Keeping it Real — Museum of Colour
The Museum of Colour commissioned me to create typographic collages for Keeping it Real, an exhibition celebrating 20 influential non-fiction writers of colour. While six of the nominated writers were honoured with painted portraits displayed at the Holburne and Victoria Art Gallery in Bath, I was invited to reimagine the remaining 14 writers’ names, including figures such as science journalist Angela Saini and sociologist Professor Stuart Hall, through expressive typographic collaging.
These works form part of the full Keeping it Real exhibition on the Museum of Colour’s digital platform, sitting alongside the physical gallery display and offering audiences a new way to engage with the legacy of these remarkable voices.
Edward Scobie, journalist, magazine publisher and historian
Madhur Jaffrey, cookbook and travel writer
Stuart Hall, sociologist and activist
Paul Gilroy, sociologist and cultural studies scholar
Paul Canoville, Chelsea’s first Black player and children’s campaigner
Caroline Shola Arewa, spiritual guide, Master of Yoga and author
Hakim Adi, first African-British historian to become a professor of history in the UK
Tariq Ali, political activist, journalist, writer and filmmaker
Yemisi Aribisala, Nigerian essayist, painter and food memoirist
Mary Prince, first Black women to publish an autobiography of her experience of enslavement
Gary Younge, journalist, author and academic
George Padmore, journalist and author
Angela Saini, science journalist and writer
Pragna Patel, women’s rights activist