Carbon is a black trans artist, activist and academic. A proud member of the Trans Collective, Carbon organises for the liberation of all (deliberately) marginalised people in supposedly post-Apartheid South Africa, with a particular focus on neurodivergent people and black queer, transgender people.
Their multidisciplinary artistry includes videography, photography, poetry, paintings, performance art and digital drawings. As a recipient of the Astraea Global Arts Fund and CREA’s CREAte Fellowship, Carbon has exhibited work at the Queer Feminist Film Festival and has poetry published in the Sol Plaatje European Awards anthology and performed poetry at The Open Book Festival. Their first solo exhibition, Not Yet Dead, was exhibited at Gallery University of Stellenbosch (GUS) and LiveArtArcade, Makhanda in 2023.