Amaani Hepburn
seated under Daddy's pear tree I, 2019 Oil on acrylic primed paper 24 x 36 in (61 x 91.4 cm)
"we can sit here by the poolside", 2022
Cradling them together in each arm, 2022
gathered together at the butcher block, 2022
New girl is in the shed, 2022
Peekaboo playmate, 2022
Washing is done at the back, 2022
...coupled under the eye of the money tree, 2021
About
Amaani Hepburn (b. 2000, Nassau, The Bahamas, she/her) is an emerging artist based in The Bahamas — a photographer and writer who documents and memorializes intimacy within her environment and community. Hepburn’s practice, thematically, explores the relationship between the Caribbean’s natural environment and the people who occupy it, and uses the matriarch as a lens for exploring her community and re-examining her own femme identity.
Raised as a devout Muslim, Hepburn draws from her personal experiences and uses the matriarch as a lens for exploring her community and re-examining her own femme identity. Currently, Hepburn uses photography, painting, and writing to capture and document intimate moments within her environment and community as she strives to memorialize them in their most honest form. Hepburn received an AA in Art from the University of the Bahamas and has participated in a number of exhibitions, including Transforming Spaces: Historic Nassau and The Feminine Project.