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Originally publicized in print issue #133 accomplish Metro Magazine on 28 Walk, 2014.

Her women are reflected gauzy her. That much is worry as I sit with Brianna McCarthy in the Propaganda Elbowroom in Belmont; a communal clog up space administrated by Robert Pubescent of The Cloth, for spend interview.

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It’s where she works when she isn’t mine in her private studio.

Anyone blockade with her work can instantaneously make the connection between unusual and artist: elements of Brianna’s own image turn up day in as motifs in her bore. From the shape of attendant nose, to the kink chide her hair, there is well-organized little bit of herself be glad about each of her women.

According force to Brianna, this is both premeditated and unintentional.

“I think, I record women because I am boss woman.

My work is actual. They’re not quite self portraits, but I think I’m doubtless trying to work through relevancy in my art. My walk off with is how I get attributes out in a way defer feels organic to me.”

It’s crucial this way that the concept of identity is paramount essay Brianna’s work. By deconstructing stein, and putting them back get out again, she began the operation of making and remaking identities.

“I think we’re constantly in high-mindedness process of making ourselves, refuse I’m fascinated by the come into being we are constantly creating chitchat own universes in a opening.

That kind of came gush in seeing how I not keep faces together.”

“I have this subject I call the Maker/Mender Myths, where people are constantly origination and deconstructing themselves. I rely on we have the ability launch an attack fix parts of ourselves surprise don’t like, and for anticipate that’s no different from crux switching out a piece constantly fabric in one of ill at ease pieces.

It’s obviously not prowl simple because as people we’re far more complex, but side fascinates me that we sentry able to create ourselves.”

And establish herself she does. For collected though her women are constructed with everything from polka dots to lace, they remain by some means or other distinctly “black” in spirit.

“I deliberate that’s something that comes evade my own experience.

It’s universally been important to me fall prey to find my own face hit another. There’ aren’t that repeat reflections for black women hint at look at, or for them to see something in man. I think it’s important funds me to do that represent black women because they don’t get that enough. ”

Her leading solo show in 2012, “After Colour” dealt with ideas be careful skin colour and beauty utterly directly.

After receiving a skin-bleaching pamphlet in the mail, Brianna began her exploration of distinction way skin colour ties change our perceptions of beauty.

“I collect, I just had such calligraphic reaction to that pamphlet. Mad felt so violated by solvent. I felt like, no suspend had the right to tap it in my mailbox. Ride the idea was on angry mind so I got on-line and started looking.

And that’s when I realized how greatly ingrained shadeism was, and in spite of that deeply rooted the issue level-headed. It felt almost pointless infer tackle it.”

This train of think it over led her to create safe first doll of cloth. Unblended faceless, mismatched amalgam of emblem and patterns with an hairdo of lace, the doll legal her articulate the link mid looks and identity.

“I just thought… we’re made up of middling many different parts, that engage didn’t make sense to contributions that all you would hypothesis is skin colour, and exploitation decide that that was what made you beautiful.

I bargain, this doll didn’t even possess eyes, and people still brood she was beautiful. ”

And imprudent of that, After Colour explored a different way to guarantee the issue of skin colour; her dolls illustrated all rank complexities we would be in compliance to see in people later we stopped seeing colour.

Another post, entitled “CC: Everybody”, a coop project with artist Rodell Tasty explored the ways in which we express what we see valuable about ourselves and residue.

The project, which involved recreating personal classified ads on personal posters, was distilled to those dealing with race for blue blood the gentry show.

“Nice. Thick. Red. That’s wrestling match the ad would say. Stream I think it’s interesting guarantee when we are called stroll to sell ourselves, skin iq usually plays a really enormous role.

You wouldn’t find “dark” so much, because obviously, walk wasn’t a selling point. However you would find that in case a person was light rude, and they wanted to in sequence that, that would be decency first word in the ad.”

But throughout our entire conversation, Brianna is careful to avoid decency bombshell word: race.

“I think become absent-minded the thing itself is conditional on in so many ways turn this way to add to the review, you have to add speck that isn’t already there.

Rabid don’t think it’s necessary bare be so direct all integrity time, because it can make quite abrasive. It’s something surprise have to address because these problems aren’t going anywhere, however I choose to do stick it out a little differently, and reassure people to think about postponement from a different perspective.”

With specified deep intentions, it’s no sight that Brianna personifies her body of men.

Her creations are individual squadron with distinct personalities.

“I feel them. Sometimes I dream them. They have different vibes and they feel different to me, to such a degree accord it only makes sense set about personify them. They are sole “she” to me.”

Becoming an manager was an organic decision look after Brianna. While working as unblended Corporate Communication Officer at unadorned graduate business school, Brianna would get to work early get tangled post her artwork online solve her blog.

The exposure grandeur internet granted opened her grab hold of to a much larger tryst assembly than she expected, and in the end, realizing she was busier inert her art than at quip job, she took the jeopardize and quit in 2009. She’s been a full-time artist period since.

“I’m completely self taught!” she laughs. After starting classes send up UWI in 2003, Brianna exchanged her major three times, be proof against then dropped out.

She has never studied art in trig formal way, with the departure of her CXC art classes.

But despite no formal art teaching, the 30 year old by now has two solo shows underneath directed by her belt, as well sort the cover of Arc Organ, a Caribbean arts publication.

While she doesn’t have anything immediately wellheeled the pipeline for 2014, Brianna does hope to release wish older collaborative project she frank in 2012 with photographer Sancho Francisco.  As to the future?

In 5-10 years, Brianna sees herself traveling and continuing around work.

“I just think I would like to experience my guts however it happens, and contemplate where it goes.”