Biographies
Tina Campt
Tina M. Campt is Roger S. Berlind Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She is a black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art who has published five books including A Black Gaze, Listening to Images, Image Matters, and Other Germans. She received the 2020 Photography Catalogue of the Year Award and the 2024 Photographic Studies Award from the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Jenn Nkiru
Jenn Nkiru is a Grammy-award-winning visionary artist and director from London. As an artist, her works have screened internationally, from The Metropolitan Museum of Art to The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art in LA, the Tate Modern, the ICA London, The Victoria and Albert Museum and the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane among others. Her work is also held in the MoMA archives. Nkiru was also one of 75 artists selected for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2019 Whitney Biennial. She is the 2021 Grammy Award Winner for Best Music Video for her direction on Brown Skin Girl by Beyonce. She additionally is the winner of a CICLOPE, Soul Train, Cannes Lion and NAACP award for the same video. Her film OUT / SIDE OF TIME, currently sit in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York as a part of their exhibition: Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room. December 2022 saw Nkiru’s TV directorial debut with the release of Random Acts of Flyness season 2 of which she directed 2 episodes premiering on HBO. In January 2023, Variety named Nkiru as one of 10 Brits to Watch in 2023.
In 2024 she directed the 3 times award winning Get Lit for Kamasi Washington and George Clinton.
Alberta Whittle
Alberta Whittle, born in Bridgetown, Barbados, lives and works in Glasgow. She received her PhD from Edinburgh College of Art (2024) and is a current Research Associate at The University of Johannesburg. Her creative practice is motivated by the desire to manifest self-compassion and collective care as key methods in battling anti-blackness. Whittle represented Scotland at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2022) and has been the recipient of a Turner Bursary, Frieze Artist Award, and a Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award.
Phoebe Boswell
Phoebe Boswell, born in Nairobi, Kenya, lives and works in London. She is a British/Kenyan multidisciplinary artist moving between drawing, painting, film, installation, sound, and writing, with a commitment to the drawn body, the decolonial body, the intimate and the collective body, and how it is seen, felt, loved, and cared for, Her work is held and exhibited in public institutions globally, she received the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists and was the Bridget Riley Drawing Fellow at the British School of Rome in 2019, received the Lumière Award from the Royal Photographic Society in 2021, and was Whitechapel Gallery’s 2022 writer-in-residence.
