The Team
Katherine Kennedy
Barbadian visual artist, writer & curator
Katherine Kennedy is a Barbadian cultural practitioner. She graduated from Lancaster University, UK, and has taken part in exhibitions and residencies locally, regionally and internationally. Since 2011, she has worked for the Fresh Milk Art Platform, Barbados as the Communications and Operations Manager, and has co-managed programmes such as the Caribbean Linked residency & exhibition programme and the Transoceanic Visual Exchange (TVE) video, film and new media exhibitions.
Katherine's visual practice is heavily tied to a sense of place, using interplay between organic and inorganic materials and imagery to interrogate the spectrum of belonging and displacement in different environments or cultural contexts. Her writing has appeared in publications such Caribbean InTransit and Robert & Christopher Publishers’ A-Z of Caribbean Art. In 2021, she was selected for the CCCADI Afro-Caribbean Art Curatorial Fellowship. She is currently a part-time history/theory tutor in the Division of Fine Arts at Barbados Community College.
Shanice Smith
Trinidadian visual artist and art observer
Shanice Smith was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. Her mixed-media pieces are centred around examining and deconstructing abuse, gender violence, objectification and commodification of women’s bodies. Smith first completed her certificate qualifications in Social Work and Psychology at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus, before going on to obtain her bachelor’s in Fine Art at the UWI, St. Augustine Campus.
Her work has been on display at Alice Yard, Port-of-Spain; the National Museum of Trinidad and Tobago; Toronto Urban Film Festival; The Fresh Milk Art Platform, Barbados; Caribbean Linked IV, Aruba; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; The Project Space, Deakin University, Australia; and Wa Na Wari, USA to name a few. Additionally, she has undertaken residencies at spaces such as Ateliers ’89, Aruba; Vermont Studio Center, USA; and Residency Unlimited, USA.
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