The Water People
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...
ShortKnee art: Grenada National Museum
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...
ShortKnee takes on the UK national art collection
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....
ShortKnee: Isolation
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 majority of my...
ShortKnee: Creature of religion
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...
ShortKnee: Devil in a box
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...
The ShortKnee Mask: Fragmentary Reminder of Captured Peoples
Masking was an integral part of Yorùbá religious culture which withstood the horrors of the Middle Passage. Grenada was a Yorùbá cultural area in the New World and the dominant African influence in the years immediately following Emancipation, arriving in their...
ShortKnee: Jinn of Maran
ShortKnee: Jinn of Maran is influenced by El genio del ingenio, a small oil on canvas (14.5 by 12 inches) in the collection of the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan created in 1910 by Puerto Rican artist, Julio Tomás Martínez, considered the pioneer of Surrealism...
ShortKnee: Descendant of a Lost Tribe?
The ShortKnee masquerade was created post-Emancipation by Grenada’s creolised population to reconnect with an ancestral past. The earliest record of the word ‘ShortKnee’ in Grenada dates back to the 1920s, and references the knee-breeches. Disguised as a traditional...
Grenada ShortKnee: Aroused & Absolut
I have been fascinated by the Rapanui Moai (Easter Island statues) since I came across them almost 40 years ago in, of all things, a comic book. I finally got to see (and touch) one up close, at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History about 10 years ago, and another...