Ibiye Camp
Ibiye Camp is an artist from Walworth, South East London. Growing up near East Street Market sparked her interest in rituals within the landscape. As a British-Nigerian artist, her work explores themes of identity and public space both in the UK and along the West African coastline. Through the lens of public space, her practice investigates post-colonial subjects, technology, and the built environment.
Using architectural tools, she creates textiles, video, and 3D objects. Her work captures scenes in the landscape, exploring complex networks across organic, electronic, and industrial systems while critiquing the biases inherent in technology and manufacturing processes. By combining West African vernacular techniques with digital tools, she creates new modes of representation.
Her past projects in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Ethiopia investigated the dynamics of data glitches to highlight conflicts within digital infrastructure across these landscapes.
In addition to her studio practice, Ibiye is an educator with years of experience sharing skills in photogrammetry and modern filmmaking processes. Workshops are a vital element of her practice, serving as a platform to highlight community rituals and knowledge sharing.
Ibiye has presented her work at The Sharjah Architecture Triennial titled Rights of Future Generations in 2019 and Triennale Milano The State of the Art of Architecture conference in 2020. She showed in the Istanbul Biennial titled Empathy Revisited in 2020, and MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology’s exhibition titled X is Not a Small Country in 2021 and the 13th Shanghai Biennale titled Bodies of Water in 2021 where her research was granted a seed Grant from the Design Trust HK, and presented her film Minji:The Shape of Owu at The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in 2021and at the London’s Art Festival, Deptford X in 2022.
In 2023 Ibiye invited Hong Kong participants to re-imagine cloth by cutting and removing threads to create a new texture with CHAT Center for Heritage Arts and Textiles at Art Basel Hong Kong.
Ibiye was included in the Venice Architectural Biennial within the exhibition Guests from the Future, where she presented a work titled Rebellious Copies. In 2024, she was included in Unseen Guests, a project organized by Iniva as part of the British Pavilion’s public programme at the 60th Venice Biennial.
She presented in “Catch the Invisible" (2024) at Galerie Atiss, Dakar, 2024 curated by Jareh Das and Aissa Dione.
In 2025 Ibiye presented work in 'The Kola Nut Cannot be Contained' at the Wellcome Collection, London. She also ran a walking workshop with F.A.T Studios titled ‘A Trace of Our Place ’, a photogrammetry documentary with local residents on the Old Kent Road in South East London.
In 2026 had her first solo institutional show at the Bonnington Gallery in Nottingham UK, where she presented a newly commissioned body of film and textile work titled ‘Layt De Kam’ exploring the complex interplay between infrastructure, care, and resilience along the coast of West Africa.