I am a mixed-media painter from London, of Indo-Guyanese and English descent, now based in Cardiff. My practice explores the nuances and complexities of culture, belonging, land, ancestral and spatial memory, generational (dis)placement/grief and migration. I am particularly interested in how these experiences become carried within us, shaping our emotional, spiritual and embodied experiences, and the tensions between past, present and future.

Artist Statement

My work is draws from memory, experience, archival material and family photographs. Having grown up somewhat separate from my family and Guyanese culture, I am interested in the space between what is known and what is imagined, and in reconstructing a relationship with a culture and history that I have experienced only in fragments. I am interested in my own imaginings onto what has been lost, altered or obscured through colonisation and migration. This lends itself to half-imagined landscapes, carrying imprints of both the mental and physical spaces we inhabit, and of Guyana as both a place of ancestral connection and something I continue to imagine and rediscover.

I view my practice as a dialogue with space, time, land and the psyche. This involves a process which is cyclical, non-linear and experimental. I build up the surface of the canvas through layers of paint, found paper, fabric, burlap and other found materials. These elements are torn, cut, collaged, painted over and partially erased. They take on a kind of sculptural quality, carrying each wave of construction, destruction and reconstruction, erasure and transformation within it. I am interested in the traces of time and memory that are left behind through this process.