Aurora Honeywell


B. 1997 - Trinidad & Tobago

Kristen Aurora Honeywell is a Trinidadian-Jamaican visual artist whose work explores the entanglements of identity, memory, nature, and cultural inheritance. She holds a BA in Art and History of Art from the University of Reading, UK, and has exhibited across Trinidad, including he debut exhibition at LOFTT Gallery ‘The Orchid Museum’, her later solo collection at The Frame Shop entitled ‘The Scarlet Eye’. Her work explores the entanglements of identity, memory, womanhood, and cultural inheritance. She works mainly with oil paint on canvas, while integrating unconventional surfaces such as handmade resin panels that position the compositions as mutable archives which resonate with a meditation on duality/multiplicities within her work


ARTIST STATEMENT

Honeywell draws from historical/cultural lore and contemporary Caribbean life while being referential to her lived experience within its context.Her compositions evoke a kind of visual poetry rendering the seen and the remembered in layered, expressive form. She often conceptualizes variations of Trinidadian folklore characters within her compositions, exploring them as an exposition of self and the collective. The works explore parallels between identity,nature, and shared lore, commentating on established and derived parallels, interpersonal dynamics, and lived observations, while showcasing duality, and transience of time.