I am interested in the stories that make us who we are; the regeneration and threading together of memories and shared history, of creativity and imagined future. In all of my work I hope to inspire us to make connections between the contemporary and the historical, between our ancestors and ourselves, between one culture and another, between the community and the individual.

My ancestry is rooted in Africa, Asia, Ireland, England, Scotland, Eastern Europe, Spain, Portugal, and a few other places in between. I am interested in these stories, and more specifically stories within the larger Black-Irish Diaspora.

A major part of my work explores hybridity and includes an ongoing series of paintings, mixed media pieces and installations that explore the historical intersection of Black and Irish people (and culture) and how these historical relationships have evolved within contemporary global communities, for example, Black Africans immigrating to Ireland during the country’s economic boom in the 90’s through the early 2000’s; or the Black Irish in Montserrat (The Emerald Isle of the Caribbean). I also imagine how these relationships will take shape in the future.

My work is historical, autobiographical and fictional. It is informed by memories,collected conversations, photographs(historical) as well as my own, historical documents, family histories, personal stories, proverbs, limericks and cultural symbols, cartoons, music, song lyrics, old letters, and other ephemera. I create using paint, canvas, wood, nails, needles, thread, watercolor, ink, charcoal, fabric, hand-made and found paper, album covers, cast iron pans and more.