statues
From the Imperial Dreamcatcher Series
A black and white screenproint created from a mixture of personal photography and found images. Pencil is added as another texture of shading.
The statues are of Blas de Lezo, hero of the defense of Cartagena against the British in 1741. Admiral Blas de Lezo, who had a peg leg, peg arm, and eye patch, is often considered the model for the image of the pirate in modern pop culture. After this victory, the Castillo San Felipe Fortress (pictured behind de Lezo) was gradually expanded to encompass the entire hill including an extensive network of tunnels. As a result Cartagena was not attacked again during the colonial era and became a colonial center of power and wealth.
In this screenprint the statues appear without their heads as part of a global reckoning over racial injustice. An idea that 'to tear down a monument is to fight for the future by attacking the past'. There have been a number of campaigns that have used this tactic around the world, most recently as part of the BLM movement. These campaigns generally share a demand for the removal of statues that glorify figures whose reputations (and fortunes) were built on the crushing of peoples of colour and the stifling of indigenous cultures
Dimensions
Each screenprint is an edition of 200
£300 unframed + packing and postage (framing on request)
1000mm x 707mm on Munken pure 300 gm archive paper
Signed by the artist
For sales please email us via our home page
Time Zero
From the Imperial Dreamcatcher Series
A black and white screenproint created from a mixture of personal photography and found images. Pencil is added as another texture of shading.
The statues in the foreground are from the Pergamon Altar frieze which illustrates the Gigantomachy, an epic battle between the Olympian gods and giants for supremacy of the cosmos. Built between 166 and 156 BC on an acropolis above Pergamon (a city that is today part of Turkey) the story is a metaphor for the shift from barbarism (the past) to civilized society (Greek culture). The giants are portrayed having violent and contorted faces. In contrast, the Olympian gods are serene despite the conflict.
In the background a sculpted pair of hands hold a digital clock set to zero. It is left unclear if the clock is a countdown, a commentary or a moment in time. The title Time Zero comes from the script for our new film work Imperial Dreamcatchers.
Dimensions
Each screenprint is an edition of 200
£300 unframed + packing and postage (framing on request)
1000mm x 707mm on Munken pure 300 gm archive paper
Signed by the artist
For sales please email us via our home page
THE maze
From the Imperial Dreamcatcher Series
A black and white screenproint created from a mixture of personal photography and found images. Pencil is added as another texture of shading.
The light in this work falls on a portrait of Haitian deputy Jean-Baptiste Belley (c. July 1746 – August 1805) This painting was by Anne-Louis Girodet (1767-1824) a French painter and Republican who painted scenes of the fall of the Bastille and other events of the Revolution in the 1790s. Girodet posed Belley alongside a marble bust depicting the abolitionist Guillaume-Thomas Raynal. The painting has been called a “pictorial meditation on the abolition of black slavery that derives power from forceful and startling juxtapositions". It is nevertheless complex as Belley who was sold into slavery as a small child, later himself became a slave owner in a “privileged intermediate position, neither slave nor white” Nevertheless he participated in the assembly that abolished slavery in French territories and this painting was created to commemorate the event.
The title The Maze comes from the script for our new film work Imperial Dreamcatchers and talks to the films topics of decolonialism and code switching.
Dimensions
Each screenprint is an edition of 200
£300 unframed + packing and postage (framing on request)
1000mm x 707mm on Munken pure 300 gm archive paper
Signed by the artist
For sales please email us via our home page
DRAX HIGHWAY
From the Imperial Dreamcatcher Series
A black and white screenproint created from a mixture of personal photography and found images. Pencil is added as another texture of shading.
A woman stands in a surreal urban landscape. The floor is a metal grid, the industrial towers behind spew smoke, the scupltural forms around her might be by chance or be placed. She is on Drax highway a road leading to the home of the Drax dynasty who were able to generate extraordinary wealth through the cultivation of their sugar plantations in Barbados. The highway trees are the last of the canopy that then break into a high brick wall butted up tight to the road that seems to go on for ever.
The title Drax Hughway comes from the script for our new film work Imperial Dreamcatchers.
Dimensions
Each screenprint is an edition of 200
£300 unframed + packing and postage (framing on request)
1000mm x 707mm on Munken pure 300 gm archive paper
Signed by the artist
For sales please email us via our home page
Sister sistah
From the series: She’s Grown into a New Skin. Her New Skin
This series of collages started whilst on an artist teaching residency in Pakistan at the beginning of 2020. Being a woman of mixed race with Eastern roots I was inspired by the local Pakistani community and began looking into various experiences I had missed out on as I grew up in a western society. I was inspired by the ideology of female empowerment and girlhood in Pakistan began regular excursions to Lyari where I was inspired by the girls boxing team in Lyari, who train at the Lyari Boxing Club and the Pak Shaheen Boxing Club in Lyari, where I observed the girls during their training sessions. Inspired by stories of my Indian grandmother, who used to ride a horse around her neighbourhood during her youth. Influenced by the textiles and indigenous crafts I joined embroidery classes and even took part in a brief hijab tying class.
The imagery I am working with comes from three main sources : my own family albums, personal photo archive (2019/20) from my journeys across South Asia (Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka), and illustrations from popular Pakistani pulp novels.
Dimensions
Each screenprint is an edition of 200
£400 unframed + packing and postage (framing on request)
1000mm x 707mm on Munken pure 300 gm archive paper
Signed by the artist
Please note this series takes 1 month to make from time of order as each one is hand printed in our studio
For sales please email us via our home page
Many desires
From the series: She’s Grown into a New Skin. Her New Skin
This series of collages started whilst on an artist teaching residency in Pakistan at the beginning of 2020. Being a woman of mixed race with Eastern roots I was inspired by the local Pakistani community and began looking into various experiences I had missed out on as I grew up in a western society. I was inspired by the ideology of female empowerment and girlhood in Pakistan began regular excursions to Lyari where I was inspired by the girls boxing team in Lyari, who train at the Lyari Boxing Club and the Pak Shaheen Boxing Club in Lyari, where I observed the girls during their training sessions. Inspired by stories of my Indian grandmother, who used to ride a horse around her neighbourhood during her youth. Influenced by the textiles and indigenous crafts I joined embroidery classes and even took part in a brief hijab tying class.
The imagery I am working with comes from three main sources : my own family albums, personal photo archive (2019/20) from my journeys across South Asia (Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka), and illustrations from popular Pakistani pulp novels.
Dimensions
Each screenprint is an edition of 200
£400 unframed + packing and postage (framing on request)
1000mm x 707mm on Munken pure 300 gm archive paper
Signed by the artist
Please note this series takes 1 month to make from time of order as each one is hand printed in our studio
For sales please email us via our home page
Aunty with a gun
From the series: She’s Grown into a New Skin. Her New Skin
This series of collages started whilst on an artist teaching residency in Pakistan at the beginning of 2020. Being a woman of mixed race with Eastern roots I was inspired by the local Pakistani community and began looking into various experiences I had missed out on as I grew up in a western society. I was inspired by the ideology of female empowerment and girlhood in Pakistan began regular excursions to Lyari where I was inspired by the girls boxing team in Lyari, who train at the Lyari Boxing Club and the Pak Shaheen Boxing Club in Lyari, where I observed the girls during their training sessions. Inspired by stories of my Indian grandmother, who used to ride a horse around her neighbourhood during her youth. Influenced by the textiles and indigenous crafts I joined embroidery classes and even took part in a brief hijab tying class.
The imagery I am working with comes from three main sources : my own family albums, personal photo archive (2019/20) from my journeys across South Asia (Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka), and illustrations from popular Pakistani pulp novels.
Dimensions
Each screenprint is an edition of 200
£300 unframed + packing and postage (framing on request)
1000mm x 707mm on Munken pure 300 gm archive paper
Signed by the artist
Please note this series takes 1 month to make from time of order as each one is hand printed in our studio
For sales please email us via our home page
Self portrait
From the series: She’s Grown into a New Skin. Her New Skin
This series of collages started whilst on an artist teaching residency in Pakistan at the beginning of 2020. Being a woman of mixed race with Eastern roots I was inspired by the local Pakistani community and began looking into various experiences I had missed out on as I grew up in a western society. I was inspired by the ideology of female empowerment and girlhood in Pakistan began regular excursions to Lyari where I was inspired by the girls boxing team in Lyari, who train at the Lyari Boxing Club and the Pak Shaheen Boxing Club in Lyari, where I observed the girls during their training sessions. Inspired by stories of my Indian grandmother, who used to ride a horse around her neighbourhood during her youth. Influenced by the textiles and indigenous crafts I joined embroidery classes and even took part in a brief hijab tying class.
The imagery I am working with comes from three main sources : my own family albums, personal photo archive (2019/20) from my journeys across South Asia (Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka), and illustrations from popular Pakistani pulp novels.
Dimensions
Each screenprint is an edition of 200
£400 unframed + packing and postage (framing on request)
1000mm x 707mm on Munken pure 300 gm archive paper
Signed by the artist
Please note this series takes 1 month to make from time of order as each one is hand printed in our studio
For sales please email us via our home page
Dimensions
