Rethinking Modernism
I was recently invited to speak as part of a panel exploring the legacy and future of twentieth-century Modernism. Rather than looking backwards, I found myself asking a different question: what kind of architecture do we need now?
Craft Beyond the Workshop
In 2023, I was invited to speak at the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the Global Design Forum, joining architect Takeshi Hayatsu for a conversation on Tradition, Craft and Community.
Nothing is Designed in a Vacuum
A few years ago, I joined a panel at the London Design Fair to discuss a question that feels no less relevant today: Are we still designing dangerously?
Beyond Representation
I recently joined Charlene Prempeh, Joy Yamusangie and Thomas Aquilina at the Design Museum for a conversation titled Unseen by Design: Representation, Belonging and the Cultural Void
Returning to the Black Canvas
My earliest paintings were stark and uncompromising—black female forms emerging from white paper through line alone
Featured
In 2020 I was honoured to be featured by British Vogue in a piece celebrating Black British jewellery designers
This month marks the opening of PLATFORM: Simone Brewster at the Design Museum—my first museum exhibition and an opportunity to bring together over two decades of work
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with architect, artist and Director of JA Projects, Jayden Ali, for Off The Record