May 9–12 · 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've been sitting with that for a while now, thinking about what it means to take Facial Evolution out of the archive and into a shared space. And I think that's exactly what this moment calls for.
From 9th to 12th May, I'll be 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.
This is the first time my work will be seen in a live exhibition setting, and I won't pretend I'm not nervous. I am. But the nerves are good. They're 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.
Something else is happening on the day.
On the opening of the public exhibition — 9th May — FE2:01 Read Again: Reclaiming the Gaze becomes available for the first time.
This piece is part of the FE2 series, a body of work built around reclamation, healing, and the resilience of identity. 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.
And for the first time, I'm releasing a Collector's Edition that brings both the physical and the digital together.
This is the only edition that includes both the 24 x 32 inch original archival canvas print and the authenticated NFT — Read Again: Reclaiming the Gaze, animated digital edition. Once it sells, it is gone forever in this form.
There are 3 physical canvas prints in existence. Only 1 comes with the NFT. After this edition sells, the remaining two prints will be available separately — but the digital edition will not be offered alongside them again. This is the complete work. Physical and digital. Together, once.
I've spent a long time thinking about how to release this piece in a way that felt right. The exhibition felt like the right moment — a live space, a real conversation, work that is meant to be stood in front of. Read Again deserves that entry point.
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.
So come. Come and stand in front of the work. Bring someone you wouldn't normally drag to a gallery. Let it sit with you in whatever way it does.
Tickets are free. The link is below. I'll see you there.
Exhibition Details
Opening Night / Private View Saturday 9th May 2026 · 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM Complimentary drinks served. RSVP required.
Public Exhibition Sunday 10th – Tuesday 12th May 2026 · 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Venue: 200 Battersea Park Road, London, SW11 4ND
Free tickets: Into the Fold - The Holy Art Tickets, Saturday, May 9 to Tuesday, May 12 | Eventbrite
FE2:01 Read Again: Reclaiming the Gaze — Collector's Edition available from 9th May.