Latifah Stranack

Available Works

Biography

Latifah Stranack (b.1981, UK) is a visual artist whose practice has always been a safe haven for her, a place to reflect, question and feel connected to all the events that occur all around. Latifah's mixed heritage has often been a source of inspiration, and growing up between cultures has created a rich narrative and atmosphere for her to think about and work from. Latifah has always been fascinated by cultural hybridity and how this can also cause conflict in some situations. Partially revealed, Latifah attempts to reshape her reality and bring memories from the past to life, forever layered in washes of paint, helping work through subconscious emotions and fears. The work she is compelled to create, enables and empowers Latifah to make sense of who she is, contemplating her identity and the world around her. Through painting, Latifah challenges the perceptions of her own unique existence, brown skin from my father and white skin from my mother. Female body and gaze with and without the veil and mask. Latifah invented her female heroines as a tool to explore these concepts, at times appearing half visible beneath a sheer veil, eyes staring intently through a traditional batoola mask, or with lids delicately closed, lost deep in contemplation. These women and their surroundings, that she obsessively paints, are all fictional members of my metaphorical tribe. Latifah lives and works in London, UK.

Education

MFA, Slade School of Fine Art, 2019-2021

MA, Royal College of Art, 2015-2017

BA, Central Saint Martins, 2011-2014

Exhibitions

2022, Football Art Prize, Touchstones Rochdale, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK (Group)
2022, Come One, Come All, The Function Suite, Stratford, UK (Group)
2022, Before the Moon I Am, International Women’s Day, Hoxton Arches, London, UK (Group)
2022, Skin of Your Teeth, The Crypt Gallery, Euston, London, UK (Group)
2022, Whirl-Bounce-Sway, Safe House 1, Peckham, London, UK (Group)
2021, Slade 150: Past, Present, Future, Octagon Gallery, UCL, London, UK (Group)
2021, London Grads Now, 21 Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2021, Tsinghua International Conference on Art and Design Education, China (Group)
2021, Refuge 50th Anniversary Auction, Bonhams, London, UK (Group)
2021, Exhibition, Asia Triennial Manchester, Manchester, UK (Group)
2021, A Letter in Mind, for The National Brain Trust, Online (Group)
2021, Mental Health Exhibition, Well Space Hackney, London, UK (Group)
2021, UTOPIA, ECOFeminism Festival, London, UK (Group)
2021, I Matter, Peterborough Museum Art Gallery and Wells Maltings, UK (Group)
2021, Exhibition, Shortlist for the Ashurst Emerging Art Prize, UK (Group)
2021, Distanced Domestic, London, UK (Group)
2021, Slade Degree Show, London, UK (Group)
2021, The Virus Who Came To Tea, Online (Group)
2021, Colour & Poetry: A Symposium, Poetry Shed/Collage, UK (Group)
2021, Will You Walk With Me Once More, Tod Art gallery, London, UK (Group)
2020, New Worlds, Being Human Festival, Mile End, London, UK (Group)
2020, ING Discerning Eye, London, UK (Group)
2020, A Letter In Mind, The National Brain Appeal, UK (Group)
2020, Art In The Wood 2, Clitterhouse Farm Pop-up Art Show, UK (Group)
2020, Windows and Mirrors: Transformation and Awakening During Lockdown, Slade Society, Online (Group)
2020, Superstore Academy Nida, Lithuania (Group)
2020, Lizzie Donegan Exhibition, Post Project, UK (Group)
2020, Slade Student Fundraiser, The Black Curriculum, Online (Group)
2020, Contemporary Mood, Boomer gallery, Aldgate, London, UK (Group)
2020, Imaginations In Isolation, Online (Group)
2020, Virtual Riposte, Online (Group)
2020, Holdrons Arcade, Copeland Park and Bussey Building, UK (Solo)
2020, Story Of All Women, Tabernacle Art Gallery, UK (Group)
2020, Alternative Group Show, Menier Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2020, Reveries, Espacio Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2020, It’s Not Just Black and White, The Water House, York, UK (Group)
2020, Slade Runner, ASC Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2019, ARTBOX.PROJECTS, Eduardo Lira Art Gallery, Miami, USA (Group)
2019, Spaceship Dungeon Zoo, Slade, Studio Alvaro Barrington (Group)
2019, Selected for ArtWorks Open, Bagstrust, UK (Group)
2019, Folds, Lewisham Project Arts Space, London, UK (Group)
2019, The Annexe, Brick Lane Art Gallery, London, UK (Solo)
2019, Nou Wave 1, The Old Biscuit Factory, UK (Group)
2019, Synergic - From Mexico With Love, The Old Biscuit Factory, UK (Group)
2019, FUBAR, The Crypt Gallery, Euston, London, UK (Group)
2019, SWISSARTEXPO, The Artbox Project, Zurich, Switzerland (Group)