TUESDAY 29 JULY Just after 11am, I am at MBIA – the Maurice Bishop International Airport, waiting on my LIAT, or rather the LIAT to take me across to Barbados. My sister dropped me off at the airport, and as we approached there was only one car in the area, and...
Series 1: The Water People 1 – mixed media on canvas paperPeople make art for various reasons from personal enjoyment, to recording people and places,to strengthen traditions or to affect social change. I created three small paintings to be part of an...
October 29: The power of theatre has long influenced the artistic dialogue between original observations of contemporary life and its storytelling on painted canvas. Bois Causeur (Wood Talker) is a small exhibition presenting part of my ongoing body of...
GhostsExcerpted from my paper, The Grenada ShortKnee: Ritual in ExileThe ShortKnee is Grenada’s history in motion. Ritual at every stage is necessary to empower the spirits of the ShortKnee masquerade, and to retain its potential for the future, in the present....
SK untitled – terra alta 1My exploration of Grenada’s carnival icon, the ShortKnee, a masked carnival character wrapped in six and a half yards of vulgar fabric, mirrors, whistles, bells and baby powder – focuses mainly on translations. As with the...
Carnival, from which, in Grenada the ShortKnee emerged, resulted from chaotic events south of the Sahara and on the streets of Europe played out in the Caribbean. My exploration of Grenada’s carnival icon, the ShortKnee, a masked carnival character wrapped in six and...
