Heather Marks

Heather Marks is an artist, researcher and producer working across archives, visual arts and literature. Her decolonial practice works with and against the archive, attending to histories and lives that have been obscured and fragmented. This year she has been artist in residence at the National Portrait Gallery, responding to portraits of 16th to 19th century Global Majority sitters, and at The Box, Plymouth, researching unseen collections in the South West Film & Television Archive.

Her moving image work Fugitives in the Archive meditates on the lives of undocumented freedom-seekers, past and present. It has screened at Spike Island, Autograph ABP and Bristol Beacon. With a background in independent publishing and bookselling, Marks has produced arts programmes across the UK and internationally, with the likes of Whitechapel Gallery, Words of Colour, the Southbank Centre, Glasgow Film Theatre, Kıraathane and the Irish Writers Centre. She serves on the advisory board of Arawelo Studio.