Uprooting Hate Mentorship Programme

Curatorial Advisory Circle

©Christa Holka, 2022

Chairperson and Curatorial Advisor

Renée Mussai is an independent curator, writer and scholar of visual culture with a special interest in Black feminist & intersectional practices. For more than two decades, she was senior curator and head of collection & curatorial at arts charity Autograph, where she organised numerous critically acclaimed public programmes of exhibitions, commissions and publications. Between 2022 – 23, she acted as artistic director of The Walther Collection, supporting the foundation’s publication, acquisition and exhibition programmes. She is currently senior research associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD), University of Johannesburg, SA; guest curator at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA; lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, and serves as a trustee for Queercircle and as chair of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation’s advisory council, amongst other academic and institutional affiliations. Her most recent publications include Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain (2025), the forthcoming sole-authored Eyes That Commit – A Visual Gathering (2026), alongside past award-winning artist monographs. Mussai curates, lectures and publishes internationally on visual and curatorial activism, with a focus on contemporary artists whose work attends to decolonial, archival and remedial politics. In 2025, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Arts in recognition of her sustained curatorship – and scholarship in photography and lens-based media.

©Adelaide Bannerman
Project Evaluator and Curatorial Advisor

Adelaide Bannerman is a projects curator, and presently the curatorial director at Tiwani Contemporary — a commercial gallery with venues in London and Lagos, Nigeria, focused on representing contemporary, international art from the African continent and its global diasporas.

She has contributed to several publications including: Ndidi Dike: Rare Earth, Rare Justice (2026), Duncan Wylie: Multiple Realities (2025), Joy Labinjo (2024), Barbara Walker: Out of the Dark ((2017), Sonia Boyce: Thoughtful Disobedience (2017), The International Review of African American Art (Shaivistic Reverberations: Exchanges with Adrian Piper, 2007), Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britian (2005).

Bannerman is an artist mentor at New Contemporaries, and a trustee of PUBLICS, Helsinki, Finland and the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, London.

©Oumayma ben Tanfous
Curatorial Advisor

Dr Taous R. Dahmani is a London-based French, British, and Algerian art historian specialising in photography. She has curated both group and solo exhibitions internationally, including the 2022 Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles (France), the 2024 Jaou Photo Biennale in Tunis (Tunisia) and the 2025 Guangzhou Image Triennial (China). Her solo curatorial projects include SMITH at NOUA (Bodø, Norway), Anastasia Samoylova at the Saatchi Gallery (London, UK), and Adam Rouhana at Kyotographie (Kyoto, Japan). In September 2025, she joined The Photographers' Gallery as Curator.

Dahmani’s writing has been widely published in photobooks and journals, with contributions to titles by Phaidon, Loose Joints, Textuel, and Tate Publishing, as well as features in Aperture, FOAM, Camera Austria, The British Journal of Photography, Dazed, GQ, and 1000 Words Magazine. She is the associate editor of Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain (MACK/Autograph ABP, 2024), a critically acclaimed, award-winning publication. In November 2025, in collaboration with FOMU, she is releasing a publication titled Assemblies.

Moderator and Youth Advisor

D. Wiafe is community engagement manager at Photofusion, where his work with Creator's Studio and Young Curators reshapes how young photographers develop careers in the creative industries. Young Curators has produced the shows Sixteen x S2AU curated by Sorry2AnnoyU and BLK BXY JOY curated by Destinie Paige. As an artist, D's work has taken him from creating staged tableaux with grime's early pioneers, to acting as lead photographic mentor on the award-winning youth platform The Cut. He has worked with UAL Insights and Autograph ABP as project lead and curator on Album, a youth-led project exhibited at Rivington Place and featured in The Guardian and BBC News Online. D was one of Photofusion's artists in residence 2016–18, creating 4PM in the Endz, a multi-media exploration of the stigma of gang affiliation in Pollards Hill, South London. The work was exhibited at Photofusion (2018), StreetLevel Photoworks, Peckham 24 (2019) and featured in Photomonitor. D. Wiafe is also an artist, educator and the Course Leader of BA (Hons) Commercial Photography at The London College of Communication, where he co-founded Content Lab, a hub designed to give creatives at LCC their first steps into the industry. D's work champions the power and contributions of youth-led thinking to collaborative projects.

Jacqueline Ennis-Cole curates photography exhibitions that platform diasporic and intersectional visual stories. She is the founder and artistic director of Youth X Mentoring CIC and will serve as project lead for the Uprooting Hate mentoring initiative. She has been appointed curator in residence at Four Corners Gallery during their Diasporic Futures Season (Oct - Nov 2026). Her curatorial practice explores intersectionality through visual storytelling. Recent socio-environmental exhibitions include Intersectional Geographies: Extraction at Martin Parr Foundation (2022), Intersectional Matter: Waste at Photo/Frome Festival (2023), Intersectional Grammar: Trees at Hackney Gallery (2024), and Mythical Masculine (2025). As editor and publisher of the Arts Council England-funded anthology Hatred is a Bitter Fruit (2025), Ennis-Cole platformed a diverse creative constituency of voices as a reparative justice intervention. She is currently a Slade School of Fine Art practice-led PhD researcher who mentors emerging artists (18-30) while co-facilitating creative workshops across East London. As Curator of Talks and Events at London Independent Photography (LIP) and facilitator of the LIP Satellite Photo Book Group, she creates spaces for intergenerational dialogue around image-making, performance, spoken word, and sound. Recent recognition includes the award of a Developing Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England (2025) and the Spread The Word Deaf and Disabled Writers Commission Award (2024).