Herfa Martina Thompson (born 1992) is an artist currently living in Leeds.

Her practice looks at storytelling of black bodies and with them, explores themes of mythology, water, love, biology and space, both in terms of the cosmos and spaces that humans occupy.

Over the last few years her work has been exploring he black body from an intimate medical point of view as well as bodies in domestic spaces after her disabling experience with 17 fibroids and severe anemia. 

Currently, Herfa is enjoying experimenting with clay, animation and sound to process grief of friends and family passing as well as processing years of her life she lost as well as potential futures such as having children. 

There is joy however, in celebrating friends’ childrens, weddings and everyday love and Herfa is exploring this by studying the unifying material that is clay. She is curious about learning Afro-Caribbean approaches to clay in both art and rituals as well as learning about East Asian, Arabic and Latin American approaches to ceramics, namely with rituals, death and daily eating.