From a celebration of
Jamaican Dancehall EP covers, to the unveiling of work by Yinka Shonibare RA, there's plenty to see this Bank Holiday weekend.
In a nearby gallery, Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson's paintings suggest ethereal androgynous figures in vortices of glitter and paint in what a wall text calls her «exploration of
Jamaican dancehall culture as a space for... masquerading and gender fluidity» in the «laissez - faire spirit of Carnival.»
Patterson's current works explore the constructions of the masculine within popular cultural using
the Jamaican dancehall culture as platform to launch the discussion.
In her work, the Jamaica - born mixed - media artist Ebony G. Patterson recontextualizes gender norms and explores
Jamaican dancehall culture.
The third studio album from Major Lazer, Diplo's project inspired by
Jamaican dancehall music, features a few hot tracks and a few so tepid that we need reminders about what made Diplo interesting in the first place.
I love the added flavour via her colourful leather belt and shoes from Sophie Theallet's «
Jamaican Dancehall» collection which I must own.
Unleash
that Jamaican dancehall vibe to Major Lazer's, Watch Out For This.
Not exact matches
What's most intriguing about this Sooners crew — aside from the way Hield and Cousins (who's from Mount Vernon, N.Y., but has
Jamaican relatives) fire away to
dancehall - reggae — is that none of them were three - point threats when they arrived.
To continue the momentum, Akeju has collaborated with Beenie Man, the
Jamaican Grammy award - winning artist, also popularly known as the «King of
Dancehall», on the remix of Kiss and Tell.
I've learned lots of West African music and dances thanks to a wonderful Zumba instructor, and I'm currently participating in a
Dancehall / Reggae Workshop, where we learn just as much about
Jamaican history as we do their choreography.
The gallery describes the works thus: «Focusing on the body to impart the paradoxical relationship between Jamaica's traditional expectations of manhood and the flamboyant aesthetics of its
dancehall culture, Patterson creates a window onto working - class
Jamaican society.»
In Fine Style: The
Dancehall Art of Wilfred Limonious, is the first solo exhibition of work by prolific
Jamaican illustrator Wilfred Limonious (1949 — 99) in Germany, and includes reproductions of work from the early 1970s through the mid-1990s, spanning three key phases in his career: his comic strips for the
Jamaican newspapers, his illustrations for the publications of JAMAL (the
Jamaican Movement for the Advancement of Literacy).