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Enam Gbewonyo textile and performance artist, curator and the founder of the Black British Female Artist (BBFA) Collective . Her practice investigates identity, womanhood, and humanity while also advocating the healing benefits of craft. With her performance work, Gbewonyo seeks to deliver the collective consciousness to a positive place of awareness by creating live spaces of healing. By using craft as her portal she pushes us to face the truth of a dark past and the emotions it brings forth. Thus bringing us to a point of spiritual awareness both of self and humanity.
Gbewonyo has exhibited with galleries and institutions such as: Saatchi Gallery, Tafeta Gallery, Bonhams, New Ashgate Gallery, Sulger-Buel Lovell Gallery and Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair, Toronto. She has delivered performances for Christie’s, Hogan Lovells LLP, Henry Moore Institute, as part of the collateral programme for the opening week of the 58th edition of Venice Biennale and as part of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair Marrakech public programme. Her collaborative commissioned artwork exploring empire, slavery, colonisation and the tea trade is currently on view at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
She has been featured in; Garage magazine, The New York Times, Financial Times, The Independent, Guardian, Vogue (International, Australia, Spain and British) and Nataal magazine.
Enam Gbewonyo performs Nude Me/ Under the Skin: The Awakening of Black Women's Visibility one Pantyhose at a time, Part II for Christie's Lates, Women in the Arts event. August 2019
