DOONGALIK STUDIOS ART GALLERY NEWSLETTER

August 2017 Volume 11 Issue 8 - Happy Emancipation Day, Bahamas!

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PROMOTING THE VISION: By the Year 2020 more visitors will be attracted to The Bahamas by Bahamian Art,
Culture and Heritage than by merely sun, sand and sea.

Andrew Knowles, the young talented artist who continues to

pursue his skills, is preparing for his second exhibition at
Doongalik Studios that will focus on his experimentations with
oil portraits, an art form he has worked with for the past 4
years, either in commissioned works or by painting well known
Bahamian and international personalities.
Not content to merely render a realist likeness from a photo-
graph of his subject onto canvas, Knowles has added to the
style by incorporating abstraction, or waterscapes or land-
scaped backgrounds into the pieces. He will also display four
works in the exhibition which will demonstrate the various de-
velopmental layers involved in his portrait process which he
has described as the artway/ the elevated way/ the money
way.
Since his last showing at Doongalik in 2015, Knowles, who
spent the majority of his early years in the Elizabeth Estates
childrens home, has transitioned into his own living space and
now has a job. However, he continues to rely on his talents as
an artist, and is using this exhibition as a fundraiser to assist
him with his recurring expenses, as well as to share part pro-
IN THIS ISSUE
ceeds with the childrens home, knowing from personal experi- AUGUST EXHIBITIONSmark the dates! 1
ence about the essential services it provides. MORE EXCITING DOONGALIK NEWS 2
The Exhibition will be on display until Thursday, August 24. CREATIVE NASSAUon the move! 3
 STEVENSONS ARTISTS STATEMENT:
ALL OF MY EMOTIONS DOONGALIK FARMERS MARKET
Taking place on Saturday, August 12 and 26 from 9am1pm .
The work for this series will address emotional fragility. The use of Check the Doongalik Studios Art Gallery facebook page for a
ceramics as the primary medium for the objects emphasizes the listing of the weeks featured products!
delicacy of human emotion, supporting the idea of sensitivity and
tenderness.
Fragility for me is one aspect of our everyday life that drives our
physical and emotional responses based on any given situation. It
is actually a very sensitive way of being in that regardless of how
secure we believe life is, we are always emotionally subject to the
effects of our surroundings and distant environments. The slightest
of words, smallest of issues, and seemingly irrelevant occurrences,
can affect our emotional state and completely disrupt our way of
thinking. That is not to say that there are not those individuals who
are rarely disturbed by such experiences - however, I do believe
that most of us are indeed very temperamental creatures, both
spiritually and emotionally.
The creation of art typically will always address fragility in both
NEW ITEMS
direct and indirect forms. Take for example Grayson Perrys skill- SUSAN ROBERTS
fully coiled and decorated ceramic surfaces which express chal- a new giclee image
lenges of contemporary British society; the wrath and phobia shown from The Turtle Lady
in the extremely delicate ceramic insects carefully carved by Mary who is well known for
OMalley; or even the stimulation fabricated as a result of Ai Wei- her depictions of this
weis Dropping of a Han Dynasty Urn. These artists mental, spiri-
wonderful Bahamian
tual and physical abilities can definitely arouse the sensitivities of
any audience. Fragility here is simply the fragility of human emotion treasure!
itself which can be easily disrupted via the use of tactile objects,
concepts and so on. SISTER NOELLA
We are happy to
The inspiration for the designs of the work for All of My Emotions carry the abstract
comes from a combination of the structures of stones, wood, dete- artwork of this
riorating leaves, water flow, and the textures of natural sponges
Benedictine Sister
and corals. The objects are created from both stoneware and por-
celain clay that was fired in electric, gas and wood fired kilns. in the galleryshe
has more to come!
These objects are also combined with other materials that assist in
manifesting the idea of emotional fragility. They were created in
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China and Skaelskor, Denmark and
have been brought to The Bahamas for display as a way to agitate CHEF ELVIS COLLIE
the emotional conditions of the local and foreign witnesses of art in Bahamian chefs continue
the contemporary Bahamian context. to make their mark, and
The fragile nature of art itself is that it is indeed constantly vulner- we are pleased to carry
able to judgment, discrimination and appreciation. There is rarely this new edition of Baha-
any art piece created that solely embodies the exact opinion of the mian favourite recipes
creator alone. What makes art beautiful is the fact that it affects any for those foodies out
viewer at any place and time, regardless of ones educational back- there, you can never have
ground or social status. The result: Art will always have the ability to
trigger the fragile emotional state of any audience.
enough cookbooks!!

LENORA BROWN,
Pre-school educa-
tor, has shared an
interesting selection
of her popular al-
phabet childrens
stories with us!
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The Marina Village Art Walk at Atlantis, Paradise Island

This Saturday, August 12 and 26. Please join us for the fun
and festivities!

CN President, Pam (2nd right) recently visited Santa Fe, a sister

UNESCO Creative City of Crafts & Folk Arts, to view the famous
International Folk Arts Market there, and to also meet with city offi-
cials, as well as another UCCN partner from the City of Icheon in
South Korea. Plans to take a Bahamian straw artisan contingent to
CN RADIO SHOW Island FM 102.9Guests this month participate in the 2018 Market are being discussed!
included the newly crowned Miss World Bahamas, Geena Thomp-
son along with the organizations President, Michelle Malcolm (seen
left with Island FM owner, Sir Charles Carter & host Patti);and Jo-
anna Parker from the Antiquities, Monuments & Museums Corpora-
tion (AMMC). You can also visit the Creative Nassau website
www.creativenassau.com to listen to the radio programmes.