Exposições de arte no Baha Mar Resort

Sofia grew up in Nassau, Bahamas. Her father is Bahamian (Austrian parents) and her mother is Uruguayan. She went away to school in Austria at 14 years old, then attended high school in Uruguay, college in New York City and finally finished her bachelors in Business and Marketing in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sofia returned home in 2015 and currently works in the family business. 

Sofia has always had a love for photography, her father took a lot of photos his whole life and documented all the important moments in their family.  She got her first camera when she was 8, often borrowed her older sister’s camera and has always been the person at the party that took pictures of her friends. 

Sofia completed various short photography courses in New York City, Montevideo and Vienna but believes that experimentation and self expression is the most important part of photography.

Sofia loves yoga, art and people and hopes that through her photography people can get closer to their own humanity and soul. 

Project Bahama Mama was a two year long journey which began in November 2015. This coffee table book shines a light on the more authentic Bahamas through the portraits and wisdom from the mothers that hold the country together.  The project has taken Sofia through the majority of the islands of the Bahamas, a journey that she states “she needed to make”. It has made her love the people of her country all the more and want to show the rest of the world just how amazing it is.

A professional photographer since the age of fifteen, Roland Rose obtained his first camera when he was only twelve years old and used it to photograph the delights of Hog Island (now Paradise Island) when it truly was an underdeveloped paradise. He has travelled extensively, often to pursue his interest in food, wine, and classical music, but photography has been Roland’s passion and life’s work.

Born in Italy to British parents, Roland has lived in The Bahamas since 1946. Before establishing his own practice, he worked for some thirty-two years for the Development Board (later to become the Ministry of Tourism), when his lens was directed at visitors, touristic sites, and pretty views designed to please and attract visitors. During this time, he also took photographs of island life that piqued his interest or caught his artistic, albeit self-trained, eye.

Hanging precariously from a tree, a fence or a roof, jumping from a boat, or in the air, he sought the unusual angle or different view that gave his photographs special interest. He moved happily from the dark-room to the world of digital photography and Photoshop™, regularly upgrading his equipment to include the latest, most powerful cameras and lenses with their ever-expanding pixel count and improved image quality.

As a photographer, Roland has expressed his joy in the beauty that he has found here in The Bahamas, both in its people and its natural environment.

Daniel Belton was born in the United Kingdom to an English Father and a Bahamian Mother.  He moved to Nassau when he was a young boy and graduated from Kingsway Academy.  Belton was the recipient of the Best Performance Award for Carpentry and Joinery during the 2000 BGCSE Examinations from the Ministry of Education and Youth Testing and Evaluation Section.  He went on to study abroad at Lynn University and received a Bachelor’s degree in Hospitality Management with a Specialization in Sports and Recreation Management.  Belton uses reclaimed wood as his primary material, transforming found and discarded pieces into finished furniture, sculpture and wall decor. He strives to conserve the character of the used material, leaving what others deem as ‘imperfect’: knots, spiral nail holes, cracks, warping and browning. He masterfully incorporates and preserves these wooden ‘scars’ into vibrantly colored, sculptural and functional furniture pieces.

“Acumular faz parte do processo”, afirma a escultora Kendra Frorup sobre sua obra de arte. Frorup nasceu e cresceu em Nassau, Bahamas, e usa suas memórias dessa época em sua arte. Depois de uma infância nas Bahamas, ela teve a oportunidade de estudar nos Estados Unidos e começou a criar imagens representativas que mostram uma convergência com sua cultura.

Já classificado por um crítico de Harvard como "um artista não sofisticado que produz arte sofisticada", Cox é conhecido por pinturas de grande formato, montagem de objetos encontrados, colagem e gravuras não tradicionais. Seu trabalho frequentemente faz referência a ideias e lugares distantes, mas é executado com materiais comuns e cotidianos.

Nascido em Nassau em 1973, Cox frequentou a Escola de Design de Rhode Island, em Providence, Rhode Island, onde concluiu o BFA em Ilustração (’95) e o MAT em Educação Artística (’96). Mais tarde, ele passou a lecionar no Departamento de Arte da Faculdade das Bahamas por seis anos, seguido por quatro anos trabalhando no departamento de educação da Galeria Nacional de Arte das Bahamas.

Atualmente atuando como diretor de arte do Baha Mar, Cox expôs seu trabalho e participou de intercâmbios na França, Itália, Alemanha, Hong Kong, Estados Unidos e Caribe.

As pinturas de John Paul Saddleton (nascido em 1968, Bahamas) são um estudo sobre a luz. Trabalhando ao ar livre, ou diretamente a partir da paisagem, seu processo é excepcional, pois ele usa ajudantes fotográficos racionalmente, o que resulta em deslumbrantes representações da paisagem e do panorama das Bahamas, muitas vezes retratada em sua luz mais vívida.

Saddleton concluiu seu Bacharelado em Comércio na Universidade de Guelph, em Ontário, Canadá, e continuou sua formação no Central Saint Martin's em Londres, Inglaterra, onde estudou sobreposição de aquarela, manipulação de vidro e teoria avançada de cores.   

O artista frequentemente tem seu trabalho comissionado; você pode ver suas pinturas em muitos escritórios, hotéis e coleções particulares. Seus murais também podem ser encontrados no Aeroporto Internacional Lyndin Pindling, no Centro de Pesquisa de Câncer e no Jardim Ardastara e no Zoológico.

“Acumular faz parte do processo”, afirma a escultora Kendra Frorup sobre sua obra de arte. Frorup nasceu e cresceu em Nassau, Bahamas, e usa suas memórias dessa época em sua arte. Depois de uma infância nas Bahamas, ela teve a oportunidade de estudar nos Estados Unidos e começou a criar imagens representativas que mostram uma convergência com sua cultura.

As pinturas de John Paul Saddleton (nascido em 1968, Bahamas) são um estudo sobre a luz. Trabalhando ao ar livre, ou diretamente a partir da paisagem, seu processo é excepcional, pois ele usa ajudantes fotográficos racionalmente, o que resulta em deslumbrantes representações da paisagem e do panorama das Bahamas, muitas vezes retratada em sua luz mais vívida.

Saddleton concluiu seu Bacharelado em Comércio na Universidade de Guelph, em Ontário, Canadá, e continuou sua formação no Central Saint Martin's em Londres, Inglaterra, onde estudou sobreposição de aquarela, manipulação de vidro e teoria avançada de cores.   

O artista frequentemente tem seu trabalho comissionado; você pode ver suas pinturas em muitos escritórios, hotéis e coleções particulares. Seus murais também podem ser encontrados no Aeroporto Internacional Lyndin Pindling, no Centro de Pesquisa de Câncer e no Jardim Ardastara e no Zoológico.

“Acumular faz parte do processo”, afirma a escultora Kendra Frorup sobre sua obra de arte. Frorup nasceu e cresceu em Nassau, Bahamas, e usa suas memórias dessa época em sua arte. Depois de uma infância nas Bahamas, ela teve a oportunidade de estudar nos Estados Unidos e começou a criar imagens representativas que mostram uma convergência com sua cultura.

“Acumular faz parte do processo”, afirma a escultora Kendra Frorup sobre sua obra de arte. Frorup nasceu e cresceu em Nassau, Bahamas, e usa suas memórias dessa época em sua arte. Depois de uma infância nas Bahamas, ela teve a oportunidade de estudar nos Estados Unidos e começou a criar imagens representativas que mostram uma convergência com sua cultura.

As pinturas de John Paul Saddleton (nascido em 1968, Bahamas) são um estudo sobre a luz. Trabalhando ao ar livre, ou diretamente a partir da paisagem, seu processo é excepcional, pois ele usa ajudantes fotográficos racionalmente, o que resulta em deslumbrantes representações da paisagem e do panorama das Bahamas, muitas vezes retratada em sua luz mais vívida.

Saddleton concluiu seu Bacharelado em Comércio na Universidade de Guelph, em Ontário, Canadá, e continuou sua formação no Central Saint Martin's em Londres, Inglaterra, onde estudou sobreposição de aquarela, manipulação de vidro e teoria avançada de cores.   

O artista frequentemente tem seu trabalho comissionado; você pode ver suas pinturas em muitos escritórios, hotéis e coleções particulares. Seus murais também podem ser encontrados no Aeroporto Internacional Lyndin Pindling, no Centro de Pesquisa de Câncer e no Jardim Ardastara e no Zoológico.

As pinturas de John Paul Saddleton (nascido em 1968, Bahamas) são um estudo sobre a luz. Trabalhando ao ar livre, ou diretamente a partir da paisagem, seu processo é excepcional, pois ele usa ajudantes fotográficos racionalmente, o que resulta em deslumbrantes representações da paisagem e do panorama das Bahamas, muitas vezes retratada em sua luz mais vívida.

Saddleton concluiu seu Bacharelado em Comércio na Universidade de Guelph, em Ontário, Canadá, e continuou sua formação no Central Saint Martin's em Londres, Inglaterra, onde estudou sobreposição de aquarela, manipulação de vidro e teoria avançada de cores.   

O artista frequentemente tem seu trabalho comissionado; você pode ver suas pinturas em muitos escritórios, hotéis e coleções particulares. Seus murais também podem ser encontrados no Aeroporto Internacional Lyndin Pindling, no Centro de Pesquisa de Câncer e no Jardim Ardastara e no Zoológico.

“Acumular faz parte do processo”, afirma a escultora Kendra Frorup sobre sua obra de arte. Frorup nasceu e cresceu em Nassau, Bahamas, e usa suas memórias dessa época em sua arte. Depois de uma infância nas Bahamas, ela teve a oportunidade de estudar nos Estados Unidos e começou a criar imagens representativas que mostram uma convergência com sua cultura.

Já classificado por um crítico de Harvard como "um artista não sofisticado que produz arte sofisticada", Cox é conhecido por pinturas de grande formato, montagem de objetos encontrados, colagem e gravuras não tradicionais. Seu trabalho frequentemente faz referência a ideias e lugares distantes, mas é executado com materiais comuns e cotidianos.

Nascido em Nassau em 1973, Cox frequentou a Escola de Design de Rhode Island, em Providence, Rhode Island, onde concluiu o BFA em Ilustração (’95) e o MAT em Educação Artística (’96). Mais tarde, ele passou a lecionar no Departamento de Arte da Faculdade das Bahamas por seis anos, seguido por quatro anos trabalhando no departamento de educação da Galeria Nacional de Arte das Bahamas.

Atualmente atuando como diretor de arte do Baha Mar, Cox expôs seu trabalho e participou de intercâmbios na França, Itália, Alemanha, Hong Kong, Estados Unidos e Caribe.

As pinturas de John Paul Saddleton (nascido em 1968, Bahamas) são um estudo sobre a luz. Trabalhando ao ar livre, ou diretamente a partir da paisagem, seu processo é excepcional, pois ele usa ajudantes fotográficos racionalmente, o que resulta em deslumbrantes representações da paisagem e do panorama das Bahamas, muitas vezes retratada em sua luz mais vívida.

Saddleton concluiu seu Bacharelado em Comércio na Universidade de Guelph, em Ontário, Canadá, e continuou sua formação no Central Saint Martin's em Londres, Inglaterra, onde estudou sobreposição de aquarela, manipulação de vidro e teoria avançada de cores.   

O artista frequentemente tem seu trabalho comissionado; você pode ver suas pinturas em muitos escritórios, hotéis e coleções particulares. Seus murais também podem ser encontrados no Aeroporto Internacional Lyndin Pindling, no Centro de Pesquisa de Câncer e no Jardim Ardastara e no Zoológico.

Delton Barrett cresceu e passou sua infância nas Bahamas, completando seu último ano na Escola Secundária C.R. Walker em 2008, quando ele descobriu seu interesse pela arte. Depois de deixar a escola, ele passou a investir seu tempo na pintura de cenários de revistas antigas das Bahamas.
O maior objetivo de Barrett é refletir-se dentro da paisagem que o rodeia para espelhar sua masculinidade dentro da folhagem em que ele mescla seu corpo. Ele afirma sua singularidade a partir de raízes de árvores que se estendem bastante no subsolo. Sua inserção intencional dentro de uma paisagem intocada comunica a necessidade de ser visto profundamente, intrinsecamente distante da terra de uma maneira que traz à tona a questão da sua própria liberdade: seu corpo, como a terra colonizada, é agora um propulsor da rebelião contra o olhar colonial.

Até hoje, o desejo de Jonathan de recriar as Bahamas em telas permanece e ele aprendeu que demora muitos anos para chegar à perfeição. Hoje, suas pinturas capturam realisticamente a majestade e o caráter da vida e do cenário das Bahamas. Usando tinta acrílica como seu meio, ele explora uma grande variedade de assuntos, como casas e marcos históricos das Bahamas, plantas nativas coloridas e, claro, as águas luminosas das Bahamas.

Nascida nas Bahamas, Kelly diz que seu amor pela arte vem dos 3 H’s: head, heart e hand (cabeça, coração e mãos). Suas composições e montagens multimídia bem elaboradas descrevem padrões e imagens florais e figurativas efêmeras usando materiais inesperados, e muitas vezes, industriais. Os resultados são delicados e assertivos, proporcionando ideias interessantes e, ao mesmo tempo, tentando criar conexões emocionais.

Ela foi a primeira agraciada pela Bolsa de Arte Astarita Nassuvian da Faculdade das Bahamas, onde se formou com distinção máxima em arte.

Em 2016, Kelly venceu o 33º Concurso Anual de Arte do Banco Central das Bahamas, sendo a única mulher a vencer as categorias júnior e sênior.

Seu trabalho já foi exposto na Galeria Nacional de Arte das Bahamas, no Tesouro Público, na Galeria Pro, na Fundação Arte D'Aguilar e no Banco Central das Bahamas.

A pintura sempre foi um meio de expressão pessoal. Comecei desenhando e pintando retratos, assim como o meu professor Stan Burnside, em 1988-1991. Mas, com o tempo, comecei a experimentar diferentes métodos de pintura, uma evolução natural... para mim, a psicologia de fazer imagens tem possibilidades ilimitadas. O mundo artístico pode embaralhar completamente sua cabeça de vez em quando, mas a expressão tem seu próprio jeito de se externalizar da forma que quiser. Assim, com meus retratos, paisagens, minhas abstrações elusivas atuais, estou apenas pintando.

Drew Weech (nascido em 1984, Bahamas) é um artista multidisciplinar que trabalha tanto com arte abstrata quanto figurativa. Weech explora a cor como um meio de criar uma ilusão de forma, desafiando os espectadores a desconstruir visualmente suas composições texturizadas. Seu trabalho é muitas vezes fantasmagórico, revelando imagens de maneira lenta e deliberada.

“Acumular faz parte do processo”, afirma a escultora Kendra Frorup sobre sua obra de arte. Frorup nasceu e cresceu em Nassau, Bahamas, e usa suas memórias dessa época em sua arte. Depois de uma infância nas Bahamas, ela teve a oportunidade de estudar nos Estados Unidos e começou a criar imagens representativas que mostram uma convergência com sua cultura.

Delton Barrett cresceu e passou sua infância nas Bahamas, completando seu último ano na Escola Secundária C.R. Walker em 2008, quando ele descobriu seu interesse pela arte. Depois de deixar a escola, ele passou a investir seu tempo na pintura de cenários de revistas antigas das Bahamas.
O maior objetivo de Barrett é refletir-se dentro da paisagem que o rodeia para espelhar sua masculinidade dentro da folhagem em que ele mescla seu corpo. Ele afirma sua singularidade a partir de raízes de árvores que se estendem bastante no subsolo. Sua inserção intencional dentro de uma paisagem intocada comunica a necessidade de ser visto profundamente, intrinsecamente distante da terra de uma maneira que traz à tona a questão da sua própria liberdade: seu corpo, como a terra colonizada, é agora um propulsor da rebelião contra o olhar colonial.

As pinturas de John Paul Saddleton (nascido em 1968, Bahamas) são um estudo sobre a luz. Trabalhando ao ar livre, ou diretamente a partir da paisagem, seu processo é excepcional, pois ele usa ajudantes fotográficos racionalmente, o que resulta em deslumbrantes representações da paisagem e do panorama das Bahamas, muitas vezes retratada em sua luz mais vívida.

Saddleton concluiu seu Bacharelado em Comércio na Universidade de Guelph, em Ontário, Canadá, e continuou sua formação no Central Saint Martin's em Londres, Inglaterra, onde estudou sobreposição de aquarela, manipulação de vidro e teoria avançada de cores.   

O artista frequentemente tem seu trabalho comissionado; você pode ver suas pinturas em muitos escritórios, hotéis e coleções particulares. Seus murais também podem ser encontrados no Aeroporto Internacional Lyndin Pindling, no Centro de Pesquisa de Câncer e no Jardim Ardastara e no Zoológico.

Samantha Treco nasceu em Nassau, Bahamas, em janeiro de 1993. Treco cria uma arte que traz à tona os objetos mundanos e abandonados para despertar o impacto visual em paisagens "ideais". Seu trabalho questiona como a sociedade treinou os olhos para reconhecer a beleza e o ambiente idílico e, com isso, algumas partes da paisagem que não seguem os critérios específicos comuns tornam-se quase invisíveis. Desde cedo, Treco manifestou interesse pela arte. Ela foi incentivada pela família e pelos professores da Faculdade de St. Augustine a desenvolver seu interesse. Esse incentivo levou-a a se inscrever no Curso de Licenciatura em Artes da Faculdade das Bahamas, onde permaneceu por um ano (2011-2012), antes de se transferir para o Fashion Institute of Technology de Nova York, onde se graduou em Belas Artes em 2016.

“Acumular faz parte do processo”, afirma a escultora Kendra Frorup sobre sua obra de arte. Frorup nasceu e cresceu em Nassau, Bahamas, e usa suas memórias dessa época em sua arte. Depois de uma infância nas Bahamas, ela teve a oportunidade de estudar nos Estados Unidos e começou a criar imagens representativas que mostram uma convergência com sua cultura.

“Acumular faz parte do processo”, afirma a escultora Kendra Frorup sobre sua obra de arte. Frorup nasceu e cresceu em Nassau, Bahamas, e usa suas memórias dessa época em sua arte. Depois de uma infância nas Bahamas, ela teve a oportunidade de estudar nos Estados Unidos e começou a criar imagens representativas que mostram uma convergência com sua cultura.

Janeen Walker (nascida em 1971, Bahamas) usa a técnica expressiva e gestual do derramamento de acrílico para criar pinturas íntimas e de grande escala, que exalam a vibração da linguagem da pintura. Ela explora a forma como as marcas são criadas espontaneamente através de uma colaboração entre artista e material de arte. Walker dá ênfase em cada camada derramada, expondo cada uma delas através da transparência do epóxi. Walker estudou Arte na Universidade das Bahamas e teve seu trabalho exibido em várias exposições individuais e colaborativas. Atualmente, ela é uma artista atuante e gerente de vendas e merchandising da Galeria e Centro Artístico The Current do Baha Mar.

“Acumular faz parte do processo”, afirma a escultora Kendra Frorup sobre sua obra de arte. Frorup nasceu e cresceu em Nassau, Bahamas, e usa suas memórias dessa época em sua arte. Depois de uma infância nas Bahamas, ela teve a oportunidade de estudar nos Estados Unidos e começou a criar imagens representativas que mostram uma convergência com sua cultura.

Jonathan Bethel was born in Nassau, Bahamas on November 1st, 1978.  He attended St. Andrew’s School there for thirteen years, graduating in 1996.  He then went on to Clemson University in South Carolina. There he studied art and graduated in May of 2001 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
 
Even at an early age, Jonathan displayed a strong interest and aptitude for art, particularly drawing.  He would recreate anything he could get his hands on, from album covers to basketball cards.  He also loved to invent his own cartoon characters, creating sketch after sketch of them.  As a child, he participated in and won several art competitions.  In school also he stood out with his abilities in the art field.  He always took the art projects he was doing very seriously, and spent great time on them, sometimes even to his teacher’s disdain.  It was probably always evident that his future would involve art in some form.
 
But it was while at college in South Carolina, away from home for the first time, that Jonathan really developed his appreciation and love for the beauty of the Bahamas.  As the clichéd quote goes, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”  So he decided to put that passion into his work.  He devoted much of his painting studies there to capturing Bahamian scenery on the canvas.  Most of his work at that time was done completely from his head, and was in part an attempt to feel closer to home.
 
Até hoje, o desejo de Jonathan de recriar as Bahamas em telas permanece e ele aprendeu que demora muitos anos para chegar à perfeição. Hoje, suas pinturas capturam realisticamente a majestade e o caráter da vida e do cenário das Bahamas. Usando tinta acrílica como seu meio, ele explora uma grande variedade de assuntos, como casas e marcos históricos das Bahamas, plantas nativas coloridas e, claro, as águas luminosas das Bahamas.
 
In 2001, Jonathan received first prize in the Eighteenth Annual Central Bank of the Bahamas Art Competition (the most prestigious local competition for young artists).  He has also participated in a number of group shows in Nassau and in the Family Islands, as well as several successful one-man shows. Jonathan’s artwork is in the private collections of many prominent Bahamians, and art collectors and enthusiasts around the world.  He was also done many small and large commissioned projects, including a series of five paintings for Bahamar’s renovation of the Sheraton Cable Beach in 2007.  In May of 2008, he was featured in the annual Bahamas edition of the popular Southern Boating magazine, including having one of his paintings on the cover. 

Nasci na Ilha de Nova Providência, nas Bahamas, com uma mãe professora e um pai agricultor. Assim, a arte e a natureza sempre fizeram parte da minha vida. Cresci em uma ilha rural chamada Eleuthera, sempre cercado pela beleza natural do meio ambiente. As cores, os sons, os cheiros e o gosto pela vida na ilha habituaram a minha mente com uma riqueza de beleza a ser buscada diariamente. Depois de deixar esta utopia pitoresca, eu me deparei com a expansão urbana de Nassau, localizada em Nova Providência. Esse novo ambiente me pareceu intimamente estranho e eu me empenhei dia após dia para continuar inspirado e encantado com meu lindo país.

ANTONIUS ROBERTS, OBE (b.1958 Nassau, The Bahamas) has one daughter Ayla Antonia Roberts and is married to Dr Annette Warren-Roberts. Roberts graduated in 1981 from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA in Painting.  As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of The Bahamas (now University of The Bahamas), Roberts has mentored a generation of young Bahamian artists.  He conceived of and coordinated the first Junior Junkanoo competition and parade in 1983, celebrating ten years of Bahamian Independence. He served as the Curator of The Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Art Gallery until 2017, and was the architect and coordinator of their annual Competitions and Exhibitions until 2006; and played a supportive role in the restoration of the former Villa Doyle and its conversion to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  Additionally Roberts founded The Bahamian Art Gallery in 1991 which was responsible for the reintroduction of master artists Kendal Hanna and Jo Monks – USA Boy. That same year he curated the largest exhibition of Amos Ferguson’s work at The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery and encouraged The Right Honorable Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling to approve the purchase of twenty five (25) paintings from that exhibition. These paintings formed the beginning of the National Art Collection of The Bahamas. In recognition of his contribution to national development in the arts, Roberts was a recipient of a Commonwealth of The Bahamas Silver Jubilee Award and of the E. Clement Bethel Award from The College of The Bahamas, as well as the Ministry of Tourism’s Cacique Award for the Arts in 2000.  As an artist Roberts has participated in exhibitions around the world and has mounted many within The Bahamas.  In 2005 Roberts spent one month in Pietrasanta, Italy working in marble and granite as part of the International Professional Artist Symposium and Exchange. In 2006 he was invited to exhibit in Changchun, China and his 12’ bronze sculpture is permanently installed there.  As a sculptor Roberts is best known for the first Sacred Space project at the historic Clifton Heritage site. This work was expanded by the installation at the Blake Road Welcome Centre.  Another group of Sacred Women travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany for the Funky Nassau Exhibition and then were exhibited at The Nassau Art Gallery of The Bahamas, with a similar installation now forming part of The Grand Bahama Heritage Foundation. On 3 de novembro de 2017, The Cove at Atlantis, Paradise Island debuted a permanent art installation “Sacred Space” on the tip of The Cove’s peninsula. This sculpture series, represents seven dancing women who each depict the intention of triumph, hope, determination and a vision to help conserve Bahamian Heritage. As an open space designer, in 2009 Roberts designed and directed the creation of the seven acre park at Centreville House, an integral part of the revitalization programme in downtown Nassau. In 2011 he participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition at the Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa. His artwork Bubbles was installed as part of the expansion of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s final phase in 2013. Roberts was the Artist in Residence at Schooner Bay, Abaco, for several years, and in 2017 established a relationship with the Island School in Eleuthera. In 2012, he opened an art gallery and studio on Cumberland Street in a centuries’ old historic building known as Hillside House, which has become an active centre for the creative community. His ethos connecting man’s spiritual and emotional nature and nature itself, and his desire to record and honour Bahamian heritage, is inherent in all of his paintings and sculptures.
A member of The Charitable Arts Foundation for over twenty years, Roberts along with other council members, continue to raise significant funding for the creative community in The Bahamas. These funds are available on an annual bases for art education, grants for short and full length films, art projects, music projects, play writers, poets, musicians and support of national art institutions.

ANTONIUS ROBERTS, OBE (b.1958 Nassau, The Bahamas) has one daughter Ayla Antonia Roberts and is married to Dr Annette Warren-Roberts. Roberts graduated in 1981 from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA in Painting.  As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of The Bahamas (now University of The Bahamas), Roberts has mentored a generation of young Bahamian artists.  He conceived of and coordinated the first Junior Junkanoo competition and parade in 1983, celebrating ten years of Bahamian Independence. He served as the Curator of The Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Art Gallery until 2017, and was the architect and coordinator of their annual Competitions and Exhibitions until 2006; and played a supportive role in the restoration of the former Villa Doyle and its conversion to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  Additionally Roberts founded The Bahamian Art Gallery in 1991 which was responsible for the reintroduction of master artists Kendal Hanna and Jo Monks – USA Boy. That same year he curated the largest exhibition of Amos Ferguson’s work at The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery and encouraged The Right Honorable Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling to approve the purchase of twenty five (25) paintings from that exhibition. These paintings formed the beginning of the National Art Collection of The Bahamas. In recognition of his contribution to national development in the arts, Roberts was a recipient of a Commonwealth of The Bahamas Silver Jubilee Award and of the E. Clement Bethel Award from The College of The Bahamas, as well as the Ministry of Tourism’s Cacique Award for the Arts in 2000.  As an artist Roberts has participated in exhibitions around the world and has mounted many within The Bahamas.  In 2005 Roberts spent one month in Pietrasanta, Italy working in marble and granite as part of the International Professional Artist Symposium and Exchange. In 2006 he was invited to exhibit in Changchun, China and his 12’ bronze sculpture is permanently installed there.  As a sculptor Roberts is best known for the first Sacred Space project at the historic Clifton Heritage site. This work was expanded by the installation at the Blake Road Welcome Centre.  Another group of Sacred Women travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany for the Funky Nassau Exhibition and then were exhibited at The Nassau Art Gallery of The Bahamas, with a similar installation now forming part of The Grand Bahama Heritage Foundation. On 3 de novembro de 2017, The Cove at Atlantis, Paradise Island debuted a permanent art installation “Sacred Space” on the tip of The Cove’s peninsula. This sculpture series, represents seven dancing women who each depict the intention of triumph, hope, determination and a vision to help conserve Bahamian Heritage. As an open space designer, in 2009 Roberts designed and directed the creation of the seven acre park at Centreville House, an integral part of the revitalization programme in downtown Nassau. In 2011 he participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition at the Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa. His artwork Bubbles was installed as part of the expansion of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s final phase in 2013. Roberts was the Artist in Residence at Schooner Bay, Abaco, for several years, and in 2017 established a relationship with the Island School in Eleuthera. In 2012, he opened an art gallery and studio on Cumberland Street in a centuries’ old historic building known as Hillside House, which has become an active centre for the creative community. His ethos connecting man’s spiritual and emotional nature and nature itself, and his desire to record and honour Bahamian heritage, is inherent in all of his paintings and sculptures.
A member of The Charitable Arts Foundation for over twenty years, Roberts along with other council members, continue to raise significant funding for the creative community in The Bahamas. These funds are available on an annual bases for art education, grants for short and full length films, art projects, music projects, play writers, poets, musicians and support of national art institutions.

Gio Swaby is a mixed media artist whose practice encompasses installation, textiles, collage, performance, and video. Swaby was born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas where she obtained her Associate of Arts degree at The College of The Bahamas in 2012. In 2014, she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree majoring in Film, Video and Integrated Media at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Swaby completed the program in 2016 and is currently based in Vancouver.

Delton Barrett cresceu e passou sua infância nas Bahamas, completando seu último ano na Escola Secundária C.R. Walker em 2008, quando ele descobriu seu interesse pela arte. Depois de deixar a escola, ele passou a investir seu tempo na pintura de cenários de revistas antigas das Bahamas.
O maior objetivo de Barrett é refletir-se dentro da paisagem que o rodeia para espelhar sua masculinidade dentro da folhagem em que ele mescla seu corpo. Ele afirma sua singularidade a partir de raízes de árvores que se estendem bastante no subsolo. Sua inserção intencional dentro de uma paisagem intocada comunica a necessidade de ser visto profundamente, intrinsecamente distante da terra de uma maneira que traz à tona a questão da sua própria liberdade: seu corpo, como a terra colonizada, é agora um propulsor da rebelião contra o olhar colonial.

Nasci na Ilha de Nova Providência, nas Bahamas, com uma mãe professora e um pai agricultor. Assim, a arte e a natureza sempre fizeram parte da minha vida. Cresci em uma ilha rural chamada Eleuthera, sempre cercado pela beleza natural do meio ambiente. As cores, os sons, os cheiros e o gosto pela vida na ilha habituaram a minha mente com uma riqueza de beleza a ser buscada diariamente. Depois de deixar esta utopia pitoresca, eu me deparei com a expansão urbana de Nassau, localizada em Nova Providência. Esse novo ambiente me pareceu intimamente estranho e eu me empenhei dia após dia para continuar inspirado e encantado com meu lindo país.

ANTONIUS ROBERTS, OBE (b.1958 Nassau, The Bahamas) has one daughter Ayla Antonia Roberts and is married to Dr Annette Warren-Roberts. Roberts graduated in 1981 from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA in Painting.  As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of The Bahamas (now University of The Bahamas), Roberts has mentored a generation of young Bahamian artists.  He conceived of and coordinated the first Junior Junkanoo competition and parade in 1983, celebrating ten years of Bahamian Independence. He served as the Curator of The Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Art Gallery until 2017, and was the architect and coordinator of their annual Competitions and Exhibitions until 2006; and played a supportive role in the restoration of the former Villa Doyle and its conversion to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  Additionally Roberts founded The Bahamian Art Gallery in 1991 which was responsible for the reintroduction of master artists Kendal Hanna and Jo Monks – USA Boy. That same year he curated the largest exhibition of Amos Ferguson’s work at The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery and encouraged The Right Honorable Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling to approve the purchase of twenty five (25) paintings from that exhibition. These paintings formed the beginning of the National Art Collection of The Bahamas. In recognition of his contribution to national development in the arts, Roberts was a recipient of a Commonwealth of The Bahamas Silver Jubilee Award and of the E. Clement Bethel Award from The College of The Bahamas, as well as the Ministry of Tourism’s Cacique Award for the Arts in 2000.  As an artist Roberts has participated in exhibitions around the world and has mounted many within The Bahamas.  In 2005 Roberts spent one month in Pietrasanta, Italy working in marble and granite as part of the International Professional Artist Symposium and Exchange. In 2006 he was invited to exhibit in Changchun, China and his 12’ bronze sculpture is permanently installed there.  As a sculptor Roberts is best known for the first Sacred Space project at the historic Clifton Heritage site. This work was expanded by the installation at the Blake Road Welcome Centre.  Another group of Sacred Women travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany for the Funky Nassau Exhibition and then were exhibited at The Nassau Art Gallery of The Bahamas, with a similar installation now forming part of The Grand Bahama Heritage Foundation. On 3 de novembro de 2017, The Cove at Atlantis, Paradise Island debuted a permanent art installation “Sacred Space” on the tip of The Cove’s peninsula. This sculpture series, represents seven dancing women who each depict the intention of triumph, hope, determination and a vision to help conserve Bahamian Heritage. As an open space designer, in 2009 Roberts designed and directed the creation of the seven acre park at Centreville House, an integral part of the revitalization programme in downtown Nassau. In 2011 he participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition at the Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa. His artwork Bubbles was installed as part of the expansion of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s final phase in 2013. Roberts was the Artist in Residence at Schooner Bay, Abaco, for several years, and in 2017 established a relationship with the Island School in Eleuthera. In 2012, he opened an art gallery and studio on Cumberland Street in a centuries’ old historic building known as Hillside House, which has become an active centre for the creative community. His ethos connecting man’s spiritual and emotional nature and nature itself, and his desire to record and honour Bahamian heritage, is inherent in all of his paintings and sculptures.
A member of The Charitable Arts Foundation for over twenty years, Roberts along with other council members, continue to raise significant funding for the creative community in The Bahamas. These funds are available on an annual bases for art education, grants for short and full length films, art projects, music projects, play writers, poets, musicians and support of national art institutions.

Guilden M. Gilbert, Jr. was born and raised in Bermuda in 1966.

His mother says he always showed a fascination for cameras. He did not take photography seriously until at the age of 14, while participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme he needed to chose a hobby, photography was a natural fit. This is where he began to not only shoot but also learned how to develop film and print images in the darkroom. It was at this point where photography became a very large part of his life. Unfortunately, professional photographers were unwilling to teach photography as many feared the student would become a competitor. Guilden learn photography on his own, one image on one roll of film at time, he took notes of each shot he captured and when receiving the film back from the lab he would analyze what he did right and what he did wrong and began to understand why things worked and why they did not, this allowed him to learned the craft of photography. His parents were very supportive, in 1981 they bought him his first 35mm SLR camera, a Canon AE-1 and on this he would shoot between 8 and 10 rolls of film a week. He had this camera and continued to produce images with until it was stolen in 1999.

Guilden relocated to Nassau, the Bahamas in 1997 with his wife of 6 years, they recently celebrated 27 years of marriage and have two children, both born in the Bahamas.

Although much of his work is landscape/seascape, he has become known as a Sports Photographer having been contracted to shoot the IAAF World Relays, CARIFTA Games, FIFA World Cup Qualifier between Bermuda and the Bahamas, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, he also shoots swim events and went home to Bermuda specifically to capture some of the America’s Cup races. He was also recently featured in N Photo Magazine, a Nikon-centric globally distributed magazine for his Sports Photography work. Guilden has also had numerous images selected by Blank Wall, an Athens, Greece art gallery for exhibit. He recently received Honourable Mention in two large global photography contests, the International Photographers Award and the Tokyo International Foto Awards. His work has been purchased and hangs on walls globally.

Guilden is also an executive and photographer with the Bahamian Project, a project designed to capture portraits of average Bahamians with the view to establishing a National Portrait Archive.

Today Guilden has come full circle and is once again shooting and developing film, specifically Medium Format film. He says, “There is just something organic about shooting film and there is nothing quite like the feeling of pulling a developed roll of film out of the developing cannister to see the images created. Shooting film will certainly test your knowledge of proper exposure and composition because the negative does not lie about what you have produced.”

Guilden, along with another local photographer made a decision, two years ago, that they will teach photography because to have gained so much knowledge over nearly 40 years of photograph and not share that knowledge does a dis-service to the art form. The class range from Beginner’s Photography to Advanced Studio and Outdoor Lighting and are held in partnership with Queen’s College Centre for Further Education.

Delton Barrett cresceu e passou sua infância nas Bahamas, completando seu último ano na Escola Secundária C.R. Walker em 2008, quando ele descobriu seu interesse pela arte. Depois de deixar a escola, ele passou a investir seu tempo na pintura de cenários de revistas antigas das Bahamas.
O maior objetivo de Barrett é refletir-se dentro da paisagem que o rodeia para espelhar sua masculinidade dentro da folhagem em que ele mescla seu corpo. Ele afirma sua singularidade a partir de raízes de árvores que se estendem bastante no subsolo. Sua inserção intencional dentro de uma paisagem intocada comunica a necessidade de ser visto profundamente, intrinsecamente distante da terra de uma maneira que traz à tona a questão da sua própria liberdade: seu corpo, como a terra colonizada, é agora um propulsor da rebelião contra o olhar colonial.

Lynn Parotti (nascida em 1968, Nassau, Bahamas) é uma artista de Londres cujas pinturas viscerais feitas a óleo são orientadas pela paisagem física e psicológica.  
Seu trabalho aborda a experiência humana e questões atuais da sociedade, como o aquecimento global, mudanças climáticas e migração, mantendo-se a par das questões contemporâneas na própria pintura.  

Lynn Parotti (nascida em 1968, Nassau, Bahamas) é uma artista de Londres cujas pinturas viscerais feitas a óleo são orientadas pela paisagem física e psicológica.  
Seu trabalho aborda a experiência humana e questões atuais da sociedade, como o aquecimento global, mudanças climáticas e migração, mantendo-se a par das questões contemporâneas na própria pintura.  

ANTONIUS ROBERTS, OBE (b.1958 Nassau, The Bahamas) has one daughter Ayla Antonia Roberts and is married to Dr Annette Warren-Roberts. Roberts graduated in 1981 from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA in Painting.  As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of The Bahamas (now University of The Bahamas), Roberts has mentored a generation of young Bahamian artists.  He conceived of and coordinated the first Junior Junkanoo competition and parade in 1983, celebrating ten years of Bahamian Independence. He served as the Curator of The Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Art Gallery until 2017, and was the architect and coordinator of their annual Competitions and Exhibitions until 2006; and played a supportive role in the restoration of the former Villa Doyle and its conversion to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  Additionally Roberts founded The Bahamian Art Gallery in 1991 which was responsible for the reintroduction of master artists Kendal Hanna and Jo Monks – USA Boy. That same year he curated the largest exhibition of Amos Ferguson’s work at The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery and encouraged The Right Honorable Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling to approve the purchase of twenty five (25) paintings from that exhibition. These paintings formed the beginning of the National Art Collection of The Bahamas. In recognition of his contribution to national development in the arts, Roberts was a recipient of a Commonwealth of The Bahamas Silver Jubilee Award and of the E. Clement Bethel Award from The College of The Bahamas, as well as the Ministry of Tourism’s Cacique Award for the Arts in 2000.  As an artist Roberts has participated in exhibitions around the world and has mounted many within The Bahamas.  In 2005 Roberts spent one month in Pietrasanta, Italy working in marble and granite as part of the International Professional Artist Symposium and Exchange. In 2006 he was invited to exhibit in Changchun, China and his 12’ bronze sculpture is permanently installed there.  As a sculptor Roberts is best known for the first Sacred Space project at the historic Clifton Heritage site. This work was expanded by the installation at the Blake Road Welcome Centre.  Another group of Sacred Women travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany for the Funky Nassau Exhibition and then were exhibited at The Nassau Art Gallery of The Bahamas, with a similar installation now forming part of The Grand Bahama Heritage Foundation. On 3 de novembro de 2017, The Cove at Atlantis, Paradise Island debuted a permanent art installation “Sacred Space” on the tip of The Cove’s peninsula. This sculpture series, represents seven dancing women who each depict the intention of triumph, hope, determination and a vision to help conserve Bahamian Heritage. As an open space designer, in 2009 Roberts designed and directed the creation of the seven acre park at Centreville House, an integral part of the revitalization programme in downtown Nassau. In 2011 he participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition at the Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa. His artwork Bubbles was installed as part of the expansion of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s final phase in 2013. Roberts was the Artist in Residence at Schooner Bay, Abaco, for several years, and in 2017 established a relationship with the Island School in Eleuthera. In 2012, he opened an art gallery and studio on Cumberland Street in a centuries’ old historic building known as Hillside House, which has become an active centre for the creative community. His ethos connecting man’s spiritual and emotional nature and nature itself, and his desire to record and honour Bahamian heritage, is inherent in all of his paintings and sculptures.
A member of The Charitable Arts Foundation for over twenty years, Roberts along with other council members, continue to raise significant funding for the creative community in The Bahamas. These funds are available on an annual bases for art education, grants for short and full length films, art projects, music projects, play writers, poets, musicians and support of national art institutions.

Guilden M. Gilbert, Jr. was born and raised in Bermuda in 1966.

His mother says he always showed a fascination for cameras. He did not take photography seriously until at the age of 14, while participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme he needed to chose a hobby, photography was a natural fit. This is where he began to not only shoot but also learned how to develop film and print images in the darkroom. It was at this point where photography became a very large part of his life. Unfortunately, professional photographers were unwilling to teach photography as many feared the student would become a competitor. Guilden learn photography on his own, one image on one roll of film at time, he took notes of each shot he captured and when receiving the film back from the lab he would analyze what he did right and what he did wrong and began to understand why things worked and why they did not, this allowed him to learned the craft of photography. His parents were very supportive, in 1981 they bought him his first 35mm SLR camera, a Canon AE-1 and on this he would shoot between 8 and 10 rolls of film a week. He had this camera and continued to produce images with until it was stolen in 1999.

Guilden relocated to Nassau, the Bahamas in 1997 with his wife of 6 years, they recently celebrated 27 years of marriage and have two children, both born in the Bahamas.

Although much of his work is landscape/seascape, he has become known as a Sports Photographer having been contracted to shoot the IAAF World Relays, CARIFTA Games, FIFA World Cup Qualifier between Bermuda and the Bahamas, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, he also shoots swim events and went home to Bermuda specifically to capture some of the America’s Cup races. He was also recently featured in N Photo Magazine, a Nikon-centric globally distributed magazine for his Sports Photography work. Guilden has also had numerous images selected by Blank Wall, an Athens, Greece art gallery for exhibit. He recently received Honourable Mention in two large global photography contests, the International Photographers Award and the Tokyo International Foto Awards. His work has been purchased and hangs on walls globally.

Guilden is also an executive and photographer with the Bahamian Project, a project designed to capture portraits of average Bahamians with the view to establishing a National Portrait Archive.

Today Guilden has come full circle and is once again shooting and developing film, specifically Medium Format film. He says, “There is just something organic about shooting film and there is nothing quite like the feeling of pulling a developed roll of film out of the developing cannister to see the images created. Shooting film will certainly test your knowledge of proper exposure and composition because the negative does not lie about what you have produced.”

Guilden, along with another local photographer made a decision, two years ago, that they will teach photography because to have gained so much knowledge over nearly 40 years of photograph and not share that knowledge does a dis-service to the art form. The class range from Beginner’s Photography to Advanced Studio and Outdoor Lighting and are held in partnership with Queen’s College Centre for Further Education.

Guilden M. Gilbert, Jr. was born and raised in Bermuda in 1966.

His mother says he always showed a fascination for cameras. He did not take photography seriously until at the age of 14, while participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme he needed to chose a hobby, photography was a natural fit. This is where he began to not only shoot but also learned how to develop film and print images in the darkroom. It was at this point where photography became a very large part of his life. Unfortunately, professional photographers were unwilling to teach photography as many feared the student would become a competitor. Guilden learn photography on his own, one image on one roll of film at time, he took notes of each shot he captured and when receiving the film back from the lab he would analyze what he did right and what he did wrong and began to understand why things worked and why they did not, this allowed him to learned the craft of photography. His parents were very supportive, in 1981 they bought him his first 35mm SLR camera, a Canon AE-1 and on this he would shoot between 8 and 10 rolls of film a week. He had this camera and continued to produce images with until it was stolen in 1999.

Guilden relocated to Nassau, the Bahamas in 1997 with his wife of 6 years, they recently celebrated 27 years of marriage and have two children, both born in the Bahamas.

Although much of his work is landscape/seascape, he has become known as a Sports Photographer having been contracted to shoot the IAAF World Relays, CARIFTA Games, FIFA World Cup Qualifier between Bermuda and the Bahamas, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, he also shoots swim events and went home to Bermuda specifically to capture some of the America’s Cup races. He was also recently featured in N Photo Magazine, a Nikon-centric globally distributed magazine for his Sports Photography work. Guilden has also had numerous images selected by Blank Wall, an Athens, Greece art gallery for exhibit. He recently received Honourable Mention in two large global photography contests, the International Photographers Award and the Tokyo International Foto Awards. His work has been purchased and hangs on walls globally.

Guilden is also an executive and photographer with the Bahamian Project, a project designed to capture portraits of average Bahamians with the view to establishing a National Portrait Archive.

Today Guilden has come full circle and is once again shooting and developing film, specifically Medium Format film. He says, “There is just something organic about shooting film and there is nothing quite like the feeling of pulling a developed roll of film out of the developing cannister to see the images created. Shooting film will certainly test your knowledge of proper exposure and composition because the negative does not lie about what you have produced.”

Guilden, along with another local photographer made a decision, two years ago, that they will teach photography because to have gained so much knowledge over nearly 40 years of photograph and not share that knowledge does a dis-service to the art form. The class range from Beginner’s Photography to Advanced Studio and Outdoor Lighting and are held in partnership with Queen’s College Centre for Further Education.

Lynn Parotti (nascida em 1968, Nassau, Bahamas) é uma artista de Londres cujas pinturas viscerais feitas a óleo são orientadas pela paisagem física e psicológica.  
Seu trabalho aborda a experiência humana e questões atuais da sociedade, como o aquecimento global, mudanças climáticas e migração, mantendo-se a par das questões contemporâneas na própria pintura.  

ANTONIUS ROBERTS, OBE (b.1958 Nassau, The Bahamas) has one daughter Ayla Antonia Roberts and is married to Dr Annette Warren-Roberts. Roberts graduated in 1981 from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA in Painting.  As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of The Bahamas (now University of The Bahamas), Roberts has mentored a generation of young Bahamian artists.  He conceived of and coordinated the first Junior Junkanoo competition and parade in 1983, celebrating ten years of Bahamian Independence. He served as the Curator of The Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Art Gallery until 2017, and was the architect and coordinator of their annual Competitions and Exhibitions until 2006; and played a supportive role in the restoration of the former Villa Doyle and its conversion to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  Additionally Roberts founded The Bahamian Art Gallery in 1991 which was responsible for the reintroduction of master artists Kendal Hanna and Jo Monks – USA Boy. That same year he curated the largest exhibition of Amos Ferguson’s work at The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery and encouraged The Right Honorable Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling to approve the purchase of twenty five (25) paintings from that exhibition. These paintings formed the beginning of the National Art Collection of The Bahamas. In recognition of his contribution to national development in the arts, Roberts was a recipient of a Commonwealth of The Bahamas Silver Jubilee Award and of the E. Clement Bethel Award from The College of The Bahamas, as well as the Ministry of Tourism’s Cacique Award for the Arts in 2000.  As an artist Roberts has participated in exhibitions around the world and has mounted many within The Bahamas.  In 2005 Roberts spent one month in Pietrasanta, Italy working in marble and granite as part of the International Professional Artist Symposium and Exchange. In 2006 he was invited to exhibit in Changchun, China and his 12’ bronze sculpture is permanently installed there.  As a sculptor Roberts is best known for the first Sacred Space project at the historic Clifton Heritage site. This work was expanded by the installation at the Blake Road Welcome Centre.  Another group of Sacred Women travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany for the Funky Nassau Exhibition and then were exhibited at The Nassau Art Gallery of The Bahamas, with a similar installation now forming part of The Grand Bahama Heritage Foundation. On 3 de novembro de 2017, The Cove at Atlantis, Paradise Island debuted a permanent art installation “Sacred Space” on the tip of The Cove’s peninsula. This sculpture series, represents seven dancing women who each depict the intention of triumph, hope, determination and a vision to help conserve Bahamian Heritage. As an open space designer, in 2009 Roberts designed and directed the creation of the seven acre park at Centreville House, an integral part of the revitalization programme in downtown Nassau. In 2011 he participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition at the Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa. His artwork Bubbles was installed as part of the expansion of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s final phase in 2013. Roberts was the Artist in Residence at Schooner Bay, Abaco, for several years, and in 2017 established a relationship with the Island School in Eleuthera. In 2012, he opened an art gallery and studio on Cumberland Street in a centuries’ old historic building known as Hillside House, which has become an active centre for the creative community. His ethos connecting man’s spiritual and emotional nature and nature itself, and his desire to record and honour Bahamian heritage, is inherent in all of his paintings and sculptures.
A member of The Charitable Arts Foundation for over twenty years, Roberts along with other council members, continue to raise significant funding for the creative community in The Bahamas. These funds are available on an annual bases for art education, grants for short and full length films, art projects, music projects, play writers, poets, musicians and support of national art institutions.

Lynn Parotti (nascida em 1968, Nassau, Bahamas) é uma artista de Londres cujas pinturas viscerais feitas a óleo são orientadas pela paisagem física e psicológica.  
Seu trabalho aborda a experiência humana e questões atuais da sociedade, como o aquecimento global, mudanças climáticas e migração, mantendo-se a par das questões contemporâneas na própria pintura.  

Guilden M. Gilbert, Jr. was born and raised in Bermuda in 1966.

His mother says he always showed a fascination for cameras. He did not take photography seriously until at the age of 14, while participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme he needed to chose a hobby, photography was a natural fit. This is where he began to not only shoot but also learned how to develop film and print images in the darkroom. It was at this point where photography became a very large part of his life. Unfortunately, professional photographers were unwilling to teach photography as many feared the student would become a competitor. Guilden learn photography on his own, one image on one roll of film at time, he took notes of each shot he captured and when receiving the film back from the lab he would analyze what he did right and what he did wrong and began to understand why things worked and why they did not, this allowed him to learned the craft of photography. His parents were very supportive, in 1981 they bought him his first 35mm SLR camera, a Canon AE-1 and on this he would shoot between 8 and 10 rolls of film a week. He had this camera and continued to produce images with until it was stolen in 1999.

Guilden relocated to Nassau, the Bahamas in 1997 with his wife of 6 years, they recently celebrated 27 years of marriage and have two children, both born in the Bahamas.

Although much of his work is landscape/seascape, he has become known as a Sports Photographer having been contracted to shoot the IAAF World Relays, CARIFTA Games, FIFA World Cup Qualifier between Bermuda and the Bahamas, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, he also shoots swim events and went home to Bermuda specifically to capture some of the America’s Cup races. He was also recently featured in N Photo Magazine, a Nikon-centric globally distributed magazine for his Sports Photography work. Guilden has also had numerous images selected by Blank Wall, an Athens, Greece art gallery for exhibit. He recently received Honourable Mention in two large global photography contests, the International Photographers Award and the Tokyo International Foto Awards. His work has been purchased and hangs on walls globally.

Guilden is also an executive and photographer with the Bahamian Project, a project designed to capture portraits of average Bahamians with the view to establishing a National Portrait Archive.

Today Guilden has come full circle and is once again shooting and developing film, specifically Medium Format film. He says, “There is just something organic about shooting film and there is nothing quite like the feeling of pulling a developed roll of film out of the developing cannister to see the images created. Shooting film will certainly test your knowledge of proper exposure and composition because the negative does not lie about what you have produced.”

Guilden, along with another local photographer made a decision, two years ago, that they will teach photography because to have gained so much knowledge over nearly 40 years of photograph and not share that knowledge does a dis-service to the art form. The class range from Beginner’s Photography to Advanced Studio and Outdoor Lighting and are held in partnership with Queen’s College Centre for Further Education.

Até hoje, o desejo de Jonathan de recriar as Bahamas em telas permanece e ele aprendeu que demora muitos anos para chegar à perfeição. Hoje, suas pinturas capturam realisticamente a majestade e o caráter da vida e do cenário das Bahamas. Usando tinta acrílica como seu meio, ele explora uma grande variedade de assuntos, como casas e marcos históricos das Bahamas, plantas nativas coloridas e, claro, as águas luminosas das Bahamas.

“Acumular faz parte do processo”, afirma a escultora Kendra Frorup sobre sua obra de arte. Frorup nasceu e cresceu em Nassau, Bahamas, e usa suas memórias dessa época em sua arte. Depois de uma infância nas Bahamas, ela teve a oportunidade de estudar nos Estados Unidos e começou a criar imagens representativas que mostram uma convergência com sua cultura.

“Não há progresso em repetir constantemente o que já foi feito.” Este tema ressoa fortemente através da arte e da vida do artista visual nascido nas Bahamas, Allan Pachino Wallace. Portanto, não é de surpreender que ele esteja entre um dos contribuintes mais originais da arte bahamense. Aos trinta e sete anos de idade, Allan exala uma sensação de conforto na prática de seu dom artístico, consistentemente desafiando-se a se superar. Allan nasceu em 11 de março de 1979. Apenas dois anos depois, inspirado por seu tio O’Brian Wallace, Allan pegou um lápis de pintura artística pela primeira vez e, desde então, os dois se tornaram inseparáveis.

ANTONIUS ROBERTS, OBE (b.1958 Nassau, The Bahamas) has one daughter Ayla Antonia Roberts and is married to Dr Annette Warren-Roberts. Roberts graduated in 1981 from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA in Painting.  As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of The Bahamas (now University of The Bahamas), Roberts has mentored a generation of young Bahamian artists.  He conceived of and coordinated the first Junior Junkanoo competition and parade in 1983, celebrating ten years of Bahamian Independence. He served as the Curator of The Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Art Gallery until 2017, and was the architect and coordinator of their annual Competitions and Exhibitions until 2006; and played a supportive role in the restoration of the former Villa Doyle and its conversion to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  Additionally Roberts founded The Bahamian Art Gallery in 1991 which was responsible for the reintroduction of master artists Kendal Hanna and Jo Monks – USA Boy. That same year he curated the largest exhibition of Amos Ferguson’s work at The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery and encouraged The Right Honorable Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling to approve the purchase of twenty five (25) paintings from that exhibition. These paintings formed the beginning of the National Art Collection of The Bahamas. In recognition of his contribution to national development in the arts, Roberts was a recipient of a Commonwealth of The Bahamas Silver Jubilee Award and of the E. Clement Bethel Award from The College of The Bahamas, as well as the Ministry of Tourism’s Cacique Award for the Arts in 2000.  As an artist Roberts has participated in exhibitions around the world and has mounted many within The Bahamas.  In 2005 Roberts spent one month in Pietrasanta, Italy working in marble and granite as part of the International Professional Artist Symposium and Exchange. In 2006 he was invited to exhibit in Changchun, China and his 12’ bronze sculpture is permanently installed there.  As a sculptor Roberts is best known for the first Sacred Space project at the historic Clifton Heritage site. This work was expanded by the installation at the Blake Road Welcome Centre.  Another group of Sacred Women travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany for the Funky Nassau Exhibition and then were exhibited at The Nassau Art Gallery of The Bahamas, with a similar installation now forming part of The Grand Bahama Heritage Foundation. On 3 de novembro de 2017, The Cove at Atlantis, Paradise Island debuted a permanent art installation “Sacred Space” on the tip of The Cove’s peninsula. This sculpture series, represents seven dancing women who each depict the intention of triumph, hope, determination and a vision to help conserve Bahamian Heritage. As an open space designer, in 2009 Roberts designed and directed the creation of the seven acre park at Centreville House, an integral part of the revitalization programme in downtown Nassau. In 2011 he participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition at the Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa. His artwork Bubbles was installed as part of the expansion of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s final phase in 2013. Roberts was the Artist in Residence at Schooner Bay, Abaco, for several years, and in 2017 established a relationship with the Island School in Eleuthera. In 2012, he opened an art gallery and studio on Cumberland Street in a centuries’ old historic building known as Hillside House, which has become an active centre for the creative community. His ethos connecting man’s spiritual and emotional nature and nature itself, and his desire to record and honour Bahamian heritage, is inherent in all of his paintings and sculptures.
A member of The Charitable Arts Foundation for over twenty years, Roberts along with other council members, continue to raise significant funding for the creative community in The Bahamas. These funds are available on an annual bases for art education, grants for short and full length films, art projects, music projects, play writers, poets, musicians and support of national art institutions.

Guilden M. Gilbert, Jr. was born and raised in Bermuda in 1966.

His mother says he always showed a fascination for cameras. He did not take photography seriously until at the age of 14, while participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme he needed to chose a hobby, photography was a natural fit. This is where he began to not only shoot but also learned how to develop film and print images in the darkroom. It was at this point where photography became a very large part of his life. Unfortunately, professional photographers were unwilling to teach photography as many feared the student would become a competitor. Guilden learn photography on his own, one image on one roll of film at time, he took notes of each shot he captured and when receiving the film back from the lab he would analyze what he did right and what he did wrong and began to understand why things worked and why they did not, this allowed him to learned the craft of photography. His parents were very supportive, in 1981 they bought him his first 35mm SLR camera, a Canon AE-1 and on this he would shoot between 8 and 10 rolls of film a week. He had this camera and continued to produce images with until it was stolen in 1999.

Guilden relocated to Nassau, the Bahamas in 1997 with his wife of 6 years, they recently celebrated 27 years of marriage and have two children, both born in the Bahamas.

Although much of his work is landscape/seascape, he has become known as a Sports Photographer having been contracted to shoot the IAAF World Relays, CARIFTA Games, FIFA World Cup Qualifier between Bermuda and the Bahamas, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, he also shoots swim events and went home to Bermuda specifically to capture some of the America’s Cup races. He was also recently featured in N Photo Magazine, a Nikon-centric globally distributed magazine for his Sports Photography work. Guilden has also had numerous images selected by Blank Wall, an Athens, Greece art gallery for exhibit. He recently received Honourable Mention in two large global photography contests, the International Photographers Award and the Tokyo International Foto Awards. His work has been purchased and hangs on walls globally.

Guilden is also an executive and photographer with the Bahamian Project, a project designed to capture portraits of average Bahamians with the view to establishing a National Portrait Archive.

Today Guilden has come full circle and is once again shooting and developing film, specifically Medium Format film. He says, “There is just something organic about shooting film and there is nothing quite like the feeling of pulling a developed roll of film out of the developing cannister to see the images created. Shooting film will certainly test your knowledge of proper exposure and composition because the negative does not lie about what you have produced.”

Guilden, along with another local photographer made a decision, two years ago, that they will teach photography because to have gained so much knowledge over nearly 40 years of photograph and not share that knowledge does a dis-service to the art form. The class range from Beginner’s Photography to Advanced Studio and Outdoor Lighting and are held in partnership with Queen’s College Centre for Further Education.

Guilden M. Gilbert, Jr. was born and raised in Bermuda in 1966.

His mother says he always showed a fascination for cameras. He did not take photography seriously until at the age of 14, while participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme he needed to chose a hobby, photography was a natural fit. This is where he began to not only shoot but also learned how to develop film and print images in the darkroom. It was at this point where photography became a very large part of his life. Unfortunately, professional photographers were unwilling to teach photography as many feared the student would become a competitor. Guilden learn photography on his own, one image on one roll of film at time, he took notes of each shot he captured and when receiving the film back from the lab he would analyze what he did right and what he did wrong and began to understand why things worked and why they did not, this allowed him to learned the craft of photography. His parents were very supportive, in 1981 they bought him his first 35mm SLR camera, a Canon AE-1 and on this he would shoot between 8 and 10 rolls of film a week. He had this camera and continued to produce images with until it was stolen in 1999.

Guilden relocated to Nassau, the Bahamas in 1997 with his wife of 6 years, they recently celebrated 27 years of marriage and have two children, both born in the Bahamas.

Although much of his work is landscape/seascape, he has become known as a Sports Photographer having been contracted to shoot the IAAF World Relays, CARIFTA Games, FIFA World Cup Qualifier between Bermuda and the Bahamas, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, he also shoots swim events and went home to Bermuda specifically to capture some of the America’s Cup races. He was also recently featured in N Photo Magazine, a Nikon-centric globally distributed magazine for his Sports Photography work. Guilden has also had numerous images selected by Blank Wall, an Athens, Greece art gallery for exhibit. He recently received Honourable Mention in two large global photography contests, the International Photographers Award and the Tokyo International Foto Awards. His work has been purchased and hangs on walls globally.

Guilden is also an executive and photographer with the Bahamian Project, a project designed to capture portraits of average Bahamians with the view to establishing a National Portrait Archive.

Today Guilden has come full circle and is once again shooting and developing film, specifically Medium Format film. He says, “There is just something organic about shooting film and there is nothing quite like the feeling of pulling a developed roll of film out of the developing cannister to see the images created. Shooting film will certainly test your knowledge of proper exposure and composition because the negative does not lie about what you have produced.”

Guilden, along with another local photographer made a decision, two years ago, that they will teach photography because to have gained so much knowledge over nearly 40 years of photograph and not share that knowledge does a dis-service to the art form. The class range from Beginner’s Photography to Advanced Studio and Outdoor Lighting and are held in partnership with Queen’s College Centre for Further Education.

A professional photographer since the age of fifteen, Roland Rose obtained his first camera when he was only twelve years old and used it to photograph the delights of Hog Island (now Paradise Island) when it truly was an underdeveloped paradise. He has travelled extensively, often to pursue his interest in food, wine, and classical music, but photography has been Roland’s passion and life’s work.

Born in Italy to British parents, Roland has lived in The Bahamas since 1946. Before establishing his own practice, he worked for some thirty-two years for the Development Board (later to become the Ministry of Tourism), when his lens was directed at visitors, touristic sites, and pretty views designed to please and attract visitors. During this time, he also took photographs of island life that piqued his interest or caught his artistic, albeit self-trained, eye.

Hanging precariously from a tree, a fence or a roof, jumping from a boat, or in the air, he sought the unusual angle or different view that gave his photographs special interest. He moved happily from the dark-room to the world of digital photography and Photoshop™, regularly upgrading his equipment to include the latest, most powerful cameras and lenses with their ever-expanding pixel count and improved image quality.

As a photographer, Roland has expressed his joy in the beauty that he has found here in The Bahamas, both in its people and its natural environment.

A pintura sempre foi um meio de expressão pessoal. Comecei desenhando e pintando retratos, assim como o meu professor Stan Burnside, em 1988-1991. Mas, com o tempo, comecei a experimentar diferentes métodos de pintura, uma evolução natural... para mim, a psicologia de fazer imagens tem possibilidades ilimitadas. O mundo artístico pode embaralhar completamente sua cabeça de vez em quando, mas a expressão tem seu próprio jeito de se externalizar da forma que quiser. Assim, com meus retratos, paisagens, minhas abstrações elusivas atuais, estou apenas pintando.

Kendal Hanna (born 1936, Nassau, The Bahamas) is one of the country’s earliest abstract expressionists.  In his early career,  Hanna worked figuratively,  but as he progressed,  his work became increasingly abstract and self-referential.  He characterizes his work as his “subconscious mind expressing itself on the canvas.”  Hanna went through a phase of painting using only black and white, but after treatment for illness, he began using color more extensively.  Today, he paints in both colour and black and white, and alternates between pure abstractionism and capturing subjects, often himself or close friends, in a more realistic style.   

Hanna always dreamed of being “trained in art” and left for New York City in early adulthood to study fine art, but had to return to Nassau to look after his ailing mother and was never able to realize his dream of attending art school.  Later, Hanna studied marine biology and then worked in the post office in Nassau.  During his breaks, he visited Nassau’s fabled Chelsea Pottery and soon became one of their first apprentices, along with Max Taylor and Brent Malone.  An avid reader of the art books found at the Pottery,  he learned about the work of European artists and was inspired to turn to painting. Hanna also met many visiting artists and sculptors who came to Nassau, among them Hildegard Hamilton and famous American muralist John St. John.  Hanna was influenced by their work and they encouraged him to pursue his art.   

His first exhibition was held in 1992 in Nassau and then at The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas,  a restored colonial mansion formerly known as the Villa Doyle.  Hanna remembers accompanying his mother to work and looking at the Villa Doyle opposite. “I would never realize that my paintings would be shown in this place, you know it’s sort of unbelievable,” he says about seeing his work hanging in the Gallery now.  Hanna had exhibitions at the new Providence Art and Antiques Gallery in 2005 and 2006, the second exhibit showing many of his self-portraits.  He moved into Popup Galleries in 2007 where he is still the artist in residence. In 2011, a major retrospective of his life’s work was shown at the NAGB.   In 2015, Hanna was selected to exhibit at Volta Art Fair in NYC.  A documentary, Brigidy Bram, tells the story of Hanna’s life and working processes.

Delton Barrett cresceu e passou sua infância nas Bahamas, completando seu último ano na Escola Secundária C.R. Walker em 2008, quando ele descobriu seu interesse pela arte. Depois de deixar a escola, ele passou a investir seu tempo na pintura de cenários de revistas antigas das Bahamas.
O maior objetivo de Barrett é refletir-se dentro da paisagem que o rodeia para espelhar sua masculinidade dentro da folhagem em que ele mescla seu corpo. Ele afirma sua singularidade a partir de raízes de árvores que se estendem bastante no subsolo. Sua inserção intencional dentro de uma paisagem intocada comunica a necessidade de ser visto profundamente, intrinsecamente distante da terra de uma maneira que traz à tona a questão da sua própria liberdade: seu corpo, como a terra colonizada, é agora um propulsor da rebelião contra o olhar colonial.

Até hoje, o desejo de Jonathan de recriar as Bahamas em telas permanece e ele aprendeu que demora muitos anos para chegar à perfeição. Hoje, suas pinturas capturam realisticamente a majestade e o caráter da vida e do cenário das Bahamas. Usando tinta acrílica como seu meio, ele explora uma grande variedade de assuntos, como casas e marcos históricos das Bahamas, plantas nativas coloridas e, claro, as águas luminosas das Bahamas.

Até hoje, o desejo de Jonathan de recriar as Bahamas em telas permanece e ele aprendeu que demora muitos anos para chegar à perfeição. Hoje, suas pinturas capturam realisticamente a majestade e o caráter da vida e do cenário das Bahamas. Usando tinta acrílica como seu meio, ele explora uma grande variedade de assuntos, como casas e marcos históricos das Bahamas, plantas nativas coloridas e, claro, as águas luminosas das Bahamas.

In high school I gained an appreciation for photography as an art form while learning the intricacies of the field; rolling, shooting, and developing my own black and white film, preparing prints for a weekly class critique. After graduating from college I moved to Alaska for a summer job and ended up staying for almost 7 years. I spent winter months of each year traveling and volunteering throughout Latin America. As a solo traveller I used my camera as a tool to connect and share with people along the way, telling stories of lives different than mine. In 2008 I spent a year living in Palermo, Sicily and decided to get serious about photography as a career. Afterwards I published four images with National Geographic including its “Life in Color” book and series in 2009. A portfolio of images from Sicily titled “Sicilia Bellina” was also published in Descant Magazine in 2011. After a short stint at an office job with a travel company,

I decided to work independently as a freelance photographer shooting weddings while working with clients such as Harvard University, McKinsey and Company, Mystic River Watershed Association, and Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS. In 2012 I was offered a job at The Island School, a non-profit organization on a remote island in The Bahamas. I jumped at the opportunity at doing more purposeful work. I was put in charge of telling the stories of scientists, educators, sustainability specialists, and students. There I captured images of educational hands-on experiences involving scuba diving, field research, renewable energy production, and survival kayak trips.

I now work as a freelance photographer and stay-at-home father based in Nassau, The Bahamas. I am now accepted as a representative of Junkanoo media with the Bahamas Ministry of Culture and a contributing photographer of The Bahamian Project.

Melissa Alcena is a portrait and documentary photographer born in 1988 in Nassau, Bahamas. She attended Lyford Cay International School and graduated from St. Andrew’s International School in 2006. In 2010 she enrolled at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, and completed a two year Applied Photography course in 2012. Alcena was invited to exhibit for her first solo show, “Some (re)assembly required” at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas in 2017 and in group shows at The Central Bank of The Bahamas for ‘The Bahamian Project’, ‘Diversions’ for The D’Agulair Art Foundation and most recently for The National Art Gallery’s NE9 ‘The Fruit and the Seed’ in 2018.

Daniel Belton was born in the United Kingdom to an English Father and a Bahamian Mother.  He moved to Nassau when he was a young boy and graduated from Kingsway Academy.  Belton was the recipient of the Best Performance Award for Carpentry and Joinery during the 2000 BGCSE Examinations from the Ministry of Education and Youth Testing and Evaluation Section.  He went on to study abroad at Lynn University and received a Bachelor’s degree in Hospitality Management with a Specialization in Sports and Recreation Management.  Belton uses reclaimed wood as his primary material, transforming found and discarded pieces into finished furniture, sculpture and wall decor. He strives to conserve the character of the used material, leaving what others deem as ‘imperfect’: knots, spiral nail holes, cracks, warping and browning. He masterfully incorporates and preserves these wooden ‘scars’ into vibrantly colored, sculptural and functional furniture pieces.