All posts by Natalie Willis

Cubism, Glyphing and Solidarity In and Through Art

November 19, 2019 Comments Off on Cubism, Glyphing and Solidarity In and Through Art

By Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett

The University of The Bahamas

The current show at The Current Gallery & Art Center by Stan Burnside is yet another mesmerising moment in time.Though we do not often think of slices of time, nor do we have the opportunity to enjoy those slices for their intense flavour and spicy complexity, we are far too busy trying to keep our heads above water, to enjoy the aesthetics of life. This is perhaps something that we overlook in our day to day grind and being ground, but in taking a few moments to explore Burnside’s most recent … Read more

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The Sea as Life: Cargo and VLOSA

November 4, 2019 Comments Off on The Sea as Life: Cargo and VLOSA

By Dr. Ian Bethell-Bennett

The University of The Bahamas

 It is the Visual Life of Social Affliction that speaks out against silence imposed over death. Undocumented death. If one lives an undocumented life, does one die an undocumented death? 


Movie screening as part of the programming for “The Visual Life of Social Affliction”, a Small Axe Project.

Movie screening as part of the programming for “The Visual Life of Social Affliction”, a Small Axe Project.

The sea as life

One is buoyed on by levity, not dropped like a lead weight to the bottom of the sea, where there are souls that link from Africa to the New World and back again. These disembodied figures, souls linking lands, the … Read more

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Open Call for “Refuge”: The NAGB stages a call for artwork as we recover, rebuild and restore the nation’s spirit.  

October 7, 2019 Comments Off on Open Call for “Refuge”: The NAGB stages a call for artwork as we recover, rebuild and restore the nation’s spirit.  

By Holly Bynoe

 

September 1, 2019…the day that the sky opened up and tried to swallow a country.

– Bernard Ferguson. Hurricane Dorian Was a Climate Injustice. New Yorker, September 2019

 

The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas acknowledges the dawning of a new chapter in our country’s history after the passage of Hurricane Dorian. Collectively we have made a decision to suspend our planned exhibition for the end of the year and rather, extend an open call to our creative community to start a larger conversation on the personal and collective impacts after the passage of the storm.… Read more

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