Immerse, Arts, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Andre Bagoo ● Issue 164 (May/June 2021)
Nicole Awai: out of the depths | Closeup
“Multiplicities” — of subject, form, and even medium— abound in the work of Trinidad-born artist Nicole Awai. She draws on personal memory, communal history, and sites of the imagination like Trinidad’s famed Pitch Lake, writes Andre Bagoo
Immerse, Arts and Architecture, People, Guadeloupe
By Shereen Ali ● Issue 159 (September/October 2019), Caribbean Resilience (1 May 2020)
Kelly Sinnapah Mary: Riddles of survival | Portfolio
Working across mediums, Guadeloupean artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary creates images with a fairytale quality, mingling cruelty and enchantment, as she explores postcolonial dilemmas and the resistance of self-invention, writes Shereen Ann Ali
Arrive, Arts and Architecture, Travel, United States
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 156 (March/April 2019)
Good prospect | Personal tour
From architectural landmarks to a growing foodie scene, the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Prospect Heights — home to Trinidad-born architect Roxanne Ryce-Paul — may be rapidly gentrifying, but it still holds on to elements of its history
By Cynthia Moody ● Issue 46 (November/December 2000)
Ronald Moody: a way of life
“Why am I a sculptor? I have given myself a satisfactory answer. One does not choose a way of life – and with me it is a way of...
Arts and Architecture, People, Jamaica
By Petrine Archer-Straw ● Issue 43 (May/June 2000)
Seya Parboosingh: painting a story of love
Seya Parboosingh is painting a love story. It’s a saga that began in the 1950s when she first met her husband, the Jamaican...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 15 (September/October 1995)
Harmony
Near Ocho Rios in Jamaica, film artist Sue Henzel has created a home that is classically Caribbean in its casual beauty. Sue – who...
Arts and Architecture, People, Jamaica
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 51 (September/October 2001)
Albert Huie: light on the land
Ever since he was a child, Albert Huie knew what he wanted to be. “From about 11, I felt that I wanted to be an artist. I went to a...
Engage, Arts and Architecture, Community, Jamaica
By Tanya Batson-Savage ● Issue 144 (March/April 2017)
Inner-city art in Kingston
The shell of the old Toyota warehouse at 41 Fleet Street is a ghost from a bygone era. But concrete skeletons are nothing rare in downtown...