Portrait by Reuben Arthur

Weyland McKenzie - Witter is an award-winning multidisciplinary Audio Artist, Archivist, Creative Producer and Writer

Currently a digital archives assistant at 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning.

Weyland’s work sits at the intersection of heritage and cultural production, specialising in creating archival collections, audio-visual productions, exhibitions, educational workshops and more.

Weyland has spent the past 5 years experimenting with heritage and cultural productions as the founder and director of the NELLO Project. 

Most recently, He was the executive producer of A Dialogue of Equals, an audio-visual Podcast series that explores the relationship between Black Men and the NHS. Weyland has produced on projects like Small Axe: The Podcast the companion for Steve McQueen’s award-winning series, Spotify’s award-winning series Decode, BBC ‘s Who Was Michael XThe Echoic Archive for Somerset House, as well as developing and presenting The Black and The Green a BBC Radio 4 doc on climate change. He produced the BBC 1Xtra Rap Show with Kenny Allstar, The 1Xtra Dancehall Show with Seani B and has a podcast in collaboration with South London Gallery and King’s College Researcher Dr Patria Roman-Velazquez. Weyland was the exec producer of Professor Kehinde Andrews’s Make It Plain Podcast seasons 1&2.

 Weyland was a development producer on The Guardian Cotton Capital. He was nominated for the “Best New Producer” award at the 2021 Audio Production Awards. 

Weyland was awarded best audio immersive producer at the 2024 UKAN Audio Awards.

As a musician, his music has been played on BBC RADIO 1, BBC 1 XTRA, CAPITAL XTRA, Rinse FM and more. Sync placements include Samsung, Absolut Vodka and more.

As “Wey & Nephew”, He has DJ’d for a number of organisations, including Audible, New Era, Bumble, Roundhouse, Soho House and more

Updates

As part of my fellowship with Archiving The Black Web, I am currently developing a web archive project that aims to preserve the work of Black British artists who use the web to distribute their work. 

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