NEWS
CARIFESTA XV: “Archiving the Self” Workshop
One of the pleasures of being invited to CARIFESTAXV was the opportunity to lead my workshop, “Archiving the Self: Collaging Personal Cartographies”. I was delighted that every available seat was filled with participants ranging from teenagers to people in their 70s, many of them eager to make their first collage masterpieces.
CARIFESTA XV: Fragments and Futures
On August 24, I joined my sister in collage, artist Gherdai Hassell, for the panel Fragments and Futures: Collage as Radical Reclamation at Queen’s Park.
“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.
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.
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).