Recent:
EXHIBITION
Faith Place and Migration
Staffordshire Street Gallery, 8-17.03.24, London.
This multi-media installation introduces the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of London's oldest Nigerian community, the Old Kent Road Mosque. Through this exhibition, the curators question the nature of a community archive and explore how the narratives of community members are embedded in and told through the architecture of their sacred spaces.
BOOK
Chapter 8: Performing the Symbiotic Relationship Between the Adapted Mosque and its Congregation.
Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in Global London: Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces. Multilingual Matters, 2024.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Assembly: Investigating the role that artist fieldwork can play in Islamic sites of worship.
"Spiritual, Sacred, Secular" special issue, 2023.
Featured:
PROJECT
Assembly 2018-21
Brick Lane Mosque, London, Old Kent Road Mosque, London, Harrow Central Mosque, London.
Assembly is a series of site-specific installations that perform Islamic prayer spaces, made and exhibited in Brick Lane Mosque (2018 –19); and Old Kent Road Mosque (2019–20). The moving image installations are made in collaboration with each mosque community establishing clear guidelines for the filming process, ensuring an ethical, non-intrusive approach that respects the sacred moment of worship.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Site-integrity: An embedded and embodied approach to practice based research.
The Art of Making: Methods that Work for Artmaking as Research Enquiry / Scene / Vol.11.2023
EXHIBITION
Virtual Assembly 2022
Ambika P3 Gallery, London
Virtual Assembly is an interactive digital model of Old Kent Road Mosque and MANUK (Muslim Association of Nigeria UK) due to the demolition and redevelopment of their mosque on Old Kent Road in Southwark. Prior to the demolition, a LiDAR scan of the entire building was made which served as the foundation for an interactive model to house a collection of stories and personal accounts from mosque members. Made in collaboration with the congregation this interactive model offers innovative ways to engage with the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of London’s oldest Nigerian community during a significant phase of their evolutionary journey.
Upcoming:
SITE PERFORMANCE
Moving Pictures 2022-24
Zoroastrian Centre For Europe, London
This RIBA-funded project examines the adaptive reuse of cinemas as places of worship in the diaspora. To understand the wider context, the team visited a selection of cinemas that have been reused as mosques, temples and black-majority churches across the UK.
CONFERENCE
Alliances and Commonalities 2024
Artistic research conference, 17–19 October, Stockholm University of the Arts.
This conference will explore how technical devices enable conversations with material entities, places, and relevant forms of inquiry. Technological devices are considered tools for engagement, imaginative tools that connect the known and the unimaginable and activate relationships between here and there, then and now.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Virtual Assembly: Exploring the adapted British mosque through interactive Digital heritage modeling.
“Urgency of the Digital” special issue, 2025