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 Jo Ernsten 'Is anyone there', lino cut, 32 x 45cm, 2010  Congratulations to NADC printmaking teacher Jo Ernsten who has been selected for the 3rd Guanlan International Print Biennial (China) 2011 . This Biennial focuses on selected works of 'artistic and academic excellence'. The aim of the exhibition is to promote the exchange of artists ideas around the world, and to be a platform and window for people from the world to understand China and for Chinese to understand the world.  Jo's work will be exhibited alongside other leading printmakers from both China and around the globe.   For more on Jo's work see: http://www.joernsten.com/

Tim Allen" Landscape, creek and paddock" Oil on canvas 167 x 213cm 2010   Painting and drawing teacher Tim Allen is currently undertaking an artist residency at Presbyterian Ladies College. In between his busy teaching commitments at NADC, Tim is fitting in the practice-based residency at PLC. As well as working several days a week over 4 weeks in the studio at PLC, Tim has undertaken a 3 day artist camp with Year 11 students and staff, at Arthur Boyd's former property, Bundanon. Tim's residency will culminate in an exhibition at the Adelaide Perry Gallery, featuring work he has produced during his time at PLC. Year 11 students will exhibit in the gallery alongside Tim, giving  valuable  industry experience and inspiration to the aspiring young artists. For more on Tim's work, see http://www.timallenartist.com/

Place : Alice Yard , Woodbrook at 80 Roberts Street. Time : Wed, 7pm. What : Spoken word event and exhibition (in partnership with the Bocas Lit Fest ). For : the launch of the second issue of the amazing magazine ARC . Featuring : artist Brianna McCarthy ; poet Danielle Boodoo-Fortu n é and some surprises!

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Richard Bridgens, 'West India Scenery' FROM THE ORGANISERS: The English artist Richard Bridgens lived and worked in Trinidad in the 1830s, a generation before Cazabon, and drew and commented on what he found here. He took not only an artistic but also an anthropological interest in the sugar estates and the people who worked on them. Nevertheless, his work has either been completely overlooked or else dismissed as pro-slavery polemic that offers little more than caricature. But it is now increasingly being recognised by historians and art historians as an important visual record of the last years of slavery. Judy Raymond is researching Bridgens’s life and work in an attempt to discover more about the meaning of his drawings and resolve these contradictions. Judy Raymond has a BA in Literae Humaniores (Classics) from Hertford College, Oxford, and an MA in Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University. She has worked...

Even though you can't see it, but my collarbone is re-appearing.  Have a fabulous new week everyone.

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White Egrets  by Derek Walcott, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 86 Terracotta Army at Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China.  Photo by Aiden MacRae Thompson. * * * The poem at the start of Derek Walcott’s  White Egrets  tells us much of what we need to know about the rest of the collection.  The scene could be anywhere in the world, possibly on the coast of a Caribbean island. A game of chess appears to be ongoing. Who is playing? How long have they been playing? This is not clear. But the chessmen, in the view of the poet, resemble another place and another time as equally unfixable and mutable: the “astonishing excavation” discovered at  Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China, in 1974. The now famous Terracotta Army, reportedly dating back to 210BC, perform a kind of imaginative time-travelling that is a metaphor for the art of the poet as well as representative of the fact that, in the end, we must all leave things behind:  The chessmen are as rigid on their c...