Exodus Crooks

Exodus is a British-Jamaican multidisciplinary artist and educator whose practice centres the relationship with self. Observing the results of fractious domesticity, despair, and passion, their art tends to appear as questions of self-actualisation and the role that religion and spirituality play in that journey to enlightenment.

Over the last year, they have been using gardening, text, filmmaking, and installation to further explore indigenous thought. Specifically researching what it means to ‘return [to] home/self’ with a special interest in the journeys between the seen and unseen world(s). 

Ensuring that their methods are queer, radical, and transformative, they use (formal & informal) classrooms as a space to confront Western ways of teaching and learning. In both their creative practice and their role as an educator, they use art as a tool to have hard conversations softly.

Exodus currently works with Grand Union as a facilitator on The Growing Project, primarily at St. Anne’s. Over the next 2–3 years, Grand Union will collaborate with Exodus on a long-term project that expands into many parts of the organisation’s programme and structures.