She works at the intersection of biography and history, focusing on post-plantation economies by engaging with a particular landscape on Barbados.
An Alliteration, A Sacred Soliloquy and A Somewhat Sonnet
Three ‘curtained’ spaces comprise disembodied wedding clothes, wire houses and knotted shreds of cotton. On entering the domestic triad, the viewer is invited to wear headsets and listen to alliterative works recited by the artist. Reflections on women as individuals, wife and mother are considered.
This Land of Mine: Past, Present and Future
A suite of twelve relief prints tracks the shifting landscape in a small island Caribbean state. The copper images refer to spaces that have archaeological, historical, agricultural and intrinsic value. The middle row of grey images shows the transition via greed to the hot pink images. The copper spaces have in fact become the fast food restaurant, a golf course etc. The future has become the past.
Raw Testimonies
This suite of twelve prints is based on one hundred and fifty interviews of secondary and tertiary school students from Barbadian schools. They were asked to write and draw what their homes felt like emotionally and psychologically. The relief prints are on paper made from bagasse, the by-product of the sugar industry, fostering a link between our relationships with each other and the plantation society.
(up)rooted
(up)rooted refers to the constantly shifting notions of “home”, reconfigured with every move as human beings navigate their way between longings and belonging. Increasingly, “home” becomes a place carried within, as opposed to a fixed physical locale.