Audrey Albert

Audrey Albert is a visual artist whose research-led practice enables her to consider and investigate themes of mixed identities, collective memory and displacement. Born in Mauritius with Chagossian heritage, Albert is currently based in Manchester. Her main body of work titled Matter Out of Place has been showcased in exhibitions in the U.K., France, China, and Mauritius. Albert’s practice is socially engaged and community-based. Her work highlights stories of empowerment that celebrate Chagossian culture and heritage. Through these works, she pays homage to Chagossian ancestors, including her own, whose descendants are still affected by forceful displacement. Albert is also a creative facilitator, hosting photographic workshops around identity, memory, and home. In 2020, she created Chagossians of Manchester (CoM), a socially engaged art project by and for the forcefully displaced Chagossian community currently living in Wythenshawe. She is currently working both on Chagossians of Manchester (CoM) and Ble Kouler Lakaz (Blue is the colour of Home) and recently started a residency and project centering the Chagossian community with the Imperial War Museum and FFoto gallery in September 2023.