Matthew McCarthy is a Jamaica-based illustrator and mural painter who has spent the last five years indulging his obsession with Jamaican street signs, old-school dancehall illustrations, and global street art movements through an art practice that engages and challenges the traditional art institution. After his graduation from the Edna Manley College of Visual Art in 2013, he was part of New Roots (2013) at the National Gallery of Jamaica, an exhibition of ten emerging artists, and has been a key figure in the development of street art in Jamaica, via first the Paint Jamaica project and later the Paint Jamaica initiative.