Notes for Editors

About theCoLAB

theCoLAB collaborates with inventiveness creating opportunities for artists to use unusual sites as experimental laboratories to realise their most ambitious, far-flung and life-affirming work.  Operating beyond the confines of the white cube since 2011, theCoLAB conceives and realises its large scale, long term, complex artistic interventions.  Working with partners from English Heritage, Rivers and Canals Trust to businesses to national collections, theCoLAB’s work changes the way we perceive, experience and understand the interrelation of space, place, concept and sculpture.  For more information visit www.thecolab.art / Instagram @thecolab.art

About Lakwena

Lakwena Maciver was born in London (1986) to an English mother and Ugandan father and spent formative years of her childhood in East Africa. She studied graphic design at the London College of Communication graduating in 2009. The name Lakwena - meaning ‘Messenger’ in the Acholi language of northern Uganda - is reflected in the artist’s practice, which is concerned with the dissemination of messages. Her work explores and gently subverts ideas relating to decolonisation, redemption, escapism, afrofuturism and utopia. She has been undertaking public art commissions internationally for over a decade and has recently exhibited at Hastings Contemporary. She lives and works in London and is represented by Vigo Gallery. www.lakwena.com

About 180 Studios

180 Studios is the emerging centre of London’s creative community. The Studios are housed at 180 The Strand, an iconic Brutalist building that has been transformed into a cultural hub. Throughout its network of spaces, 180 supports new talent and facilitates creative growth. 180 The Strand is also home to The Store X, and Fact Space as well as the base for many other creatively led businesses and London’s flagship Soho Works and 180 House. www.180thestrand.com

About Westminster City Council and Westminster Reveals

The Inside Out Festival is a brand-new free festival that brings entertainment and culture outdoors in the heart of London. Over the coming months, Londoners and visitors can discover events, workshops and installations. 

The Inside Out Festival forms part of the wider Westminster Reveals campaign to encourage visitors to return to the city’s streets and enjoy London’s famed cultural scene; connecting celebrated talent and communities. This major initiative and phenomenal series of events sees Westminster City Council bring together renowned cultural institutions and visitor attractions like never before as well as iconic hospitality locations and retail destinations such as Regent Street, Oxford Street, Mayfair, Carnaby, Paddington, Belgravia and Little Venice. The City of Westminster stretches from Pimlico in the South to St John’s Wood in the North, Temple in the East and Bayswater in the West. westminster.gov.uk/westminster-reveals | @westminsterreveals | #westminsterreveals

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