‘FROM WITHIN’ WOOD EXHIBITION

UPCOMING SHOWS & TS 2015 CREATIVE NASSAU

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Culture and Heritage than by sun, sand and sea.”

The work of three emerging wood artists, Robin Hardy, David McGorrin, and Jeremy Delancy, will be highlighted at their Doongalik Studios’ Exhibition Opening on Sunday, February 22nd, 2015 from 3-6pm. All three artists specialize in wood-turning and between them have over 40 years of experience in

the art.

The artists have decided to bring together their respective tal-ents into one show entitled, “From Within”. The name alludes not only to the beauty that lies within a tree but also the talent,

skills and vision that is within each artist.

The primary purpose of the show is to expose the audience to the idea that wood is an excellent artistic medium with multiple properties far beyond what its normal function. Another pur-pose is to pay homage to the ancient craft of woodturning which was invented by the ancient Egyptians and has grown far beyond its humble beginnings. Woodturning artisans pro-duce high end fine art worthy of display in any home or gallery, as will be evidenced during the Exhibition. The artists use native woods in abundance from trees that have been sal-vaged following storms or from ‘development’ sites forming them from trash into treasure - works of art that display the

beauty within.

This show is a first for all three artists and they are very ex-cited to display their talent to collectors, artists and the general public as is Gallery owner, Pam Burnside, who states “Doongalik is once again pleased to be providing the venue to expose the work of these extremely talented artists. This will be the first time that the Gallery has exhibited an all-wood

show so we are similarly enthused!”

The Exhibition will be on display until March 13.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

‘FROM WITHIN’ WOOD ART EXHIBITION OPENS ON SUNDAY

WOOD ARTISTS (left to right) JEREMY DELANCY,

ROBIN HARDY AND DAVE MCGORRIN

UPCOMING SHOWS Only one

month away, the popular Transforming Spaces art tour via bus, which is Nas-sau’s most ac-claimed visual arts event, will feature six stops this year including The

D’Aguilar Art Foundation, Doongalik Studios, Hillside House, Liquid Courage, the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas and The Pro Gallery at Popop Studios! Tickets are now on sale at $35 at Doongalik Studios and NAGB.

There will be a Lecture Series at the NAGB on Thursday, March 18 from 5-9 pm and an Opening Party at Hillside House on Friday, 20 from 7.30—10.30 pm leading up to the tour days on Saturday and Sunday, March 21 and 22. There will be a morning and after-noon tour on Saturday and one morning tour on Sunday.

This year’s event is open-themed. Doongalik Studios will be curated by Holly Bynoe who will present In Situ, showcasing the works of John Beadle, Leanne Russell, Kareem Morti-mer, Natalie Willis, Toby Lunn and Khia Poit-ier. This year’s collaborative project focuses on issues that are common and central to the individual artist’s practice and development. This includes responding to burdens of repre-sentation, place, legibility, experiences, and various kinds of real and imagined cultural phenomena. Using Doongalik as a laboratory, the artists will work on several site-specific projects that consider the space, its history and occupied grounds in tandem with their practices. Medi-ums supported will include painting, sound art, video and experimental film, mixed media assemblages, and installation.

NEW TV SERIES ‘FACES’ LAUNCHED AT DOONGALIK

Samita Ferguson (right) the creator of this new television

series which “meets people right where they are”, hosted

invited guests to a preview evening this month. Doongalik is

proud to have been one of the first interviewees. Stay tuned

for the premiere date for this exciting series—another indica-

tion of how young Bahamians are making positive things hap-

pen! Congratulations Samita!

The Gallery‘s calendar of events is fill-ing up:

MARCH

Thursday, 19 —Sunday, 22

Transforming Spaces 2015. Tickets are now available from Doongalik & NAGB APRIL

Katerina Vanderlip Watercolour Exhibi-tion Sunday 19 Mad Hatter’s Tea Party—Fundraising event

MAY

Exhibition by Nastassia Pratt & Friends

JUNE

Allan Pratt Art Exhibition

TRANSFORMING SPACES 2015—THE ARTISTS:

John Beadle was born in the Bahamas in 1964 and grew up on the island of New Providence where he presently lives and works. Beadle is a multi-discipline artist whose range spans painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation, earthworks and the festival arts. He has been instrumental in transforming the contemporary Bahamian art landscape by forming art collectives and working toward a creolization of fine art practices. Beadle holds a BFA and a MFA. degree in painting from The Rhode Island School of De-

sign and Tyler School of Art of Temple University, respectively..

Toby Lunn was born in Nassau and acquired his associate de-gree at the College of the Bahamas in 1991 and his BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1994. His current medium is painting and his style veers towards abstraction. He lives and

works in New Providence.

Kareem Mortimer is a Bahamian filmmaker. He has written, di-rected and edited experimental films and has won five interna-tional awards. This year, his most recent short film, “Passage”, has won five awards, made its television premiere on Afropop and won an African Movie Academy Award. Kareem is an alumnus of both Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab and Berlinale Talents, and is currently developing his third and fourth features,

“Cargo” and “Priceless” simultaneously.

Khia Poitier is a young artist and designer from Nassau, Baha-mas. A recent graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, she received her BFA in Illustration with an additional concentration in Gender, Sexuality + Race studies through the institution’s History Philosophy and Social Sciences Department. In her personal prac-tice, Khia makes work that deals primarily with issues of identity, drawing heavily from her life experiences, as well as historical events. Khia’s work spans the realms of painting, collage, anima-tion and digital media. She currently lives and works in Nassau as Project Coordinator and Communications Strategist forThe Cur-

rent at Baha Mar Ltd.

Leanne Russell was born and grew up on the small island of Green Turtle Cay, Abaco. A product of “cay life”, she was raised in an enclave where ideologies differ drastically from anywhere else in The Bahamas. As an artist, she approaches subjects with the goal of conveying this same beautiful naiveté. She has developed her style incorporating a mixture of watercolour, oil and acrylic techniques. With a diversified background in fine art, fashion and

marketing, Russell is driven by an intrinsic creative fibre.

Natalie Willis is a Bahamian-British artist and researcher working between The Bahamas and the U.K., between the two places from which her cultural knowledge of herself originates. The idea of positioning — geographically, within a hierarchy, within a system, within one’s self — is an underlying idea that she explores within

her practice.

Holly Bynoe is a visual artist, writer and curator from St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Bynoe is the Founding Director of ARC Magazine, the premiere visual art and culture publication focusing on contemporary visual art created throughout the Caribbean and its diaspora. She is a graduate of Bard College International Cen-ter of Photography where she earned an MFA in Advanced Photo-

graphic Studies.

The next CN Market will be held on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 in Pompey Square from 9am—5.30 pm. Please come out

and spend some time with us!

CN is proud to announce the launch of their weekly radio broadcast on Island FM 102.9 in March, hosted by Patti and Pam….check our website and facebook pages for date and

time! CN Founding members, Pam Burnside and Patti Glinton Meicholas were guests of host Amanda Coulson (centre) airing on the February 18 edition of the BLANK CANVAS Guardian Radio Show 96.9… you can also log on to the sta-tion’s web page to listen to a re-broadcast of the session!

CN is happy to be presenting to almost 50 teachers at a Min-istry of Education Art Teachers’ Workshop on February 18 and 19 at GHS. Presenters included Pam Burnside, and (left—right) Coconut Fibre artist, Troy Nixon, Straw artisan Judy Rolle, and Coconut Palm artisan Perry ‘Jungle’ Prosa (Perry’s photo courtesy Rosemary C. Hanna). This event is in prepa-ration for a student summer school straw project in July.