Painting / Drawing
Photography
Mixed Media
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Retiring Room
Resting Hands
Red Sea, Black Stars
Verisimilitude: Truthlikeness
Oil on board 50 × 65 × 1.5 cm
Photograph 3456 × 4608 px
Acrylic, sandstone, resin, silver thatch palm, black tea, river stones, charcoal, brick, flint, glass, coffee, pumice, synthetic wax on canvas 122 × 91 × 15 cm
Cardboard, screen, mixed media 50 × 80 × 20 cm
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johnreno John Reno Jackson
Johanna Yaovi
barnes.art_ Joe Barnes
studiojoiedooi Joie Minsoo Kim
John Reno Jackson is an interdisciplinary artist based between Grand Cayman and London. Drawing on his Caymanian and British heritage, Jackson works with materials such as silver thatch palm, fabric, sand and found objects to explore memory, preservation, isolation and Afro-Caribbean identity. By integrating traditional crafts with environmental exposure, Jackson reflects on post-colonial narratives and the shifting values and meanings attached to objects. Red Sea, Black Stars engages with the legacy of Pocahontas, embedding stones gathered from her burial site in Gravesend, Kent. Her life catalysed Britain’s colonial gaze towards the ‘New World’, shaping the Cayman Islands’ colonial history. Hung as a flag, it operates as a transatlantic current, vibrating between past and present, myth and material. By merging abstraction, craft, and historical rupture, Jackson explores how inherited histories can be atomised and recomposed.
Johanna Yaovi is a Paris-born, London-based artist whose practice is shaped by her experience of growing up between two of Europe’s most multicultural cities. Drawing on this background, Yaovi explores themes of identity and representation, prompting a deeper reflection on the concepts of identity and representation. In this photographic series, Johanna Yaovi turns the lens on her mother. For over three decades, Yaovi has observed her sole parent navigate a demanding cycle of nannying and cleaning in the City of Light. As her mother approaches retirement, Yaovi felt compelled to symbolically grant her mother’s hands a long-overdue respite, enabling her to finally use them solely for herself. This work highlights a body standing against societal pressures that aim to marginalise it, reclaiming space and dignity in the process.
Joe Barnes is a London-based artist whose practice explores the materiality of painting and its relationship with narrative. Using experimental techniques, Barnes addresses themes of pattern, recollection and loss, creating atmospheres of unease and ambiguity. His process captures and reconsiders memories, transforming them through painterly exploration. Retiring Room explores the physicality of absence. Two empty chairs left side by side and untouched since the church was abandoned, evoke a conversation between individuals long lost but whose presence continues to be felt in the unfilled seats. In creating this piece, Joe Barnes sought to evoke unease by capturing bare objects, placing the viewer in an uncertain space they might otherwise turn away from.
Joie Minsoo Kim is a visual storytelling designer working across filmmaking, model building, creative coding, writing, and print. Kim’s work creates a bridge across digital technology and the analogue system of material craft, weaving narratives that balance innovation with tactile presence. Verisimilitude: Truthlikeness explores the human tendency to seek emotional refuge in fiction rather than truth. Rooted in a desire to reconnect with humanness, the project enables sensory engagement through a Cabinet of Curiosities constructed from cardboard. Moving away from the digital fatigue that pervades modern society, the audience is invited to open and explore each drawer, engaging in a tactile experience.
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