Joshua Woolford (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist working across performance, sound, video, and installation. Joshua’s work is grounded in cultural research and their personal experiences of being a member of the queer Afro-Caribbean diaspora living in England.
Through their practice, Joshua acknowledges and confronts experiences of violence, aggression, and misalignment through installation, sound, language and their body. Within their work they actively challenge prevailing narratives and question our position within the wider socio-political landscape by centring embodied knowledge and intuition above systematic reasoning.
Joshua graduated with an MA from the Royal College of Art (Contemporary Art Practice) and Cum Laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven (Media and Culture). They were the 2023-24 Interpretation Artist in Residence at Tate and a New Contemporaries 2023 Artist. In 2024 Joshua was the recipient of the Arts Council DYCP grant, and a-n Artists’ Bursary.
Notable exhibitions and performances have taken place at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, HOME by Ronan Mckenzie, Somerset House, Black Cultural Archives, the V&A, Gucci flagship store, Camden Art Centre and Tate Britain.
In addition to their artistic practice, Joshua lectures at both UAL (London College of Communication) and the Royal College of Art (School of Architecture).
