Art Society November Members’ Exhibition


This imaginative book throws new light on the closing years of Caribbean slavery and the lives of enslaved people of African descent before emancipation in Trinidad in 1834. The book centres on the drawings of plantation life by Richard Bridgens, an English-born artist who became a planter and slaveholder in Trinidad, and examines these in […]…
“There aren’t many indigenous typefaces from the English-speaking Caribbean; barely any in fact. There is a kind of vernacular around handwritten signs, one of which was created by our Managing Partner Marlon Darbeau’s work for Alice Yard; more recently with digitisation projects such as the Fete Signs project by the talented duo of Kriston Chen and our own…
When artists get together to talk Caribbean Aesthetics, design, sustainability and creativity, interesting things happen, like thinking about another use for an iconic series of fete signs. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqjS5OvUkPo?rel=0] The Sign Books are popping up all over, but you can track their adventures on Instagram: De.Sign.Books
Hosted in 101 Art Gallery was a fun and enjoyable exhibition that was perfectly themed for Mother’s Day. Peter Sheppard curated a delightful collection of floral pieces across a range of media that was open to the public from April 29th – May 10th. I sneaked in on Saturday, the last day of the show….
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFSoJsfVEQ?rel=0] YUMA’s 2017 presentation The Origins launches August 6th.
His 2017 presentation, Cazabon: The Art of Living was supposed to celebrate our heritage architecture and the period when those buildings, like the members of the Magnificent 7 were built. The problems were present from the get go. Those buildings were constructed in the 20th century. While George Brown, the architect who designed the fret…