Sokari Douglas Camp was born in Nigeria in 1958. She immigrated to England in around 1970 to attend boarding school in Totnes, Devon, aged 12. This was followed by a brief period in the USA where she first studied art, then continuing her training in London at the Central School of Art and Design and, later, at the Royal College of Art. Widely exhibited, her work is comprised mainly of large-scale steel sculptures, inspired by her Nigerian heritage and contemporary issues of race, representation, and contemporary society; in 2005, she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the arts.

Listen to her story here or read the full biography on the BURU database: https://www.buru.org.uk/contributor/sokari-douglas-camp