Born in London of Caribbean heritage, I am an expanded arts practitioner based in Margate and steeped in the traditions, histories and culture across the Caribbean, Atlantic and Britain. I have a dynamic practice, including mark-making, performance, film and installation, focusing on Afro-surreal cultural texts that explore the relationship and assumptions surrounding cultural belonging, migration, identity and race through creating reparative formations.
Winner of the inaugural Brixton open in 2002, I migrated to Brazil in 2005 and was a founder of the reggae collective ‘Dread in Brasil’ in Salvador Bahia from 2008-2012. Where I was honoured to perform in the Salvador carnival with my own Trio eletrico, a first for a British-born artist. My short film “Prove It" was presented at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Bilingual, I studied painting at MAM in Salvador, Brazil in 2013 and drawing at the Honolulu Museum of Art in Hawaii USA, in 2014. I returned to the UK in 2015, where I exhibit regularly. I was a writer and Director's consultant on the 2016 4-part BBC documentary, ‘Black is the new black’.
I gained a master's degree in Race media and social justice, at Goldsmiths, University in 2019, and focussed on Afro-futurism and the Afrosurreal as cultural texts. I continue my practice as a Trustee and artist in residence at the Peopledemcollective in Margate, UK. I also teach joy-centred mark-making in a weekly class in Margate and in 2023 was awarded Arts Council (DYCP) funding.
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