Ama Ogwo

“ This year’s theme, Reclaiming Narratives, reminds us of the importance of correcting historical inaccuracies and celebrating the untold stories of Black heritage and culture. It’s about recognising the achievements of Black individuals, both in the UK and globally, and challenging the narratives that have often been overlooked. 🖤✊🏾 As part of our BHM celebrations, our talented students contributed to this year’s visual identity through collage. Meet the artists behind this creative endeavor:

🎨 Asili Taylor (@underbelly.gallery), a recent Fine Art graduate from CSM (@csm_news), whose journey in art started in Gambia, where they learned to create with limited resources, sparking a lifelong passion for making and collaborating.

🎨 Hannah smith (@halenatron), a Visual Media student at @lcclondon, who describes themselves as a mixed-media, conceptual artist engaged in community-driven projects.

“To me, reclaiming narratives means the recovery of stories lost and untold in Black history […] Indigenous knowledge as it pertains to African and African diasporic history has not been prioritised in our storytelling. The reclaiming narratives is the revaluing of non-western ways of archiving history and having the autonomy to exist outside the colonising eye.”

🎨 Ama Ogwo (@remodelled.notions), a mixed-medium artist and recent CSM Fine Arts graduate. On why the world needs creativity:

“Creativity has endless potential: offering to be a form of expression, becoming a symbol of protest or a tool for recovery. It can bring people together, helping to forge new relationships and communities[…]I think it would be quite a bleak existence without it.” “ – (Sourced from UAL LinkedIn)