Cin’s intention for this work was to talk about the precarity of the straw industry, in which so many workers and materials are underpaid.
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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.
NAGB Announces Two New Exhibitions: A Celebration of Straw Craft and an Exploration of Ecohorror
The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) invites the public to the opening reception of two dynamic exhibitions on [...]
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The Straw Paradox
By Natalie Willis. Averia Wright’s “The Straw Paradox: The Pig That Built His House of Straw” is something of a paradox in the name itself. Straw work in The Bahamas is a bit of a misnomer – it isn’t really “straw” in the Western traditional sense at all. Our straw is not made of barley, wheat or things of that ilk at all, rather, it is a pale gold weaving made of Silver Top Palm. Wright comes from a family of straw market women, and has been plaiting her whole life.