Robin Clare creates bold, rhythmic paintings, installations, and animations that channel the energy and contradictions of Jamaican dancehall and Caribbean street culture. Growing up in Jamaica and now based in Australia, Clare’s practice reflects on migration, memory, and the shifting meanings of culture across the diaspora.
Clare’s visual language is rooted in the street-level graphics and everyday art of Jamaica. Hand-screened party posters nailed to light poles, tinted taxi windows reduced to bold silhouettes, and innuendo-laden dancehall promotion shaped her eye for imperfection and impact. She grew up surrounded by the work of Albert Artwell, Michael Lester, Neville Budhai, and Milton Messam, alongside the record sleeve illustrations of Tony McDermott, whose bold graphics and vivid storytelling shaped the look of Jamaican music. These influences continue to inform Clare’s own practice, where crisp linework, layered colour, and a graphic precision echo poster culture while exploring how joy, pain, defiance, and satire coexist in Caribbean cultural expression.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at the Kingston Biennial, the National Gallery of Jamaica, the Kennedy Center, the Museum of Latin American Art, Art Week Miami, Vivid Sydney, and Artspace Aotearoa.