About the Artist
Neve Ak (b. 2001) is an interdisciplinary Creative based in London. She received her BA (Hons) in Photography at London South Bank University.
Ak explores her relationship to her Religious and Cultural identity as a British Woman of Colour from a mixed-heritage mixed-religious upbringing. Her work delves into various social concerns, such as Gentrification in London, growing up in Council Housing, Racism and Islamophobia, as well as growing up in a Single-Parent Household.
Focusing on different perceptions of light and colour in her images, she works across a range of mediums including textiles, archived images and fine art.
Exhibitions
Copeland Gallery, London
LIBERTATUM - In My Endz / June 2023
The Edric Theatre, London
Now In Colour Festival - demm, ilma / March 2023
Copeland Gallery, London
.COHESION - demm, ilma / December 2021
Borough Road Gallery, London
This Matters Now - Praedicare / February 2020
Features
Sheltered, 2022
The Void Magazine/ May 2022 / Collaborative Publication featuring Sheltered, a self-written and Photographed Editorial spread on "racialised womanhood in the rural countryside".
How Tumblr Informed Our Preferences, 2021
https://guap.co.uk/how-tumblr-informed-our-preferences / November 2021 / Text about how Tumblr influenced my creative practice.
We Are Still Here, 2021
www.gentleoriental.co / March 2021 / Found image project with accompanying text on Asian Resilience. (Page 36)