Roxanne Simone is a Black Caribbean British visual artist, educator, and curator working across sculpture, metalwork, and image making. Her practice explores the dynamics of the diasporic body through a layered methodology that blends ethnographic research, material experimentation, and Afrofuturist speculation. Working with processes such as Hydroforming, Simone reimagines metals as vessels of memory, emotion, and ancestral narrative.

She has exhibited internationally, including at  New York City Jewelry Week, Pratt Institute, Goldsmiths Hall, and MAC Birmingham. Her work has also been shown as part of Diaspora Pavilion 2: London, Art in Architecture, and the touring exhibition What is the Colour of Metal?

Simone is the founder of Crucible, a global platform amplifying BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists in contemporary craft and design, and co-founded RCA BLK, where she served as Chair (2020–2023), leading initiatives including the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship, business development and artist mentorship programs.

Simone is a lecturer, and her experience includes roles as an associate lecturer at UAL Central Saint Martins and Royal College of Art, where she teaches across BA and MA Jewellery and Metal (2020 -2023). She has also taught and developed curriculums internationally, including at the Cairo Centre of Contemporary Jewellery.

Simone holds an MA from the Royal College of Art and a BA (First Class Honours) from London Metropolitan University. 

“My practice engages with the complexities of the intersectional diasporic body, combining ethnographic fieldwork and auto-ethnographic methodology to challenge perceptions of race, queerness, gender, class, and lost histories. I reimagine symbolic and physical barriers through abstract forms and non-linear explorations of time, using materiality, image-making, and colour as tools for resistance and remembrance.