“As a trans person you never expect to see yourself in museums [...] So going into Gunnersbury Museum and seeing these beautiful photos of South Asian trans people [...] covering the walls is just so incredibly affirming. We belong here and we exist.” - Sabah Choudrey, Diva
"One of the best London exhibitions I've been to in recent memory."
- Jonathan Nunn, Instagram story
“You find yourself suddenly, amazingly, on the set of Doctor Who [...] surrounded by liberal misty bursts from a hidden dry-ice machine. Where are all the gilded chairs and paintings of people called William? Have you made a mistake? No. You -lucky thing- are in the first dazzling gallery of Gunnersbury’s Set to Stun exhibit, [...] and you are in for an enormous treat.” – Doctor Who Magazine
"The World Gallery offers more than a description of human life in all its broad and astounding diversity. It explores the depths of what it means to be human too." - The Times
"The effect is one of splendid profusion… The common thread is one of inclusiveness" - Financial Times
Reviews of exhibitions and galleries which I have have led the curation of or been a core member of the curatorial team on.
"Objective truths about human culture are hard to come by, but this beautiful new gallery asks all the right questions" - New Scientist
SELECTED work
For the Peoples Unite! exhibition I commissioned a short film documenting the closure of venues in Southall. Community members wanted to draw attention to these closures and the negative effect they had on creativity in Southall, a place which hitherto had a reputation as a melting pot from which new, hybridised sounds emerged. More positively, since covid a fresh generation of pioneers is bringing music back to Southall.
Video by Anouska Brooking, copyright Gunnersbury Park Museum.
On the left, Angélica Dass' Humanae, on the right a wine cup from fifth century BCE Athens, two meditations on difference in human appearance, made twenty-four centuries apart. The exhibition COLOUR: Art, Science and Power (2022-2023) deconstructed the use of 'black' and 'white' as a means of categorising people.
Over 8 years I made a map of Mumuret, a valley in northwest Pakistan where I've carried out extended fieldwork. The map charts events which happened during the timespan of its making. Some events impacted many people, whilst other sections of the map are more personal, relating to the valley as I experienced it.