Dwayne Coleman is currently enrolled at the Royal Academy of Arts (2026). Dwayne's works transform textiles and found objects into visual allegories and mixed media compositions, which often blur the lines between painting, textiles, and sculpture.
His work explores the intersections of identity, memory, materiality, and landscape, drawing from his inner-city, working-class background and personal histories. Within his painting, he employs a range of familiar and unconventional materials including dye, bleach, and clothing, often combined with stitched canvas to create a dialogue between labor and art, enabling the viewer a capsule into his perspective and surroundings.
Dwayne's works operate at the edge of recognition. Fragments of place emerge and dissolve, blurring representation and abstraction. Glimpses of imagined and remembered locations overlap, producing images that withhold resolution. Dwayne leaves space for the viewer’s interpretation while grounding the work in lived experience, mapping relationships between bodies and place, nature and city, intimacy and distance.