A film still: a woman photographed from below against a blue sky, wearing a headdress of large polished metal discs. Fine white uli marks curl across her cheeks and forehead. — From *OGODO* (2023–24), a short film commissioned by GMAC Films Little Pictures.

Grace Browne

Multidisciplinary artist creating portals for re-membering ancestral knowledge

My research-led practice encompasses visual art, film and socially engaged practice. It is rooted in uli and inale, the body and mural arts practised by my Igbo and Idoma foremothers.

Selected work

An aerial view of a circular drawing in white clay on grass, with the artist standing at its centre looking up at the camera and smiling.

Public artwork

All Water Is Connected

2026 · The Hidden Gardens, Glasgow · Commissioned by Scottish Refugee Council for Refugee Festival Scotland

A tribute to how new lands welcome us and how our homelands remember us, made for the 75th anniversary of the UN Refugee Convention. The installation wove bronze, earth and water.

The interior of a stone church with two stained glass windows. A long table runs down the centre, covered with unbleached cotton cloth and set with painted wooden bowls.

Residency and exhibition

Uli Will Go To Heaven

2024 · Woodlands Methodist Church, Glasgow · Funded by Hope Scott Trust

Exhibition created through meditative time at Woodlands Methodist Church.

Community commission

we are all keepers of earth

2024 · The Hidden Gardens, Glasgow · Lead Artist

A call to climate action made collectively with community members in response to the legacy of COP26.

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Podcast

African Women’s Art

Celebrating the beauty and wisdom of African women’s arts. Conversations with artists, scholars, poets, and knowledge holders on the continent and in the diaspora.

Recent guestsJackie Kay · Professor Herbert M. Cole · Everlyn Nicodemus · Dr Jareh Das · Ebun Sodipo

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