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WElls Art Contemporary 2020
I'm really pleased to have my triptych, "Where Are You Really From", as one of the 128 pieces shortlisted from 3600 entries to The Wells...
Oct 4, 2020


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...
Sep 16, 2020


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...
Aug 28, 2020


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...
Aug 13, 2020


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...
Jul 30, 2020


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...
Jul 20, 2020


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...
Jun 10, 2020


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,...
May 14, 2020


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...
May 4, 2020


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,...
Apr 24, 2020
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