Heather Agyepong

British photographer, visual artist and performer/actor
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IntroBritish photographer, visual artist and performer/actor
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
isPhotographer Artist Actor
Work fieldArts Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Gender
Female
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Biography

Heather Akosua Agyepong is a British photographer, visual artist, performer and actor, living in London. Her work is held in the collection of Mead Art Museum.

Early life and education

Agyepong was born and raised in London and is of Ghanaian heritage. She earned a National Diploma in Performing Arts from City of Westminster College; a BSc in Applied Psychology from the University of Kent; and an MA in Photography & Urban Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Work

In Wish You Were Here, commissioned by the Hyman Collection, Agyepong channels the American vaudeville performer Aida Overton Walker, by posing for a series of fake postcards. The work addresses physical and mental wellbeing.

The Body Remembers is a solo performance that "explores how trauma lives in the body, particularly for Black British women across different generations."

Group photography exhibitions

  • Starting Something New: Recent Contemporary Art Acquisitions and Gifts, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2019–2021
  • Wish You Were Here, Format Festival, Derby, 2021

Awards

  • Jerwood Foundation New Work Fund award for The Body Remembers
  • 2018: Nominated, South Bank Sky Arts Breakthrough Award
  • 2021: Co-winner, with Joanne Coates, Jerwood/Photoworks Awards – a £15,000 award.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2020SylviaKemiShort film

Television

Key
Denotes productions that have not yet been released
YearTitleRoleNotes
2020EnterpriceEmilyEpisode: "When We Roar, Dem Run"
2023The PowerNdudiMain cast
This Is Going to HurtRachelPost-productions

Theatre

YearTitleRoleVenueNotes
2013AntigoneTiresiasT24 Drama, Canterbury
20154.48 PsychosisVoice #2T24 Drama, Canterbury
2016SwitchMatilda SwoonTricycle Theatre, London
Still BarredYazBattersea Arts Centre, London
HatchAmma BoatengHackney Showroom, Londonwith Talawa Theatre Company
GirlsHaleemaSoho Theatre, Londonwith Talawa Theatre Company
2017Jagged EdgeColetteRich Mix, London
Best FriendsVickyOvalhouse, London
So Many ReasonsMelissaOvalhouse, London
SankaraFloreRoyal National Theatre, London
2019Noughts & CrossesPersephone Mira HadleyPilot Theatre, York

Collections

Agyepong's work is held in the following permanent collection:

  • Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
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