Artists CV

Born
1980, Kingston, Jamaica

Education
2009-
Kyoto Seika University, Film, Video and Media Arts Dept.
Postgraduate Research
2003- 2004 Goldsmiths College, University College of London
Centre for Cultural Studies,
M.A., Interactive Media,
1999-2003 Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.
Painting Dip.

Awards
2007, Commonwealth Arts & Crafts Award, Commonwealth Foundation/ Post-Museum Visiting Artists Programme, Singapore (March- July)
2007, Monbukagakusho Research Scholarship, Embassy of Japan/ Government of Japan:MEXT
2003, Dean’s Purchase Award, Edna Manley College of the Visual & Performing Arts
2003, Studio Space Award, Edna Manley College of the Visual & Performing Arts

Selected Exhibitions and Screenings
2009 February, Mi Did Deh Deh, Two-man show, Morlan Art Gallery, University of Transylvania, Lexington, USA
2008 July, In the Night Garden, Solo show, Post-Museum, Little India, Singapore
2008 June, Taboo Identities: Race, Sexuality + the Body- A Jamaican Context, Olympia Art Centre, Kingston, Jamaica / Kentucky State University, Kentucky, USA
2008 March, Curator’s Eye III: Ceremony in Space and Time, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2007 October, New Photography at Edna Manley College, Cage Gallery, Edna Manley College, Kingston, Jamaica
2007 September, Materialising Slavery, Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2007 May, Her Shorts Women’s International Video Festival, Historic Y, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
2007 March, Intermix: Edna Manley College Staff Show, The CAGE Gallery, Edna Manley College of the Visual & Performing Arts
2007 February 15, Moving Pictures: The Art & Design on Film Series, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
2006 December, The 2006 National Gallery of Jamaica Biennial, Ocean Boulevard, Kingston, Jamaica.
2006 October, Next: Oneika Russell, Solo show, The Cage Gallery, Edna Manley College of The Visual and Performing Arts, Jamaica
2006 April, Temporary Identities - Video Art event at Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia.
2006 March, Indiana International Video Art & Architecture Festival - Video Art & Architecture event at the Indiana University Art Gallery (USA)
2005 December, International Art Expo (Italy)/ Attitude Video/ Short & Experimental film/ photography festival, Cultural Center "Magaza" (Institute and Museum) Bitola, Macedonia
2005 December, Curator's Eye II: Identity & History, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
2005 July, The Super Plus Under 40 Artist of the Year 2005 Competition/ Exhibition, The Mutual Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica.

2005 March, Young Generation, The Mutual Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica.
2004 December, The 2004-5 National Gallery of Jamaica Biennial, Ocean Boulevard, Kingston, Jamaica.
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March 2009
Artists Statement
 Characters and stories are the basis of my work. Many of the stories are my own inventions, reworked from memories of images and tales of literary sources and mass media encountered in my youth. My images are sequential and often episodic as I use reoccurring figures to suggest stories which are in the Western psyche but filtered through my experience of the Jamaican culture. The work is often done as animations, mixed media on paper or as digital images intended for book publication or print. I seek to create a new narrative from old stories, which say something about post-colonial experiences and continued understanding of my self through the media.

Previous bodies of work used stylized political imagery such as Jamaican versions of Aunt Jemima figurines, dolls, troubling images from the media such as Abu Graihb. My work also draws on literary and art historical characters such as Ophelia, Manet’s Olympia, Pre-Raphaelite heroines, Fashion magazines and other like sources also provide me with much content for my figures. Location or environments in which these characters construct their narratives is equally important and is often taken from scenic spots such as botanical gardens, parks and the the sea side. My characters are often hand-drawn translations from other sources placed via collage on top of photographic environments. It is this meeting between the imagined and the real world and its subsequent creation of a new version that most drives my creative practice.

 

 

  
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