Rosa-Johan Uddoh

Rosa-Johan Uddoh (b.1993, Croydon) is an interdisciplinary artist working towards radical self-love, inspired by black feminist practice and writing. Through performance, writing and multimedia installation, she explores an infatuation with places, objects or celebrities in British popular culture, and their effects on self-formation. She will be using the site to prepare for her upcoming solo show ‘Practice Makes Perfect’ to take place at Focal Point Gallery in Southend on Sea

Her upcoming exhibition will explore the relationship of childhood education with popular ideas of the British nation, and how this forms British subjects; responding to debates about Black history within the National Curriculum and urban space. As part of this, Rosa will make a series of giant tea-stained paper sculptures, riffing off the go-to-technique for children when ‘making historical’.

The Camden Passage site will allow her to make tests and really experiment with these processes – different teas, different scales, allowing her to push the work creatively before completing in-situ other elements under more time pressure, in Southend.