Exodus Crooks

Thesis title:

Home sweet home: artistic exploration of Jamaican migration and gender transitioning to generate new understandings of home

In Paul B. Preciado’s book An Apartment on Uranus, Paul B. Preciado writes that ‘Sex change and migration are two practices that…place a living human body inside the limits of citizenship’. This research interrogates the ways in which both Jamaican migrants and transgender people are making versions of home for themselves through codes, cultural practices, folklore, and domestic objects, whilst challenging these governed borders of place and body.

Research Area

Visual Arts

Publications

Promise me tomorrow: notes on climate change and pedagogy, April 2024, Commissioned by iniva, London, UK

40 years on and the need to rally: Exodus Crooks in conversation with Keith Piper, January 2021, A-n The artists information company (Black Hole Club as guest editors)

Mayday reader, May 2020, Black Hole Club

Representation in art education: The absence of Black art, 2018, Published by Yellow zine

Conferences

Artists Make Change: The work around the work
Royal Geographical Society Conference (with IBG) hosted by the University of Birmingham (26th - 29th August 2025)

Other Research Interests

Afro indigenous spirituality
Caribbean folklore
Transecology

Memberships

M4C Scholar with the Stuart Hall Foundation
Member of Society for Caribbean Studies