June 2025 Artists in Residence

Home Country: Jamaica.

Country of Residence: U.S.A.

I am working on a novel, My Name Is Sweet Thing, inspired by the Nina Simone 1966 blues song, “Four Women.” The story reimagines an origin story about one of the voices--Sweet Thing, whom we first meet as Clarissa Singh, a ten-year-old girl whose mother dies at the hands of her father.  My work uses folklore and Afro-Caribbean spiritism to explore how it felt for her to be first thrust into a new life in rural St. Catherine with her Aunt Winnifred, her cousins, and her aunt's ward, Solomon, and later in the New Orleans underworld where she assumes the name Sweet Thing. She returns to Prospect after some trouble abroad. I will be working on that question of this return during this residency. 

Home Country: Jamaica.

Country of Residence: Jamaica

As a Black Jamaican textile artist, I interrogate cultural memory, colonial legacies, and ancestral resilience through an intersectional lens of race, gender, and class. My practice deconstructs inherited histories and reweaves them into tactile narratives of resistance and reclamation. 

I work primarily with discarded and found materials such as old clothes and scrap

fabrics, transforming them through Afro-Caribbean textile techniques including weaving, quilting, appliqué, and mola.