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

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NE6- Anthropology 2012- Human, System, Object.

January 19, 2013 by susanmoirmackay

2012 was supposed to be our end time and yet, we are still here! ‘Kingdom Come’ was the title of this year’s National Exhibition at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas. Artists were invited to explore the theme of apocalypse, personal or universal. Interestingly apocalypse ‘translated literally from Greek, is a disclosure of knowledge, hidden from humanity in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception’. (wikipedia) This quote intrigued me. And I decided to direct my approach from this […]

Categories: Art, Conceptual Art, contemporary art, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Portraits, society, The Bahamas • Tags: art, Bahamas, conceptual art, construct, structure

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 […]

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