May 9–12, 2026 · Curated by The Holy Arts
There's something different about showing work in a physical space. Different to posting it online, different to selling a print that ships to an address you'll never visit. When you put work on a wall — in a room, with people, with air — it becomes something else entirely. It breathes differently.
I'd been sitting with that for a while, thinking about what it would mean to take Facial Evolution out of the archive and into a shared space. And I think that's exactly what that moment called for.
From 9th to 12th May 2026, I was part of Into the fold, Open Art & Art on the Loop — a group exhibition curated by The Holy Arts, held at 200 Battersea Park Road, SW11 4ND.
It was the first time my work had been seen in a live exhibition setting, and I won't pretend I wasn't nervous. I was. But the nerves were good. They were the kind that mean something real is happening.
The work I've made — the faces, the fragmentation, the mosaic architecture of identity — was always built to be looked at slowly. On a screen, there's a scroll. There's a feed. There's always the next thing. In a room, you can actually stand in front of it. You can let your eyes travel across the composition, sit with the tension between the pixelated structure and the intimacy of a drawn eye. That's the experience I made it for.
If you've followed this journal, you already know where this work comes from. The excavation of self. The layers that don't sit neatly. The faces that have been read wrong and misrepresented, reassembled piece by piece into something that asks: what do you actually see when you look? That question doesn't get answered in a caption. It gets answered in the room.
FE2 in the room.
FE2 was first shown at Into the Fold, a body of work built around reclamation, healing, and the resilience of identity. In Read Again, facial elements are deliberately fragmented and reassembled against a deep black background — confronting how Black women's features have historically been isolated, exaggerated, and misread. Each mosaic block functions as a unit of perception. Abstract alone. Identity in full.
I'd spent a long time thinking about how to bring this work out in a way that felt right. The exhibition was the right moment — a live space, a real conversation, work that is meant to be stood in front of.
FE1 and FE2 now live in the Archive, available as fine art prints.
I'm grateful to The Holy Arts for the platform and the curation — for creating space where that kind of conversation can happen. Community-led exhibitions like this matter. They exist because someone decided the conversation was worth having in person.
Exhibition Details
Dates: 9th–12th May 2026
Venue: 200 Battersea Park Road, London, SW11 4ND