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Tshepiso Moropa (b. 1995) is a self-taught collage artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa.Moropa’s work begins in fragments: archival images, memories, folktales, and dreams, which she assembles into hand-crafted collages that feel at once ancient and futuristic, personal and collective. Her practice increasingly extends beyond the flat surface into immersive installations, video art, and sculptural forms such as peep-boxes and dioramas. These intimate and exploratory spaces act as portals into poetic and emotive archives where the past and present are in conversation.Moropa has received significant accolades, including the Out of Africa Award (2022), Contemporary African Photography Prize (2024) and the V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography (2025). She has garnered notable international attention, and has been included in presentations at Paris Photo, with Michael Hoppen Gallery, in From the Ground Up, Galleri Image, Denmark; and at 1-54 London with THK Gallery. In 2026, her work was featured in A Kind of Paradise at Museum Rietberg in Zurich, Switzerland, on view until 6 September, and her CAP Prize–winning works were presented at the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography in Switzerland. Looking ahead, Moropa will present her work at the 15th edition of the Bamako Encounters African Biennale of Photography, taking place from 26 November 2026 to 26 January 2027.

Miranda Forrester (b. 1997, London, UK) is a British painter whose practice explores intimacy, identity, embodiment, and the queer Black female gaze. Working primarily through painting, she reimagines the traditions of life drawing and art history through a queer Black feminist perspective, centring Black women and non-binary people as self-possessed subjects. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions and galleries including the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, the Venice Biennale, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, Saatchi Gallery, London, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago, and Foundry Seoul. Her work is held in the Government Art Collection, Arts Council Collection, Soho House Collection, and the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection.