JHUS

The east London artist who’s rewriting the rules

JHus doesn’t like doing interviews. Not that that makes him a reluctant participant; he just believes that an examination of his life so far feels a little… premature. ‘You don’t review the book before it’s finished, you know? I’ve got so much I want to do and I haven’t even achieved half of it yet,’ he flashes a shy grin. ‘Nowhere even near half.’ Born Momodou Jallow in 1995 to a Gambian mother and Ghanaian father, he could be living a completely alternative existence right now. Hus could, had he continued to do what he was doing, quite possibly be dead or very probably be in jail; the product of those horrible stereotypes that afflict the young, black, working class male. Hus was bought up by his mother – ‘my dad,…

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