Robin Clare – Jamaican Contemporary Artist

JAMAICA PROJECT

Jamaica Project steps inside the charged atmosphere of Jamaican dancehall, where sound, style, and sexuality collide. The series combines bold, text-based compositions with sexually charged imagery to interrogate the hypervisibility of women in a male-dominated space. These works hold the contradiction: women as breadwinners and cultural icons, yet continually framed as objects of desire.

The visual language draws from the craft of Jamaican hand-painted signage, once the heartbeat of local advertising, now endangered by digital mass production. By fusing this tradition with contemporary dancehall slogans, poses, and iconography, the paintings collapse time, creating a dialogue between the raw, high-tempo energy of present-day party culture and the slower, tactile artistry of the past.

Through saturated colour, crisp typographic forms, and layered compositions, Jamaica Project asks how a culture performs itself when every surface from the club wall to the dance floor becomes a stage.