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Beyond Objecthood: The Straw Baskets of William ‘Old Iron’ Colebrooke
Tradition shifts, adapts, and survives in new ways. From Colebrooke’s hands in Red Bays to contemporary artists, straw work embodies something that can’t be bought or sold.
Denis Knight’s Lucayan Woman
Clay becomes more than a material, it becomes spiritual—imbued with the memories of the earth and the people who walked on it before us.
Collection Drawing & Writing Salon
Wednesday, 18 June 2025 · 12–2 pm
Taking the National Collection to Exuma
The NAGB’s Inter-Island Travelling Exhibition brings the National Collection to Exuma in partnership with Exuma Arts Network.
From the Collection & Into the Void: “Transformation” (1987) by Jolyon Smith
This machine can be thought of as capitalism, colonialism, racism, and all the other “isms” that disrupt true love and connection for humanity.
Environmental Force: On Abstraction and the Nature of Survival
Stories Environmental Force: On Poetry, Abstraction, and the Nature of Survival Letitia Pratt●27 March 2024 Between the years of 2004
NAGB Receives $55K Donation for the National Collection
News NAGB Receives $55K Donation for the National Collection 4 March 2024 The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB)
From the Collection: “Solomon” (2000) by Stan Burnside
By Natalie Willis. King Solomon, the biblical king of Israel, is revered in Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Rastafarianism alike. A wealthy and wise man (the latter of which people the world over feel are missing in leadership), he was known for his sense of justice and morality, and perhaps most famously known for settling a dispute between two women who fought over the guardianship of a child. We’ve most often seen this son of David, the successor to the throne, depicted as a wizened old man with a beard, looking every inch the grandfather. Why then, do we seem to get such contrasting reactions to Stan Burnside’s “Solomon” (2000) in our space? People claim to love the large scale work or despise it. We’ve had to move it from external spaces on loan because it was seen as “too much” or disconcerting – which feels rather unsettling for our dear Gallery + Collections Assistant, Matthew Rahming, whose likeness is often compared to that of Burnside’s king.
From the Collection: Heino Schmid’s North Star (2007-8)
By Natalie Willis. Landmarks are such a common way to give directions we often think nothing of it. In some cities it could be the tallest building, in most, it was historically a cathedral as it was in old Nassau, and in others still an old water tower. Landmarks hold significance, they become a fixed point of reference that we navigate around or through, often in the periphery just so that your little satellite of a body knows where it is in relation to this sentinel. Heino Schmid’s video artwork “North Star” (2007-8), first shown as part of NE4, the Fourth National Exhibition back in 2008, gives us a moment to consider the significance of having the imposing and distinctive structure of the Atlantis hotel as a marker within our landscape.