Tanoa Sasraku

With a practice that moves freely between filmmaking, drawing and textiles, Tanoa Sasraku does work that engages directly with her cultural identity and familial history. A hallmark of the artist’s practice is her appliquéd newsprint flags, which are frayed and layered over one another. Inspired by her paternal ancestors’ fabrication of war flags in resistance to British colonial rule in coastal Ghana, Sasraku creates these pieces to stitch together her identity and make sense of the past. As a bi-racial, gay woman from Plymouth in South West England, Sasraku’s identity is also entangled with rural Britain, something she has examined through recent analogue film projects. ...

Established in 2020, Vardaxoglou is a London-based gallery specialising in modern and contemporary art. The gallery’s programme features exhibitions with a number of contemporary artists in the context of regular historical surveys that present pioneering artists to new audiences.