Iesha.Denize LEDEATTE
My Artistic Practice Peach Mango Maverick is concerned with chronicling and exploration of language. Additionally, it also documents the concept of ‘journeying’ through time, space and place in parallel with heritage and identify.
After an absence of over 25 years from the arts, my inaugural collection also reflects my journey of artistic recovery. As an artist, my signature style Grande Visual Narrative combines poetic abstraction with abstract painting and uses ArtBooks as canvas; it translates the lived experience of a Windrush child using fine art as storytelling.
Peach Mango Maverick in itself, is a word painting of a hybridised identity which unravelled very early during this journey.
Peach Mango Maverick
PMM…
Wordcol collusion
illusion
a riot of colour
mixing and blending
lending
the vernacular
spectacular
revealing
yet concealing
words
colour of the maverick
a language unseen
calmed serene
as hues of vibrant red
succulent orange
citric yellow
tumble stumble
and fall into
metamorphic green
the still of perfect balance
temporary tranquil oasis
favoured by
He
who peace
Upon
must be
yet the frenzy
of blues
blur the senses
into the indignant indigo
of imbalance
and insight
until the sharp
light
of violet
cascades
screeches
to a shrill halt
Artistic study includes Croydon College of Art and Design, City Lit, Putney School of Art, Kofi Arts and The Essential School of Painting. I was invited to contribute the final chapter of the Handbook of Postcolonial Politics which was published by Routledge in 2018.
I am the Director(Acting) The National Windrush Museum and sit on the advisory board of Caribbwiin