Faisal Abdu’Allah is an artist whose practice is inspired by his own Afro-British, working-class life as well as his Muslim faith. His is a multidisciplinary practice that embraces printmaking, photography and performance. He is also a barber and the physical act of cutting hair – the performance of it and the relics that provides – is key to any appreciation of his work. Abdu’Allah often refers to childhood memories of visiting the barbershop: a space that was, for him, specifically Black and male and one established for physical transformation. It is this propensity for change, the dynamo of which is articulated by an environment devoted to unpicking and celebrating Black identity, that fuels much of Abdu’Allah’s focus here on race and masculinity: both being concepts prone to stereo-typification which, in turn, raise questions about matrices of power, representation and their authorship.