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Sherelene Cuffe’s work demonstrates a commitment to the idea of an interdisciplinary context for artwork. Her work ranges from textile art to sculpture, ceramics, jewellery and the designing, crafting and the making of specialist accessories. Her Caribbean origins and interest in the Garifuna culture greatly influences her work and ideas. The art she produces resembles delicate sculptures which may contain at their essence, natural forms and media, for example, handbags in the shape of seedpods embellished with intricate hand beading,  gold threads and silk,  or  scarf designs inspired by tropical  colours in the landscape of  St. Vincent and the Grenadines, her homeland. Her work is highly individualistic and distinctive, and marks a new departure in creative practice; one that requires thoughtfulness on the part of the viewer in terms of understanding the researched origins of her pieces. Each appear to have been carefully planned, designed and made to complement nature, and it is particularly in this sense that one might see and read her work.