'Where Art Thou Big Man?' by Brianna Parker

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Dimensions (HxWxD):

23 × 30 × 3 cm

Materials:

Oil on Canvas

Primary Medium:

Oil Painting

Small
2023
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The ongoing series “Inna Da South” is composed of oil paintings which take the viewer on a visual journey down Peckham Rye Lane. The individual paintings are connected by the street view background. The location was chosen due to its cultural significance and the modern Afro-surrealistic experience of urban regeneration. The current and future paintings of this series will display the accessibility attached to the Black British identity that Peckham holds, through the realms of shops that sell global produce, the hair shops and hairdressers on the street that cater to afro hair, the Caribbean and African takeaways, etc. The painterly depiction of the background and rough textured canvas juxtaposes the realistic style of the figures, the contrast is to emphasise not only the materials used but to capture the rawness of the streets. Collectively the paintings embody community, whilst expressing that Black people are not a monolith. “Inna Da Streets” showcases the diversity of Blackness, and that representation is deeper than skin colour, as the work displays experiences and assorted styles. The use of pearls is a symbolic reclamation of the allegorical pictorial trope of empire and colonialism during the 17th and 18th century. The pearls are to emphasise the celestial tones of the figure's skin.

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