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About the Artist
Jawara Alleyne

b. 1993

Jawara Alleyne is a Caymanian artist and fashion designer whose work deals with questions of cultural identity from a Caribbean perspective. In 2013 he received a scholarship from the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands and Deutsche Bank, further to which he pursued a bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design and Marketing at the London College of Fashion. Following his graduation in 2016 Alleyne co-founded the diversity-conscious Nii model agency in London with photographer and collaborator Campbell Addy. Alleyne completed a master’s degree in Fashion Design at Central Saint Martin’s, London, in 2020 and his work was featured in the NGCI exhibitions the Art of Fashion (2018) and Cross Currents – 1^st Cayman Islands Biennial (2019). He is an avid representative of the Cayman Islands internationally, representing Cayman at the 2017 Carifesta festival and in London at the UKOTA.