Herfa Martina Thompson 



Dance In Leeds (I am the black gold of the sun) 


2025

Commissioned by Leeds Galleries and Museums & Heritage Lottery Fund


Photos to be updated soon 



Mare Serenitalis



2024
Mixed media installation
Commissioned by Sunnybank Mills, Leeds 


Mar

The Moon and Her Horse


2024
Ceramic sculpture

Myth 



2023
pencil  on paper



Songs My Mother Never Got to Sing to Me 

2022
Mixed media installation
Commissioned by Leeds Arts University 





Songs My Mother Never Got to Sing to Me explores stories of the black uterus through fabric and clay. The work, inspired by personal events, looks at the prevalence of uterine fibroids in Black women and the tendency to have their symptoms ignored for so long that only severe options such as hysterectomies are available. The work looks for a place of healing and wonders how we can be gentle with this pain and uses the clay and fabric to explore the past, present and a future healed mythology of generational trauma.

Paintings



Insert Crush Here (2020) - Oil on canvas - Sold to a private collector London Fields Lido (L’anse de l’Ane) 2018 Acrylic on Canvas 101cm x 81cm (Available to buy) The Snake and the Arrow (2021) - Watersoluble oils on canvas. Available to buy Display Only (2020) - Watersoluble oils and oil paint on canvas. Available to buy. Synapses (2020) - Watersoluble oils on canvas. 101x 81cm (Sold to a private collector) My Heart's Portrait of My Body (2020, watersoluble oil on canvas). He Only Went For a Run (if looks could kill) - 2020 - acrylic on canvas "Dreaming of Eating Tantrum Doughnuts with you in Kelvingrove Park" (2020) oil on canvas. Sold to a private collector. "Eden is burning" - 2020 - Watersoluble oil on canvas - Sold to a private collector

Digital Illustrations

Before History We Danced - Collaboration with Will Dickie and Contemporary Performance Practice Year 2 students


︎Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2017)
︎An exploration of movement and colloboration and study of Will Dickie’s practice of community in nightlife

︎ Images by Julia Bauer




Commissions 




Leeds Arts University APP Commission 2022 Cafe Commission at The Tetley (2021) Wild & Kind T-shirt MurMur No.14 January 2019 Equal Parts Podcast




Becky and Jay


︎Digital drawing (2019)
︎Commission for Equal Parts podcast

Mur Mur No. 14 January 2019


︎Use of Monstera Deliciosa (digital drawing,2018)
︎Risograph print by Team Trident Press




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