Heather Akosua Agyepong is a British photographer, visual artist, performer and actor, living in London. Her work is held in the collection of Mead Art Museum.[1]

Early life and education

Agyepong was born and raised in London and is of Ghanaian heritage.[2] She earned a National Diploma in Performing Arts from City of Westminster College; a BSc in Applied Psychology from the University of Kent; and an MA in Photography & Urban Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London.[3]

Work

In Wish You Were Here, commissioned by the Hyman Collection,[4] Agyepong channels the American vaudeville performer Aida Overton Walker, by posing for a series of fake postcards.[5] The work addresses physical and mental wellbeing.[6]

The Body Remembers is a solo performance that "explores how trauma lives in the body, particularly for Black British women across different generations."[7][8]

Group photography exhibitions

  • Starting Something New: Recent Contemporary Art Acquisitions and Gifts, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2019–2021[1]
  • Wish You Were Here, Format Festival, Derby, 2021[9]

Awards

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2020 Sylvia Kemi Short film
2023 Snowfalls in the Summer Young Anita Short film

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2020 Enterprice Emily Episode: "When We Roar, Dem Run"
2022 This Is Going to Hurt Rachel Miniseries; 1 episode
2023 The Power Ndudi Main cast

Theatre

Year Title Role Venue Notes
2013 Antigone Tiresias T24 Drama, Canterbury
2015 4.48 Psychosis Voice #2 T24 Drama, Canterbury
2016 Switch Matilda Swoon Tricycle Theatre, London
Still Barred Yaz Battersea Arts Centre, London
Hatch Amma Boateng Hackney Showroom, London with Talawa Theatre Company
Girls Haleema Soho Theatre, London with Talawa Theatre Company
2017 Jagged Edge Colette Rich Mix, London
Best Friends Vicky Ovalhouse, London
So Many Reasons Melissa Ovalhouse, London
Sankara Flore Royal National Theatre, London
2019 Noughts & Crosses Persephone Mira Hadley Pilot Theatre, York
2022 Celebrated Virgins Sarah Theatr Clwyd, Mold
2023 School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play Ama Lyric Theatre, London

Collections

Agyepong's work is held in the following permanent collection:

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Starting Something New: Recent Contemporary Art Acquisitions and Gifts". Amherst College. 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  2. ↑ "The photographer who became a warrior". BBC News. 17 November 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  3. ↑ "CV". Heather Agyepong. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  4. ↑ "TALKS | ART IN THE CITY - Heather Agyepong". Arnolfini.
  5. ↑ "2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home". The New York Times. 28 May 2020. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  6. ↑ "Aesthetica Magazine - Making the Space". Aesthetica Magazine. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  7. ↑ "DIG 21: Heather Agyepong | The Body Remembers". Tramway. 15 October 2021.
  8. ↑ "Fuel Presents The Body Remembers By Heather Agyepong Exploring Trauma & Healing In The Lives Of Black British Women". Theatre Weekly. 4 August 2021.
  9. ↑ O'Hagan, Sean (3 January 2021). "New year arts: Observer critics pick the culture to get us through to spring". The Observer. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  10. ↑ "Heather Agyepong – Jerwood Arts".
  11. ↑ "The stars of the future vie for top prize at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards". The Times. 29 May 2018.
  12. ↑ "Announcing Heather Agyepong and Joanne Coates Awardees of the fourth Jerwood/Photoworks Awards". Photoworks. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
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