South London Gallery Partnership

In 2023 G.A.S. Foundation partnered with South London Gallery (SLG) as a means of facilitating opportunities for research, and ultimately, the commissioning of new artwork for their highly anticipated exhibition, Lagos, Peckham, Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes. Known as ‘Little Lagos’, Peckham (where SLG is situated) is home to one of the largest Nigerian diaspora communities in the UK.

Chiizii

United Kingdom | April - May 2023

 

Chiizii is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher born in London and raised in New York and Igbo. Working heavily with but not limited to painting, collage and textile design, her work centres the specificities of Igbo, Nigerian and African experiences and histories. Her research aims to establish the significance of art in the communication and maintenance of Igbo food culture as well as the use of making art as a learning method and presenting art as a teaching method. Recent shows include RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy 2021, Collective Processes Gucci Circolo 2021, Blacklisted: An Indefinite Revolution and Christie's 2020.

 

 

Ranti Bam

France | Feb 2026

 

Ranti Bam works primarily with clay. Her practice explores holding, presence, and becoming through hand-built forms that carry both strength and vulnerability. Working with red and black clays, materials that feel closely aligned with her African identity, she creates sculptural forms that move between the figurative and the abstract. The trace of touch remains visible, keeping the work grounded in the intimacy of making and the relationship between body and earth. At the heart of her practice is an exploration of scale and resonance: how what we hold on a micro level echoes on a macro level, how the small body is also the big body. Through clay, she reflects on memory, care, ancestry, and belonging, using sculpture as a space to consider how personal gestures connect to collective and cosmological worlds.

 

 

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