Jamie Holman & Masimba Hwati

Jamie Holman and Masimba Hwati are working with curator Alex Zawadzki on ‘Colonial Amusements,’ an exhibition for the British Textile Biennial 2021. Holman’s work is multi-disciplinary and is often fabricated using industrial processes or with heritage crafts makers and artists. His work is informed by the heritage of working class communities, in particular the impact of the industrial revolution and the cultures that have manifested as a consequence of its emergence and subsequent decline.

Hwati, is a Zimbabwean interdisciplinary artist, working at the intersections of Sculpture, performance and sound, known for unconventional three-dimensional mixed media sculptures. In 2015, he was one of three artists selected for Pixels Of Ubuntu/Unhu for the Zimbabwean Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. He is an honorary research fellow at Rhodes University Fine Arts Department in Grahamstown, South Africa. Hwati is currently a PhD student at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.