Education

  • MA Fine Art, with Distinction - York St John University, UK 2014

•Thesis: DISPLACE & DISTASTE – The Taste for the Other: Tavares Strachan's 'Displaced' Bahamian Pavillion at Venice Biennale 2013

  • BA (Hons) Fine Art , with First Class Honours - York St John University, UK 2013

•Dissertation: “Curator as Ethnographer or Tourist? – Issues of Representing Identity in Caribbean Peoples as a Post-Colonial Other in Western Biennial Culture” 2012

Experience

  • Independent Curator, Writer & Cultural Worker - October 2021 to present.

  • Grant Juror, Caribbean Culture Fund, Third Call for Grant Applications, November, 2025

  • Editor-at-Large - The Caribbean, Burnaway, ATL, USA. February 2024-Present

  • CCCADI Crossroads Advisory Board Member - Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, NY, USA. September 2023-2025.

  • Copywriter + editor - (part-time) - The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) - August 2022 to July 2023.

  • Associate Curator, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) 

    • Nassau, The Bahamas. Working in a curatorial capacity from March 2015 to October 2021.

    • NAGB Social Media Officer for Instagram - developing a voice for the Museum on the platform from 2016 to 2019. 

  • CCCADI Curatorial Fellowship 2021 - Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, NY, USA.

  • Tilting Axis Curatorial Fellowship 2018/19 - Art Galleries for Black Studies, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

  • Editorial Intern, ARC Magazine - Remotely based across the Caribbean + diaspora, 2014.

Press & Publications

Cutlass Calling | The Machete’s Siren Song of Feminine Sovereignty - Burnaway (2025)

In Conversation with Courtney McClellan, Grace Aneiza Ali, and Natalie Willis Whylly - Burnaway (2025)

Jodi Minnis Rolle: Vexing the Bahamian Hospitality Narrative - Burnaway (2024)

A Floriography for Dominique Hunter (or, Morning Glory Strategies for those who choose to remain). Available in print in the 2024 Burnaway Themed Reader - Burnaway (2024)

Review: Fictions More Precious by Rodell Warner at Big Medium, Austin - Burnaway (2024)

Founding writer and researcher for the archive of accessible scholarship on the National Collection of The Bahamas - The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, (2016 — 2019)

Weekly editorial in the Arts + Culture Section of the Nassau Guardian (2016 — 2019) - 40+ articles per annum

“Tessa Whitehead: ... there are always two deaths” Exhibition Catalogue - The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, 2019.

“Hard Mouth: From the Tongue of the Ocean”  Terremoto (2018)

“Medium: Practices and Routes of Spirituality and Mysticism” Exhibition Catalogue - The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (2018)

Exhibitions

“ancestral: remains to be seen” (2021), the Double Dutch series of exhibitions, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

“Floating Rib” (2021) The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

Cydne Coleby “Queen Mudda” (2021) UNIT, London, UK

“Medicine & Memory: Public Health in The Bahamas I” (2020-21) Virtual Permanent Exhibition, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

“Medicine & Memory: Public Health in The Bahamas II” (2020-21) On-Site Permanent Exhibition, The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

“From Time: Water Has A Perfect Memory” (2020-21) Inter-Island  Travelling Exhibition for the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (shown in Eleuthera, Virtual Offering for Abaco)

“Lingua Franca: Black Spirit Speaks in Common Tongues” (2019) Art Galleries for Black Studies, University of Texas at Austin.

“Hard Mouth: From the Tongue of the Ocean”(2018-19)  The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

“Revisiting An Eye for the Tropics” (2016-17) The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

“Max/Amos: A Tale of Two Paradises” (2015-16) Inaugural Inter-Island Travelling Exhibition for the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (shown in Grand Bahama, Eleuthera, Abaco)

Talks + Conversations