About

Raneece Buddan is a Jamaican visual artist who resides in Treaty 6 territory, Amiswaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). She immigrated to Canada in 2015 and completed her BFA in Art and Design with Distinction at the University of Alberta in 2020. Raneece’s artwork has been exhibited throughout Alberta at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Art Gallery@501, Scott Gallery, Stride Gallery, Latitude 53, SNAP Gallery, and Stollery Gallery as well as, internationally through Artsy and in New York and Vermont. She has completed Artist Residencies in Edmonton, Alberta, Salem, New York and most recently in Mandelieu-La-Napoule, France.

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Raneece’s artistic practice is an ongoing journey to self-discovery. It is an attempt to learn more about her cultural identity as a Jamaican woman reconnecting with her Afro and Indo-Caribbean ancestry. This is done through material exploration and textile research. She shows the beauty of merging these cultures while also addressing the generational loss of culture and ancestry as a result of historical and ongoing assimilation, slavery and indentured servitude in the Caribbean.  

Raneece considers each piece a self-portrait. These are her hybridized paintings and sculptures that start from finding the figure in the material, her clay pots that combine the processes of the Ashante tribe in Ghana and those in India and her textiles inspired by blocking printing motifs and woven patterns from Nigeria, Ghana and India. Combined with incorporating themes of hair and skin complexions, she touches on the roles colourism and texturism have played in racial identity and beauty standards in Jamaican society and ethnic communities. This can be seen with the replacement of her skin with textiles as her new racial identifiers and the use of synthetic hair to represent the importance of hair across cultures.

As an interdisciplinary artist, Raneece finds joy in a well-rounded practice of oil painting, woodworking, clay sculpting, resin casting, printmaking and weaving.

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