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Audrey Albert

Audrey Albert’s research-led practice enables her to consider and investigate themes of national identity, collective memory, displacement, tradition, and denial. Born in Mauritius, she studied Political Science with a specialisation in Media and Communication at the University of Mauritius from 2009 – 2013.

Audrey is currently based in Manchester after studying photography at the Manchester Metropolitan University between 2015 – 2018. Her main creative mediums are digital and analog photography. Audrey’s main body of work Matter Out of Place sheds a light on an unfair and shameful page of Mauritian and British history in which the entire population of The Chagos Archipelago was forcefully displaced from their homeland due to political agendas between 1968 – 1973. This photo series allows Audrey to investigate her own identity through her ancestors’ culture and history. It has been showcased in several exhibitions in Manchester (at The Holden Gallery and HOME respectively), Arles in France, Pingyao in China and in Audrey’s home country of Mauritius. Audrey is currently working on Chagossians of Manchester (CoM) which is an extension of Matter Out of Place. It is a socially-engaged art project by and for the forcefully displaced Chagossian community currently living in Wythenshawe. Her socially-engaged art project includes 4 intergenerational creative workshops which will culminate in a celebratory Chagos Day.


Portrait of Audrey Albert. She is sitting and smiling. Her hair is long, wavy and the ends are dyed in green.

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