Education
2023 - present PhD Research Candidate, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK
2019 - 2021 MA Art History and Curation with Photography (Distinction), University of Sussex, UK
2017 - 2020 MA Photography (Distinction), Kingston University, Kingston Upon Thames, UK
2018 - 2018 International Urban Photography Summer School, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2015 - 2017 MA Drawing (Distinction), Wimbledon College, University of the Arts, London, UK
2013 - 2017 MSc Anthropology of Childhood, Youth, and Education, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
2010 - 2013 BA Textiles, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
2006 - 2013 BSc Social Science, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Curated Group Exhibitions and Forums
2023 Intersectional Matter: Waste, Gallery at the Station/Frome Photo Festival, Frome, UK
2022 Intersectional Geographies: Extraction, Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol, UK
2017 Co-curated the UAL Postgraduate Arts and Mental Health Forum
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Crude Extracts, Rook Lane Chapel, Frome Photo Festival, Frome, UK
2023 Freedom, National Justice Museum, Nottingham, UK
2023 Walk the Line, Murmurations II: The Right to Participate, Resource for London, UK
2022 Your Body Belongs to You, St Gilles Croix de Vie, France
2021 Hot Summer City International Street Photography Exhibition, curated by Rafael Fuchs,
Vestige Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA
2021 Photofusion Salon/2021, selected by Emma Bowkett and Zelda Cheatle, Photofusion Gallery, London, UK
2021 Post – Industrialism, Millepiani Gallery, Rome, Italy
2020 Significant Colour, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2020 The Man And The Machine, Millepiani Gallery, Rome, Italy
2020 Tracing Elsewhere, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames
2020 Still Life, Millepiani Gallery, Rome, Italy
2019 Photofusion Salon/2019, selected by Dr. Lucy Soutter, Photofusion Gallery, London, UK
2019 LIP 31st Annual Exhibition, selected by Laura Noble Tom Hunter and Philip Grey, Espacio Gallery, UK
2019 Why Do It Together When You Can Do It Alone? After School – Collective Strategies with Hemera Collective,
Lewisham Arthouse, UK
2019 Cities of Light Barcelona – Coexistence, Institut d’Estudis Fotografics de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
2018 Photofusion Salon/18, Photofusion Gallery, London, UK
2018 Urban Angles, Espacio Gallery, London, UK
2017 Reflection and Transformation, 26 Paces Gallery, Merton Arts Festival, London, UK
Awards and Residencies
2024 Spread the Word Deaf and Disabled Writers’ Commissions Award, for the Literature Festival
2024 Guest Photo Selector at fLIP 56 Magazine on Climate Warming for London Independent Photography
2023 PolyVocalCity Residency: Re-Staging Croydon, Theatrum Mundi, UK
2023 Radical Film School Residency (selected by Saeed Taji Farouky), London
2023 UCL Research Opportunity Scholarship
2023 Residency, PolyVocalCity: Re-Staging Croydon, Theatrum Mundi, UK
2022 PILOT II Residency : Rights, Care & Future, Autograph, UK
2022 Guest Curator Award (Panel: Mariama Attah, Song Tae Chong, Alona Pardo, Jennie Ricketts),
Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol
2021 Developing Your Creative Practice Award, Arts Council England
2019 Poem Brut, Commission Award, Serendipity, London
2018 MEAD Fellowship Award; Finalist, UAL, London
Presentations & Visiting Artist/Lecturer
2024 Artists’ Interventions in a Time of Crisis, Redeye Alumni Climate Aware Presentation 2024, Programmed Talk in partnership
with Rogue Studios Project Space and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2023 – present Group Facilitator: Photo Books, Zines, and DIY publications, in partnership with London Independent
Photography
2023 Language Matters: Creative-Critical Practice Symposium, Nottingham Trent University
and Nottingham Contemporary, UK
2023 Rivers as Blood (an experiment and critique of Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech),
Whitechapel Radio Station Takeover in company of Theatrum Mundi’s PolyVocal City, UK
2023 Poem Brut, Poetry Reading/Performance, Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK
2022 Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Kingston University, London, UK
2021 Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Kingston University, London, UK
2021 Opening Channels of Communication within the World of Photography: Acknowledging Maud Sulter
as a Photographic Ancestor; Concerning Photography: Photographic Networks in Britain (c. 1971 to the present),
Conference organised by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and The Photographers’ Gallery, UK
Publications
2023 Rawanne Koumaira Interviewed by Jacqueline Ennis–Cole, Photomonitor
2023 Water Womb Mother, Worms Magazine (Issue 8), UK
2023 Publishing as Artistic Practice: Notes in Dialogue with Mary Adeturinmo, Worms Magazine (Issue 7), UK
2023 Auto Photo 01, The Shutterhub, UK
2022 Writing With Light, Worms Magazine (Issue 5), UK
2021 #HackneyIsHome – Your Picture, Autograph, UK
