About
Holly in Cologne, 2023.
Holly Bynoe was birthed at degrees 13°09'57.0"N 61°13'40.7"W on the footsteps of the oldest botanical gardens in the Western Hemisphere under a near full Scorpio moon on St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the year of the Gold Monkey.
Holly is a curator, writer, researcher, spiritualist and Earth ally. She co-helms several creative offshoots including Caribbean Linked, a regional residency program in Aruba, and Tilting Axis, an annual meeting charting connectivity and sustainability via the arts across the region.
Before this, she co-founded and directed ARC Magazine for seven years before its dormancy in 2017 and was Chief Curator at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas for five years, ending her tenure at the end of 2019.
She returned to the Southern Caribbean with practical knowledge of regional cultural institutions, their health and ways to innovate and build community spirit. She is currently working more actively in regenerative agriculture and recently completed the certificate program for Tropical Forest Landscapes with Yale School of the Environment. She has keen interest in plant medicine and African Spirituality and her work acknowledges and honours the ancestors, the indigenous and the many seeds sown upon our lands.
In 2020, she joined arts non-profit, The Hub Collective Inc based on her home island of Bequia to build out their sustainable, regenerative, environmental and heritage pillars and is co-founder of Sour Grass, a curatorial experiment supporting contemporary Caribbean art practice.
She is currently a PhD Candidate in the “Shared Island Stories Between Scotland and the Caribbean: Past, Present, Future” at the University of St. Andrews and is living and working between Scotland and the Caribbean.
I’m currently undertaking freelance work and always happy to chat about writing, curatorial projects and other island experiments. Email me here to get in touch.
“It's more than alchemy. It's the wisdom, thoughtful-attention, and hard-work infused into each of Holly's efforts — from art to healing — which lead to magic.”
—Lise Ragbir, Director of the Christian-Green Gallery + the Idea Lab
PRINCIPLES
Be curious.
Listen to spirit and nature; always let them guide.
Go to the critical places; be kind and generous when you get there.
The supernatural world intermingles with our histories.
There is alchemy and poetry in our dreams.