Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies – Frank Gillette Burgess, American artist and art critic.Recycled paper mache Since the beginning of human history, people have adorned their bodies with piercings, or with meaningful symbols imprinted or in...
For 10 days, fifty-three pieces of my work in progress, ICON, Carnival on canvas, the ShortKnee as Art hung on the walls of the Grenada Arts Council’s new space this year, at 9 Young Street.The comments left by some of the 500 visitors to the exhibit ranged from...
For some time I have been doing several studies on the Grenada ShortKnee as an artistic subject, and have decided to show the work publicly, even though it is a work in progress. ICON, Carnival on canvas, the ShortKnee as Art is scheduled to open for one...
My work at the 47th Annual Exhibition of the Grenada Arts Council, at its new gallery, 9 Young Street in Saint George’s. My thanks to Tracey Chan http://traceychan.com for taking the original images from which I have extracted...
ShortKnee can be traced back to the spoken word traditions of the West African Chantuelle, oral libraries whose recollections made bearable the suffering of slaves on the plantations of Grenada. Once a disguise and a way to compromise, West African masquerade...
Grenada was discovered hundreds of years before Columbus, by several waves of peoples coming from the South American Amazon region. All that is left of them are the numerous pottery sherds and their rock art found in various sites across the country, including the...
