Category: Artist Review

Night Cracks (2024) opens with the words, “Listening to the rain play an impressive percussion piece on the attic window while I tremble in bed, the thoughts piling up in my head.”. These words help to bring the viewer into what seems to be a recollection of memories as suggested by the text: “dreadful memory”…

Alone and Outgrown (2024) takes the viewer and captures and frames them within the work itself. The artwork is surrealistic and set within a domestic scene, which pits the viewer to the face of an older woman who has taken over the top half of the room. We are invited to become a part of…

The Deep Loneliness of Society (2023) explores loneliness reflects on how society has become both connected in the digital age yet also isolated. The figures are faceless and are wearing different coloured clothes implying a different identity for each one all together yet they are in a crowd but still lonely. The facelessness allows the…

Contemplation (2023) is a bold and expressive mixed-media work with chaotically layered textures. A figure seems to emerge from this layering just below the contrasting red—the figure looks as though it is reflecting on itself. This meditation is happening around what looks to be flora and birds, thus nature, which implies human relations to the…

Figure#5 (2024) portrays a sculpture of a figure that looks to be tormented and fragmented as though it is in anguish and screaming out as its head is ripped out and has exploded right out of the sculpture. There are claw marks etched within the surface of the material used for the sculpture, which could…

Beyond the Blue presents a more intimate moment of joy, challenging the narrative surrounding black men in contemporary art and media. Instead of being set in a stereotypical environment of strength, aggression or stoicism – the figure is depicted within a more peaceful and warm moment. The composition of the painting helps to add to…

The Eternal Ache (2023) is a very chaotic abstract work in which oils are layered on top of each other. The claw marks in the top left corner create tension as though the painting has been scratched – perhaps as understanding that the work is related to anxiety; this could be that these scratches are…

Found Wire (2022) is vibrantly pink which is separated with darker vein-like forms which may be the fragments of the wire. The dark lines from this spread through the softer colours of the pink as though they are invading the space. There are speckles of pigment, especially within the central area of the composition, which…

Ever Growing Entanglements (2024) combines figurative and landscape elements in a slightly abstracted stylization split into two sections. One section is the forest path, which recedes into the distance, while the right part of the composition has a human figure that seems to be connected to a vein-like structure. The right side is quite chaotic…

Echo of Emotions (2022) is a very fluid and well composed abstract painting; it features two flowing red lines; one in the foreground and one in the background. They have been contrasted with a dark blue and slightly violet background and the two swirling lines against this creates a rhythm that moves between meditative peace…