Sabrina is a curator and costume designer. Her curatorial practise thinks through questions of post-coloniality as they exist in Scotland to contribute to the wider discourse around the effects of power and modernity with a focus on the geographies of the Atlantic. In her costume practice she works with artists of various disciplines to connect pre-colonial traditions with the contemporary British experience as a way to re-imagine the future. Her textile work uses handcraft techniques to create contemporary artefacts that retell the history of Black diasporic presence in Scotland.
As part of the British Art Network research group The Re-Action of Black Performance, she is exploring how the state of being re-active is used as a theme in Black British performance art.
Sabrina works as a curator at Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow.
curation
2024. Rae-Yen Song. life-bestowing cadaverous soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot.. CCA Glasgow
2023. Tuan Andrew Nguyen. All That We Are Is What We Hold In Our Outstretched Hands. CCA Glasgow
2022. Asad Raza, Desiree Coral & Alexandra Toland. We Are Compost, Composting The We. CCA Glasgow
2021. Arjuna Neuman & Denise Ferreira da Silva. Soot Breath. CCA Glasgow
2020. Jasmina Cibic. An Atmosphere of Joyful Contemplation. CCA Glasgow (assistant curator)
2020. Some Things Want To Run. Carrie Skinner, Mele Broomes and Chto Delat. CCA Glasgow (assistant curator)
2020. Emilia Beatriz. declarations on soil and honey. CCA Glasgow (assistant curator)
2018. Ana Beatriz Almeida. N’Gomku. Project X and CCA Glasgow
2018. Cosmic Migration. Southbank Centre (collaborative performance)
2017. A Study in Devotion. Market, London (collaborative research and performance)
2016. Lea Anderson. Getting Dressed. Southbank Centre, London
costume design
2023. Thrown by Natali McCleary. National Theatre of Scotland
2021. Wrapped Up in This, Mele Broomes
2021. Living In The Space Between, Fran.k and collaborators
2020. RESET, Alberta Whittle
2020. W.A.I.T., Untitled Projects
2019. Da Be A Be, CC Noelle response to Nick Cave’s exhibition UNTIL
2019. Foreign Bodies, Ella Mesma Dance Company
2019. Hive City Legacy, Hot Brown HoneyRoundhouse and UK tour
2019. Sonic Séance. V/DA. Tramway
2018. Beige B*tch, Nima Sene. Contact Theatre
2018. Hive City Legacy. Roundhouse
2018. Oshun & the Gold. Project X
2018. Identity. East London Dance
2018. Throwdown. Roundhouse
2017. But Where Are You From? Tina Pasotra. Channel 4 Random Acts
2017. Orlando Warrior. Julia Cheung. Southbank Centre and Rich Mix.
contact
sabrinajhenry@outlook.com
+44 7917 430 539
instagram @sebbijh
Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
www.cca-glasgow.com
British Art Network
https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/research/the-re-action-of-black-performance/