Nnena Kalu (b. 1966, Glasgow). Lives and works in London. Driven by an instinctive and determined urge to build repeated marks and forms she creates raw and intense two-dimensional works, sculptures and installations. Through binding, layering and wrapping materials, Nnena Kalu explores space, scale and materiality through repetitive and durational sculptural processes. Her installations often begin with multiple small, compact ‘cocoons’ of textiles and paper tightly packed in cellophane and tape. With an emphasis on colour and volume, these spheres of bound materials are clustered together around frameworks and existing structures. Kalu’s energetic installations become an extension of her physical movements, focusing on an important relationship between the artist’s body, her sculptural forms and drawings. Kalu had a major commission by the renowned London Gallery, Studio Voltaire in Mayfair from 21 February – 28 March 2020. Recent exhibitions include: Nnena Kalu: Wrapping, Humber Street Gallery, Hull (2019); Tube Lines, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London (2019); Spectrum Arts Prize, Saatchi Gallery, London (2018); Glasgow International Art Fair, Project Ability, Glasgow (2018); Spring Syllabus, J Hammond Projects, London (2018); Watch This Space, Wandsworth Arts Fringe, London (2017); Radical Craft: Alternative Ways of Making, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (2017); Capharnaum, Theatre de Liege, Le Madmusee, Liege (2016 Nnena Kalu is supported by ActionSpace and works closely with artist facilitator Charlotte Hollinshead. ActionSpace is a London-based visual arts organisation that supports artists with learning disabilities and creates innovative projects for people with learning disabilities to engage with the visual arts.