Baha Mar 度假村艺术展览

Sofia grew up in Nassau, Bahamas. Her father is Bahamian (Austrian parents) and her mother is Uruguayan. She went away to school in Austria at 14 years old, then attended high school in Uruguay, college in New York City and finally finished her bachelors in Business and Marketing in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sofia returned home in 2015 and currently works in the family business. 

Sofia has always had a love for photography, her father took a lot of photos his whole life and documented all the important moments in their family.  She got her first camera when she was 8, often borrowed her older sister’s camera and has always been the person at the party that took pictures of her friends. 

Sofia completed various short photography courses in New York City, Montevideo and Vienna but believes that experimentation and self expression is the most important part of photography.

Sofia loves yoga, art and people and hopes that through her photography people can get closer to their own humanity and soul. 

Project Bahama Mama was a two year long journey which began in November 2015. This coffee table book shines a light on the more authentic Bahamas through the portraits and wisdom from the mothers that hold the country together.  The project has taken Sofia through the majority of the islands of the Bahamas, a journey that she states “she needed to make”. It has made her love the people of her country all the more and want to show the rest of the world just how amazing it is.

A professional photographer since the age of fifteen, Roland Rose obtained his first camera when he was only twelve years old and used it to photograph the delights of Hog Island (now Paradise Island) when it truly was an underdeveloped paradise. He has travelled extensively, often to pursue his interest in food, wine, and classical music, but photography has been Roland’s passion and life’s work.

Born in Italy to British parents, Roland has lived in The Bahamas since 1946. Before establishing his own practice, he worked for some thirty-two years for the Development Board (later to become the Ministry of Tourism), when his lens was directed at visitors, touristic sites, and pretty views designed to please and attract visitors. During this time, he also took photographs of island life that piqued his interest or caught his artistic, albeit self-trained, eye.

Hanging precariously from a tree, a fence or a roof, jumping from a boat, or in the air, he sought the unusual angle or different view that gave his photographs special interest. He moved happily from the dark-room to the world of digital photography and Photoshop™, regularly upgrading his equipment to include the latest, most powerful cameras and lenses with their ever-expanding pixel count and improved image quality.

As a photographer, Roland has expressed his joy in the beauty that he has found here in The Bahamas, both in its people and its natural environment.

Daniel Belton was born in the United Kingdom to an English Father and a Bahamian Mother.  He moved to Nassau when he was a young boy and graduated from Kingsway Academy.  Belton was the recipient of the Best Performance Award for Carpentry and Joinery during the 2000 BGCSE Examinations from the Ministry of Education and Youth Testing and Evaluation Section.  He went on to study abroad at Lynn University and received a Bachelor’s degree in Hospitality Management with a Specialization in Sports and Recreation Management.  Belton uses reclaimed wood as his primary material, transforming found and discarded pieces into finished furniture, sculpture and wall decor. He strives to conserve the character of the used material, leaving what others deem as ‘imperfect’: knots, spiral nail holes, cracks, warping and browning. He masterfully incorporates and preserves these wooden ‘scars’ into vibrantly colored, sculptural and functional furniture pieces.

“收集是创作的一部分，”雕塑家肯德拉·弗罗普 (Kendra Frorup) 这样谈论她的作品。弗罗普在巴哈马拿骚出生长大，她在自己的艺术中运用了这段时间的回忆。在巴哈马度过童年后，她得到前往美国学习的机会，并开始创作写实图像，作品与其文化展现出一定的共性。

考克斯曾被一位哈佛评论家描述为“一位创作精致艺术作品的质朴无华的艺术家”，他以大篇幅绘画、自然艺术品集合艺术、拼贴画和非传统版画闻名。他的作品经常参照远方和远处的创意，但是采用熟悉和寻常的材料创作而成。

考克斯于 1973 年生于拿骚，曾就读于美国罗德岛州普罗维登斯的罗德岛设计学院，并获得插画专业的美术学士学位（’95）和艺术教育专业的教育文学硕士学位（’96）。后来，他前往巴哈马大学艺术系任教六年，随后在巴哈马国家美术馆担任教育工作达四年。

目前约翰·考克斯担任 Baha Mar 的艺术总监，他已在法国、意大利、德国、香港、美国和加勒比海地区进行展览并参与交流。

约翰·保罗·萨德尔顿（John Paul Saddleton，1968 年出生于巴哈马）的绘画着重于对光的研究。他喜欢在室外写生，或直接在自然风景中创作，萨德尔顿的创作过程非常特别，他在使用摄影辅助上非常谨慎，因而其作品以绚丽的方式表现出巴哈马的陆景与海景，这些景色通常都以最其生动的光线呈现。

萨德尔顿在加拿大安大略省圭尔夫大学取得了商科学士学位，后前往英国伦敦中央圣马丁学院继续学业，学习水彩分层、玻璃处理和高级色彩理论。

这位艺术家经常接受委托创作，您可以在很多写字楼、酒店、私人收藏中看到他的作品。莱登·平林国际机场、癌症研究中心、阿达斯托花园和动物园里还能看到他的壁画作品。

“收集是创作的一部分，”雕塑家肯德拉·弗罗普 (Kendra Frorup) 这样谈论她的作品。弗罗普在巴哈马拿骚出生长大，她在自己的艺术中运用了这段时间的回忆。在巴哈马度过童年后，她得到前往美国学习的机会，并开始创作写实图像，作品与其文化展现出一定的共性。

约翰·保罗·萨德尔顿（John Paul Saddleton，1968 年出生于巴哈马）的绘画着重于对光的研究。他喜欢在室外写生，或直接在自然风景中创作，萨德尔顿的创作过程非常特别，他在使用摄影辅助上非常谨慎，因而其作品以绚丽的方式表现出巴哈马的陆景与海景，这些景色通常都以最其生动的光线呈现。

萨德尔顿在加拿大安大略省圭尔夫大学取得了商科学士学位，后前往英国伦敦中央圣马丁学院继续学业，学习水彩分层、玻璃处理和高级色彩理论。

这位艺术家经常接受委托创作，您可以在很多写字楼、酒店、私人收藏中看到他的作品。莱登·平林国际机场、癌症研究中心、阿达斯托花园和动物园里还能看到他的壁画作品。

“收集是创作的一部分，”雕塑家肯德拉·弗罗普 (Kendra Frorup) 这样谈论她的作品。弗罗普在巴哈马拿骚出生长大，她在自己的艺术中运用了这段时间的回忆。在巴哈马度过童年后，她得到前往美国学习的机会，并开始创作写实图像，作品与其文化展现出一定的共性。

“收集是创作的一部分，”雕塑家肯德拉·弗罗普 (Kendra Frorup) 这样谈论她的作品。弗罗普在巴哈马拿骚出生长大，她在自己的艺术中运用了这段时间的回忆。在巴哈马度过童年后，她得到前往美国学习的机会，并开始创作写实图像，作品与其文化展现出一定的共性。

约翰·保罗·萨德尔顿（John Paul Saddleton，1968 年出生于巴哈马）的绘画着重于对光的研究。他喜欢在室外写生，或直接在自然风景中创作，萨德尔顿的创作过程非常特别，他在使用摄影辅助上非常谨慎，因而其作品以绚丽的方式表现出巴哈马的陆景与海景，这些景色通常都以最其生动的光线呈现。

萨德尔顿在加拿大安大略省圭尔夫大学取得了商科学士学位，后前往英国伦敦中央圣马丁学院继续学业，学习水彩分层、玻璃处理和高级色彩理论。

这位艺术家经常接受委托创作，您可以在很多写字楼、酒店、私人收藏中看到他的作品。莱登·平林国际机场、癌症研究中心、阿达斯托花园和动物园里还能看到他的壁画作品。

约翰·保罗·萨德尔顿（John Paul Saddleton，1968 年出生于巴哈马）的绘画着重于对光的研究。他喜欢在室外写生，或直接在自然风景中创作，萨德尔顿的创作过程非常特别，他在使用摄影辅助上非常谨慎，因而其作品以绚丽的方式表现出巴哈马的陆景与海景，这些景色通常都以最其生动的光线呈现。

萨德尔顿在加拿大安大略省圭尔夫大学取得了商科学士学位，后前往英国伦敦中央圣马丁学院继续学业，学习水彩分层、玻璃处理和高级色彩理论。

这位艺术家经常接受委托创作，您可以在很多写字楼、酒店、私人收藏中看到他的作品。莱登·平林国际机场、癌症研究中心、阿达斯托花园和动物园里还能看到他的壁画作品。

“收集是创作的一部分，”雕塑家肯德拉·弗罗普 (Kendra Frorup) 这样谈论她的作品。弗罗普在巴哈马拿骚出生长大，她在自己的艺术中运用了这段时间的回忆。在巴哈马度过童年后，她得到前往美国学习的机会，并开始创作写实图像，作品与其文化展现出一定的共性。

考克斯曾被一位哈佛评论家描述为“一位创作精致艺术作品的质朴无华的艺术家”，他以大篇幅绘画、自然艺术品集合艺术、拼贴画和非传统版画闻名。他的作品经常参照远方和远处的创意，但是采用熟悉和寻常的材料创作而成。

考克斯于 1973 年生于拿骚，曾就读于美国罗德岛州普罗维登斯的罗德岛设计学院，并获得插画专业的美术学士学位（’95）和艺术教育专业的教育文学硕士学位（’96）。后来，他前往巴哈马大学艺术系任教六年，随后在巴哈马国家美术馆担任教育工作达四年。

目前约翰·考克斯担任 Baha Mar 的艺术总监，他已在法国、意大利、德国、香港、美国和加勒比海地区进行展览并参与交流。

约翰·保罗·萨德尔顿（John Paul Saddleton，1968 年出生于巴哈马）的绘画着重于对光的研究。他喜欢在室外写生，或直接在自然风景中创作，萨德尔顿的创作过程非常特别，他在使用摄影辅助上非常谨慎，因而其作品以绚丽的方式表现出巴哈马的陆景与海景，这些景色通常都以最其生动的光线呈现。

萨德尔顿在加拿大安大略省圭尔夫大学取得了商科学士学位，后前往英国伦敦中央圣马丁学院继续学业，学习水彩分层、玻璃处理和高级色彩理论。

这位艺术家经常接受委托创作，您可以在很多写字楼、酒店、私人收藏中看到他的作品。莱登·平林国际机场、癌症研究中心、阿达斯托花园和动物园里还能看到他的壁画作品。

德尔顿·巴雷特 (Delton Barrett) 在巴哈马长大，2008 年他在 C.R. 沃克高中完成了最后一年学业，他也在那里发现了自己对艺术的兴趣。毕业后，他开始参照巴哈马旧杂志上的风景进行绘画。
巴雷特的最终目标是用身边的景色反映自我，将自己的身体融入植物之中，展现阳刚之气。他借由树根伸展至地下来展现自己的一体性。他在未经变动的景观中进行特意的安排布置，唤起人们脱离土地、进行深刻而本质性的思考，其作品呈现出这样一个问题：就如这片曾经被殖民的土地一样，他的自由，即他的身体，现在成为一种反抗殖民视角的道具。

时至今日，乔纳森仍希望在画布上再现巴哈马，他明白想要达到完美需要花费多年时间。现在，他的画作真实捕捉了巴哈马的生活和风景，展现出其壮丽与特色之处。他使用丙烯酸颜料作为介质，探索各种各样的主题，例如巴哈马的古老民居和地标、缤纷的本土植物，以及巴哈马晶莹的海水。

Kelly 是巴哈马人，她说她对艺术的热爱来自 3 个 H，即 Head（头）、Heart（心） 和 Hand（手）。她精心创作的多媒体艺术作品和集合艺术描绘了转瞬即逝的花卉和象征性的图案和意象，采用令人意想不到的材料，大多是工业材料。艺术品既精致又表现出坚决的意味，在提供极富趣味性的创意的同时还努力创造一种情感上的关联。

她毕业于巴哈马大学并获得艺术最佳奖，还是首位获得 Astarita Nassuvian 艺术奖学金的学生。

2016 年，Kelly 赢得巴哈马中央银行举办的第 33 届年度艺术比赛，成为唯一一位赢得低年级组和高年级组比赛的女性。

她的作品已经在巴哈马国家美术馆、政府财政部、Pro 美术馆、D’Aguilar Art Foundation 美术馆和巴哈马中央银行展出。

绘画一直是自我表达的一种方式。我开始描画绘制肖像，在 1988 至 1991 模仿我的老师斯坦·伯恩赛德 (Stan Burnside)。随着我开始尝试不同的绘画方法，久而久之，一种提升自然出现……对我而言，创作图像的思想存在无穷可能。有时，艺术世界毫无疑问会让人头脑混乱，但表达总会有方法以它喜欢的方式出现。因此，从我的肖像画、风景画，再到现在难以捉摸的抽象画，我都只是在画画而已。

德鲁·威奇（Drew Weech，1984 年出生于巴哈马）是一位跨流派艺术家，他的作品集抽象性和象征性于一体。威奇将色彩作为创作形式幻觉的手段，引导观众在视觉上拆解他的纹理构图。他的作品常常如鬼魅一般，通过精心设计的方式缓缓向观众展现意象。

“收集是创作的一部分，”雕塑家肯德拉·弗罗普 (Kendra Frorup) 这样谈论她的作品。弗罗普在巴哈马拿骚出生长大，她在自己的艺术中运用了这段时间的回忆。在巴哈马度过童年后，她得到前往美国学习的机会，并开始创作写实图像，作品与其文化展现出一定的共性。

德尔顿·巴雷特 (Delton Barrett) 在巴哈马长大，2008 年他在 C.R. 沃克高中完成了最后一年学业，他也在那里发现了自己对艺术的兴趣。毕业后，他开始参照巴哈马旧杂志上的风景进行绘画。
巴雷特的最终目标是用身边的景色反映自我，将自己的身体融入植物之中，展现阳刚之气。他借由树根伸展至地下来展现自己的一体性。他在未经变动的景观中进行特意的安排布置，唤起人们脱离土地、进行深刻而本质性的思考，其作品呈现出这样一个问题：就如这片曾经被殖民的土地一样，他的自由，即他的身体，现在成为一种反抗殖民视角的道具。

约翰·保罗·萨德尔顿（John Paul Saddleton，1968 年出生于巴哈马）的绘画着重于对光的研究。他喜欢在室外写生，或直接在自然风景中创作，萨德尔顿的创作过程非常特别，他在使用摄影辅助上非常谨慎，因而其作品以绚丽的方式表现出巴哈马的陆景与海景，这些景色通常都以最其生动的光线呈现。

萨德尔顿在加拿大安大略省圭尔夫大学取得了商科学士学位，后前往英国伦敦中央圣马丁学院继续学业，学习水彩分层、玻璃处理和高级色彩理论。

这位艺术家经常接受委托创作，您可以在很多写字楼、酒店、私人收藏中看到他的作品。莱登·平林国际机场、癌症研究中心、阿达斯托花园和动物园里还能看到他的壁画作品。

萨曼莎·特雷科 (Samantha Treco) 于 1993 年 1 月出生在巴哈马拿骚。特雷科所创造的艺术聚焦于那些被“理想”景观排斥并抛弃的平凡对象。社会塑造人们对美和舒适环境的认知方式，她对这一点提出质疑，并由此让景观中被忽视的部分不必遵循社会默认的具体标准。从很小的时候开始，特雷科就表现出对艺术的兴趣。她得到了家人和圣奥古斯汀学院老师们的鼓励，开始发展自己的兴趣。在周围人的鼓励之下，她前往巴哈马学院攻读艺术副学士学位，在进行了一年的学习后 (2011-2012)，她转到时尚技术学院（纽约），并于 2016 年获得艺术学士学位。

“收集是创作的一部分，”雕塑家肯德拉·弗罗普 (Kendra Frorup) 这样谈论她的作品。弗罗普在巴哈马拿骚出生长大，她在自己的艺术中运用了这段时间的回忆。在巴哈马度过童年后，她得到前往美国学习的机会，并开始创作写实图像，作品与其文化展现出一定的共性。

“收集是创作的一部分，”雕塑家肯德拉·弗罗普 (Kendra Frorup) 这样谈论她的作品。弗罗普在巴哈马拿骚出生长大，她在自己的艺术中运用了这段时间的回忆。在巴哈马度过童年后，她得到前往美国学习的机会，并开始创作写实图像，作品与其文化展现出一定的共性。

简恩·沃克（Janeen Walker，1971 年出生于巴哈马）使用泼洒丙烯酸颜料这种富有表现力的手势技巧，创作宏大而又给人亲密之感的作品，呈现出绘画语言的活力。她探索着艺术家和艺术材料在合作时创造符号标志的方式。在泼洒的每一层色彩上，沃克皆有所强调，并通过环氧树脂的透明度来展现。沃克曾在巴哈马大学学习艺术，其作品在各类个人展和团体展中展出。她目前是一名从业艺术家，并在 Baha Mar 当代艺术画廊和工作室担任零售及营销经理。

“收集是创作的一部分，”雕塑家肯德拉·弗罗普 (Kendra Frorup) 这样谈论她的作品。弗罗普在巴哈马拿骚出生长大，她在自己的艺术中运用了这段时间的回忆。在巴哈马度过童年后，她得到前往美国学习的机会，并开始创作写实图像，作品与其文化展现出一定的共性。

Jonathan Bethel was born in Nassau, Bahamas on November 1st, 1978.  He attended St. Andrew’s School there for thirteen years, graduating in 1996.  He then went on to Clemson University in South Carolina. There he studied art and graduated in May of 2001 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
 
Even at an early age, Jonathan displayed a strong interest and aptitude for art, particularly drawing.  He would recreate anything he could get his hands on, from album covers to basketball cards.  He also loved to invent his own cartoon characters, creating sketch after sketch of them.  As a child, he participated in and won several art competitions.  In school also he stood out with his abilities in the art field.  He always took the art projects he was doing very seriously, and spent great time on them, sometimes even to his teacher’s disdain.  It was probably always evident that his future would involve art in some form.
 
But it was while at college in South Carolina, away from home for the first time, that Jonathan really developed his appreciation and love for the beauty of the Bahamas.  As the clichéd quote goes, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”  So he decided to put that passion into his work.  He devoted much of his painting studies there to capturing Bahamian scenery on the canvas.  Most of his work at that time was done completely from his head, and was in part an attempt to feel closer to home.
 
时至今日，乔纳森仍希望在画布上再现巴哈马，他明白想要达到完美需要花费多年时间。现在，他的画作真实捕捉了巴哈马的生活和风景，展现出其壮丽与特色之处。他使用丙烯酸颜料作为介质，探索各种各样的主题，例如巴哈马的古老民居和地标、缤纷的本土植物，以及巴哈马晶莹的海水。
 
In 2001, Jonathan received first prize in the Eighteenth Annual Central Bank of the Bahamas Art Competition (the most prestigious local competition for young artists).  He has also participated in a number of group shows in Nassau and in the Family Islands, as well as several successful one-man shows. Jonathan’s artwork is in the private collections of many prominent Bahamians, and art collectors and enthusiasts around the world.  He was also done many small and large commissioned projects, including a series of five paintings for Bahamar’s renovation of the Sheraton Cable Beach in 2007.  In May of 2008, he was featured in the annual Bahamas edition of the popular Southern Boating magazine, including having one of his paintings on the cover. 

我出生于巴哈马新普罗维登斯的一座岛上，父母是老师和农民，艺术与自然一直是我生活的一部分。我在一个名叫伊柳塞拉的乡村岛屿长大，身边充满了自然环境之美。岛屿生活的色彩、声音、气味和味道使我的脑海中充满了美丽的财富，我也在日复一日地寻找美丽。离开这个风景如画的乌托邦后，我迷失在拿骚繁忙的都市中，拿骚位于新普罗维登斯。新环境对我而言熟悉而陌生，我每天都在斗争着，让自己继续从故乡的美丽之中得到启发，并为之着迷。

ANTONIUS ROBERTS, OBE (b.1958 Nassau, The Bahamas) has one daughter Ayla Antonia Roberts and is married to Dr Annette Warren-Roberts. Roberts graduated in 1981 from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA in Painting.  As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of The Bahamas (now University of The Bahamas), Roberts has mentored a generation of young Bahamian artists.  He conceived of and coordinated the first Junior Junkanoo competition and parade in 1983, celebrating ten years of Bahamian Independence. He served as the Curator of The Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Art Gallery until 2017, and was the architect and coordinator of their annual Competitions and Exhibitions until 2006; and played a supportive role in the restoration of the former Villa Doyle and its conversion to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  Additionally Roberts founded The Bahamian Art Gallery in 1991 which was responsible for the reintroduction of master artists Kendal Hanna and Jo Monks – USA Boy. That same year he curated the largest exhibition of Amos Ferguson’s work at The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery and encouraged The Right Honorable Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling to approve the purchase of twenty five (25) paintings from that exhibition. These paintings formed the beginning of the National Art Collection of The Bahamas. In recognition of his contribution to national development in the arts, Roberts was a recipient of a Commonwealth of The Bahamas Silver Jubilee Award and of the E. Clement Bethel Award from The College of The Bahamas, as well as the Ministry of Tourism’s Cacique Award for the Arts in 2000.  As an artist Roberts has participated in exhibitions around the world and has mounted many within The Bahamas.  In 2005 Roberts spent one month in Pietrasanta, Italy working in marble and granite as part of the International Professional Artist Symposium and Exchange. In 2006 he was invited to exhibit in Changchun, China and his 12’ bronze sculpture is permanently installed there.  As a sculptor Roberts is best known for the first Sacred Space project at the historic Clifton Heritage site. This work was expanded by the installation at the Blake Road Welcome Centre.  Another group of Sacred Women travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany for the Funky Nassau Exhibition and then were exhibited at The Nassau Art Gallery of The Bahamas, with a similar installation now forming part of The Grand Bahama Heritage Foundation. On 2017年11月3日, The Cove at Atlantis, Paradise Island debuted a permanent art installation “Sacred Space” on the tip of The Cove’s peninsula. This sculpture series, represents seven dancing women who each depict the intention of triumph, hope, determination and a vision to help conserve Bahamian Heritage. As an open space designer, in 2009 Roberts designed and directed the creation of the seven acre park at Centreville House, an integral part of the revitalization programme in downtown Nassau. In 2011 he participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition at the Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa. His artwork Bubbles was installed as part of the expansion of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s final phase in 2013. Roberts was the Artist in Residence at Schooner Bay, Abaco, for several years, and in 2017 established a relationship with the Island School in Eleuthera. In 2012, he opened an art gallery and studio on Cumberland Street in a centuries’ old historic building known as Hillside House, which has become an active centre for the creative community. His ethos connecting man’s spiritual and emotional nature and nature itself, and his desire to record and honour Bahamian heritage, is inherent in all of his paintings and sculptures.
A member of The Charitable Arts Foundation for over twenty years, Roberts along with other council members, continue to raise significant funding for the creative community in The Bahamas. These funds are available on an annual bases for art education, grants for short and full length films, art projects, music projects, play writers, poets, musicians and support of national art institutions.

ANTONIUS ROBERTS, OBE (b.1958 Nassau, The Bahamas) has one daughter Ayla Antonia Roberts and is married to Dr Annette Warren-Roberts. Roberts graduated in 1981 from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA in Painting.  As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of The Bahamas (now University of The Bahamas), Roberts has mentored a generation of young Bahamian artists.  He conceived of and coordinated the first Junior Junkanoo competition and parade in 1983, celebrating ten years of Bahamian Independence. He served as the Curator of The Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Art Gallery until 2017, and was the architect and coordinator of their annual Competitions and Exhibitions until 2006; and played a supportive role in the restoration of the former Villa Doyle and its conversion to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  Additionally Roberts founded The Bahamian Art Gallery in 1991 which was responsible for the reintroduction of master artists Kendal Hanna and Jo Monks – USA Boy. That same year he curated the largest exhibition of Amos Ferguson’s work at The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery and encouraged The Right Honorable Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling to approve the purchase of twenty five (25) paintings from that exhibition. These paintings formed the beginning of the National Art Collection of The Bahamas. In recognition of his contribution to national development in the arts, Roberts was a recipient of a Commonwealth of The Bahamas Silver Jubilee Award and of the E. Clement Bethel Award from The College of The Bahamas, as well as the Ministry of Tourism’s Cacique Award for the Arts in 2000.  As an artist Roberts has participated in exhibitions around the world and has mounted many within The Bahamas.  In 2005 Roberts spent one month in Pietrasanta, Italy working in marble and granite as part of the International Professional Artist Symposium and Exchange. In 2006 he was invited to exhibit in Changchun, China and his 12’ bronze sculpture is permanently installed there.  As a sculptor Roberts is best known for the first Sacred Space project at the historic Clifton Heritage site. This work was expanded by the installation at the Blake Road Welcome Centre.  Another group of Sacred Women travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany for the Funky Nassau Exhibition and then were exhibited at The Nassau Art Gallery of The Bahamas, with a similar installation now forming part of The Grand Bahama Heritage Foundation. On 2017年11月3日, The Cove at Atlantis, Paradise Island debuted a permanent art installation “Sacred Space” on the tip of The Cove’s peninsula. This sculpture series, represents seven dancing women who each depict the intention of triumph, hope, determination and a vision to help conserve Bahamian Heritage. As an open space designer, in 2009 Roberts designed and directed the creation of the seven acre park at Centreville House, an integral part of the revitalization programme in downtown Nassau. In 2011 he participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition at the Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa. His artwork Bubbles was installed as part of the expansion of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s final phase in 2013. Roberts was the Artist in Residence at Schooner Bay, Abaco, for several years, and in 2017 established a relationship with the Island School in Eleuthera. In 2012, he opened an art gallery and studio on Cumberland Street in a centuries’ old historic building known as Hillside House, which has become an active centre for the creative community. His ethos connecting man’s spiritual and emotional nature and nature itself, and his desire to record and honour Bahamian heritage, is inherent in all of his paintings and sculptures.
A member of The Charitable Arts Foundation for over twenty years, Roberts along with other council members, continue to raise significant funding for the creative community in The Bahamas. These funds are available on an annual bases for art education, grants for short and full length films, art projects, music projects, play writers, poets, musicians and support of national art institutions.

Gio Swaby is a mixed media artist whose practice encompasses installation, textiles, collage, performance, and video. Swaby was born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas where she obtained her Associate of Arts degree at The College of The Bahamas in 2012. In 2014, she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree majoring in Film, Video and Integrated Media at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Swaby completed the program in 2016 and is currently based in Vancouver.

德尔顿·巴雷特 (Delton Barrett) 在巴哈马长大，2008 年他在 C.R. 沃克高中完成了最后一年学业，他也在那里发现了自己对艺术的兴趣。毕业后，他开始参照巴哈马旧杂志上的风景进行绘画。
巴雷特的最终目标是用身边的景色反映自我，将自己的身体融入植物之中，展现阳刚之气。他借由树根伸展至地下来展现自己的一体性。他在未经变动的景观中进行特意的安排布置，唤起人们脱离土地、进行深刻而本质性的思考，其作品呈现出这样一个问题：就如这片曾经被殖民的土地一样，他的自由，即他的身体，现在成为一种反抗殖民视角的道具。

我出生于巴哈马新普罗维登斯的一座岛上，父母是老师和农民，艺术与自然一直是我生活的一部分。我在一个名叫伊柳塞拉的乡村岛屿长大，身边充满了自然环境之美。岛屿生活的色彩、声音、气味和味道使我的脑海中充满了美丽的财富，我也在日复一日地寻找美丽。离开这个风景如画的乌托邦后，我迷失在拿骚繁忙的都市中，拿骚位于新普罗维登斯。新环境对我而言熟悉而陌生，我每天都在斗争着，让自己继续从故乡的美丽之中得到启发，并为之着迷。

ANTONIUS ROBERTS, OBE (b.1958 Nassau, The Bahamas) has one daughter Ayla Antonia Roberts and is married to Dr Annette Warren-Roberts. Roberts graduated in 1981 from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA in Painting.  As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of The Bahamas (now University of The Bahamas), Roberts has mentored a generation of young Bahamian artists.  He conceived of and coordinated the first Junior Junkanoo competition and parade in 1983, celebrating ten years of Bahamian Independence. He served as the Curator of The Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Art Gallery until 2017, and was the architect and coordinator of their annual Competitions and Exhibitions until 2006; and played a supportive role in the restoration of the former Villa Doyle and its conversion to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  Additionally Roberts founded The Bahamian Art Gallery in 1991 which was responsible for the reintroduction of master artists Kendal Hanna and Jo Monks – USA Boy. That same year he curated the largest exhibition of Amos Ferguson’s work at The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery and encouraged The Right Honorable Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling to approve the purchase of twenty five (25) paintings from that exhibition. These paintings formed the beginning of the National Art Collection of The Bahamas. In recognition of his contribution to national development in the arts, Roberts was a recipient of a Commonwealth of The Bahamas Silver Jubilee Award and of the E. Clement Bethel Award from The College of The Bahamas, as well as the Ministry of Tourism’s Cacique Award for the Arts in 2000.  As an artist Roberts has participated in exhibitions around the world and has mounted many within The Bahamas.  In 2005 Roberts spent one month in Pietrasanta, Italy working in marble and granite as part of the International Professional Artist Symposium and Exchange. In 2006 he was invited to exhibit in Changchun, China and his 12’ bronze sculpture is permanently installed there.  As a sculptor Roberts is best known for the first Sacred Space project at the historic Clifton Heritage site. This work was expanded by the installation at the Blake Road Welcome Centre.  Another group of Sacred Women travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany for the Funky Nassau Exhibition and then were exhibited at The Nassau Art Gallery of The Bahamas, with a similar installation now forming part of The Grand Bahama Heritage Foundation. On 2017年11月3日, The Cove at Atlantis, Paradise Island debuted a permanent art installation “Sacred Space” on the tip of The Cove’s peninsula. This sculpture series, represents seven dancing women who each depict the intention of triumph, hope, determination and a vision to help conserve Bahamian Heritage. As an open space designer, in 2009 Roberts designed and directed the creation of the seven acre park at Centreville House, an integral part of the revitalization programme in downtown Nassau. In 2011 he participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition at the Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa. His artwork Bubbles was installed as part of the expansion of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s final phase in 2013. Roberts was the Artist in Residence at Schooner Bay, Abaco, for several years, and in 2017 established a relationship with the Island School in Eleuthera. In 2012, he opened an art gallery and studio on Cumberland Street in a centuries’ old historic building known as Hillside House, which has become an active centre for the creative community. His ethos connecting man’s spiritual and emotional nature and nature itself, and his desire to record and honour Bahamian heritage, is inherent in all of his paintings and sculptures.
A member of The Charitable Arts Foundation for over twenty years, Roberts along with other council members, continue to raise significant funding for the creative community in The Bahamas. These funds are available on an annual bases for art education, grants for short and full length films, art projects, music projects, play writers, poets, musicians and support of national art institutions.

Guilden M. Gilbert, Jr. was born and raised in Bermuda in 1966.

His mother says he always showed a fascination for cameras. He did not take photography seriously until at the age of 14, while participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme he needed to chose a hobby, photography was a natural fit. This is where he began to not only shoot but also learned how to develop film and print images in the darkroom. It was at this point where photography became a very large part of his life. Unfortunately, professional photographers were unwilling to teach photography as many feared the student would become a competitor. Guilden learn photography on his own, one image on one roll of film at time, he took notes of each shot he captured and when receiving the film back from the lab he would analyze what he did right and what he did wrong and began to understand why things worked and why they did not, this allowed him to learned the craft of photography. His parents were very supportive, in 1981 they bought him his first 35mm SLR camera, a Canon AE-1 and on this he would shoot between 8 and 10 rolls of film a week. He had this camera and continued to produce images with until it was stolen in 1999.

Guilden relocated to Nassau, the Bahamas in 1997 with his wife of 6 years, they recently celebrated 27 years of marriage and have two children, both born in the Bahamas.

Although much of his work is landscape/seascape, he has become known as a Sports Photographer having been contracted to shoot the IAAF World Relays, CARIFTA Games, FIFA World Cup Qualifier between Bermuda and the Bahamas, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, he also shoots swim events and went home to Bermuda specifically to capture some of the America’s Cup races. He was also recently featured in N Photo Magazine, a Nikon-centric globally distributed magazine for his Sports Photography work. Guilden has also had numerous images selected by Blank Wall, an Athens, Greece art gallery for exhibit. He recently received Honourable Mention in two large global photography contests, the International Photographers Award and the Tokyo International Foto Awards. His work has been purchased and hangs on walls globally.

Guilden is also an executive and photographer with the Bahamian Project, a project designed to capture portraits of average Bahamians with the view to establishing a National Portrait Archive.

Today Guilden has come full circle and is once again shooting and developing film, specifically Medium Format film. He says, “There is just something organic about shooting film and there is nothing quite like the feeling of pulling a developed roll of film out of the developing cannister to see the images created. Shooting film will certainly test your knowledge of proper exposure and composition because the negative does not lie about what you have produced.”

Guilden, along with another local photographer made a decision, two years ago, that they will teach photography because to have gained so much knowledge over nearly 40 years of photograph and not share that knowledge does a dis-service to the art form. The class range from Beginner’s Photography to Advanced Studio and Outdoor Lighting and are held in partnership with Queen’s College Centre for Further Education.

德尔顿·巴雷特 (Delton Barrett) 在巴哈马长大，2008 年他在 C.R. 沃克高中完成了最后一年学业，他也在那里发现了自己对艺术的兴趣。毕业后，他开始参照巴哈马旧杂志上的风景进行绘画。
巴雷特的最终目标是用身边的景色反映自我，将自己的身体融入植物之中，展现阳刚之气。他借由树根伸展至地下来展现自己的一体性。他在未经变动的景观中进行特意的安排布置，唤起人们脱离土地、进行深刻而本质性的思考，其作品呈现出这样一个问题：就如这片曾经被殖民的土地一样，他的自由，即他的身体，现在成为一种反抗殖民视角的道具。

林恩·帕罗蒂（Lynn Parotti，1968 年出生于巴哈马拿骚）是一位常驻在伦敦的艺术家，她的心灵油画从现实和心灵的风景中得到启发。
她的作品以人类经历和社会热点为主题，如全球变暖、气候变化和移民问题，同时也关注绘画本身在当下所面临的问题。

林恩·帕罗蒂（Lynn Parotti，1968 年出生于巴哈马拿骚）是一位常驻在伦敦的艺术家，她的心灵油画从现实和心灵的风景中得到启发。
她的作品以人类经历和社会热点为主题，如全球变暖、气候变化和移民问题，同时也关注绘画本身在当下所面临的问题。

ANTONIUS ROBERTS, OBE (b.1958 Nassau, The Bahamas) has one daughter Ayla Antonia Roberts and is married to Dr Annette Warren-Roberts. Roberts graduated in 1981 from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA in Painting.  As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of The Bahamas (now University of The Bahamas), Roberts has mentored a generation of young Bahamian artists.  He conceived of and coordinated the first Junior Junkanoo competition and parade in 1983, celebrating ten years of Bahamian Independence. He served as the Curator of The Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Art Gallery until 2017, and was the architect and coordinator of their annual Competitions and Exhibitions until 2006; and played a supportive role in the restoration of the former Villa Doyle and its conversion to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  Additionally Roberts founded The Bahamian Art Gallery in 1991 which was responsible for the reintroduction of master artists Kendal Hanna and Jo Monks – USA Boy. That same year he curated the largest exhibition of Amos Ferguson’s work at The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery and encouraged The Right Honorable Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling to approve the purchase of twenty five (25) paintings from that exhibition. These paintings formed the beginning of the National Art Collection of The Bahamas. In recognition of his contribution to national development in the arts, Roberts was a recipient of a Commonwealth of The Bahamas Silver Jubilee Award and of the E. Clement Bethel Award from The College of The Bahamas, as well as the Ministry of Tourism’s Cacique Award for the Arts in 2000.  As an artist Roberts has participated in exhibitions around the world and has mounted many within The Bahamas.  In 2005 Roberts spent one month in Pietrasanta, Italy working in marble and granite as part of the International Professional Artist Symposium and Exchange. In 2006 he was invited to exhibit in Changchun, China and his 12’ bronze sculpture is permanently installed there.  As a sculptor Roberts is best known for the first Sacred Space project at the historic Clifton Heritage site. This work was expanded by the installation at the Blake Road Welcome Centre.  Another group of Sacred Women travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany for the Funky Nassau Exhibition and then were exhibited at The Nassau Art Gallery of The Bahamas, with a similar installation now forming part of The Grand Bahama Heritage Foundation. On 2017年11月3日, The Cove at Atlantis, Paradise Island debuted a permanent art installation “Sacred Space” on the tip of The Cove’s peninsula. This sculpture series, represents seven dancing women who each depict the intention of triumph, hope, determination and a vision to help conserve Bahamian Heritage. As an open space designer, in 2009 Roberts designed and directed the creation of the seven acre park at Centreville House, an integral part of the revitalization programme in downtown Nassau. In 2011 he participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition at the Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa. His artwork Bubbles was installed as part of the expansion of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s final phase in 2013. Roberts was the Artist in Residence at Schooner Bay, Abaco, for several years, and in 2017 established a relationship with the Island School in Eleuthera. In 2012, he opened an art gallery and studio on Cumberland Street in a centuries’ old historic building known as Hillside House, which has become an active centre for the creative community. His ethos connecting man’s spiritual and emotional nature and nature itself, and his desire to record and honour Bahamian heritage, is inherent in all of his paintings and sculptures.
A member of The Charitable Arts Foundation for over twenty years, Roberts along with other council members, continue to raise significant funding for the creative community in The Bahamas. These funds are available on an annual bases for art education, grants for short and full length films, art projects, music projects, play writers, poets, musicians and support of national art institutions.

Guilden M. Gilbert, Jr. was born and raised in Bermuda in 1966.

His mother says he always showed a fascination for cameras. He did not take photography seriously until at the age of 14, while participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme he needed to chose a hobby, photography was a natural fit. This is where he began to not only shoot but also learned how to develop film and print images in the darkroom. It was at this point where photography became a very large part of his life. Unfortunately, professional photographers were unwilling to teach photography as many feared the student would become a competitor. Guilden learn photography on his own, one image on one roll of film at time, he took notes of each shot he captured and when receiving the film back from the lab he would analyze what he did right and what he did wrong and began to understand why things worked and why they did not, this allowed him to learned the craft of photography. His parents were very supportive, in 1981 they bought him his first 35mm SLR camera, a Canon AE-1 and on this he would shoot between 8 and 10 rolls of film a week. He had this camera and continued to produce images with until it was stolen in 1999.

Guilden relocated to Nassau, the Bahamas in 1997 with his wife of 6 years, they recently celebrated 27 years of marriage and have two children, both born in the Bahamas.

Although much of his work is landscape/seascape, he has become known as a Sports Photographer having been contracted to shoot the IAAF World Relays, CARIFTA Games, FIFA World Cup Qualifier between Bermuda and the Bahamas, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, he also shoots swim events and went home to Bermuda specifically to capture some of the America’s Cup races. He was also recently featured in N Photo Magazine, a Nikon-centric globally distributed magazine for his Sports Photography work. Guilden has also had numerous images selected by Blank Wall, an Athens, Greece art gallery for exhibit. He recently received Honourable Mention in two large global photography contests, the International Photographers Award and the Tokyo International Foto Awards. His work has been purchased and hangs on walls globally.

Guilden is also an executive and photographer with the Bahamian Project, a project designed to capture portraits of average Bahamians with the view to establishing a National Portrait Archive.

Today Guilden has come full circle and is once again shooting and developing film, specifically Medium Format film. He says, “There is just something organic about shooting film and there is nothing quite like the feeling of pulling a developed roll of film out of the developing cannister to see the images created. Shooting film will certainly test your knowledge of proper exposure and composition because the negative does not lie about what you have produced.”

Guilden, along with another local photographer made a decision, two years ago, that they will teach photography because to have gained so much knowledge over nearly 40 years of photograph and not share that knowledge does a dis-service to the art form. The class range from Beginner’s Photography to Advanced Studio and Outdoor Lighting and are held in partnership with Queen’s College Centre for Further Education.

Guilden M. Gilbert, Jr. was born and raised in Bermuda in 1966.

His mother says he always showed a fascination for cameras. He did not take photography seriously until at the age of 14, while participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme he needed to chose a hobby, photography was a natural fit. This is where he began to not only shoot but also learned how to develop film and print images in the darkroom. It was at this point where photography became a very large part of his life. Unfortunately, professional photographers were unwilling to teach photography as many feared the student would become a competitor. Guilden learn photography on his own, one image on one roll of film at time, he took notes of each shot he captured and when receiving the film back from the lab he would analyze what he did right and what he did wrong and began to understand why things worked and why they did not, this allowed him to learned the craft of photography. His parents were very supportive, in 1981 they bought him his first 35mm SLR camera, a Canon AE-1 and on this he would shoot between 8 and 10 rolls of film a week. He had this camera and continued to produce images with until it was stolen in 1999.

Guilden relocated to Nassau, the Bahamas in 1997 with his wife of 6 years, they recently celebrated 27 years of marriage and have two children, both born in the Bahamas.

Although much of his work is landscape/seascape, he has become known as a Sports Photographer having been contracted to shoot the IAAF World Relays, CARIFTA Games, FIFA World Cup Qualifier between Bermuda and the Bahamas, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, he also shoots swim events and went home to Bermuda specifically to capture some of the America’s Cup races. He was also recently featured in N Photo Magazine, a Nikon-centric globally distributed magazine for his Sports Photography work. Guilden has also had numerous images selected by Blank Wall, an Athens, Greece art gallery for exhibit. He recently received Honourable Mention in two large global photography contests, the International Photographers Award and the Tokyo International Foto Awards. His work has been purchased and hangs on walls globally.

Guilden is also an executive and photographer with the Bahamian Project, a project designed to capture portraits of average Bahamians with the view to establishing a National Portrait Archive.

Today Guilden has come full circle and is once again shooting and developing film, specifically Medium Format film. He says, “There is just something organic about shooting film and there is nothing quite like the feeling of pulling a developed roll of film out of the developing cannister to see the images created. Shooting film will certainly test your knowledge of proper exposure and composition because the negative does not lie about what you have produced.”

Guilden, along with another local photographer made a decision, two years ago, that they will teach photography because to have gained so much knowledge over nearly 40 years of photograph and not share that knowledge does a dis-service to the art form. The class range from Beginner’s Photography to Advanced Studio and Outdoor Lighting and are held in partnership with Queen’s College Centre for Further Education.

林恩·帕罗蒂（Lynn Parotti，1968 年出生于巴哈马拿骚）是一位常驻在伦敦的艺术家，她的心灵油画从现实和心灵的风景中得到启发。
她的作品以人类经历和社会热点为主题，如全球变暖、气候变化和移民问题，同时也关注绘画本身在当下所面临的问题。

ANTONIUS ROBERTS, OBE (b.1958 Nassau, The Bahamas) has one daughter Ayla Antonia Roberts and is married to Dr Annette Warren-Roberts. Roberts graduated in 1981 from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA in Painting.  As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of The Bahamas (now University of The Bahamas), Roberts has mentored a generation of young Bahamian artists.  He conceived of and coordinated the first Junior Junkanoo competition and parade in 1983, celebrating ten years of Bahamian Independence. He served as the Curator of The Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Art Gallery until 2017, and was the architect and coordinator of their annual Competitions and Exhibitions until 2006; and played a supportive role in the restoration of the former Villa Doyle and its conversion to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  Additionally Roberts founded The Bahamian Art Gallery in 1991 which was responsible for the reintroduction of master artists Kendal Hanna and Jo Monks – USA Boy. That same year he curated the largest exhibition of Amos Ferguson’s work at The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery and encouraged The Right Honorable Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling to approve the purchase of twenty five (25) paintings from that exhibition. These paintings formed the beginning of the National Art Collection of The Bahamas. In recognition of his contribution to national development in the arts, Roberts was a recipient of a Commonwealth of The Bahamas Silver Jubilee Award and of the E. Clement Bethel Award from The College of The Bahamas, as well as the Ministry of Tourism’s Cacique Award for the Arts in 2000.  As an artist Roberts has participated in exhibitions around the world and has mounted many within The Bahamas.  In 2005 Roberts spent one month in Pietrasanta, Italy working in marble and granite as part of the International Professional Artist Symposium and Exchange. In 2006 he was invited to exhibit in Changchun, China and his 12’ bronze sculpture is permanently installed there.  As a sculptor Roberts is best known for the first Sacred Space project at the historic Clifton Heritage site. This work was expanded by the installation at the Blake Road Welcome Centre.  Another group of Sacred Women travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany for the Funky Nassau Exhibition and then were exhibited at The Nassau Art Gallery of The Bahamas, with a similar installation now forming part of The Grand Bahama Heritage Foundation. On 2017年11月3日, The Cove at Atlantis, Paradise Island debuted a permanent art installation “Sacred Space” on the tip of The Cove’s peninsula. This sculpture series, represents seven dancing women who each depict the intention of triumph, hope, determination and a vision to help conserve Bahamian Heritage. As an open space designer, in 2009 Roberts designed and directed the creation of the seven acre park at Centreville House, an integral part of the revitalization programme in downtown Nassau. In 2011 he participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition at the Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa. His artwork Bubbles was installed as part of the expansion of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s final phase in 2013. Roberts was the Artist in Residence at Schooner Bay, Abaco, for several years, and in 2017 established a relationship with the Island School in Eleuthera. In 2012, he opened an art gallery and studio on Cumberland Street in a centuries’ old historic building known as Hillside House, which has become an active centre for the creative community. His ethos connecting man’s spiritual and emotional nature and nature itself, and his desire to record and honour Bahamian heritage, is inherent in all of his paintings and sculptures.
A member of The Charitable Arts Foundation for over twenty years, Roberts along with other council members, continue to raise significant funding for the creative community in The Bahamas. These funds are available on an annual bases for art education, grants for short and full length films, art projects, music projects, play writers, poets, musicians and support of national art institutions.

林恩·帕罗蒂（Lynn Parotti，1968 年出生于巴哈马拿骚）是一位常驻在伦敦的艺术家，她的心灵油画从现实和心灵的风景中得到启发。
她的作品以人类经历和社会热点为主题，如全球变暖、气候变化和移民问题，同时也关注绘画本身在当下所面临的问题。

Guilden M. Gilbert, Jr. was born and raised in Bermuda in 1966.

His mother says he always showed a fascination for cameras. He did not take photography seriously until at the age of 14, while participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme he needed to chose a hobby, photography was a natural fit. This is where he began to not only shoot but also learned how to develop film and print images in the darkroom. It was at this point where photography became a very large part of his life. Unfortunately, professional photographers were unwilling to teach photography as many feared the student would become a competitor. Guilden learn photography on his own, one image on one roll of film at time, he took notes of each shot he captured and when receiving the film back from the lab he would analyze what he did right and what he did wrong and began to understand why things worked and why they did not, this allowed him to learned the craft of photography. His parents were very supportive, in 1981 they bought him his first 35mm SLR camera, a Canon AE-1 and on this he would shoot between 8 and 10 rolls of film a week. He had this camera and continued to produce images with until it was stolen in 1999.

Guilden relocated to Nassau, the Bahamas in 1997 with his wife of 6 years, they recently celebrated 27 years of marriage and have two children, both born in the Bahamas.

Although much of his work is landscape/seascape, he has become known as a Sports Photographer having been contracted to shoot the IAAF World Relays, CARIFTA Games, FIFA World Cup Qualifier between Bermuda and the Bahamas, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, he also shoots swim events and went home to Bermuda specifically to capture some of the America’s Cup races. He was also recently featured in N Photo Magazine, a Nikon-centric globally distributed magazine for his Sports Photography work. Guilden has also had numerous images selected by Blank Wall, an Athens, Greece art gallery for exhibit. He recently received Honourable Mention in two large global photography contests, the International Photographers Award and the Tokyo International Foto Awards. His work has been purchased and hangs on walls globally.

Guilden is also an executive and photographer with the Bahamian Project, a project designed to capture portraits of average Bahamians with the view to establishing a National Portrait Archive.

Today Guilden has come full circle and is once again shooting and developing film, specifically Medium Format film. He says, “There is just something organic about shooting film and there is nothing quite like the feeling of pulling a developed roll of film out of the developing cannister to see the images created. Shooting film will certainly test your knowledge of proper exposure and composition because the negative does not lie about what you have produced.”

Guilden, along with another local photographer made a decision, two years ago, that they will teach photography because to have gained so much knowledge over nearly 40 years of photograph and not share that knowledge does a dis-service to the art form. The class range from Beginner’s Photography to Advanced Studio and Outdoor Lighting and are held in partnership with Queen’s College Centre for Further Education.

时至今日，乔纳森仍希望在画布上再现巴哈马，他明白想要达到完美需要花费多年时间。现在，他的画作真实捕捉了巴哈马的生活和风景，展现出其壮丽与特色之处。他使用丙烯酸颜料作为介质，探索各种各样的主题，例如巴哈马的古老民居和地标、缤纷的本土植物，以及巴哈马晶莹的海水。

“收集是创作的一部分，”雕塑家肯德拉·弗罗普 (Kendra Frorup) 这样谈论她的作品。弗罗普在巴哈马拿骚出生长大，她在自己的艺术中运用了这段时间的回忆。在巴哈马度过童年后，她得到前往美国学习的机会，并开始创作写实图像，作品与其文化展现出一定的共性。

“不断重复已完成的事不会带来任何进步。”艾伦·帕基诺·华莱士 (Allan Pachino Wallace) 是一名巴哈马出生的视觉艺术家，他的艺术与生活和这一主题产生极大共鸣。因此，他成为巴哈马艺术最独特的贡献者之一并不让人感到意外。37 岁时，艾伦在发挥自己艺术天赋时散发出一种舒适从容之感，并不断挑战自己，以实现更多成就。艾伦出生于 1979年3月11日。大约两年后，他受到叔叔奥布瑞恩·华莱士 (O’Brian Wallace) 的启发，第一次拿起绘画铅笔，此后，两人经常一起创作。

ANTONIUS ROBERTS, OBE (b.1958 Nassau, The Bahamas) has one daughter Ayla Antonia Roberts and is married to Dr Annette Warren-Roberts. Roberts graduated in 1981 from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA in Painting.  As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of The Bahamas (now University of The Bahamas), Roberts has mentored a generation of young Bahamian artists.  He conceived of and coordinated the first Junior Junkanoo competition and parade in 1983, celebrating ten years of Bahamian Independence. He served as the Curator of The Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Art Gallery until 2017, and was the architect and coordinator of their annual Competitions and Exhibitions until 2006; and played a supportive role in the restoration of the former Villa Doyle and its conversion to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  Additionally Roberts founded The Bahamian Art Gallery in 1991 which was responsible for the reintroduction of master artists Kendal Hanna and Jo Monks – USA Boy. That same year he curated the largest exhibition of Amos Ferguson’s work at The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery and encouraged The Right Honorable Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling to approve the purchase of twenty five (25) paintings from that exhibition. These paintings formed the beginning of the National Art Collection of The Bahamas. In recognition of his contribution to national development in the arts, Roberts was a recipient of a Commonwealth of The Bahamas Silver Jubilee Award and of the E. Clement Bethel Award from The College of The Bahamas, as well as the Ministry of Tourism’s Cacique Award for the Arts in 2000.  As an artist Roberts has participated in exhibitions around the world and has mounted many within The Bahamas.  In 2005 Roberts spent one month in Pietrasanta, Italy working in marble and granite as part of the International Professional Artist Symposium and Exchange. In 2006 he was invited to exhibit in Changchun, China and his 12’ bronze sculpture is permanently installed there.  As a sculptor Roberts is best known for the first Sacred Space project at the historic Clifton Heritage site. This work was expanded by the installation at the Blake Road Welcome Centre.  Another group of Sacred Women travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany for the Funky Nassau Exhibition and then were exhibited at The Nassau Art Gallery of The Bahamas, with a similar installation now forming part of The Grand Bahama Heritage Foundation. On 2017年11月3日, The Cove at Atlantis, Paradise Island debuted a permanent art installation “Sacred Space” on the tip of The Cove’s peninsula. This sculpture series, represents seven dancing women who each depict the intention of triumph, hope, determination and a vision to help conserve Bahamian Heritage. As an open space designer, in 2009 Roberts designed and directed the creation of the seven acre park at Centreville House, an integral part of the revitalization programme in downtown Nassau. In 2011 he participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition at the Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa. His artwork Bubbles was installed as part of the expansion of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s final phase in 2013. Roberts was the Artist in Residence at Schooner Bay, Abaco, for several years, and in 2017 established a relationship with the Island School in Eleuthera. In 2012, he opened an art gallery and studio on Cumberland Street in a centuries’ old historic building known as Hillside House, which has become an active centre for the creative community. His ethos connecting man’s spiritual and emotional nature and nature itself, and his desire to record and honour Bahamian heritage, is inherent in all of his paintings and sculptures.
A member of The Charitable Arts Foundation for over twenty years, Roberts along with other council members, continue to raise significant funding for the creative community in The Bahamas. These funds are available on an annual bases for art education, grants for short and full length films, art projects, music projects, play writers, poets, musicians and support of national art institutions.

Guilden M. Gilbert, Jr. was born and raised in Bermuda in 1966.

His mother says he always showed a fascination for cameras. He did not take photography seriously until at the age of 14, while participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme he needed to chose a hobby, photography was a natural fit. This is where he began to not only shoot but also learned how to develop film and print images in the darkroom. It was at this point where photography became a very large part of his life. Unfortunately, professional photographers were unwilling to teach photography as many feared the student would become a competitor. Guilden learn photography on his own, one image on one roll of film at time, he took notes of each shot he captured and when receiving the film back from the lab he would analyze what he did right and what he did wrong and began to understand why things worked and why they did not, this allowed him to learned the craft of photography. His parents were very supportive, in 1981 they bought him his first 35mm SLR camera, a Canon AE-1 and on this he would shoot between 8 and 10 rolls of film a week. He had this camera and continued to produce images with until it was stolen in 1999.

Guilden relocated to Nassau, the Bahamas in 1997 with his wife of 6 years, they recently celebrated 27 years of marriage and have two children, both born in the Bahamas.

Although much of his work is landscape/seascape, he has become known as a Sports Photographer having been contracted to shoot the IAAF World Relays, CARIFTA Games, FIFA World Cup Qualifier between Bermuda and the Bahamas, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, he also shoots swim events and went home to Bermuda specifically to capture some of the America’s Cup races. He was also recently featured in N Photo Magazine, a Nikon-centric globally distributed magazine for his Sports Photography work. Guilden has also had numerous images selected by Blank Wall, an Athens, Greece art gallery for exhibit. He recently received Honourable Mention in two large global photography contests, the International Photographers Award and the Tokyo International Foto Awards. His work has been purchased and hangs on walls globally.

Guilden is also an executive and photographer with the Bahamian Project, a project designed to capture portraits of average Bahamians with the view to establishing a National Portrait Archive.

Today Guilden has come full circle and is once again shooting and developing film, specifically Medium Format film. He says, “There is just something organic about shooting film and there is nothing quite like the feeling of pulling a developed roll of film out of the developing cannister to see the images created. Shooting film will certainly test your knowledge of proper exposure and composition because the negative does not lie about what you have produced.”

Guilden, along with another local photographer made a decision, two years ago, that they will teach photography because to have gained so much knowledge over nearly 40 years of photograph and not share that knowledge does a dis-service to the art form. The class range from Beginner’s Photography to Advanced Studio and Outdoor Lighting and are held in partnership with Queen’s College Centre for Further Education.

Guilden M. Gilbert, Jr. was born and raised in Bermuda in 1966.

His mother says he always showed a fascination for cameras. He did not take photography seriously until at the age of 14, while participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme he needed to chose a hobby, photography was a natural fit. This is where he began to not only shoot but also learned how to develop film and print images in the darkroom. It was at this point where photography became a very large part of his life. Unfortunately, professional photographers were unwilling to teach photography as many feared the student would become a competitor. Guilden learn photography on his own, one image on one roll of film at time, he took notes of each shot he captured and when receiving the film back from the lab he would analyze what he did right and what he did wrong and began to understand why things worked and why they did not, this allowed him to learned the craft of photography. His parents were very supportive, in 1981 they bought him his first 35mm SLR camera, a Canon AE-1 and on this he would shoot between 8 and 10 rolls of film a week. He had this camera and continued to produce images with until it was stolen in 1999.

Guilden relocated to Nassau, the Bahamas in 1997 with his wife of 6 years, they recently celebrated 27 years of marriage and have two children, both born in the Bahamas.

Although much of his work is landscape/seascape, he has become known as a Sports Photographer having been contracted to shoot the IAAF World Relays, CARIFTA Games, FIFA World Cup Qualifier between Bermuda and the Bahamas, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, he also shoots swim events and went home to Bermuda specifically to capture some of the America’s Cup races. He was also recently featured in N Photo Magazine, a Nikon-centric globally distributed magazine for his Sports Photography work. Guilden has also had numerous images selected by Blank Wall, an Athens, Greece art gallery for exhibit. He recently received Honourable Mention in two large global photography contests, the International Photographers Award and the Tokyo International Foto Awards. His work has been purchased and hangs on walls globally.

Guilden is also an executive and photographer with the Bahamian Project, a project designed to capture portraits of average Bahamians with the view to establishing a National Portrait Archive.

Today Guilden has come full circle and is once again shooting and developing film, specifically Medium Format film. He says, “There is just something organic about shooting film and there is nothing quite like the feeling of pulling a developed roll of film out of the developing cannister to see the images created. Shooting film will certainly test your knowledge of proper exposure and composition because the negative does not lie about what you have produced.”

Guilden, along with another local photographer made a decision, two years ago, that they will teach photography because to have gained so much knowledge over nearly 40 years of photograph and not share that knowledge does a dis-service to the art form. The class range from Beginner’s Photography to Advanced Studio and Outdoor Lighting and are held in partnership with Queen’s College Centre for Further Education.

A professional photographer since the age of fifteen, Roland Rose obtained his first camera when he was only twelve years old and used it to photograph the delights of Hog Island (now Paradise Island) when it truly was an underdeveloped paradise. He has travelled extensively, often to pursue his interest in food, wine, and classical music, but photography has been Roland’s passion and life’s work.

Born in Italy to British parents, Roland has lived in The Bahamas since 1946. Before establishing his own practice, he worked for some thirty-two years for the Development Board (later to become the Ministry of Tourism), when his lens was directed at visitors, touristic sites, and pretty views designed to please and attract visitors. During this time, he also took photographs of island life that piqued his interest or caught his artistic, albeit self-trained, eye.

Hanging precariously from a tree, a fence or a roof, jumping from a boat, or in the air, he sought the unusual angle or different view that gave his photographs special interest. He moved happily from the dark-room to the world of digital photography and Photoshop™, regularly upgrading his equipment to include the latest, most powerful cameras and lenses with their ever-expanding pixel count and improved image quality.

As a photographer, Roland has expressed his joy in the beauty that he has found here in The Bahamas, both in its people and its natural environment.

绘画一直是自我表达的一种方式。我开始描画绘制肖像，在 1988 至 1991 模仿我的老师斯坦·伯恩赛德 (Stan Burnside)。随着我开始尝试不同的绘画方法，久而久之，一种提升自然出现……对我而言，创作图像的思想存在无穷可能。有时，艺术世界毫无疑问会让人头脑混乱，但表达总会有方法以它喜欢的方式出现。因此，从我的肖像画、风景画，再到现在难以捉摸的抽象画，我都只是在画画而已。

Kendal Hanna (born 1936, Nassau, The Bahamas) is one of the country’s earliest abstract expressionists.  In his early career,  Hanna worked figuratively,  but as he progressed,  his work became increasingly abstract and self-referential.  He characterizes his work as his “subconscious mind expressing itself on the canvas.” Hanna went through a phase of painting using only black and white, but after treatment for illness, he began using color more extensively.  Today, he paints in both colour and black and white, and alternates between pure abstractionism and capturing subjects, often himself or close friends, in a more realistic style.   

Hanna always dreamed of being “trained in art” and left for New York City in early adulthood to study fine art, but had to return to Nassau to look after his ailing mother and was never able to realize his dream of attending art school.  Later, Hanna studied marine biology and then worked in the post office in Nassau.  During his breaks, he visited Nassau’s fabled Chelsea Pottery and soon became one of their first apprentices, along with Max Taylor and Brent Malone.  An avid reader of the art books found at the Pottery,  he learned about the work of European artists and was inspired to turn to painting. Hanna also met many visiting artists and sculptors who came to Nassau, among them Hildegard Hamilton and famous American muralist John St. John.  Hanna was influenced by their work and they encouraged him to pursue his art.   

His first exhibition was held in 1992 in Nassau and then at The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas,  a restored colonial mansion formerly known as the Villa Doyle.  Hanna remembers accompanying his mother to work and looking at the Villa Doyle opposite. “I would never realize that my paintings would be shown in this place, you know it’s sort of unbelievable,” he says about seeing his work hanging in the Gallery now.  Hanna had exhibitions at the new Providence Art and Antiques Gallery in 2005 and 2006, the second exhibit showing many of his self-portraits.  He moved into Popup Galleries in 2007 where he is still the artist in residence. In 2011, a major retrospective of his life’s work was shown at the NAGB.   In 2015, Hanna was selected to exhibit at Volta Art Fair in NYC.  A documentary, Brigidy Bram, tells the story of Hanna’s life and working processes.

德尔顿·巴雷特 (Delton Barrett) 在巴哈马长大，2008 年他在 C.R. 沃克高中完成了最后一年学业，他也在那里发现了自己对艺术的兴趣。毕业后，他开始参照巴哈马旧杂志上的风景进行绘画。
巴雷特的最终目标是用身边的景色反映自我，将自己的身体融入植物之中，展现阳刚之气。他借由树根伸展至地下来展现自己的一体性。他在未经变动的景观中进行特意的安排布置，唤起人们脱离土地、进行深刻而本质性的思考，其作品呈现出这样一个问题：就如这片曾经被殖民的土地一样，他的自由，即他的身体，现在成为一种反抗殖民视角的道具。

时至今日，乔纳森仍希望在画布上再现巴哈马，他明白想要达到完美需要花费多年时间。现在，他的画作真实捕捉了巴哈马的生活和风景，展现出其壮丽与特色之处。他使用丙烯酸颜料作为介质，探索各种各样的主题，例如巴哈马的古老民居和地标、缤纷的本土植物，以及巴哈马晶莹的海水。

时至今日，乔纳森仍希望在画布上再现巴哈马，他明白想要达到完美需要花费多年时间。现在，他的画作真实捕捉了巴哈马的生活和风景，展现出其壮丽与特色之处。他使用丙烯酸颜料作为介质，探索各种各样的主题，例如巴哈马的古老民居和地标、缤纷的本土植物，以及巴哈马晶莹的海水。

In high school I gained an appreciation for photography as an art form while learning the intricacies of the field; rolling, shooting, and developing my own black and white film, preparing prints for a weekly class critique. After graduating from college I moved to Alaska for a summer job and ended up staying for almost 7 years. I spent winter months of each year traveling and volunteering throughout Latin America. As a solo traveller I used my camera as a tool to connect and share with people along the way, telling stories of lives different than mine. In 2008 I spent a year living in Palermo, Sicily and decided to get serious about photography as a career. Afterwards I published four images with National Geographic including its “Life in Color” book and series in 2009. A portfolio of images from Sicily titled “Sicilia Bellina” was also published in Descant Magazine in 2011. After a short stint at an office job with a travel company,

I decided to work independently as a freelance photographer shooting weddings while working with clients such as Harvard University, McKinsey and Company, Mystic River Watershed Association, and Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS. In 2012 I was offered a job at The Island School, a non-profit organization on a remote island in The Bahamas. I jumped at the opportunity at doing more purposeful work. I was put in charge of telling the stories of scientists, educators, sustainability specialists, and students. There I captured images of educational hands-on experiences involving scuba diving, field research, renewable energy production, and survival kayak trips.

I now work as a freelance photographer and stay-at-home father based in Nassau, The Bahamas. I am now accepted as a representative of Junkanoo media with the Bahamas Ministry of Culture and a contributing photographer of The Bahamian Project.

Melissa Alcena is a portrait and documentary photographer born in 1988 in Nassau, Bahamas. She attended Lyford Cay International School and graduated from St. Andrew’s International School in 2006. In 2010 she enrolled at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, and completed a two year Applied Photography course in 2012. Alcena was invited to exhibit for her first solo show, “Some (re)assembly required” at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas in 2017 and in group shows at The Central Bank of The Bahamas for ‘The Bahamian Project’, ‘Diversions’ for The D’Agulair Art Foundation and most recently for The National Art Gallery’s NE9 ‘The Fruit and the Seed’ in 2018.

Daniel Belton was born in the United Kingdom to an English Father and a Bahamian Mother.  He moved to Nassau when he was a young boy and graduated from Kingsway Academy.  Belton was the recipient of the Best Performance Award for Carpentry and Joinery during the 2000 BGCSE Examinations from the Ministry of Education and Youth Testing and Evaluation Section.  He went on to study abroad at Lynn University and received a Bachelor’s degree in Hospitality Management with a Specialization in Sports and Recreation Management.  Belton uses reclaimed wood as his primary material, transforming found and discarded pieces into finished furniture, sculpture and wall decor. He strives to conserve the character of the used material, leaving what others deem as ‘imperfect’: knots, spiral nail holes, cracks, warping and browning. He masterfully incorporates and preserves these wooden ‘scars’ into vibrantly colored, sculptural and functional furniture pieces.