Shmontray Jacquett: MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pan African Artist
I am a visual storyteller, propagandist, a fire starter. I am a catalyst to the questions begging to be answered. My roots reside in Pan Africanist thought, and I create in the discomfort that results in growth. My work reflects topics that provoke deep thoughts utilizing confrontation and change within an ethnographic and anthropological framework. In my practice I move forward in acknowledging themes of complexity, difference, subtlety and agency when it comes to art, music, film, poetry and dance.
My work involves imagery reflective of my personal search for language, sense of self, belonging, and the unschooling of concepts that have been formative in my journey. I look at these things and find a way to abstract themselves outside of their one subject position and find a way to empathize with another subject position that does not occupy the familiar grand narrative. I work on bringing the margins to the center as a way of monumentalizing and bringing into focus things that have not been allowed to occupy certain spaces, therefore ushering in the healing and reconciliation of the overlooked and unseen.
Texture found in a digital landscape, mixed media, and design, flow from my heart, through my hands, and into the world with the intention to change it. The compulsion to create the version of the future I wish to see propels my work and inspires me to always dream bigger, and move the collective conversation of self-expression forward.
LET’S MAKE MAGIC TOGETHER
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you visually tell your story can make all the difference. Let my years of experience as an Artist and Creative Director bring your vision to life. Custom branding packages available, talk to me nice!!!