BIOGRAPHY

Linnet Panashe Rubaya (British-Zimbabwean, b. 1991) is a self-taught British-Zimbabwean figurative artist who uses accessible visual language to illuminate existing scholarship, critical writing, and self-reflections on her identity’s intersections to explore blackness and introduce insights on contemporary culture and community in Britain.

Her work has been exhibited across the UK and Europe in both public and private galleries.  Linnet has been shortlisted for several awards including UK Young Artist of the Year (2019) (now known as UK New Artist of the Year), Bridgeman Studio Award  (2019), and Art Harare Africa First Prize (2020), and was awarded the Saul Hay Emerging Artist Award (2020). She lives and works in Leeds. 

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