In Trinidad and Tobago, events rarely exist as simple gatherings. Carnival, fetes, weddings, corporate launches — they live somewhere between spectacle and controlled chaos. Few people understand that balance better than Krista Clarke.
Themes of labour, celebration, grief, restraint and respectability permeate the work in deliberate and unexpected ways, familiar, yet confrontational when articulated in a manner which, at once, communicates a quiet communion, reverence really, with and for the subject matter.
Meet Lauren Hinds, an Illustrator and cartoonist living and working in Trinidad & Tobago with more than a decade of experience marked by a catalogue of stories told in both handmade, self-published books and formally published successes.
Adam ‘Foreigner’ Cooper, A multi-hyphenate in an increasingly deep sea of them, Cooper’s cross-cultural group hug continues into Carnival, and in the part of the festival he totes in his carry-on.
APRIL, 2023 Victoria Tom creates clothes you want to live in. The composing of an essential ‘made in the Caribbean’ wardrobe. Clothes I’d wear daily. This idea of wearing anything repeatedly might sound like blasphemy in a time where it seems most fashionable to document every moment and outfit for a digital show. Still, Victoria […]
May 30, 2020 In an industry filled with evolving artistic landscapes, Alana Rajah has dedicated her life to ensuring that a 2000-year-old art form flourishes in modern society. Alana has been a practitioner of Bharatanatyam, a form of Indian Classical Dance, for more than 20 years. As the founder of the Adavallan Art Academy in […]
March 02, 2020 I first attended New Wave JA about 2 years ago in 2017, and the theme of the night was “Arts + Architecture”. At the time, I was an architecture student so I was pretty intrigued to find out what the event had in store. The venue was filled with like-minded contemporaries, both […]
June 06, 2019 Jimmy October, whose real name is L’shun Emmanuel, is a 24-year-old singer, songwriter, rapper, poet and creative director from Trinidad & Tobago who explores his musical talents in transcendental ways that have redefined how we perceive the sounds we call our own. Along with childhood friend Nicholas Subero, October formed the ‘OverDose […]
April 25, 2019 “Art can be dangerous, even when decorous” (Bridget Quinn, 2017). There are two senses that strike the most when confronted with art: sight and touch. The former goes without saying, but ultimately we feel, though there is no physical convergence by art (and design)- and that is what makes it so very […]
April 04, 2019 Words. We seem to ignore their power. Shivanee Ramlochan weaves her tapestries of words in such a fashion that each grabs your soul. Her book Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting contains pages of poems that grasp different parts of your consciousness in a way that cannot be escaped. They actually haunt […]
