#Catapult Winner/Quentin Williams

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~Sexypink~ A Look at some of the Catapult Voucher WInners.

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Sonia Williams has worked extensively regionally and internationally as a Theatre Artist, Arts Educator and Researcher in African-Caribbean culture. She was a Watson Fellow to Nigeria 1989 (USA) and won the Governor General Award for Excellence in Drama 1998 in Barbados. A Frank Collymore Literary Endowment winner in 2017 and 2018 for her poetry, she has published two books, a novella This Too Will Pass and her prize winning poetry Embodied Knowings. For Sonia, theatre is a liminal space, of myth-making, that evokes communal memory in the collective consciousness – she puts the pieces back together again to meet the needs of the audience.

Birthed in St. Kitts and raised with a cacophony of familial influences, the truth of my lived experience echoes the term ‘emerging artist.’ Exploring the boundlessness of identity and expressive communication, I’m preoccupied with language, it’s presentation, and component words/phrases, especially with regards to how they translate what’s important about who we actually are. The fundamentals of how use words are used for meaning, for impact, and even for frivolity, influenced my choice towards collegiate education in visual arts training. Furthermore, I’ve developed focus on Branding and Identity Design in multi-disciplinary contexts that capitalize on strategic creative thinking and implementation.

Lisa Codella’s creative practice is inspired by what she calls “the perfect imperfection of Nature” and by the history and legends of The Bahamas. Born in Nassau, Lisa earned degrees from The College of The Bahamas, and the University of Miami (1989) leading to a career in corporate communication until she abandoned the board room for studio life and pursued her calling as a full-time artist. Today, she lives in Grand Bahama, where she balances her time between her home studio, 143 Pottery, and her retail outlet for her ceramics and other handmade Bahamian gifts, Coastal Mojo.