unrooted features cyanotype prints on Dutch wax fabric and canvas. Kevin’s work has long explored institutionalised ideas of Black and African authenticity. He breaks down and challenges these concepts through a variety of mediums.
This exhibition is an intimate exploration of ritual haircutting and the transformative experience lived by the artist after cutting his dreadlocks of ten years. The resulting series of abstract positive and negative cyanotype prints with swirling linear forms suggest the movement and change of the artist’s evolution.
In many cultures, the cutting of hair is performed as a ritual from birth to death. Seen in this light, hair is a testimony to one’s emotions, trauma, and experiences. Haircutting goes beyond the aesthetic and is performed as a release from old energies, patterns, belief systems and connections.
For nearly a decade, Kevin has exhibited in galleries across Australia and was a finalist in The Churchie Emerging Art Prize 2022, receiving a Commendation Prize for his work.
Image: DLLA 2022, cyanotype on Dutch wax fabric, 75 x 50 cm
