WHO AM I?
I grew up in Grand Cayman - although the island is small, and often forgotten, my home affects every aspect of my work.
My experience growing up in a mixed race home and mixed-cultured island shaped my outlook as a practitioner, how, and who I present my work for. Moving so far from home, it’s so essential to find sources of comfort and familiarity in foreign places. My research and reflective writing serve to aid each other. I present the tangential narratives of my work – adinkra symbolism and its prevalence in its Tr ans Atlantic and colonial presence, ornamental architecture as a means of both visual communication, and the link in my work between post- colonialism, home-making, and Caribbean feminism, and the tension between them; This publication in and of itself
serves as an archive - a gathering of my research and reflections.
I’m Ari, my research shapes my work as a practioner, and my developing interests in environmenments, culture, diasporic experience, and 3D translations.
EXPERIENCE
Design Intern; Pentagram -- Jul 2026 -- Sep 2026
MA Visual Communication; Royal College of Art Sep 2025 -- Jul 2026
Freelance Artworker; Cayman National Cultural Foundation Oct 2024
Creative Intern; Cayman National Cultural Foundation Jul 2023 -- Sep 2023
BA (Hons) Illustration; University of Brighton Sep 2022 -- Jun 2025
Creative & Education Intern; NGCI Jun 2022 -- Sep 2022