Artist Residency
Red Gate Gallery Residency 2015
Beijing, China
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” — Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
In 2014 I was selected to be apart of the artist residency program at Red Gate Gallery in Beijing, China. I spent the months of January and February 2015, in Beijing, exploring the cityscape, visiting various art galleries and meeting fellow artists.
Besides producing new work for an upcoming exhibition, I was able to visit my mother's old village in Guangdong Province and research the cultural aspects of the local Hakka Chinese and how it has changed when they had migrated to Trinidad and Tobago.
You can read more about this research here.
K&Z Studio, Inc. 2014
Dunham, North Carolina
For Animae Caribe 2013, the annual animation festival in Trinidad. I did a 3D puppetry workshop with Kathy Zung, which was a two day session about learning how to build the skeleton for the puppets used in stop motion animation.
The following year I was able to do a week long workshop with Kathy Zung at K&Z Studio in North Carolina. Here I was taught more advance techniques into making the bodies and the moulds for the stop animation puppets.
Ajoupa Pottery
Freeport, Trinidad and Tobago
This former Cocoa estate house located on the eastern frindges of Freeport, has been the home of Ajoupa Pottery for the last twenty plus years. Now ceramic artist Bunty O'Connor along with her husband Rory O'Connor have been working together to create more personal work and also host a series of workshops of Raku and Mosiac classes.
With the support and expertise of Bunty, I have been able to continue making my spontaneous clay creations. It is an ongoing residency where I am able to comfortably explore my ideas.