Author: byleighart
In a Nutshell
A quick update for anyone new to this project, or anyone checking back in to see how things have changed.
Conference – Women in Carnival
Emily Zobel Marshall is one of my Dream Team of PhD supervisors, I was determined to attend and support… then I met the Whip Princess, The Camboulay Queen and so many more amazing women in Carnival! Plenty to learn from them.
Work for Tate?
So Tate Education asked me to do a 5-minute presentation of the core ideas in my practice and how I share them. 5 minutes? No pressure. *nervous giggle*
Exhibition Review – Life Between Islands
This was a hard exhibition to write about. I suppose you can tell. It took me months to come back to this. I felt so triggered for most of it. Still, I knew these stories had to be told. Equally, I felt so happy to see our Caribbean resilience and joy so bold and bright!
So You’s a Compassion Expert?
It’s been one opportunity after another to be compassionate to others and myself, and I don’t mind admitting that I did not pass them all. Some I aced with flying colours but of course, it’s the ones that I stumbled and fell over that stick in my mind…
Protected: Ideas from Exhibition Reconnaissance
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Exhibition Review – Joy & Tranquillity
I went to see Joy & Tranquillity at the Wellcome Galleries, not just because I’m obsessed with joy bringing, but because both exhibitions got such lack lustre reviews. How do you do an exhibition about joy and leave so many feeling so unmoved? I simply had to know, if for no other reason than to ensure I did not commit the same mistakes.
Exhibition Review – Frieze v. African Art Fair
I had never been to either of these before and although the names sounded like I’d heard them somewhere, I knew next to nothing about either fair until I got there. For all intents and purposes, I went into both completely blind. Talk about chalk and cheese!
Visual References 1
I remembered all the images I’d collected on Pinterest and Google Collections to guide my vision. This post brings them together in one place with detailed captions about the reference and annotations of how each reference has influenced or inspired me.
Exhibition Review – Blowtorching the Bitten Peach
The most emotive exhibition he’d ever been to and still had no clue what it was about. So yuh know who had to check it out, right?