Sculptor also trained in jewelery and textile design whose poetically inflected works are grounded in the specificity of the Caribbean landscape and the region’s colonial past, but they open out into universal themes, most prominently transformation and the construction of identity.
Multimedia artist whose current art practice focuses on investigating the trope of the othered native within the paradigm of “paradise” and tourism industries. Her work borrows imagery, techniques, and formats from the culture of craft and souvenir-making in the Caribbean such as wall hangings, postcards, and gift items.
Mixed media artist focusing on the ephemerality of psychological interiorities and black mythologies, using mediums, made or found, to blur the distinction between stereotype and representation, geography and memory, and to reveal or hide western contentions with the black body.
Textile Artist who uses her passion for fibre and understanding of the sensitivity of threads and fabric to bring into being unique designs and sculptural forms. Her practice employs fibre and the body to engage the role and existence of women, the M(O)ther and I.
Jamaican writer and filmmaker who uses his art to reflect black and Caribbean people’s lived realities while exploring reoccurring themes of gender, sexuality, migration, familiar bonds, and the intersectional identities found between the margins.
Contemporary digital-media and oil whose work in oils brings a more soulful satisfaction due to its materiality.
Mixed Media Artist focusing on women’s perceptions of themselves as women of color and how that reflects within a vast digital space.
Mixed-Media Artist underlining aspects of Jamaica’s history and culture in proximity to the legacies of violence and trauma we have inherited as a people, the mechanisms of survival, and our indomitable spirit.
Jamaican artist from Warsop, Trelawny, who works in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, digital design, and sculpture.
Jamaican multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses multi-sensory installation, sculpture, video, photography, and printmaking. His practice considers how current realities are shaped by both visible and less visible histories.
Contemporary realist oil painter. Brown’s practice examines mimicry in nature and applies it to the human world, elaborating on the historical tensions of colonisation, appropriation, class, and self-agency.
Multi-disciplinary artist focusing on the cultural and social legacies of colonialism and its effects today, primarily on the Black majority in Jamaica, with implications for other nations with similar colonial histories.