198 Contemporary Arts & Learning

26/05/2026

This year’s Women of Colour Art Award (WoCAA) received over 150 submissions from artists across the UK. Here is a small selection of works shared with us through this year’s open call.

As we approach the opening of by blood, by guide, by call, we’re spotlighting a selection of artists and practices from this year’s submissions.

Featuring:
Barbara Majek
Zita Holbourne
Georgia Wesley

WoCAA 2026 received submissions spanning installation, moving image, painting, performance, sculpture, textiles, sound, and interdisciplinary practices — reflecting the breadth of material and process-led approaches explored throughout this year’s award.

Join us on Thursday 28 May for the opening of by blood, by guide, by call — the third edition exhibition of the Women of Colour Art Award, presented by 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning in partnership with the Rita Keegan Foundation.

Featuring works by finalists:
Deeqa Ismail, Kat Anderson, Puer Deorum, Rose Nordin, and Sheida Mehri.

Private View:
Thursday 28 May, 6–9pm

Exhibition Dates:
29 May – 19 July 2026

198 Contemporary
Railton Road, SE24 0JT

Submission images courtesy of the artists.

25/05/2026

This year’s Women of Colour Art Award (WoCAA) received over 150 submissions from artists across the UK. Here is a small selection of works shared with us through this year’s open call.

As we approach the opening of by blood, by guide, by call, we’re spotlighting a selection of artists and practices from this year’s submissions.

Featuring:
Kyra Sky Foster
Porscha Hill
Yifan He

WoCAA 2026 received submissions spanning installation, moving image, painting, performance, sculpture, textiles, sound, and interdisciplinary practices — reflecting the breadth of material and process-led approaches explored throughout this year’s award.

Join us on Thursday 28 May for the opening of by blood, by guide, by call — the third edition exhibition of the Women of Colour Art Award, presented by 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning in partnership with the Rita Keegan Foundation.

Featuring works by finalists:
Deeqa Ismail, Kat Anderson, Puer Deorum, Rose Nordin, and Sheida Mehri.

Private View:
Thursday 28 May, 6–9pm

Exhibition Dates:
29 May – 19 July 2026

198 Contemporary
Railton Road, SE24 0JT

Submission images courtesy of the artists.

24/05/2026

This year’s Women of Colour Art Award (WoCAA) received over 150 submissions from artists across the UK. Here is a small selection of works shared with us through this year’s open call.

As we approach the opening of by blood, by guide, by call, we’re spotlighting a selection of artists and practices from this year’s submissions.

Featuring:
Yasmine Akim
Ama Dogbe
Tobi Josephine

WoCAA 2026 received submissions spanning installation, moving image, painting, performance, sculpture, textiles, sound, and interdisciplinary practices — reflecting the breadth of material and process-led approaches explored throughout this year’s award.

Join us on Thursday 28 May for the opening of by blood, by guide, by call — the third edition exhibition of the Women of Colour Art Award, presented by 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning in partnership with the Rita Keegan Foundation.

Featuring works by finalists:
Deeqa Ismail, Kat Anderson, Puer Deorum, Rose Nordin, and Sheida Mehri.

Private View:
Thursday 28 May, 6–9pm

Exhibition Dates:
29 May – 19 July 2026

198 Contemporary
Railton Road, SE24 0JT

Submission images courtesy of the artists.

22/05/2026

21/05/2026

This year’s Women of Colour Art Award (WoCAA) received over 150 submissions from artists across the UK. Here is a small selection of works shared with us through this year’s open call.

As we approach the opening of by blood, by guide, by call, we’re spotlighting a selection of artists and practices from this year’s submissions.

Featuring:
Zory Shahrokhi
Heather Ayepong
Yewande Seriki

WoCAA 2026 received submissions spanning installation, moving image, painting, performance, sculpture, textiles, sound, and interdisciplinary practices — reflecting the breadth of material and process-led approaches explored throughout this year’s award.

Join us on Thursday 28 May for the opening of by blood, by guide, by call — the third edition exhibition of the Women of Colour Art Award, presented by 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning in partnership with the Rita Keegan Foundation.

Featuring works by finalists:
Deeqa Ismail, Kat Anderson, Puer Deorum, Rose Nordin, and Sheida Mehri.

Private View:
Thursday 28 May, 6–9pm

Exhibition Dates:
29 May – 19 July 2026

198 Contemporary
Railton Road, SE24 0JT

Submission images courtesy of the artists.

14/05/2026

Join us for the opening of by blood, by guide, by call, the third edition exhibition of the Women of Colour Art Award (WoCAA), curated by Ariel Collier.

Presented by 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning in partnership with the Rita Keegan Foundation, the exhibition features Kat Anderson, Deeqa Ismail, Peur Deorum, Rose Nordin, and Sheida Mehri, shown alongside archival work by Rita Keegan.

Through installation, moving image, sound, sculpture, textiles, and expanded material practices, by blood, by guide, by call explores endurance, process, memory, and alternative forms of archiving and world-building.

Curated by Ariel Collier, the exhibition brings together artists whose practices engage materiality, experimentation, and transformation — reflecting this year’s focus on process-led and interdisciplinary approaches.

Private View: Thursday 28 May, 6–9pm (Free and open to all)
Exhibition Dates: 29 May – 19 July 2026

198 Contemporary Arts & Learning
Railton Road, SE24 0JT

The WoCAA finalists were selected by the Rita Keegan Foundation and will each receive the RKF Travel Bursary, with the overall prize winner selected by the 198 judging panel and receiving the unrestricted WoCAA bursary prize.

11/05/2026

Introducing, KAT ANDERSON

WoCAA 2026 Winner

Kat Anderson is a multidisciplinary artist working under Episodes of Horror, using horror as a framework to explore historic and contemporary representations of mental illness and trauma as experienced by or projected onto Black bodies.

Her work spans film, installation, and performance, creating psychologically charged spaces that interrogate visibility, control, and perception.

Recent presentations include South London Gallery as part of New Contemporaries 2025/26 (touring to MIMA, Middlesbrough), alongside exhibitions at York Art Gallery and Block336. Her work is held in the collection of Wellcome Collection.

Anderson is the recipient of the Stanley Picker Fellowship (2025–2027) and winner of the East London Art Prize (2023).

Winner of the Women of Colour Art Award 2026.

10/05/2026

Introducing, SHEIDA MEHRI

WoCAA 2026 Finalist

Sheida Mehri is a UK-based Iranian artist working across installation and material-led practices.

Her work centres mirror, repetition, and labour-intensive processes to explore resilience, visibility, and the lived experiences of women within Iranian social and cultural contexts.

Drawing from Persian visual culture and craft traditions, Mehri constructs fragmented reflective surfaces that transform into structured forms — holding both vulnerability and strength.

Through light and reflection, her work creates shifting encounters where viewers become implicated within fractured yet continuous images.

Part of the Women of Colour Art Award (WoCAA) 2026 exhibition at 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning.

09/05/2026

Introducing, ROSE NORDIN

WoCAA 2026 Finalist

Rose Nordin is a British–Malay artist and graphic designer whose practice examines systems of knowledge production through installation, print, metalwork, and emergent olfactory forms.

Her work traces how materials and symbols carry histories of governance, devotion, and ecological imagination, with current research focused on Southeast Asian archipelagic thinking and colonial trade routes.

Nordin has worked with organisations including Somerset House Studios, Serpentine Galleries, and Tai Kwun Contemporary, and is currently a Fellow at the Centre for Art and Design Research.

Part of the Women of Colour Art Award (WoCAA) 2026 exhibition at 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning.

08/05/2026

Introducing, PEUR DEORUM

WoCAA 2026 Finalist

Peur Deorum’s practice navigates the space between weight and ephemerality, exploring mortality, time, and psycho-social geographies.

Through performance, moving image, and installation, they work with duration, dream sequences, and embodied actions to map emotional and speculative landscapes.

Their work creates layered cartographies of memory and place, imagining alternative futures and co-existing timelines.

They have presented work at Whitechapel Gallery, Serendipity Arts Festival (India), and Les Urbaines (Switzerland) and are currently part of La Becque’s Principal Residency Programme.

Part of the Women of Colour Art Award (WoCAA) 2026 exhibition at 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning.