About
okcandice / sonic seamstress is an artist-curator, writer and musician living and working in Birmingham. Their practice is concerned with methodologies of grief, Black audio-visual archives and uses of the sonic in civic space.
okcandice is a Guest Curator for Sheffield Doc Fest 2025; previously the 2023/24 Woven Foundation Curatorial Fellow, Digital Curator at Birmingham Museum & Gallery, Jerwood Foundation Curatorial Fellow, Obsidian Foundation Poetry Fellow and artist-curator at Eastside Projects.
In recent years, they have performed and exhibited work at Sophiensæle (Berlin), New Art Gallery (Walsall), The Barber Institute (Birmingham), Festsaal Kreuzberg (Berlin), Fabric (London), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Kunstverein Hamburg, Birmingham Symphony Hall, NN Contemporary Art (Northampton), Gropius Bau (Berlin), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Southbank Centre (London), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), and BOZAR (Brussels).
okcandice has been a Guest Lecturer at the Royal College of Art (London), an acquisitions advisor for the Government Art Collection (London) and has delivered workshops and talks at Wysing Arts Centre (Cambridgeshire), D&AD (London), IKON Gallery (Birmingham), New Art Exchange (Nottingham) and ifa Gallery (Berlin).
okcandice hosts the monthly radio shows Bedtime Stories on Cashmere Radio (Berlin) and Must Be The Music on Refuge Worldwide (Berlin). They are also the founder-director of Bedtime Stories; a sonic practice studio championing experiments in sound and oral heritage.