Artist Statement​
 

Leasho Johnson works in a multiplicity of mediums immortalising the dynamic energy of the Dancehall and engaging with cultural gender stereotypes and spectrums as expressed in Jamaican popular culture practise. His neon ceramic Avatars’ explicit sexual expressions, often merged with culturally specific materiality, offer new narratives to gender identity and fluidity, whilst his paintings utilise both traditional and contemporary materials to engage with constructs of Caribbean masculinity in his ancestral familial stories, and his interest in reinterpreting/interrupting the historical imagery of Empire with contemporary realities. Leasho’s work essentially explores the contestations and tensions in Jamaican culture and identity around sexuality and gender, and seeks to explore contemporary meanings in context to historical truths.