Through partnership, material experimentation and cross-cultural exchanges, she challenged the myth of solitary artistic genius. Born in Sutton, London, she left home at a young age and briefly attended Kingston Art School from 1954 to 1955. Financial pressures, however, forced her to abandon academic studies, marking the beginning of a lifelong resistance to institutional constraints and a deep commitment to collaborative, intuitive forms of learning.
This biography by Katharina Greven is produced as part of the Njabala Foundation project: Tracing a Decade: Women Artists of the 1960s in Africa, in collaboration with AWARE.