Another feature from our Jamaica Biennial 2017 archives:
Christopher Irons was born in 1973, in Portland, Jamaica, and is a graduate of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts. His works are predominately satirical commentaries on current social and political events in Jamaica manifested through assemblages consisting mainly of found objects. Irons has exhibited regularly in Jamaica as well as in Trinidad and Nigeria. In 2016, his work was featured in Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora exhibition, also held in 2016 at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, United Kingdom. He has been the recipient of the Commonwealth Fellowship and the Under 40 Artist of the Year Award in 2003. Irons is based in Buff Bay, Portland, Jamaica.