FOOD FOR US, BY US
In 2009 Rachel Renie – Gonzales co-founded D’Market Movers Ltd., an innovative e-commerce platform reimagining the way we access fresh, local foods in Trinidad & Tobago and the Caribbean.
SINCERELY VICTORIA TOM
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 […]
PRESERVING BHARATANATYAM
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 […]
THE NEW WAVE JAMAICA
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 […]
SPEAKING TRINI THROUGH CHOCOLATE
December 06, 2018 From the military to architecture to chocolate, it’s certainly been a unique and unpredictable journey for Cocobel creator Isabel Brash. This sensory designer and chocolatier invited us in to the Medulla Art Gallery on Fitt Street in Woodbrook, where her 2 year old daughter was being entertained by her all female team. […]
FROM BLUE TO BLACK BOX
January 25, 2018 3canal, they are the kings of the j’ouvert and while they don’t mean to sound haughty, they are damn right. Oh you didn’t know? Well now you know. I don’t regret a lot in my life but if I do regret one thing, it would be the year that I played j’ouvert […]
DESIGNING FOR MOKO
February 04, 2017 “This is how you know the culture isn’t dead.” That was the comment I overheard as I listened to Bishop’s Girls’ perform Parang songs at a Christmas event back in November (mental note taken and tucked into a pocket of my mind). Fast-forward to January 2017, the beginning of Carnival Season in […]
JAMAICAN SUB-CULTURE NURTURES BOTH ART & DESIGN
September 14, 2016 “I wanted to see if an architectural way of making could be developed that reflects the nature of Trinidad Carnival.” The culture, the rhythm, the people, the accents and even the language… Across the Caribbean, no two are the same. And how we experience these unique variables differs even more as a […]
THE DESIGN & ART OF CERAMICS
March 29, 2015 Using clay the way a painter uses canvas, Designer Island 2014 Loves List maker Adam Williams, uses simple forms to describe social and political stories on their surfaces. From the basic forms of collectible cups and wares to the rare allure of sculptured commentary, Adam’s patience, emotion and intent are molded to life, warmed to vibrant […]
KNITWEAR FOR THE CARIBBEAN
July 27, 2014 In a quiet, little studio in north-west Trinidad, Aisling Camps creates beautiful knitwear for her fashion line, ‘Aisling Knits’. Creative and climate-friendly cottons and bamboo… Engineering elegance into pieces that range from delicately oversized sweaters to edgier silhouettes, it’s knit wear for and from the Caribbean. We talk about her life transitions, her […]