I’m an artist, costume designer and curator whose work bridges textiles, costume and exhibition-making, bringing together material knowledge, rhythm, movement and diasporic storytelling.
My making practice is rooted in the creation of sculptural and wearable textiles that hold stories through layered construction and repetition. Drawing on Black spiritual technologies and ancestral memory, my work explores how knowledge can be carried and expressed through the body.
Working closely with directors, choreographers, performers and artists, I’ve designed and produced costume and textile works for performances, films and interdisciplinary projects with East London Dance, Channel 4 Random Acts, The Roundhouse, Southbank Centre, Take Me Somewhere, Frieze and moniqux ensemble.
Alongside my textile and costume work, I spent five years as a curator at CCA Glasgow where I developed interdisciplinary exhibition programmes centred on diasporic knowledge, collaboration and shared enquiry. My curatorial work created spaces where artists, audiences and communities could gather around complex histories, shared questions and new forms of cultural imagination. During this time, I worked with artists including Rae-Yen Song, Ana Beatriz Almeida, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva and Asad Raza.
My work brings together histories that are carried through the body using rhythm as a form of memory and making, as a space for connection and transformation. Rhythm is central to this process, shaping how I approach stitching, layering and gesture, and allowing me to move between intimate acts of making and collective experience.
email me for a CV or folio
sabrinajhenry@gmail.com