Soft Witness
£1,750.00
Title: Soft Witness
Year: 2026
Artist: Venetta Nicole
Artist Statement: Soft Witness explores the quiet burden placed on young boys who are too often forced to become witnesses before they are allowed to simply be children. Young people are often exposed to hardship, violence, expectation, and misunderstanding and more.
The figure confronts the viewer directly, asking us to consider how society looks at young Black men before truly seeing them.
The flowers surrounding the child symbolize softness, growth, and the fragile beauty that continues to exist despite environments that demand emotional armor.
Medium: Xuan paper on canvas, acrylic
Size - 61cm by 76cm
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This artwork is available for collection at E17 Art Trail
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.
