Joshua Woolford is a London-based transdisciplinary artist working across performance, sound, video, and installation engaged with the perspective of the queer Black Afro-Caribbean diaspora living in England. Grounded in cultural research and personal narrative, Woolford's practice confronts violence, aggression, and misalignment within socio-political landscapes. Their work centers embodied knowledge, the “unseen,” and intuition as powerful and disruptive forces that challenge dominant systems and provoke critical dialogue.

Currently a LAHP-funded PhD candidate at Slade and the Royal College of Art exploring anticapitalist and anticolonial resistance through performance, Woolford holds an MA from the Royal College of Art and graduated Cum Laude from Design Academy Eindhoven. They held the 2023-24 Interpretation Artist in Residence at Tate and were selected as a New Contemporaries 2023 Artist. Recent grants include Arts Council DYCP funding and the a-n Artists Bursary. Notable exhibitions and performances include Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, and Somerset House, Black Cultural Archives, V&A, Camden Art Centre, and Tate Britain in London, among others.

Image: Joshua Woolford w/ Sippin’ T & Lie Ning