The White Pube

For 5 years, we’ve been giving £500 a month to a creative in the UK whose work we wanna see more of. Grant #060 goes to Kemi Ajose, funded this month in memory of Vi James

The 60th recipient of the working class creatives grant is Kemi Ajose! A knitwear designer in London, her portfolio is rich, thoughtful, sustainable, and so sculptural it makes me rethink the tactile potential of knit. Listen, when I’m not writing about people who make things, I am knitting the most basic stuff so I appreciate Kemi’s work all the more for its sheer skill! But also the draping! The colourwork! The vast foundation in West African design across textile, painting, basketry, hairstyles and beadwork! Everything she holds closest comes through with so much care in the knitwear it becomes pure art.