Washbelly is a UK-based collage artist working across analogue, digital, and generative forms. His process begins with the gathering and creation of physical materials; magazines, comic books, vintage family photographs, and painted scraps. These fragments carry a personal history spanning over sixty years of the artist’s life, as well as a broader family narrative that extends beyond his own experience.
Often, these materials are digitised and reinterpreted—reimagined through AI art generators, then worn down through excavation, duplication, and repetition. The artist is drawn to the aesthetics of distortion and recombination. Each piece becomes a negotiation between control and accident, authorship and automation.
The work exists in tension: between the handmade and the algorithmic, the intimate and the artificial, the remembered and the reassembled. He prefers ambiguity to certainty, and invention to explanation.
The name Washbelly is borrowed, without permission in a blatant act of cultural appropriation, from the Jamaican patois of his significant other. It refers to the last-born child, made from the leftover material of previous, presumably better offspring. It’s a self-mocking title, but fitting: his art, like himself, is composed of scraps, residues, and reinterpretations.
Washbelly has sold work to collectors worldwide, including in the UK, EU, USA, Japan and Australia, and his work resonates with those drawn to the idiosyncratic and the narratively charged.
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