Love

I am constantly seeking, to spread LOVE.

I create, connect, and organise with an intention

• to plant seeds of LOVE

• to birth LOVE

• to tap into the love that resides in us

Why Love?

I firmly believe love is the answer to life's big questions.

Being a woman of Faith, living in a world filled with so much despair and hopelessness

Intentionally seeking and practicing LOVE, keeps me hopeful in a challenging world

I make work that unsettles comfortable narratives and opens space for voices pushed to the margins. My practice moves across performance, curation, storytelling, and collaborative projects to interrogate race, migration, gender, asylum, and the lived realities of refugees and marginalized artists. I use embodied performance, archival fragments, and community-led processes to create encounters that are visceral and generative. My work refuses neat resolution; it insists on complexity, on the friction between memory and policy, intimacy and public spectacle. I invite audiences to witness and to act, to feel the cost of silence and the possibility of repair. I am driven by the conviction that art can be a site of testimony, transformation, and collective care.

My journey

I grew up in a township in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. Early on I was surrounded by creativity. My mother was a highly skilled seamstress and my father was a civil servant and self educated dramatist, directing and producing plays. My faith and my exposure to creativity become my key tools to survive in the township. In 2001, I migrated to the UK. Unusual for a migrant from my background, I chose to enter the Arts. Again it was the arts and my faith that helped me through the most challenging times of my life, resisting and overcoming domestic and mental abuse, single motherhood and financial crisis. The experiences of my past, present and a longing for a better future play a big role in how l approach my work.

I am the first black woman to design Queen Elizabeth II Baton Commonwealth Games 2022, its the last Queens Baton. I have been featured in Design Week, BBC, ITV, and multiple international broadcasts. As a TEDx speaker, I have talked about issues that are close to my heart. My collaborations with social purpose organisations, Universities like UAL, Newcastle, University of Birmingham, University of Warwick, collaborations with notable designers, exhibitions and curations across the UK have been designed and produced using love as a tool and approach.

Who is telling my story? is one the questions that inspired me found Maokwo, an arts organisation that creates pathways and build legacies for marginalised migrant communities. One of my role is mentoring artists from migrant communities; Mentees have secured jobs, enrolled at university, awarded scholarships, launched businesses, & published books.