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Sexypink - I am giving insight into a project begun in 2016 and then shelved after three years of intense work with the great Trinidad and Tobago Photographer Richard Acosta. Inner Sanctum:Artists Studio was conceived based on one too many parents believing that their child disappointed them by choosing Art as a degree and a possible career.

Images of Peter Sheppard in his studio in 2016

Inner Sanctum, Artists' Studios is a full colour photo-book which delves into the little known creative process and spaces of fine artists from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It features 20 of Trinidad's most prolific painters who have been exhibiting work for about twenty years. The book has a special focus on the creative spaces of artists whereby no two studios are ever the same. An attempt is made to draw insight into the correlation between an artist's creative space and process to their work.

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~Sexypink~   Natusha Croes - To sing, speak and move on behalf of an ecological engagement. I am a plethora of beings creating a sense of belonging through a chain reaction of performative interventions, honouring one location at the time, unraveling a state of deep listening, heightened bodily awareness. Directed currently at the island of my origin. Aruba, the multiculturalism that it breeds, the heritage, a multiple state of identity, and how a gentler, much soothing relationship can come to be. Primarily communicated through the audio-visual forum of live art, video and film. 

REDJI (Reginald Sénatus), born in 1994, grew up in a district of downtown Port-au-Prince (Haiti), near the artists and cabinetmakers of the Grand-Rue. In 2010, he joined Atis Rezistans, a community of artists specializing in salvage sculpture. Since 2011, Redji has participated in several editions of the Ghetto Biennale de Port-au-Prince. In the 2017 edition, he presented an installation entitled "Cartography of Port-Au-Prince" and took stock of the socio-economic difficulties of the population. He won the first prize of the biennial, and also that of 2019 with a new artistic installation entitled "Walls and Doors of Vertières".

~Sexypink~  Maria Govan - From the island of New Providence, In the Bahamas, Maria, a self taught filmmaker, with an early passion for film, began her journey working in production at the young age of sixteen. She worked a time in Los Angeles and then returned home where she spent a decade making small, local, guerilla style documentaries. This lay the foundation for her craft. Govan then scripted her first narrative feature "Rain," which she directed and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008 and licensed to Showtime networks. In 2012 she moved to Trinidad and in 2015 wrote and directed her second narrative feature "Play the Devil" which received a significant grant from Creative TT. "Play the Devil" was selected for Ventana Sur in Argentina and Premiera Miradada in IFF Panama, and premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2016. In 2018, Govan was hired to direct her first episode of television on the show Queen Sugar, which is produced by Ava Duvernay and Oprah Winfrey. She is currently in development of several television and film projects and continues to seek writing and directing opportunities both in the region and beyond.

~Sexypink~  ~Sexypink~  Daphné Menard completed his studies in theatre in July 2015 in Haiti. Practicing contemporary dance, music, theater and writing, he founded “Sol Scène Association, ” an initiative interested in transdisciplinary research with the body as the raw material. He created in November 2016, "Omayra, the choir of the abyss," a play that questions the power of this world, rendered so weak in front of certain situations. Since October 2018, he has implemented the Transdo art creation laboratory between Haitian and Dominican artists. He organised a cross-disciplinary play in March 2020 in Santo Domingo questioning the concept of memory on the island. Photo credit: Valérie Baeriswyl