Artist Biography

Kandre Arámide Hassan is a London based visual artist and cultural practitioner working across drawing, poetry and object-based work alongside research led participatory methodologies.  With a practice anchored in dream logic, her work often emerges through layered mark-making, gestural process and intuitive approach that translate sensory and emotional states into form. By offering contemporary interpratations of memory and movement her work becomes a site of cultural inquiry and open dialouge on afro-diasporic thought.

Drawing from a background in Social Anthropology and rooted in her Yoruba & Edo heritage, notions of the metaphysical, folklore, ritual, and ecology arise as thematic indicators within her work. Through this, Hassan aims to continually develop visual systems that investigate the liminal relationships between body, environment, and interior experience.

As a cultural practitioner, she is deeply invested in the influence of art in creating infrastrucutres that foster collectively. Alongside her studio practice, she develops participatory workshops and collaborative research environments that explore drawing as a relational and reflective tool through her core method Journeying Through the Subconscious . These activities operate as extensions of her artistic inquiry, informing both material outcomes and conceptual development.

Her work has been presented in institutional, independent, and community contexts including Tate Modern, London Fashion Week, UCL, The Whitworth, Black Cultural Archives, and various socially engaged and artist-led spaces.