Zak Ové

Zak Ové is a British sculptor, photographer and film-maker whose work draws on diaspora histories and the masking traditions of Trinidad carnival. Born in London, the son of the film director Horace Ové, he studied film as fine art at Saint Martin’s School of Art. His installation of forty two-metre graphite figures, The Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness, was first shown at Somerset House in 2016 and later at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. His Moko Jumbie sculptures made him the first Caribbean artist in the British Museum’s permanent collection, and in 2019 he curated Get Up, Stand Up Now at Somerset House.