Jab Jab in ShortKnee Head
West African masquerade traditions fused with French carnavale elements to produce what is now known in Grenada as the ShortKnee, a masked carnival character wrapped in six and a half yards of vulgar fabric, mirrors, whistles, bells and baby powder -breathtaking in...
Mirror, Mirror ShortKnee reflects Egúngún,
2012 – My Chantuelle translations continueChaotic events south of the Sahara and on the streets of Europe, led to a celebration of survival called Carnival, from which, in Grenada the ShortKnee emerged. West African masquerade traditions fused with French carnavale...
Gulliver School meets the Grenada Carnival Short Knee
Two days before I presented my paper at the Edna Manley Conference in Jamaica, I was invited by Visual Arts Department Chair at the Prep Campus Ms Stacy Holtzman, to do a presentation on the Grenada ShortKnee, to the students of Gulliver Prep School in Coral Gables,...
Untitled – an art perspective on the Grenada Revolution
It all came together at the last minute. The Grenada Arts Council recently hosted Revolution: An art perspective - new works depicting aspects of the Grenada Revolution years 1979-1983, and I had nada. I had previously painted two rabid mongoose tearing at...
Chantuelle: Grasp of the Silk Cotton
Grasp of the silk cotton 4These images are influenced by a 1956 lithograph signed in pencil by Mexican painter José David Alfaro Siqueiros, simply titled Figura, depicting an unsettling image of a figure in a tree.Grasp of the silk cotton 5It is this unsettlement that...
Chantuelle: Our Present Image
from the series Chantuelle: Our Present ImageThese images are influenced by a 1947 work by Mexican muralist and social realist painter José David Alfaro Siqueiros, titled Our Present Image. Siqueiros believed art should be public, educational, and ideological. This is...
Chantuelle: Defender
These works are influenced by Augusto Marin’s 1977 El Defensor. In search for strong images to continue my ShortKnee translations, I came upon this image a few months ago, then subsequently realised that the artist had passed on. On April 18, Augusto Marin, best known...
Grenada Down Under in October
I have been accepted to attend the 5th World Summit on Arts and Culture being co-hosted by the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) and the Australia Council for the Arts in Melbourne, October 3-6, 2011....
ShortKnee at Corbera d’Ebre Biennal d’Art, Spain
At the invitation of Barcelona fine artist Josep Cañada, poster art taken from my March 2011 exhibition ICON: ShortKnee as Art has been shown at the second Corbera d’Ebre Biennal d’Art (from April 13 to July 3) in Tarragona Spain.Poster art based on Panel 2 of...
Blue Taboo: Thou-shalt-not
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 paint, as...