Joshua Kidd is a Painter, a Filmmaker and a Writer. He was born in South East London and is of Jamaican decent. Kidd has been drawing and writing ever since he could pick up a pen, but it wasn’t until he moved to NYC to study acting that he really started his journey as an Artist. Through studying Acting, he was able to delve deep into the psychology of humans. Throughout this period Kidd describes that he would sit in cafes around New York City drawing pictures of the different expressions that people wore on their faces. This is where his abstract expression pieces originated from.

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Joshua spent years as an actor and gained some impressive credits, working as an actor lead him to write and direct his own projects. NECTAR, His debut feature film played at the American Black Film Festival in 2020 and went on to earn many awards. Since then he has directed two more short films and is currently developing his next feature film.

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Joshua’s journey as a painter really started to take off in 2018, he exhibited his work in a memorial show for Grenfell towers third year anniversary. He then began selling his work on Broadway market in London. Since then Joshua has showed work at galleries in London and New York City, his painting "SEEKING JAH" was recently selected to be exhibited at The National Gallery of Jamaica.