BARBADOS PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

The Barbados Photographic Society (BPS) is founded on an appreciation for and interest in photography. Website https://barphotosoc.wixsite.com/home Email. thebarbadosphotographicsociety@gmail.com

Our Facebook Group is open to everyone with an interest in photography! You are welcome to join, share your thoughts on photography, post your work, follow the work of our members and participate in our discussions https://www.facebook.com/groups/Barbadosphoto/

THE BARBADOS PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. AUGUST 2023. Barbados Photographic Society

Times and venues for events will be provided. Please note events and times may be subject to change.

BPS August Theme is ‘Summer Fun’ on the Facebook group page. Please use hashtag #bpssummerfun when posting.

Sunday August 13th, 3pm

Video Photography Primer w/ Mr. Carlos Cox

Wednesday August 16th, 7:30pm

Web Presence for Photographers w/ Mr. Hugh Walker

Saturday August 26th, 3m

Open Wall

Kadooment & Egypt (The Bryans)

Wednesday August 30th, 7:30pm

Web Presence for Photographers w/ Mr. Hugh Walker

Also a preview of September events with the BPS.

Corrie Scott

Cheryl Hutchinson

Corrie Scott

Reg Wilson

David Foster

Corrie Scott

Kiss

Bob Kiss

Chris Robinson

Reg Wison

Reg Wilson

Bernard Wallace Pooler

Raymond Maughan

Corrie Scott

David Lewis

Chris Robinson

The Barbados Photographic Society is celebrating its 20th year and will be presenting ‘BAJAN LIFE’, an ONLINE EXHIBITION from November I5th - December 30th, 2023

"Bajan Life' will be a curated exhibition of photography produced by the talented members of the Barbados Photographic Society community. More details on the rules and process for submission will be released in the coming months.

For any queries please contact thebarbadosphotographysociety@gmail.com or gwalker.curate@gmail.com or Whatsapp 846-8115/ 232-1322

Barbados Photographic Society

The Barbados Photographic Society already preparing for an exhibition at Queens Park Gallery in 2024.

There will also be an online virtual exhibition in 2023 celebrating the BPS’ 20th year.

‘20 YEARS OF LIGHT’ a Barbados Photographic Society exhibition

At Queen's Park Gallery

Show Dates: January 10th 2024 - February 3rd 2024

The Barbados Photographic Society is celebrating its 20th year with the physical exhibition 20 YEARS OF LIGHT' at the Queen's Park Gallery in association with the National Cultural Foundation.

20 YEARS OF LIGHT' will be an exhibition of curated photography from the talented members of the Barbados Photographic Society community. More information on the specifics of how to submit for consideration will be released in the coming months.

In anticipation for this exhibition, several workshops will be held to ensure that all those interested in submitting are prepared and understand the standard of work expected to be delivered to the gallery.

Email thebarbadosphotographysociety@gmail.com or gwalker.curate@gmail.com or Whatsapp 846-8115/ 232-1322 for any questions.

Barbados Photographic Society

A young group in Barbados learns about the art of photography.

Photographer Charles McClean recently conducted a session on the basics of photography with the scout troop of St. Stephen's Primary School in collaboration with the Barbados Photographic Society.

Photographer Charles McLean was invited by the Scout Leader for the scout troop at the St Stephen's Primary School to organise a teaching session.

Charles requested use of the BPS library of cameras. Bradley Benskin BPS President was asked to attend and help.

Charles prepared a proposal to the BPS and submitted it requesting the use of the cameras. Victor Gittens BPS Vice President who is in charge of the library of cameras worked on this and Charles agreed to test, evaluate and service the cameras to help make this workshop be an event.

THE OUEEN'S .PARK GALLERY

The National Cultural Foundation invites you to the Central Bank Of Barbados Crop Over Exhibition ‘WE CAME ON MERCHANT SHIPS-MEMORIES AND IDENTITY’.

A powerful and thought-provoking exhibition reflecting on the manifestation of remembrances EXHIBITION RUNS JUNE 30 TO JULY 27, 2023

OPENS MONDAY TO SATURDAY 10 A.M TO 6 P.M

For more information contact the curator at 427-2345

Artists participating

Aaron Trotman

Adrian Burnett

Alexis Alleyne Caputo

Amanda Trought

Cher Antoinette Corbin

Ras Daniel Alleyne

Evan McDonald

Gabrielle Moore

Giselle Walker

Hugh Walker

Izora Devonish

Jaryd Niles Morris

John Webster

Juliana Inniss

Karla Nicholls

Laura Ward

Lisa Smith Fields

Margaret Rodriguez

Martine Pile

Natalie Atkins- Hinds

Neville Legall

Omowale Stewart

Parhelion

Shannon Smart

Sian Pampellone

Sylvester Clarke

Tonya Lovell

Tracy Greenidge

Artist Paints Sad Picture Of Art

By Gercine Carter gercinecarter@nationnews.com

Heather- Dawn Scott works on the floor of her home studio at Hastings, Christ Church, while one of her latest pieces, suspended from the ceiling, sways gently in the breezes.

The artwork she calls "NAG", built of wire in sections and covered with fabric which she painstakingly sewed to the frame, serves as a reminder to this Barbadian artist that she must continue to campaign for a home for Barbados' national art collection, despite others telling her not to waste her art materials as she is not likely to see a permanent National Art Gallery established in Barbados in her lifetime.

On the contrary, Scott is adamant that Barbados like other countries in the Caribbean deserves to have a place dedicated to showing off its art treasures.

She has been vocal and visible in protest for many years, creating protest banners and other art work and placing them in strategic positions, in the hope that enough people will take notice and raise their voices to stir the relevant authorities to action.

Shielded by the darkness of night a few months ago, she placed "NAG" on the plinth in Heroes Square, where once stood the statue of Rear Admiral Lord Nelson.

“I am nervous that what I am doing is illegal. I shouldn't be on Government's property putting up banners like the horse on the plinth," Scott said, confessing, "Everything was done by night. I measured up the plinth so that I would have a sturdy base; I put two little rails and tied him down to it firmly and securely.“

Another Casualty

Artist Heather Dawn Scott is passionate about the art landscape in Barbados. The protest piece was removed by the authorities after it had been sitting there for two weeks. It was just another casualty of Scott's protest collection which includes her first big banner, a painting celebrating Mozambique artist Malangatana, which she mounted on the rails around the ruined buildings of the old Barbados General Hospital on Jemmotts Lane, St Michael

Scott has also placed "at least six" protest banners at Block A Garrison, the place identified by Government for the setting up of a National Art Gallery. The veteran artist objects to the choice.

“They are saying it is, but it is not. Other islands have one. We don't, but we do have a fabulous collection and we are not allowed to see it. It is never shown. Why are we not seeing it? It belongs to the nation. School kids should be seeing it," she said.

Born in Barbados of a Barbadian mother and a Scottish father, she grew up in Pine Gardens in a dead end with lots of trees and bush and we built tree houses and we played in the gully". She attended St Gabriel's School where opportunities to escape to the art room and engage in the pastime for which she developed a liking, were always a welcome treat.

“One of my earliest terrors was when I had to leave St Gabriel's for Codrington High School. I always used to be the best in art. I got so scared that I would not be good at art when I went to this big school," Scott recalled. The opportunity to go to a bigger school did come when her mother remarried and the family relocated to England, the home of her stepfather.

“I was able to go to art school, Bournemouth and Poole College of Art, where I did environmental art and architectural art which was really geared towards making art for public spaces. I thought I would do graphics, because in those teenage years I thought graphics and advertising was very glamorous. But we had a foundation year and I did the foundation year which was fantastic because they gave you access to the dark room for photography; you did a bit of graphics; a little bit of sculpture, they really fed you a bit of everything." The idea of doing graphics later gave way to sculpting which she "loved" , and in that three-year period of study, she also developed a fondness for related skills such as the welding and carpentry.

Indeed, she thought she had found her calling in sculpture, but after receiving her art diploma, reality set in.

“I got my diploma and I knew that I was not going to make any money at any speed because I did not have a studio." She was then around age 21 and left setting out on an adventure.

"I got on a bicycle from Bournemouth and cycled through England to France, over the Pyrenees, back to Italy. I just slept wherever I was, sometimes in a ditch, sometimes in a pig sty on a pig farm... many people invited me in," Scott said. She ended up spending five years in Italy, earning meagre sums of money collected from "doing little paintings during the day ..making just enough to survive.

Stop And Paint

“Sometimes, I would be riding through a hilltop town in Tuscany and you would see this beautiful scene and I would stop there and paint; or someone would say paint my home and their friends would see what I did and ask to have their homes painted as well; or someone would say Paint my boat; some days I would add up enough to keep on cycling for a while" However, wanderlust and adventure soon gave way to home pangs and the desire to return to the Barbados that offered the young Scott freedom and most of all, the longing to reunite with her mother and sister, fellow artist and photographer Corrie Scott.

Being back home, she also discovered she was not going to be able to pursue the art she liked most at that time due to the near absence of galleries.

“You would have to push and beg and always get turned down. It was really hard. People were not looking at paintings, it was just a very select few." Scott recalled that period when artists in Barbados depended on art collectors to buy their work, noting there were wonderful pieces that remain part of private collections today, of which some works have been bequeathed to a national art gallery.

Scott is concerned about the state of art in Barbados and that school children, particularly those who are studying the creative disciplines, do not have the facility of a national art gallery. The passionate artist remains resolute in her campaign for a national home to be created for Barbados' art.

-Gercine Carter. Nation News Barbados. 30th July 2023

To comment or start a discussion in this please go to this link. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Concernedcreativecitizens/permalink/6435452029881375/

Our own Sheena Rose exhibiting at MOAD, Museum of African Disapora, San Francisco, USA.

Sept 27th 2023- March 3rd 2024

“How do artists use color to guide our perception? In this exhibition, curated by Key Jo Lee, MoAD’s inaugural Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs, a multigenerational and international group of contemporary Black artists will illuminate the importance of color to both the form and content of their work. Through a series of thematic couplings and groupings, each visitor will explore how each artist employs color to convey mood, identity, architecture, event, etc.

The exhibition, which features seventeen artists, will be accompanied by digital and analog educational tools and programs meant to equip our audiences with new and/or refined questions and language with which to engage contemporary Black art through color.”

Barbadian artist Versia Abeda Harris has been commissioned to do a very special piece honouring Sir Hugh Springer by All Souls College, Oxford, England.

Versia Harris / Hugh Springer 14 vii 2023

“Jessica Taylor of the International Curators Forum invited me to have lunch with Versia Harris (in first photo), the Barbadian visual artist, who has been commissioned to do a very special piece honouring Sir Hugh Springer by All Souls College, Oxford. (Given JT is Barbadian, in fact her aunt taught me in primary school!, there were three Barbadians there!).

Versia is puzzling over the second image as part of her research. Springer c. 1980 designed this fascinating coat of arms for himself when he became GovernorGeneral of Barbados. Its most interesting parts for me are at the two naked black arms each wielding a feathered pen in an almost defiant conspiratorial gesture, above two open books, with the Bearded Fig tree, Ficus Barbadiensis, anchoring the image, its roots delving in the coral rock of the island. A portrait of the special place of education in the values of the island? It will be a year until the work is completed. I can’t wait to see what she will do.”

-Richard Drayton

Artists Alliance Barbados ‘THE PRINT 2023’ at the Gallery of Caribbean Art.

Saturday, July 22nd - August 12th

An exhibition of original work and their reproductions celebrating artists. Paper, canvas, textiles, ceramic, other specialised materials, cushion covers, printed bags, mugs, bookmarks, books and more

Artists participating

Aaron Trotman

Adrian Burnett

Alisha Smith

Alison Chapman-Andrews

Ancel Daniel

Cher-Antoinette Corbin

Gavin Marques (SxDayz)

Giselle Walker (Elle Rene)

Hugh Walker

Kadijah Taylor

Lisle Warner

Lorna Wilson

Lynda Browne-Bristov

N. Maria Stanford

Nicole Batson (Metzger)

Oneka Small

Petra Emmanuel

Princess Bilinda Johnson

Rae Garnes

Kraig Yearwood

Kenneth “Black” Blackman

Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm

Saturday 10 am to 2 pm

Call 822-3694, Whatsapp232-1322 or email gwalker.curate@gmail.com for more information www.artistsalliancebarbados.org

“Barbados celebrates Emancipation Day on 1 August.

This is the day the island recognises the Slavery Abolition Act which was brought into effect on 1 August 1834 to grant emancipation for enslaved people across the British Empire.

The Slavery Abolition Act was followed by a four year ‘apprenticeship period’, which meant enslaved people continued to work for free for their previous owners in exchange for housing. This practice continued until 1 August 1838, when it was finally agreed that all enslaved people should be completely free.

Emancipation Day in Barbados is usually observed with an early morning march to the Bussa statue in Haggatt Hall, St Michael.

Bussa, also known as Busso or Bussoe, was born in Africa. He was brought to Barbados and worked on Bayleys Plantation in St Philip.

Bussa was the central figure in the largest slave rebellion on the island in 1816 when he led an uprising involving thousands of enslaved people which lasted for two days. He was killed during the rebellion, but the event left an indelible mark on the island’s history.

The Emancipation Statue, affectionately known as Bussa, was created by Barbadian-based sculptor Karl Broodhagen and installed in 1985. In 1998, Bussa was chosen as one of Barbados’ 10 National Heroes.

Emancipation Day is a time of reflection, when the country remembers its past, and gives thanks for the people who sacrificed so much for our freedom.

It is a day filled with historic resonance which deserves recognition and respect.”

The Emancipation Statue, affectionately known as Bussa, was created by Barbadian-based sculptor Karl Broodhagen and installed in 1985. In 1998, Bussa was chosen as one of Barbados’ 10 National Heroes.

“Sculptor Karl Broodhagen was born in Georgetown, Guyana in 1909 and moved to Barbados at the age of 15. He is best known for three iconic statues on the island – the Bussa Emancipation statue at the St Barnabus roundabout; the statue of cricketer Sir Garfield Sobers in front of Kensington Oval; and the statue of one of Barbados’ former Prime Ministers, Sir Grantley Adams, at Government Headquarters.

Karl or ‘Broodie’ as he was known to his friends, was initially employed as a tailor’s apprentice which gave him a unique appreciation for the human body which would dominate his artistic work. He started to paint in the 1930’s and sculpt about a decade later. In 1947 he was given an opportunity by the headmaster at one of Barbados’ top schools, Combermere, to establish an art department, which was one of the first of its kind in the island’s secondary schools.

After exhibiting some of his pieces at the British Council, Karl won a scholarship in the early 1950’s to study Fine Arts at Goldsmith’s College in London, on his return to Barbados he went back to Combermere and taught art until his retirement in 1996.

By the 1970’s Karl was well known in Barbados and throughout the Caribbean for his art and his passion for painting and sculpture.

He was especially renowned for his appreciation of the human form, particularly of West Indian women, and is said to have once told an art critic that one aim of his work was “to replace the European standards of beauty still slavishly accepted in the West Indies by standards based on the local inhabitants themselves.”

In 1981 he was commissioned by the government to create a sculpture showing a ‘slave in revolt’. Drawing on the story of Bussa, who was killed during a slave uprising on the island in 1816, Karl created a powerful and moving statue of this National Hero despite not really knowing what he looked like and it has since become a major landmark.

Karl sculpted Sir Grantley Adams in 1988 and was given a Pride of Barbados award for his works in 1989.

In 2002, as part of National Heroes Day Celebrations in Barbados, Karl’s Sir Garfield Sobers statue, showing the famous batsman in his full glory while hitting a shot, was unveiled.

‘Broodie’ died in August 2002 at the age of 93 but his artistic legacy to Barbados undoubtedly lives on. He is credited with opening the island up to the international art scene and showing that Barbados could influence the world as well as the world influencing Barbados. And of course, his famous statutes are still standing and are photographed by thousands of people every year.”

Frangipani Art Gallery will be reopening at Haymans Market, St. Peter, an old sugar factory, which is due to open on September 1st. Keep tuned!

Curator Marilda Weatherhead

HAYMANS VILLAGE & MARKET.

Haymans Village and Market is a centre offering shopping, recreation and entertainment with a farmer's market, shops, art, crafts, restaurants, kid's attractions etc. located at the old Haymans Factory in St. Peter and opening in September 2023.

Mural commissioned by The National Cultural Foundation Barbados.

Designed by Shane Eastmond.

Created with Christina Murray, Heather-Dawn Scott and Don Small.

“This vibrant symbolic art work spans over 35ft (horizontally) and depicts a dreamlike landscape of the future crop sector in Barbados through the eyes of the youth with elements of the past and the future crop life symbolising the possibilities in a new way forward in futurism.

The mural seeks to illustrate the transformative nature the younger demographic holds for potential for positive change and how progressive advancement requires releasing yourself from the conventional and venturing into unfamiliar territory.

In conclusion, the " Sugar Reimagined" mural encapsulates the human experience of self-discovery through the pursuit of progress by embracing change for the sake of the generation we leave behind.”

Piece of Barbados Gallery now open at Artsplash Gallery and Cafe in Hastings.

Monday to Saturday 7am to 3pm

Sunday 7am to 2pm

Jeena Chatrani

Antilles Gallery. https://m.facebook.com/AntilleanGalleryofArt/

“

Hi! Welcome To Antillean Gallery of Art!

My name is Jeena Chatrani and I recently started Antillean Gallery with the intention of promoting and selling art from Caribbean artists online.

I'm an artist myself and I've found that the art scene in Barbados could greatly benefit from some online presence. For the last 6 years I've been a full time artist and have had to learn a lot about the business behind selling art. It's not easy to make it as an artist but it is so fulfilling.

With Antillean Gallery of Art I hope to help raise the standard of art and artists in Barbados, and eventually across the Caribbean.”

-Jeena Chatrani

The artists of Antillean Gallery of Art online gallery: Catherine Forter Chee a Tow, Cathy Cummins, Chris Richards, Dana Sikkens, Jeena Chatrani, Julia Seymour, Julianne Gill, Lorna Wilson, Mario Holder, Maurice Forde, Sian Pampellonne, Tracey Williams, Trevor Desilvia Curator Jeena Chatrani

Pages that add arts events, talks, lectures, workshops, opening receptions, exhibitions, shows and more on a regular/daily basis.

Barbados Visual Arts Page (updated daily)

On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/175529135827747/

On Instagram @visualartsbarbadosevents https://www.facebook.com/barbadosmuseum/

Museum Facebook Page. Ask to be on their email listing.

Barbados Photographic Society https://www.facebook.com/groups/Barbadosphoto/

Gine On Magazine https://www.facebook.com/gineonmagazine/

What's On In Barbados https://www.facebook.com/WhatsOnInBarbados/

Errol Barrow Centre page https://www.facebook.com/ErrolBarrowCentre

Theatre Eyes https://www.facebook.com/groups/354529934596080/

NCF page https://www.facebook.com/BarbadosNCF/ and https://www.facebook.com/Barbados.Crop.Over.Festival/

Nastasia Rollock

Artist Natasia Rollock at Artsplash in Hastings.

Barbadian scenes available at ‘Barbados On Canvas’

Saturdays and Sundays and Wednesdays, 8am-1pm

Covid protocols will be in effect.

COLOURS OF BARBADOS Art Show on the Boardwalk

Just a few of the images here from opening day. The longest show. 350 feet long (and growing as artists add more pieces). The exhibition will run for 18 months. Opened on November 29th, 2022 Organised and hosted by James Edgehill and Mark Hiorns For more information Tel: 1 (246) 228 0631

Artists participating so far

Adrian Burnett

Andrea Dennison

Anna Didier

Arianna Holligan

Catherine Cummins

Cher Antoinette Corbin

Cindy Walker tbc

Frank Cossey tbc

Heidi Berger

Hilary Arnstrong

Jeena Chatrani

Julia Seymour

Karen Pearson

Kirstie Hiorns

Korea Darnelle

Kristine Dear

Maria Stanford

Mark Hiorns

Micah Rubin

Michelle Bowe

Princess Johnson

Priscilla Richardson

Providence

Reginald Gill

Sian Pampellonne

Yazmin Vizcarrondo