ICON – Grenada in a new dimension
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...
ICON – Carnival on canvas, the ShortKnee as Art
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...
Artefact 2011
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 these...
Chantuelle Red Hands
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 Heritage – I remember
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...
Chantuelle mocking death
Flemish-Belgian painter James Ensor grew up in the back of a carnival and theatre store, so naturally he painted things associated with carnival and the theatre, including his 1888 Masks Mocking Death and 1899 Self Portrait with Masks. According to one critic, his...
Chantuelle – Cain revisited
Outspoken Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros thought that truly substantive art came from a combination of political and aesthetic ideals mixed with modern techniques, as depicted in his 1947 work, Cain in the United States. I reworked that image using the...
Chantuelle – Shanghai revisited
My narrative on Grenada’s ShortKnee started in 2005. My work was featured in two conference papers presented by Dr Susan Mains: in 2005 Small Island Art –Potential Untapped at the Ninth Interdisciplinary Congress of the Society for Caribbean...
That skull could sing once
David Alfaro Siqueiros was a Mexican social painter who depicted the working class’ struggles, social and racial injustice and economic hardship, satirical scenes of social or political protest. As I search for my own artistic voice, my ShortKnee translations are...
Talisman
Currently I am translating and reinterpreting other artists’ works on war, migration, desolation and isolation, in particular with works featuring pierrot-type figures, as part of a vigorous self-directed visual study of our present day ShortKnee. This character is a...