An interview by
and
, curator
curator
Amanda Graham
most of the time however there was always
sense of lost and longing. Never contented
with my environment the urge to create my
own became paramount.
I taught myself to draw and became
attached to art because I spent the best
part of my youth alone. As a child I
frequently travelled between Trinidad,
Tobago and London which made me the
new kid, in a new school and in a new
environment. I became isolated and never
really connected to friends and family. In
hindsight the repeated travelling was
harrowing. Largely, I stood out all I really
wanted was to blend in.
As time went by I slowly became
introverted, spending a lot of time by
myself. All things changed when to share
who I was with others. My earliest memory
of being liked by my peers began with a
picture I drew of Michael Jackson. I had
gone from being the weird kid with the
foreign accent to the kid who can draw and
just like that my love affair with art had
flourished. Always the reseacher I
My childhood was far from traditional. As a
child of a fatherless home I was happy
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