'New Growth'
2021
20.3 x 27.9 cm
Embroidery and textile collage on cardboard.

This artwork illustrates the concept of rewriting history, placing black people in the forefront. For centuries historical portraits featured only white subjects and afros were not seen as appropriate or associated with any kind of regality. This work was influenced by Kehinde Wiley’s use of appropriation and appropriated the portrait ‘Seated woman’ by Antonie Watteau which depicts a woman with Eurocentric characteristics in a position of elegance. I created this work with embroidery, using cloths from both Caribbean and African culture and leaves and vines symbolizing this rewriting and new perspective.

'Layered Worlds 2053'
2023
21 x 29.7cm
Digital Illustration

PORTFLOIO

In response to a brief on an illustrative depiction of the year 2053 I created a series of works inspired by the speculative concepts of Afro-futurism and Afro-centrism.

‘Stages of Isolation'
2021
12.3 x 17.9cm
Digital Illustration

‘I have told it the way i received it’
2023-2024
50 x 50 cm
Screen print, embroidery and mix media on textile

This project responds to a brief which looks at the role of image making in society and culture. I created an outcome in response to an exploration practices of storytelling and folklore specifically from an Afro Caribbean perspective.

Key objectives of this project:
- Create a tangible narrative that illustrates the history of Caribbean culture through a folkloric structure.
- Have social engagement be a principal aspect of my final outcome.

‘Goodas Anthem’
2024
420 x 594 mm
Laser cut acrylic plastic

Sweat stained shirts rubbed up against tight up shorts
And necks close to rolling off glistening bodies bathed in the limelight
The rum washed floors latched their sticky residue to the grooves of her sandals
This bashment won’t be featured on page 2.

In my exploration of storytelling and folklore I made connections between Africa and it's diaspora through textile (a tangible aspect of culture that was taken from us due to enslavement). I used Decentralised Storytelling

This artwork was created in response to a brief which required an expansion of our interpretation of image into experience and performance, exploring the body and collections of bodies.
My approach to this brief was to explore the musical genre Dancehall and its role as a catalyst for female agency and liberation.

I took influence from the typography and the visuals of hand painted Jamaican Dancehall posters during the era of sound system culture (1950s-80s) and explored how dancehall queens and female artists critiqued the patriarchy through lewd and erotic lyricism within the dancehall sphere.

‘I didn't come this far just to get this far’
2023
40.6 x 22.8 cm
Digital Illustration

A commission to create a digital illustration based on the client's mantra ' I didn't come this far just to get this far'.

A Comic series reflecting on my covid quarantine experience in May 2021.

'Sunday Dinner'

'Rafting on the Rio Grande'

'Bam Go'

'Deep Sleeper3'
2023
21 x 29.7cm
Digital Illustration