUBLISHED Mar 2013
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African Art in Focus, Mojeh Magazine (feature)
PUBLISHED May 2011
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The Wider Narratives of the Middle East: Rabih Mroué, The People Are Demanding, Aesthetica Magazine (review)
PUBLISHED Sep 2009
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Portfolio of select curated projects, research and writing (2009 onwards)
PUBLISHED Jun 2008
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Artistes Only blog