NEWS
“Llanor Alleyne: A Retrospective” Solo Show Debuts on Artsy
Presented by the Tourné Gallery, my latest exhibition, Llanor Alleyne: A Retrospective, opens on August 1 and runs through August 31, 2025, on Artsy.net.
“Black Madonna: Divinity” Commission Was a Spiritual Journey
Commissioned by a private collector as a graduation gift, Black Madonna: Divinity celebrates and commemorates her stepping fully into her Black Quaker faith as a minister.
Coming Inside: Moving into Making Still Life Collages
I didn’t set out to make still lifes, but here we are. For the past month I have been making tiny triptychs as a way of coming inside from the moonlight.
Collage Zine: “Seats of Flower” Studio Project
Seats of Flower is a one-page, hand-folded zine reflecting on my past year of collage-making, while sitting in a place and time fraught with upheaval and daily reckonings.
My Work Featured in UWI’s Graduate Seminar on Black Feminist Art and the Creative Imagination
My collage work will be featured in Space and the Creative Imagination, a July 30 graduate seminar at UWI Cave Hill led by PhD candidate Bianca Moña. The talk explores how Black women artists reimagine the natural world as a space of refuge, power, and possibility.
Artist Talk and Collage Workshop at CARIFESTA XV: Barbados
I’m thrilled to be invited to CARIFESTA XV in Barbados, to take part in the artist talk “Fragments & Futures: Collage as Radical Reclamation,” alongside Florine Demosthene and Gherdai Hassell. I’ll also be leading a workshop titled “Archive the Self: Collaging Personal Cartographies.”
Leslie-Lohman Museum Acquires “Another Poem” by Llanor Alleyne
I'm honored to share that my collage Another Poem has been acquired by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York. Created during my residency and first exhibited in The Plural of He, this piece pays tribute to the life and activism of Colin Robinson.
Nature’s Wild: Queering Cane Collaboration with Andil Gosine to Debut in Toronto This Fall
Originally slated for the Art Museum of the Americas, Nature’s Wild with Andil Gosine was canceled just before its opening. Now reimagined and relocated, the exhibition—including my collaboration with Gosine—will open at Paul Petro Contemporary Art in Toronto from October 10 to November 8, 2025. This new chapter of the show affirms our collective commitment to challenging institutional silencing and continuing critical dialogue around queerness, nature, and Caribbean identity.
“Moonlight: Respite of the Black Madonnas” Featured in Hammer & Hope
A featured work in the Spring 2025 issue of Hammer & Hope, Moonlight: Respite of the Black Madonnas accompanies a powerful dialogue between Rhiana Gunn-Wright and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on building a more human-centered climate movement. This collage from my Moonlight series envisions Black women at rest, held by nature rather than burdened by it.
In The Flesh and Debut of “Tea and Empathy” Mixed Media Collage
Last fall, I was honored to create a large-scale collage for Sugar Made Us Free? Diabetes and the Afterlife of Slavery in Barbados: Art, Archive & the Gendered Dimensions of Risk, an interdisciplinary project led by Drs. Tonya Haynes (UWI) and Nicole Charles (University of Toronto Mississauga).
The “Plural of He” Exhibition at Leslie Lohman
Drawing inspiration from Colin Robinson’s published book of poems, You Have You Father Hard Head, I produced “Another Poem”, a large-scale mixed media collage that explores Robinson’s sitting at the crossroads of several intersecting aspects of his life that will be exhibited during the Plural of He exhibition in New York.
Small Axe: In Conversation with Poet Anton Nimblett
I am delighted to be the featured artist for Small Axe SX Art January 2024 issue in which I discuss the evaluation of Another Poem, my large-scale mixed media collage that will be exhibited in The Plural of He exhibition at Leslie Lohman Museum starting March 15, 2024.
"Moonlight: Pool" Collage Featured on the Cover of The Journal of West Indian Literature
My Moonlight collage, Pool graces the cover the November 2022 cover of The Journal of West Indian Literature edited by Dr. Ronald Cummings, Associate Professor of English Cultural Studies at MacMaster University.
Debut of The Guard: An Intervention at the Barbados Museum and Historical Society
I am chuffed to announce the debut of my first art book in collaboration with interdisciplinary artist, Nyugen Smith.
Field Studies: The Launch of Yabisi Guada Coloring Books
So much of my art practice has been rooted in the visually stunning quality of Barbados’ landscape that when Dr. Sonia Peter approached me in 2019 about collaborating on a duo of activity coloring books for adults and children featuring the rich biodiversity of the island, I was more than a little excited.
Visionary Art Collective Featured Artist Interview
This week I’m the featured artist interview on the Visionary Art Collective website. I talk literary and musical influences as well as ins and outs of my art practice.
Llanor Alleyne Joins Tourné Gallery with Show of “Fugitive Ecologies” Collages
The debut of“Fugitive Ecologies”, a series of “rebellious botanical” collages created in early 2020, exploring adaptation, dislocation, and beauty during a time of global uncertainty. Now showing with the Tourné Gallery.
Quarantine Q&A: Conversation with Dr. Marsha Pearce
I reflect on moving to Tulsa at the start of the pandemic and how that transition sparked her “Fugitive Ecologies” collage series, in conversation with Trinidadian cultural theorist Dr. Marsha Pearce.
Jamaican Observer: Interview with Jacqueline Bishop
I am featured in the Jamaica Observer’s Bookends section as part of their #CaribbeanStrong series, discussing the evolution of her collage practice, the influence of literature and place, and the role of improvisation in my visual work.
6 for a 9: Exhibition with Ronald Williams
I debut two new bodies of collage work in 6 for a 9, a co-exhibition with Ronald Williams at Morningside Gallery in Barbados. The show reflects a rich creative exchange through silhouette, scale, sound, and abstraction.