Exposition Fairwind
L’exposition Fairwind met en lumière plus de 150 ans d’art bahaméen, du début des années 1800 aux pratiques actuelles. Les artistes présents comprennent Brent Malone, Amos Ferguson, Maxwell Taylor, Kendal Hanna, Stan Burnside, Jackson Burnside, Sue Bennett-Williams, Antonius Robert, Lynn Parotti, John Cox, Dionne Benjamin-Smith et John Beadle, entre autres, ainsi que de nombreux artistes internationaux inspirés par les Bahamas. Nombres des œuvres présentées appartiennent à la Dawn Davies Collection, une importante sélection d’œuvres historiques et contemporaines, dont la majorité est désormais introuvable ailleurs dans le monde. L’exposition Fairwind est une compilation de peintures, sculptures et photographies qui met en lumière d’importants récits, passés et contemporains, pour mieux comprendre cet endroit des Bahamas.














À propos de la collectionneuse

À propos de la collectionneuse
Dawn Davies
Dawn Davies est née à Nassau, New Providence, d’un père écossais et d’une mère bahaméenne. Elle est allée à l’école St Andrew’s à Nassau puis à l’université de Strathclyde à Glasgow, en Écosse. Et elle a par la suite obtenu un MBA de l’University of Miami en Floride. Elle a fait carrière dans le secteur des services financiers aux Bahamas.
Dawn Davies soutient avec ferveur l’art bahaméen, qu’elle collectionne. Elle a réuni au fil des années une vaste collection. En 2012, elle a publié un ouvrage complet intitulé Love & Responsibility – The Dawn Davies Collection, pour célébrer l’art bahaméen vu à travers sa collection. Le livre fait office de catalogue de l’ampleur culturelle et est un outil important pour documenter la culture et l’histoire des Bahamas. Le volume 2 est actuellement en cours. Elle a également publié TABLESCAPES Just for Fun en 2014 qui offre un aperçu de sa maison et de son jardin. Il traite du plaisir que procurent les tables soignées et l’agencement des objets trouvés dans ses placards et son jardin.
Passionnée par la communauté créative, Dawn Davies a été membre du Board of The Harry Moore Scholarship Committee (conseil du comité de bourses Harry Moore) pendant 13 ans. Elle fait actuellement partie du conseil de la National Art Gallery des Bahamas et de la fondation Charitable Arts Foundation. Elle s’intéresse et est également membre des institutions suivantes : Bahamas National Trust, B.R.E.E.F., le Nassau Garden Club, l’International Garden Club, la Bahamas Historical Society et la Nassau Music Society.
Nous sommes ravis de bénéficier d’un prêt de plusieurs œuvres d’art de la collection de Dawn Davies afin de partager l’histoire de l’art et de la culture des Bahamas. Sa collection alimente l’exposition Fairwind d’œuvres nous donnant un aperçu de la précieuse identité des Bahamas.
2 THRU Self Portrait no. 27, 2017
Khia Poitier

Techniques mixtes sur toile
Collection Baha Mar
122 cm x 91 cm
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À propos de l’artiste
Majestic Mama, 2016
Sophia Whitehead

Photographie numérique
Collection Baha Mar
61 cm x 46 cm
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À propos de l’artiste

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.
Changing of the Guard, circa 1973
Roland Rose

Photographie
Collection Baha Mar
46 cm x 61 cm
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À propos de l’artiste

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.
The Olden Days of Crepe Paper, circa 1970
Roland Rose

Photographie
Collection Baha Mar
61 cm x 46 cm
(TVA INCLUSE)
À propos de l’artiste

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.
Tarpum Bay Junkanoo Shack, Eleuthera
Erik Kruthoff

Photographie numérique
Collection Baha Mar
46 cm x 30 cm
(TVA INCLUSE)
À propos de l’artiste

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.
Lionfish Drummers
Delton Barrett

Photographie numérique
Collection Baha Mar
91 cm x 61 cm
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À propos de l’artiste

Delton Barrett a grandi aux Bahamas, il a effectué sa dernière année d’école à la C.R. Walker Senior High en 2008 où il s’est découvert une passion pour l’art. Après avoir quitté l’école, il a commencé à peindre des paysages qu’il trouvait dans de vieux magazines des Bahamas.
Son objectif ultime est de se projeter lui-même dans le paysage qui l’entoure : de projeter sa masculinité dans lequel son corps se fond. Il revendique son union avec les racines des arbres profondément enfouies. Sa position intentionnelle au sein d’un paysage intact dénote un besoin d’être vu comme faisant partie intégrante de la terre qui fait ressurgir la question de sa propre liberté : son corps, comme la terre auparavant colonisée, désormais utilisé comme un accessoire pour la rébellion contre le regard colonial.
Blue Waters
Ricardo Knowles

Huile sur toile
Collection Baha Mar
152 cm x 183 cm
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À propos de l’artiste

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.
Aujourd’hui encore, le désir de recréer les Bahamas sur toile de Jonathan subsiste et il a appris à ses dépens qu’il s’agit d’un travail de longue haleine. De nos jours, ses peintures reproduisent de manière réaliste la majesté et le caractère de la vie et des paysages des Bahamas. Grâce à la peinture acrylique, il explore un large éventail de sujets, tels que les habitations et les monuments bahamiens, les plantes indigènes hautes en couleur et bien évidemment, les eaux turquoises des 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.
She Used to Be Scared of Hair Comb II
Gio Swaby

Tissu et fil sur toile
Collection Baha Mar
178 cm x 81 cm
(TVA INCLUSE)
À propos de l’artiste

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.
Slave House IX Vestibule
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Impression pigmentaire d’archives sur du papier chiffon photo Hahnemühle
Édition limitée à 8 exemplaires, œuvre signée à la main, cadre en marqueterie ancienne et moulure grise en bois
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Portrait of Kendal
Melissa Alcena

Photographie numérique
Collection Baha Mar
51 cm x 61 cm
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À propos de l’artiste

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.
Line II
Kendal Hanna

Peinture acrylique sur toile
183 cm x 152 cm
Collection Baha Mar
(TVA INCLUSE)
À propos de l’artiste
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.
Slave House XXIII Pierrot, Harlequin and Scapin (par Antoine Watteau, en 1719) with Sevres Porcelain Pot Pourri and Exuma Sunset, 2016
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Impression pigmentaire d’archives sur du papier chiffon photo Hahnemühle
Édition limitée à 8 exemplaires, œuvre signée à la main, cadre en marqueterie ancienne et moulure grise en bois
(TVA INCLUSE)
À propos de l’artiste
If You Were a Plant…Tillandsia
John Beadle

Techniques mixtes sur papier
Collection Baha Mar
135 cm x 135 cm
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À propos de l’artiste
Slave House IX Pastime Room w/ Exuma Sunrise
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Impression pigmentaire d’archives sur du papier chiffon photo Hahnemühle
Édition limitée à 8 exemplaires, œuvre signée à la main, cadre en marqueterie ancienne et moulure grise en bois
(TVA INCLUSE)
À propos de l’artiste
Chickcharney In Love
Stan Burnside

Peinture acrylique sur toile
Collection Baha Mar
62 cm x 203 cm
(TVA INCLUSE)
À propos de l’artiste