If I were successful and received the the £10,000 bursary, I would use the funding to commence further research and produce a series of outputs. This opportunity to continue developing my practice, engaging with wider research, and making methods required to materialise new work would be invaluable.
To be more specific, the bursary would enable me to deep dive into essential research that pertains to the integrity of the art, and framework/(s) within which it sits. This research is both locational and archival, so the bursary would help me to research one of the two islands that my work is based off of, as well as purchase access to scholarly journals, books and archive materials. Materially, the bursary would help me explore tools for experimentation; and would allow for me make work using methods such as large format 3D printing and ceramics to produce large-scale installations.
By the end of the period, I would like to produce a large-scale installation based on the themes of my practice, I would also produce an accompanying documentation film, logging my process and research throughout the 2 years. My documentation films also work as mini-artworks, so, dependent on the atmosphere of the installation – there is a chance that both would be displayed together.
This bursary would help me significantly in the case of R&D. However, I also want to highlight how this bursary would help move my practice move forward outside of sole the production of work. The Dover Prize would help propel my footprint within the art scene in the UK, offering or solidifying my place within it. Not that I need my wok to be known to others, more that I want to feel a sense of rootedness within these spaces as an emerging artist.
Lastly, engaging with community and place is important to both my work, and person. I am aware of Darlington’s rich cultural history; it would be an enriching process to engage with the communities of Darlington as part of the process of exhibiting – learning form the people, and the land to inform my work / curatorial choices.
I believe that my work might help to enhance and raise the profile of the creative arts in the area due to its cultural significance and link to the community. My work reflects some of the core aspects of the towns history, and so, I would hope that my work would help raise awareness for Caribbean artworks and dialogues within Darlington, acting as a kind of extension to the 2023 Windrush Mural. Diasporic arts are important, and an integral historical aspect of the town / UK history in general, I would hope that my work would only further accentuate Darlington’s commitment to honouring this history.
Additionally, being a very community centred artist – I would hope that by engaging with the Creative arts in the area, I could pull more contemporary artists into Darlington’s orbit. What I mean is that I would be able to signpost my existing arts contacts in the South East (London, Oxford, Surrey) to Darlington; and make new contacts in Darlington that could maybe benefit from exposure outside of the town. Basically, a nice little creative gathering, merging Darlington’s scene with my own – hopefully lifting both in the process.
or; drawing parallels between both celestial and terrestrial bodies. I investigate how experiences of identity can be reframed or interpreted metaphorically through various astronomical phenomena. More specifically, how Afro-futurism, black-feminism and ecology can be viewed in conjunction with the physical properties attributed to black holes. Caribbean folk ritual and mythology are significant in my work, informing the research, process and output. I explore folk-practices, as well as black feminism viewed through the lens of the demonic (as per McKittrick’s interpretation in Demonic Grounds). In conjunction, I investigate practices / figures such as La Diablesse (St.Lucia) and Jab Jab (Grenada). I’m interested in exploring features of the Caribbean experience, most notably – language, folk-practices, traditions and their relationships with Britain. It is important to me that the lesser Antilles is highlighted in arts spaces, as Caribbean Discourse is too often forgotten. When remembered, Caribbean discourse typically focuses on or centres the larger islands. I work with the void, the primordial egg – it holds my body, tempers it. I study the seed of blackness and its various forms, I find myself enveloped in it. List of Exhibitions: Exhibition: Echoes from the void – Solo / Fusebox Kingston (2025) Exhibition: (Upcoming) Ergosphere – Solo / PICTUREDOME, Gloucester (2025) Exhibition: Moonlight – Group / Fusebox Kingston (2025) Exhibition: BITE – Group / Ruskin School of Art (2024) Exhibition / Talk: Lunchtime Lecture Series – Group Show / Solo Talk / Glass Tank Gallery (2024) Exhibition: Black Hole as Metaphor – Platform Graduate Award – Solo / Modern Art Oxford (2022) Exhibition: Counterbalance – Group / Oxford Brookes University (2022)
I graduated with my Masters in Fine Art (MFA) from the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford with a Distinction in 2024.
I was selected to participate as part of the Platform Graduate Award hosted by CVAN South East in 2022. As part of this opportunity, I exhibited my work in a solo show titled Black Hole as Metaphor at Modern Art Oxford. I also had to present my work and answer questions on a panel as part of the experience.
Additionally, I won the Fine Art Writing Prize at oxford Brookes University (2022) following completion of my course (BFA / First Class Honours).
I have recently been selected to start a residency at Fusebox Kingston after exhibiting in their Moonlight exhibition.
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