Artist Biography
Kandre Arámide Hassan (b. 2001) is a crossdisciplinary artist and cultural practitioner based in South London working across painting, illustration, poetry and community facilitation. With a practice anchored in her synesthetic dreamscapes, she explores the sensory and social dimensions of embodied experience. By offering neo-surrealist interpretations of dream, memory and diasporic consciousness, her work becomes an open dialogue - reimagining what feels like ‘home’ through a vunerably, intimate lens.
Rooted in her Nigerian heritage and guided by a background in Anthropology, Hassan’s work engages with evolving Afro-diasporic narratives through intuitive and automatic techniques. She uses her perception of colour and line to investigate ritual, folklore, generational movement and liminalities within our relationships with self, others, place and space - creating symbolic, gestural works that serve as portals between the mundane and metaphysical.
As a cultural practitioner, she is deeply invested in using art as a tool for connection and reflection and creating infrastructures that foster belonging. Through introspective workshops and collaborative projects like her ongoing Journeying Through The Subconscious series, she facilitates spaces that center emotional honesty and collective care. Her work has been featured by institutions such as the Tate Modern, London Fashion Week, The Whitworth, and Black Cultural Archives, and she has collaborated with organisations driving social change including Greenpeace, The Africa Centre, and Hospital Rooms.