About

A cultural producer with a crush on queerness, humour and – both the mess and potential of – human connections.

Currently: Head of Arts for the British Council, Kenya and East Africa and a PhD candidate in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.

This website documents projects, programmes and ideas. Image Credit: Darlyne Komukama

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    • Queer Visual Strategies

    I’m trying to complete a PhD… it’s tricky with a full time job, but it’s also very rewarding, mind bending and eye opening.

    This is the question I’m focusing on: What visual strategies are East African artists adopting in order to survive and thrive in atmospheres of queer oppression?

    Through this exploration I am finding artworks that are queer fabulously disrupting our present – challenging the heteronormative dull thud of existence – as well as presenting the potential for alternative queer futures.

    All of this work aims to:

    • Highlight the work of an incredible group of artists;
    • Celebrate the impact visual culture has on the queer journey;
    • Build strategies for creating alternative spaces and avenues of thought.

    The work will result in an exhibition, staged in the UK and East Africa, and an accompanying thesis highlighting and celebrating both the work of the artists and their poetic and aesthetic queer visual strategies.

    I’m archiving online links and musings here: https://itsyourphd.tumblr.com/

    Because it’s your PhD, not theirs.

    Image: celebrating Ugandan independence day in a bar in North East London, October 2016. (Image my own).