All posts tagged: Netica Symonette

Blank Canvas with Netica Symonette and Angelika Wallace-Whitfield

16 May 2018 Podcasts

Amanda Coulson, NAGB Director, welcomes Bahamian legend Netica Symonette into the Blank Canvas studio, along with artist and curator Angelika Wallace-Whitfield. Angelika has recently taken up the post of Curator at Central Bank of The Bahamas and her first exhibition is a solo show with “Miss Nettie.” Miss Nettie, better know for her career as a hotelier and author, is an intuitive artist whose practice travels off the canvas and onto the walls, bedspreads, garbage cans and other household items at her Cable Beach hotel. The site itself is a “Gesamtkunstwerk,” a piece of loving sculpture that evolves every day.

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Speaking of culture: Thinking about change

7 March 2018 Articles

By Dr Ian Bethell-Bennett, The University of The Bahamas.  Over the last few weeks we have been journeying through “Medium: Practices and Routes of Spirituality and Mysticism” and discussing linkages with the upcoming show “We Suffer To Remain”, an international collaboration between the British Council and The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas. Writing this piece from Dubai at the Chamber of Commerce conference for Latin America and preparing for Expo2020 the polemics of culture become more clearly abstracted. So much of our culture and life resides beneath the surface. From time to time it surfaces to be revealed in stunning works of art, vibrant crafts, suggestive and politically critical music, or just fried into a fried-dry piece of chicken.  We overlook that we exist in culture and that our culture dictates how we think about who we are and how we respond to a crisis. 

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A mélange of culture: Prominent intuitive artist documents heritage

25 April 2016 Articles

The NAGB was welcomed to Nettica “Nettie” Symonette’s resort and cultural centre, Nettie’s Place of Casuarina, recently to appreciate Symonette’s efforts at sustainability and cultural preservation. Symonette is also one of the country’s most dedicated and prolific self-taught artists. She began painting intuitively in 2009, and she continues to make work at her studio on the Cable Beach property.

Nettie’s Place is a multifaceted operation, boasting a restaurant, hotel, farm and many other marvels. It is Symonette’s hope that the entire site will document the country’s evolution and cultural heritage.

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