Sabba Khan

Sabba Khan is an award-winning author who brings together visual art, architecture and storytelling into a practice that asks pertinent questions of our times. She was born and raised in Newham (UK) where she still lives and works. Her work draws on her working-class diasporic roots to interrogate class, race and gender in contemporary life in the UK..

Sabba Khan’s debut graphic novel The Roles We Play won the Jhalak prize and was one of the Guardian’s best books of the year in 2021. The medium of comics and sequential art form a central praxis to her approach, at once accessible and immediate, they are a way to examine and make sense of complex and entangled systems and structures, for both the private and the public. As such, Sabba’s work takes you on a journey, one of critical reflection, curious questioning, and ultimately deeper understanding.