Enam Gbewonyo is a British Ghanaian textile and performance artist based in London. She is founder of the Black British Female Artist Collective, a platform that supports emerging Black women artists’ careers and advocates inclusivity.
In 2021 Peckham Platform commissioned Gbewonyo to run a four-part craft workshop for Black women as part of our intergenerational placemaking project, Tilting the Mirror. Gbewonyo’s 3Ms to Healing online workshops focus on healing generational trauma through meditation, movement and making, known as the 3Ms.
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Projects
Tilting the Mirror
2020 - 2023
This three year initiative aims to establish a greater knowledge and understanding of community-led cultural activity.
Gayle Chong Kwan
Working primarily with photography and installation, Chong Kwan creates fantastical landscapes and environments consisting primarily of waste materials.
Tyreis Holder
Tyreis Holder, a South London artist with Jamaican/St. Vincent heritage, explores self, identity, and colonial spaces through installation, textiles, poetry, and more. Her work, embracing textiles as healing language, addresses trauma among Black women. She sparks conversations on race, disability, community, class, sexuality, and culture through lived experiences.
Michael McMillan
Born in the UK of Caribbean migrant parents, artist and writer Michael McMillan uses mixed media as part of a creative collaborative process that brings in other artists and local people for performances and exhibitions.
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