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1981, my earliest memory is sitting in the hallway of a different kind of house in a different kind of landscape, hot.

Caressing a doll with a red flannel hat, I waited, patiently…

A family holiday in 1998 was in itself a remarkable moment. It had been seventeen years since I had visited Barbados with my mother and sister, and now we were about to embark on the return journey once again.

Little did I know that during this visit we were to travel to Grazettes, Barbados to meet Mrs Brown, my great-grandmother and matriarch of my dispersed and splintered Caribbean family. I was not even aware of her existence or the fact that this reunion would trigger a deep-rooted examination of my roots and routes.

My practice as an artist-curator has primarily focussed on an ancestral exploration of my Caribbean heritage, involving enquiries of inter-generational identities and the constructs of post-colonial communities. I employ multiple mediums; predominantly photography, moving image, sound and text to research, analyse and provoke cultural and social perceptions derived from a range of sources including archive material, historical narratives, anecdotes and associated urban myths.  Due to the evolving and often provocative nature of this material, my practice has been publically presented as working processes rather than completed work, via exhibition, online dialogues and informal site-based interventions.