Press

Selected reviews, interviews & institutional features

Selected reviews, interviews and institutional features

2026

University of Cambridge · Legacies of Enslavement

Black Town & Gown: The historical legacy of Black presence in the City of Cambridge

A research feature foregrounding Selena's voice as an artist and co-founder of Cambridge Black Creatives, alongside her Equiano Family Window commission.

2025

University of Cambridge Museums

Celebrating Equiano's Cambridge connections

An institutional feature announcing Selena's selection to create the Equiano Family Window at St Andrew's Church, Chesterton.Benjamin Franklin House

Lives Revealed: The Hidden Figures of Franklin's London Home

The permanent exhibition's official account of Selena's commissioned portraits of Peter and John King.National Association for the Teaching of English

Teaching race and disability through the amazing story of Billy Waters

Independent educational reception of Billy Waters: Songs from the Shadows, illustrated by Selena and written by Ben Marsh.

2024

University of Kent

'King of the Beggars' is subject of new graphic novel

The launch story for Billy Waters: Songs from the Shadows, Selena's collaboration with historian Ben Marsh for UK schools.

2023

Morning Star

Eye-catching and precise

Bob Newland reviews It's the Debt That You Owe and considers Selena's commissioned painting Empire within the exhibition's critique of colonial debt.BBC News

Cambridge Black History colouring book part of Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition

A dedicated report on Selena's illustrated book, its twelve Cambridge figures and its place in the Fitzwilliam Museum's Black Atlantic exhibition.University of Cambridge Museums

Meet Our 'Celebrating Black History in Cambridge' Interns

A conversation with Selena and Jade Pollard-Crowe about the research and making behind their public history resources for the Fitzwilliam Museum.The Auction Collective

Top 5 Artists | Gemma Peppe

Art on a Postcard founder Gemma Peppé selects Selena among five artists and discusses the chiaroscuro and emotional charge of her paintings.

2022

London Art Roundup

Slade School of Fine Art 2022 Degree Show

A degree-show review selecting Selena as one of seven artists to keep watching from the 2022 Slade presentation.

2021

Where's The Frame

In conversation with Selena Scott

A dedicated interview on portraiture, Black male identity, symbolism, materials, fashion and Selena's developing practice at the Slade.

2020

ERA Journal

Interview: Selena Scott

An early long-form interview about identity, acculturation, racism, family and memory in Selena's painting practice.

2019

Cambridge Regional College

If you saw a black man in a hoodie would you form an opinion?

The earliest substantial feature on Selena's work, documenting an exhibition challenging racialised perceptions of young Black men.