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In a place like The Bahamas—and the wider Caribbean—the omnipresent cultural amnesia connected to slavery lingers and permeates the very essence of how we come to know ourselves. In this essay, I write about Scottish artist Graham Fagen’s ‘The Slave’s Lament’ and the counter-discourse amongst postcolonial Bahamian artists and thinkers who contest, poetise and extend charged narratives in multifocal and dynamic ways.
Read More‘Traversing the Picturesque: For Sentimental Value’ is a historical survey that includes works produced from 1856-1960 by visiting artists and expatriates to The Bahamas, who were inspired by the then colony’s landscapes, people, luminescence, coastlines, seas and bustling lifestyles. In this overview, I detail how the birth and development of colonialist imagery continues to have a long-standing and far-reaching impact on the global continuation of the iconographic status of The Bahamas as a haven, a place of respite and paradise.
Read MoreIn 2012, on a cultural visit to Aruba to be in conversation with Ateliers ’89–one of the oldest running informal art initiatives in the region–the seed of Caribbean Linked was born. In 2015, as co-founder and critic, I returned to reflect on the experience of bringing like minded artists, curators and writers from the region together, while still asking critical questions about its sustainability and impact on our shared space.
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