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Sexypink NEWS - The Making of a controversial work in progress.

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~Sexypink~ Nneka Jones faces The Time.

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Trini's Art Featured on Time Magazine Cover - Nneka Jones

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~Sexypink~ Barbadian Artist Annalee Davis of Fresh Milk has a new venture. Do check it out and read her eloquent words on Sour Grass.

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This morning, as I share the new Sour Grass website with you all, so beautifully presented by the Trinidad-based master designer, Kriston Chen, I reflect on the many twists and turns in my art career over the past three decades. The decision to return to and remain in the Caribbean, while sometimes fraught with doubt, has always been the right one for me in spite of the endless challenges of working in one of the most debt-ridden regions in the world where cultural workers may feel like orphans given the still limiting infrastructural support for contemporary visual artists.

Many years of bonding with peers - fellow artists, tutors, students, curators, collectors, co-activists, institutions, and conspirators - of sharing values and believing in the notion and immense value of our Caribbean civilization, the bedrock from which our creative offerings emanate and which we choose to nurture and foster, has enlarged my understanding of who we are beyond imagination. One of the most generative and generous collaborations over the past ten years has been with my friend and fellow soldier in the trenches- Holly Bynoe. 

Since sharing ARC magazine's Issue III in August 2011 at the launch of the Fresh Milk Art Platform here in Barbados, we have continued to envision projects together including Caribbean Linked and Tilting Axis. Our love for this region and its extraordinarily talented artists has been both anchor and kite.As the layers of economic, health, and environmental crises continue to build in this profoundly challenging moment we may find ourselves languishing in, Holly and I cherish and are committed to the creativity and resiliencies that run throughout the archipelago. I believe that this is a time where flourishing can be mutual for us both and for all those whom we choose to work with. 

As we launch Sour Grass's website today, I'd like to mention our first two multi-year collaborations and to really feel joyful because of the beautiful human beings and institutions who want to walk this road with us. The way people reveal themselves through collaborations is telling and Holly and I have been fortunate to find some incredible souls who we respect and are excited to continue to work together with.(i) Shout out to Kunstinstituut Melly, especially Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy and Rosa de Graaf who are trusting us to bring artists from the Caribbean to showcase at their Rotterdam-based contemporary space over the next few years, kicking off with Bathed in Sacred Fire! –a solo show of Trinidad-based Jamaican artist, Jasmine Thomas-Girvan!(ii) Sour Grass is one of nine Caribbean galleries and agencies presenting at the inaugural Atlantic World Art Fair initiated by the brave Lisa Howie of Black Pony Gallery (Bermuda) on Artsy. 

This annual partnership is dedicated to growing the cultural capital of the Caribbean with the goal of elevating the visual arts within our community to the wider world. We are thrilled to be showcasing the works of nine artists from across this region including Franz Caba (Dominican Republic) ° Ronald Cyrille (Dominica/Guadeloupe) ° Deborah Jack (St. Martin/USA) ° Abigail Hadeed (Trinidad & Tobago) ° Katherine Kennedy (Barbados) ° Lisandro Suriel (St. Martin) ° Joiri Minaya (Dominican Republic/USA) ° Eliazar Ortiz (Dominican Republic) ° Samuel Sarmiento (Venezuela/Aruba). We go live June 1st for three weeks so keep an eye out!Our work is an active gift of sisterhood, community, and love, rich with the fibre of collective imaginations and our ancestors. Check us out! https://sour-grass.com/

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~Sexypink~ Congratulations Josh

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The British Council is pleased to announce that Josh Lu has recently taken up his TAARE residency in London at Delfina Foundation in collaboration with colleagues at Gasworks and Autograph ABP.

Joshua Lue Chee Kong (b. 1988) is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and collector from Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. His work focuses on Caribbean narratives around creolization and the way it has shaped the social fabric of the Caribbean region.

In 2017, Joshua Lue Chee Kong and Kriston Chen founded a Moko Jumbie group called 1000mokos in Trinidad and Tobago. Its objective is to build a community of stilt walkers through informal sessions accessible to anyone who wants to celebrate the history and stories of the Moko Jumbies.

Josh studied at Savannah College of Art and Design where he received his BFA in graphic design. He participated in artist residencies at Red Gate Gallery, Beijing in 2015 and at Vermont Studio Center in 2017. At Medulla Art Gallery, Trinidad, he has had two solo exhibitions - Moulded Memories in 2014 and Paradise in 2016.

His work had been published in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, ANNO book, See Me Here: A Survey of Contemporary Self-Portraits from the Caribbean, The Draconion Switch e-magazine. Two of his photographic images appeared on the cover of the August 2012 TIME magazine. #BCTAARE #ARTCONNECTS

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~Sexypink~ I just got the very sad news of the passing of Lisa O’Connor. What a lovely person she was. I have had the pleasure of many conversations with her, both at her home and at one of the places that she loved to work, The Savanna. 

The time she gave to me when discussing the book to be published, Inner Sanctum: Artists Studios was so special. I shall remember her gentle manner, her shy smile and her big heart. Rest in peace.

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~Sexypink~  𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑰𝑮𝑹 @igr_love we we are heading to Barbados to spend time with contemporary Caribbean artist @sheenaroseinc y’all! We are really looking forward to finally catching up with her and have so much to talk about since Sheena’s epic guest blog post with us last year. We’ll be exploring not only Sheena’s creative expression but also her journey with lupus, her passion for swimming and how she has pivoted personally and professionally in 2020. 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐨 to join us on Sunday, August 23rd - 6pm GMT/1pm Bim Time! 𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒂 𝑹𝒐𝒔𝒆 is a contemporary Caribbean artist who lives and works in Barbados. She is a Fulbright Scholar and holds a BFA Honors degree, Barbados Community College, 2008 as well as an MFA from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2016. She has a multi-disciplinary practice and her oeuvre includes hand-drawn animations, drawings, paintings, performance art, and new media. Sheena has exhibited regionally and internationally. Her work has been shown in the Caribbean, South America, The USA, Canada, Europe, Africa, and Asia This rocking island girl has been featured in the New York Times, Huffington Post, Travel & Leisure Magazine, and Vogue. In 2018, Sheena created poster artwork for the play "Emma and Max", written and directed by Todd Solondz. In 2019, She created a two-story mural at the Inter- American Development Bank Headquarters in Washington DC. Sheena also created nine feet tall women mural for an exhibition called "The Other Side of Now" in the Perez Art Museum Miami. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒂’𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 @𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕

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~Sexypink~ Ordinarily I do not include literature per say as a site on Sexypink. However I enjoyed this wonderful project done in The New York Times and felt the desire to share it.~