She works at the intersection of biography and history, focusing on post-plantation economies by engaging with a particular landscape on Barbados.
Joscelyn Gardner: Speaking the Unspeakable
On the occasion of the the solo exhibition White Skin, Black Kin: “Speaking the Unspeakable”, curated by Joscelyn Gardner and Denyse Menard-Greenidge, an Intervention into four galleries at the Barbados Museum, Barbados
A Visual Essay – Art Building Community
How do we consider the value of visual culture within a given context and how do creatives meaningfully engage with collective space and a common audience? What is our relationship to the commons and how might the public engage with aesthetic interventions?
Signs of the Times
Discarded traffic signs procured from Barbados’ Ministry of Transport and Works, have been painted on and placed in rural environments with young men and women – migrant workers from Guyana. This suite of digital photographs proposes a link between road signs giving information to road users and to control the flow of vehicular traffic and the role of the state in controlling the flow of intra-Caribbean human traffic. There is an element of the ridiculous and absurd evident in the act of placing these signs in contexts with migrant agricultural and domestic workers who provide essential labour.
The Work of Jasmine Thomas-Girvan seen through the lens of Magical Realism
On May 25th Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins of ARC magazine in collaboration with Medulla Art Gallery presented a panel of five women who were invited to speak about Jasmine Thomas-Girvan’s work. The panel included Melanie Archer, editor of Robert & Christopher Publishers and art director of the trinidad+tobago film festival; Gabrielle Hezekiah, Lecturer in Cultural Studies at UWI, St. Augustine; Sharon Millar, Trinidadian writer; Marsha Pearce, scholar, artist and PhD candidate at UWI, St. Augustine and myself. We were asked to respond to the December 2011 solo exhibition at the Y Gallery – ‘Gardening in the Tropics’ by Jasmine Thomas-Girvan – Trinidadian based, Jamaican metal smith and sculptor.