About

Ak explores her relationship to her Religious and Cultural identity as a British Woman of Colour from a mixed-heritage mixed-religious upbringing. Her work delves into various social concerns, such as Gentrification in London, growing up in Council Housing, Racism and Islamophobia, as well as growing up in a Single-Parent Household.

Neve Ak (b. 2001) is a Gloucestershire-born interdisciplinary Creative based in London. She received her BA (Hons) in Photography at London South Bank University.

Focusing on different perceptions of light and colour in her images, she works across a range of mediums including textiles, archived images and fine art.

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Exhibitions

GAWP! Represents NG200 - Sheltered / July 2024

LIBERTATUM - In My Endz / June 2023

Now In Colour Festival - demm, ilma / March 2023

.COHESION - demm, ilma / December 2021

This Matters Now - Praedicare / February 2020

GAWP!, Gloucester

Copeland Gallery, Peckham

The Edric Theatre, Southwark

Copeland Gallery, Peckham

Borough Road Gallery, Southwark

Features

The Void Magazine

GUAP Magazine

Gentle Oriental

Sheltered/ May 2022 / Limited Edition Publication featuring Sheltered, a self-written and Photographed Editorial spread on "racialised womanhood in the rural countryside".

How Tumblr Informed Our Preferences/ November 2021 / Interview on how Tumblr influenced my creative practice.

We Are Still Here/ March 2021 / Found image project with accompanying text on Asian Resilience. (Page 36)

Projects: ❶demm, ilma (blood is thicker than water) ❷Don’t Shy Away From Your Heritage ❸Ill-Raised, Ignorant, Illegitimate ❹In My Endz ❺Sheltered