Quilla Constance is an interdisciplinary artist, lecturer and TV personality of (Black) Jamaican and (White) British working-class heritage. QC activates her hybrid subjectivity and resultant alternative ways of seeing through deploying her practice concurrently across the media of live performances, paintings, costumes, photographs, and music videos; strategically staging these artworks across varied contexts such as: art galleries, lecture halls, theatrical venues, music clubs, social media, the street, and mainstream television. QC’s practice seeks to conflate and activate the intersections between these cultural zones/learned categories; to agitate, amuse and empower audiences – in turn, creating new narratives and highlighting the absurdity of hegemonic systems of categorisation which are often injurious, since they restrict and marginalise BAME, female, LGBTQ+ and working-class identities.

QC’s recent projects include: ‘Teasing out Contingencies: QC Open Studio’ at Tate Modern (Funded by Arts Council England and Bedford Creative Arts). In 2021, QC also gave a special guest performance in the BAFTA nominated comedy docuseries ‘Rob & Romesh Vs’ on Sky Max, and appeared in the BBC Ideas film ‘How Limits Can Boost Your Creativity’.

QC will exhibit new painting-installations and performances in her upcoming solo exhibition ‘Teasing out Contingencies’ at The Higgins Bedford, Sir William Harpur Gallery in 2023, funded by Arts Council England.

QC’s website: https://www.quillaconstance.com/teasing-out-contingencies/