Azi JONES is a Jamaican Curator, Researcher and Art Advisor with a love for art and design and a keen interest in the way in which Art, like Design, are shaped by our region’s material intelligences, resourcefulness and cultural exchange.
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Caribbean Design is not peripheral, it is a language.
Azi JONES is a Jamaican Curator, Researcher and Art Advisor with a love for art [...]
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Conversation with Chris Ross Dick. Interview by Adeline Gregoire. Christopher Ross-Dick is a Visual Artist from Trinidad and Tobago. A graduate of the University of the West Indies St. Augustine (Visual Arts Programme, 2017) he has been consistently painting for the past 5 years, with participation in 2 recent group shows: A shot to the […]
What happens when a society gets trapped in a cycle of excess cash and consumerism? Could there be a link between increasing murder rates in countries which are the world’s top oil producers/extractive economies ? And at what point could “progress” as we know it, lead us to our own demise? Earlier this year, we […]
Since the discovery of the novel coronavirus a little over a year ago, the world has been turned inside out, thrown into a state of epic chaos, a pandemic. The shifts undergone by humankind over this past year are dramatic, palpable and visible to say the least.
A conversation with Zane Rodulfo. The best thing about being a creative, an artist or simply feeling the need to make / do things is that you’re always finding ways to keep yourself busy. This often looks like: imagination, innovation, and endless hours daydreaming, thinking about how to make another exciting project happen. In these […]
“In these works, non-human, subhuman and superhuman figures abound, elements of fiction that the artist and her audience superimpose over real life. (…) The discomfort, tension and posturing of these figures are forceful rather than subtextual.” Alice Yard On January 16th, for one night only, Alice Yard in collaboration with Cass’Mosha A. Centeno presented Big […]
In celebration of Pride month, PRIDE TT is hosting its first ever Art Exhibition “IERE” in partnership with the LOFTT Gallery. With over 20 artists and creatives on show, the exhibition is a true reflection of the abundance, fullness and wondrous colour of the human experience.
> JULY 1-12, 2019 at The LOFTT Gallery
Safiya Hoyte is a 20-year-old semi-abstract artist based in Trinidad & Tobago. She primarily works with acrylic paints as well as 3-dimensional clay sculptures. Her artwork revolves around her life experiences, as well as her views on society and its proponents.
The burgeoning of emerging artists featuring Tyrel De Bique,Omar Jarra, Christopher Ross Dick, Kriston Banfield at 101 Art Gallery at Holders Studio, Trinidad
As I enter the rust coloured gate, which Rodell locks twice while greeting me with a serene and almost timid smile, I’m pleasantly surprised by the contrast in scenery between the main street I just walked up, lined so tightly with offices and cars that everything seemed almost stuck together in one rainy, grey filter, […]