Kezia is a Scottish Jamaican artist, designer, collaborator and facilitator. Working as a designer in the textile industry for 12 years, Kezia’s trained eye deeply informs her art practice, where surprising colour combinations and pattern mixing are at the centre of each of her pieces. Working with paper, Kezia’s process is intentional and with sustainability in mind. She creates hand cut collage artworks from collected papers incorporating painting, printing and illustrative techniques, capturing a familiar viewpoint or taking the viewer on a journey to somewhere new. Kezia is inspired by the beauty in everyday scenes, collected objects, curated spaces, natural surroundings and people, where she explores themes of identity, place, memory and belonging.

Kezia found her way back to her art a couple of years ago, where she uses her distinctive aesthetic across a diverse range of work from curator, exhibition designer, workshop facilitator and book designer. Recent projects include:

‘Windrush Legacy Creative Reflections’ exhibition, Museum of Edinburgh (2023-24) - Kezia was lead artist, designer and co-curator with Jeda Pearl and Courtney Stoddart. Showcasing a multi-generational cohort of contributors celebrating and sharing lived experiences of Caribbean people in Scotland. Culminating in designing the Anthology which was published and distributed to schools across Edinburgh.

‘Colourful Collage’ at the Museum of Edinburgh (2022) and ‘Memories of Home’ at the City Art Centre (2023) - Kezia facilitated workshops alongside the programme of exhibitions ‘Respect! Caribbean Life in Edinburgh’ (2022) and ‘Windrush Legacy Creative Reflections’ (2023). She is passionate about community arts, thoroughly enjoys nourishing creativity within others and facilitating art workshops where she can share her collage techniques, offering a mindful, low impact and recyclable way of creating art. 

‘Peace for Palestine’ (2023) - Kezia created an artwork to raise funds for MAP and UNFPA in solidarity with Palestinian people experiencing genocide and ethnic cleansing. She aims to continue to use her practice and platform to create artworks to support charities and share important knowledge about societal, global and climate crises around the world.

‘Time Cleaves Itself’ debut poetry collection by Jeda Pearl, published by Peepal Tree Press (2024) - Kezia created the original artwork and design for the book cover where she thrived in capturing the essence of the book through visual art and graphic design and hopes to work more within publishing.

Most recently, Kezia is thrilled to be an awardee of the We Are Here Scotland Creator’s Fund+ (2024),  where she can continue to develop her practice and delve into a self-directed project close to her heart on Matrescence, where she looks to explore the themes of grief, change, holding and emerging, through her personal lens as a Mother of Colour.

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