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.
Mixed Media Artist known for sculptural installations composed of discarded material found and collected in his neighbourhood. Ward re-contextualises these found objects in thought-provoking juxtapositions that create complex, metaphorical meanings to confront social and political issues surrounding race, poverty, and consumer culture. He intentionally leaves the meaning of his work open.
FROM THE ARTIST Where there is a buildup of pressure, a release must come. In Jamaica, this release can take the opposing forms of both violence and beauty. Dancehall culture is the creative expression of this push and pull of forces. Dancehall by definition is…
Painter born in Birmingham, United Kingdom, in 1965, to parents of Jamaican descent. He has pursued both landscape and abstract painting, delving into his own relationships to place by recalling social history and memory.
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.
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.
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.
Mixed media artist incorporating a wide range of materials and mediums to explore themes of life’s experiences.
Contemporary digital-media and oil whose work in oils brings a more soulful satisfaction due to its materiality.
Mixed media artist incorporating a wide range of materials and mediums to explore themes of life’s experiences.
Multimedia artist who, as a sculptor, prefers to work with wood. Her inspiration comes from the earth. She interprets its energy along with the lush vegetation and the constant river at her home in Jamaica.
Mixed media artist incorporating a wide range of materials and mediums to explore themes of life’s experiences.