Gaze (Original)
£750.00
Title: Gaze
Year: 2025
Artist: Venetta Nicole
Artist Statement: Gaze forms part of a series of paintings that explores and highlights the lived realities of young Black boys navigating a society that too often defines them before they are allowed
to define themselves. The intense gaze confronts the viewer directly, demanding recognition beyond statistics, assumptions, and social labels. The lines within the face makes reference to surveillance, categorization, and the invisible structures that
disproportionately impact young Black boys within education, policing, media representation, and broader social systems. Gaze creates space for vulnerability and individuality. The painting emphasises the importance of seeing young Black boys as fully human beyond the narratives imposed upon them.
Medium: Acrylic, oil pastel, charcoal on canvas
Size - 46cm by 56cm
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Artist Bio
Venetta Nicole is a London-based Caribbean artist working across painting and sculpture. Through abstraction, she explores identity, emotion, and human connection using colour, texture, and form.
Influenced by Bauhaus, Brutalism, and architecture, her sculptural works use layered wood constructions to investigate structure, pattern, and space. In 2022, she won the Women in Art Prize Susan Angoy Award and was a finalist in the Dubel Art Prize in 2025. Following her debut solo exhibition in 2024, her work was collected by Tunji Akintokun and Kemide Lawson of Cottage Noir.
