Grant’s champion for The Wick is author and art historian Alayo Akinkugbe. She said “Jazz Grant pushes the medium of collage to its extremes, creating compositions that are both well-researched and intricately assembled. Recently, she has been innovating with textiles, seamlessly incorporating fabric elements into her work to expand her practice further. Her works are often infused with emotional or nostalgic undertones that resonate with me personally. Having collaborated with Jazz on multiple projects over the years, I continue to be surprised and inspired by the evolution of her practice.”

Grant’s process is a labour of love: she sources, photographs, and hand-cuts materials to create her collaged pieces, drawing inspiration from “the constant flow of photographic and video imagery that surrounds us, from personal archives to cultural and historical sources.” From the glut of visual materials, she is drawn to understanding “how these visuals shape our sense of self and collective memory, and how they keep evolving through new technologies and media. There’s a tension between being immersed in endless imagery and trying to locate our own identities within it.”

“I’m interested in finding more embodied ways of processing that overload. Through introducing more tactile processes, I want to make the experience of imagery more physical and sensory.”