Therapy & Sauce

R3times

May 22 - 2 Jun 2018

A visual endeavour and curation of the past and present narratives of self-awareness, heritage and perseverance. Therapy & Sauce explores feelings of nostalgia, memories and contemporary themes of identity.  The series of works displayed are inspired by colonial experiences of British-Jamaican individuals. Some of the exhibits from the collection are inspired by the sculptural work of Ronald ‘Midonz’ Moody. The use of primary source Blue Mahoe wood cultivated from Jamaican soil enhances the concept of heritage.

The artist

Kaye-Anne Smith, aka R3times, as she is creatively known, graduated at Middlesex University with a BA (Hons) Fine art in 2017. She works in a variety of media such as painting, sculpture, and printing and uses a variety of material including cloth, paper, wood and wool/gold based prints.

Her collective work portrays a visual rhapsody, which is executed in a contemporary and abstract style aiming to represent cultural identity. It is the very renaissance of the Jamaican diaspora that is preserved in her pragmatic use of patterns, symbolism and portraiture. R3times’s work is to champion the past and present people that migrated from the island of Jamaica.

 “Colour creates mood, texture intrigues & portrait identifies”, R3times.