(Upcoming) This Body was Carved of Stone

Exhibition Dates: 19th April - August 2025

Located on first floor level of Kentish Town Health Centre. You can find a visitors guide here.

Exhibition Opening Times:

Monday - Friday: 8:30 - 18:30

Saturday: Closed

Sunday: Closed

Africa Barrero-Alexander is a photographer based in Bristol, and recently graduated from The University of the West of England with a BA in Photography. His personal work is centred around the relationship between humanity and the land, the nature of the human condition, and the beauty of the mundane. He chooses to use photography as a therapeutic tool, exploring its ability to reshape narratives and recontextualise past events and traumas. His photographic practice is a self-reflective act of healing: a non-verbal dialogue between the holder of the camera and the beholder of the photograph.

‘This Body Was Carved From Stone’ explores and reflects on Barrero-Alexander’s experience as a transgender man, and the effect this has had on his life and his relationships with the people around him. Questioning his identity and sense of self over the years has led him to develop a deeply complex relationship with gender. This internal journey he has been on since childhood was externalised once he began his social and medical transition, choosing to show the outside world the person he has always known himself to be. Through his photographic self-portraiture, he is learning to carve a space for himself within a hostile social landscape that actively rejects and denies his existence. He aims to use his photography to instigate a positive change in the public’s perspective of trans people: to show that behind the statistics and inflammatory headlines, there are real human beings with stories to tell.

Planning a visit to our exhibition space? You can find an easy read visitors guide here