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Sierra ‘Murican

During my time as an artist-in-residence in New Jersey, USA in the summer of 2019 I had the opportunity to meet my half brother for the...

Questions Of Our Day

This ballpoint pen self portrait drawn on collaged pages of ‘Questions of Our Day’ (1934) depicts the emotional turmoil of the isolated...

Hajjah Aliya

This fineliner pen portrait depicts Hajjah Aliya, my great grandmother, on a map of Sierra Leone from the 1940s. Direct links to the...

The British Dream

In the western world we are all too familiar with the notion of “the American dream”, but for many immigrants Great Britain is also...

The Painful Joy of Love

This self-portrait depicts the romanticised notion of the archetypal artist plagued with the ‘affliction’ of an apparently innate desire...

Where are you really from?

There is an immense catharsis when an idea for a work comes to fruition; particularly with works that have only existed as annotated...

The Place of the Inferiority Complex

It is assumed that young artists take themselves too seriously. This self-portrait is drawn from a reference image taken some years ago,...

The 5 best websites for artist open calls

I often get asked about how I hear about different exhibition and competition open calls, so I thought a list of the websites I regularly...

grime portraits

I love grime. I vividly remember listening through JME’s ‘Blam’ album on my MP3 player as a 13 year old kid on rugby tour. The energy,...

Allegory of Self-Censorship

The collaged texts from the 1940s book, Questions of Our Day acts as a means of contextualising the thought process behind the work....