About
Ezra Myers is a British-Caribbean artist based in London, working across drawing, collage and moving image.
His practice explores Afro-diasporic folklore, ancestral presence, masks and inheritance: the cultural codes carried through ritual, story, performance and image across generations. His practice is rooted in Trinidadian carnival tradition, from the Jab Jab and Jab Molassie to the stick fighter and the drummer.
Myers is known for large-scale figurative works built through hyper-controlled realism, dense mark-making, distortion and embedded symbolism. Faces, masks and hidden forms often appear within the structure of the image, suggesting layered histories and the presence of lives carried beneath the surface.
Working at life-size and architectural scale, Myers gives the figure the physical presence of an encounter rather than an image.
He is currently developing Laws of Folk, a major body of work and forthcoming first solo exhibition examining Caribbean folklore, ancestral presence and the unwritten laws that shape Afro-diasporic cultural inheritance.
Myers trained at the Royal Drawing School and holds an animation degree. His moving image work has been shown through BFI-linked programming at the Barbican, at the B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, and featured by CCCB in Barcelona. His practice has been supported by Arts Council England, the Westway Trust International Artist Bursary, the Eaton Fund and Carnival Village Trust.
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