Andrew Ace Bamusi (ACE V!S!ON)
Creative Artist, Self-Employed
ACE V!S!ON (They/He) is a Scottish-Malawian poet and active rapper/musician who is equally as comfortable communicating freestyle/spoken word on open-mic stages as they are lacing eloquent rhyme with experimental rhythms, often inspired by themes of grief, loss and the universal human condition. ACE creates and releases their own music and pieces independently, as well as part of several local bands and collectives in and around Glasgow. As a queer identifying POC, they frequently collaborate with groups and organisations involved in social justice activism & community care through creativity. They recently became a published playwright, shared work at Edinburgh International Festival and Fringe, and is currently a recipient of Counterflows Music Space bursaries 2023–24.