Play Attention.

Sculpture and painting by Aaron Bevan-Bailey, on attention, algorithms and meme culture.

Aaron Bevan-Bailey in his studio, leaning on the wall beside his painting Bad Habits; other canvases, some wrapped in plastic, lean against the stone wall at left.

Artist: Aaron Bevan-Bailey
At: BitBasel Miami 2026, December 2 to 5
Venue: The Sagamore South Beach
Follow: @playattentionnow

About the work

“Attention is the new currency.”
Play Attention, artist statement

Play Attention is the studio name of the artist Aaron Bevan-Bailey. It began as his alter ego, a playground for freestyling with satirical humor, and the name plays on being told to “pay attention” at school, where he drew in class whatever the subject.

His work, in painting and now sculpture, borrows the language of comic books to look at our relationship with technology, AI, algorithm-driven social media and meme culture. The imagery is playful on the surface and serious underneath.

The showcase

The sculptures.

Works

The paintings.

Talisman: a black cartoon figure with a round gray robot head, carrying a stack of smaller faces and masks, on a pale yellow ground. — **Talisman**

Bad Habits: a large gray face with yellow eyes surrounded by fast food, cigarettes, a soda cup, a burger and a French bulldog, on blue, yellow and red. — **Bad Habits**

Police and Thieves: diagonal red stripes cut through a crowded comic scene of grinning mouths, a figure in a blue football helmet and a green face. — **Police and Thieves**

Triple Double: a totem of three dark, rounded heads, each crowded with smaller faces, on a yellow ground. — **Triple Double**

Untitled: loose blue line drawings of heads over a dripping purple ground, with small yellow faces and a yellow disk. — **Untitled**

Untitled 2: a cluster of pale blue, green and orange cartoon heads on a mint green ground, with red balls at the foot. — **Untitled 2**

The artist

Aaron Bevan‑Bailey.

Born in Peckham, South London, in 1984, of Jamaican and Scottish heritage, Aaron Bevan-Bailey worked as a storyboard artist and art director in advertising before starting Play Attention. His work has been shown at The Hoxton Hotel and Somerset House in London, and at Christie's London in the Voices of Black Artistry exhibition.

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