It’s a small world after all….

October 8, 2013 by susanmoirmackay

Pyxus 13 – mixed media – 2013 Its a small world after all… I made this piece in The Bahamas before we packed up and left. It was inspired by the small hidden places where one might tuck secrets – a cavity of unwelcome things. A common white fabric that has stitched in its entrails unspoken and unspeakable truths. I wonder about all the things we hide, especially from ourselves.  How well we must stitch them deeper and deeper inside. Inevitably […]

Categories: Art, contemporary art, Grand Bahama, The Bahamas • Tags: art, Bahamas, secrets, shame, small

March 23, 2013 by susanmoirmackay

Categories: Art, contemporary art, Grand Bahama, The Bahamas • Tags: art, Bahamas

Boundaries: The Experience- Art and Phenomenological!

June 16, 2012 by susanmoirmackay

Last night I had disturbed dreams, flashes of colour, an intense vision of looking through back lit trees in a dark night – a vivid green, lime and yellow flashing across my eyes.  There was some feeling of connecting the pieces we had made earlier at the hall in L’Utopia with this ephemeral, translucent colour. And so another Wednesday night spent restlessly, resulting in getting up and reading till 5.30am in an attempt to draw myself back into sleep. Was I over […]

Categories: Art, boundaries, boundary, Conceptual Art, fear, Grand Bahama, human nature, life, light, musings, Profile, spirituality • Tags: art, art as process, art projects, conceptual art, process

Boundaries- An Art and Phenomenological Experience

June 7, 2012 by susanmoirmackay

Tonight I introduced to a few brave souls, my concept for an art and phenomenological experience.  8 of us altogether, a healthy mix of spiritual and art minded characters.   I am not leading this event, merely offering my fellow travelers a formula in which to follow.  I am not leading because I have been curious to do this exercise for a while…and so I wanted to share the idea with my friends and see what happens…. Also, L’Utopia is […]

Categories: Art, Conceptual Art, course in miracles, Grand Bahama, spirituality • Tags: art, art projects, Bahamas, boundaries, Boundary, healthy, process, spirituality

Roots of a Contemporary Alchemist.

March 16, 2012 by susanmoirmackay

Transforming Spaces opens next weekend – 24th and 25th March. The annual event that takes tour buses around art galleries in New Providence for a feast of art, has a twist this year.  The organisers sent out a call for proposals based on the theme “Fibre”, specifically a re-imagining of indigenous fibre. It seems to me that with every piece of art I make, I hit a moment where I curse that I ever had the idea!  This moment hit me very clearly […]

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Night at the Bazaar!

October 8, 2011 by susanmoirmackay

For Art Nucleus, as one of our activities we met at the International Bazaar last night I have been longing to do something like this since I did “Ecstatic Shadows”.  I realise that as curator, though thoroughly involved in the theme, I did not have time to leisurely explore in my own work.  And for many years I have been prowling the streets and beach gazing at light and dark.  At shadows and blackness that folds in on blackness.  It is a […]

Categories: Art, Grand Bahama, International Bazaar, The Bahamas • Tags: art, Grand Bahama, International Bazaar