On Thursday of 1st Week, 30th April, the College will be delighted to welcome South London-based visual artist Yvadney Davis. Yvadney would like to meet as many members of the College community as possible as part of a project to commission new portraits so that our collection better represents the whole College community as it now is.
Open call session
Please drop in to the Shulman Auditorium foyer any time between 1pm and 3pm on the 30th to meet her and find out more about her work.
In particular, the open call is an opportunity for Yvadney to meet interested potential sitters and discuss her artistic process.
Drawing deeply from her British Caribbean heritage, her work serves as a visual archive of cultural memory, weaving personal and collective stories to examine themes of nostalgia, lineage, and belonging.
What began as an emotional response to the passing of her Jamaican grandmother has led to an award-winning art practice with numerous exhibitions, media coverage, and panel discussions. Notable recent highlights include being awarded the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Commission Prize 2026 at National Portrait Gallery, London; winning the NG Creative Art Residency x Galerie Heimat Art Prize; the group portrait exhibition 100 Black Women Who Have Made a Mark at Leicester Gallery; her solo show Proverbs of a Windrush Child at The Black Cultural Archives, London; and as a Semi-Finalist on Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2023.
